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College Football Week 13: Rivalry Week! (fucla!)

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AlteredBeast said:
Hence their stunning record for the last 20 years...

Hire the pirate.he didn't do a damn thing wrong.
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The thing about Leach, and I was in Lubbock for a good deal of his tenure, is that he doesn't play well with the media. In a college town, a coach can bully and be condescending to the local guys and they just have to take it.

But in LA, that wouldn't work. All the dumb questions they ask, he'd have to answer. b/c if he starts calling them stupid, they'll wolfpack him.

fwiw I love Leach as a coach, but LA is not the place for him

edit: This stuff about Saban to UT? Is that just crazy forum people? Is there anything credible to say he has talked to them?
 
squicken said:
This stuff about Saban to UT? Is that just crazy forum people? Is there anything credible to say he has talked to them?
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Totally true. My sources say $50 MM a year, and Mack Brown is being kept as special teams coach.

$9.95 for more.

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On RichRod to Zona... sheeeeit.
 
DickRod to Zona is interesting. On one hand, if he's anywhere near as successful at Zona as he was at WVU, it's increased competition for us. On the other hand, it'll provide another team that plays a similar offensive style to Oregon. Will be interesting to see the influence this hiring has on the conference.
 
Cyan said:
Totally true. My sources say $50 MM a year, and Mack Brown is being kept as special teams coach.
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I'm surprised Mack would stay on. But he's always classy, especially in defeat.

fwiw I couldn't find anything other than forum chatter, but haven't some of these "coach spottings" come from fan forums, and not traditional media? So that's why I asked it here. You guys would seem like the types that follow it closely
 
I would be shocked if Saban ever left Alabama. He's got them rolling and Texas would have to pay him an absolute fortune. Although I suppose they're rolling in dough now with the success of the LHN.
 
cdyhybrid said:
I would be shocked if Saban ever left Alabama. He's got them rolling and Texas would have to pay him an absolute fortune. Although I suppose they're rolling in dough now with the success of the LHN.
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Well there was that Indiana report that had UT's football program valued at $800 million. Again, I've seen nothing credible online about Saban to UT. Just that the money involved wasn't the reason I was skeptical.
 
Cyan said:
The what now?
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You never heard about it? It's a network dedicated to Longhorn football! They cover practices, recruiting, everything related to the program. They even play potential recruits' high school games! It brings the biggest football program in the country to its fans across the country like never before.

I can't believe the NCAA lets them get away with it, though.
 
cdyhybrid said:
I would be shocked if Saban ever left Alabama. He's got them rolling and Texas would have to pay him an absolute fortune.
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Texas could outspend us, no doubt, but we're not exactly the little sisters of the poor here, either. Prestige wise the football programs are a wash, but Bama is a lot closer to Saban's lake house in Georgia, which seems to be the only place he can relax at. I also think Saban gets a bad rap as a coach who jumps from job to job. I think he would still be at either (1) LSU if he hadn't gotten the itch to try his hand at the pros or (2) Miami if he had been successful as a pro coach.
 
I don't think money would play any part in Sabans decision making. But maybe he wants a challenge or just a change of scenery. I wouldn't be that surprised to see him leaving for a big program that isn't where it's "supposed" to be right now (and there are quiet a lot)
 
Jay Sosa said:
I don't think money would play any part in Sabans decision making. But maybe he wants a challenge or just a change of scenery. I wouldn't be that surprised to see him leaving for a big program that isn't where it's "supposed" to be right now (and there are quiet a lot)
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I disagree. He's sixty-something and I really don't think he's going to pull a Paterno and coach into his 80s. I could be wrong, but I think he retires from here in about 5-10 years.
 
"Our focus is on this game," Saban said in his opening monologue. "We really don't have any interest in anybody playing in the Pac-12 or Pac-10 or whatever it is, the Big 12. None of those games matter. None of anything matters except how we play in this game. That's all that matters. I think I'm going to tell the team today if you want to watch the LSU-Arkansas game, turn it off and go watch Auburn film, because that game means nothing to us either. "So if y'all want to ask me about it, I hope you don't."
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Yeah, whatever piddly-ass other conferences are out there in America-Land. Conference ACC-17. Who even plays in the BIG-PAC? Whatever. Hope you're not stupid enough to ask.
 
Interesting "What If? scenario from Pat Forde:

Four years ago, The Dash witnessed one of the biggest upsets in recent college football history: Pittsburgh 13, West Virginia 9. The Panthers had a losing record. The Mountaineers needed only to win to play in the BCS Championship Game. They were favored by a whopping 29 points. But from the start, things went wrong for West Virginia. Star kicker Pat McAfee stunningly missed a couple of short field goals. Star quarterback Pat White was injured. And when the Panthers refused to buckle, an unfathomable result helped alter the course of college football. Four years later, with the rivals poised to play Friday, The Dash wonders: what if West Virginia had won?

A few theories:

Ohio State (23), freed from having to face the SEC speed of LSU, would have won the national title over the Mountaineers.

Jim Tressel (24), with two national titles in five years, would have been much harder to move out last spring amid the NCAA violations on his watch. He may well have survived the storm.

Rich Rodriguez (25) would still be the coach of the Mountaineers. The school would have done whatever it took to keep a guy who brought them to the brink of a title. The Big East would have more cache – and maybe more members. Arizona would still be searching for a new coach.

Nobody would ever have heard of sunny Bill Stewart. And Dana Holgorsen (26) would be the rookie head coach at Pitt.

It would have been a heck of a recruiting battle between Rodriguez and Tressel for Terrelle Pryor (27). If Rodriguez had won the battle, the tattoo disaster may never have hit Ohio State.

Les Miles (28) would be the coach at Michigan. Without a national title to play for in ‘07, he would have left his damn strong LSU team for the Wolverines when they called. Michigan never crash lands, never goes on probation, and in tandem with Ohio State keeps the Big Ten from slipping off the sport’s top tier.

His replacement at LSU, Bobby Petrino (29), would be winning big while Arkansas struggles in the post-Houston Nutt Era under Jimbo Fisher (30), who left his successor gig at Florida State to take a big-money offer from the Razorbacks.

Without a successor in place, Bobby Bowden would have been given one more year in 2010 before giving way to Gus Malzahn (31).

And the SEC (32) would not have five straight titles.
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Pretty plausible for the most part.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/footba...d_dash_revved_up_thanksgiving_rivalries112211
 
Texas by 4
Arkansas by 10
Nebraska by 14
Georgia Tech by 4
Michigan State by 14
Michigan by 10
Tennessee by 21
Auburn by 4
Oregon by 28
Virginia by 4
Wisconsin by 14
Florida State by 4
Clemson by 7
Stanford by 14
USC by 28

Essentially, another flashbang troll in the BCS.
 
It would have been a heck of a recruiting battle between Rodriguez and Tressel for Terrelle Pryor (27). If Rodriguez had won the battle, the tattoo disaster may never have hit Ohio State.

Les Miles (28) would be the coach at Michigan. Without a national title to play for in ‘07, he would have left his damn strong LSU team for the Wolverines when they called. Michigan never crash lands, never goes on probation, and in tandem with Ohio State keeps the Big Ten from slipping off the sport’s top tier.
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So with Pryor and RichRod together, WVU would be under a massive NCAA investigation right about now. Not a single couch would be spared with that kind of fallout.
 
KingGondo said:
Interesting "What If? scenario from Pat Forde:


Pretty plausible for the most part.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/footba...d_dash_revved_up_thanksgiving_rivalries112211
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At the time the AD and President at WVU had no intention of giving into Rich Rod's modest demands. They believed that he was trapped at the university and would not leave as coach of the team. If WVU had gone to the national championship game, I'm not sure that Rich Rod would've gotten what he wanted. The feeling that he was entrapped probably would've only intensified. Perhaps he wouldn't have taken the Michigan job that year, but he might've taken another offer in the following years depending upon the school. After all, Rich Rod nearly took the Alabama job the year before.

And apparently Lloyd Carr did not like Les Miles, and I don't think that the AD Bill Martin expressed a strong desire to hire him either. Even if there was some ambivalence, however, Michigan might've hired Miles by default. Schiano had already rebuffed their offer and there were very few other plausible candidates available. Michigan's President had already ruled out Ferentz. If not him, then I don't know who else. Maybe Harbaugh or Hoke? But I'm not sure that there would've been a strong push for either candidate in 2008. Miles, at least, still had his supporters at Michigan.

Anyway, Rodriguez will face much less adversity at Arizona, so it's probably a better fit for him. Despite the three inimical years, I still want him to succeed.
 
Cyan said:
Neither was a hot candidate in 2008. Bet it would've been Schiano. Or Tedford (lols).
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Schiano had already turned the job down by the time that Rodriguez was hired. I think he had that emotional press conference or something. If there was resistance within the program to hiring Miles, and the coaching search keeps dragging on, maybe Harbaugh and Hoke become more plausible candidates. I mean, there was talk about both of them back in 2008. It wasn't impossible. Tedford might have been a possibility, but I'm not sure how serious that actually was.
 
Sagarin's overall SOS rankings:

Kansas 1
Missouri 2
Texas A&M 3
Baylor 4
Kansas State 5
Oklahoma 6
Oklahoma State 7
Iowa State 8
Texas 9
Texas Tech 10

Bow down, inferior conferences.
 
KingGondo said:
Sagarin's overall SOS rankings:

Kansas 1
Missouri 2
Texas A&M 3
Baylor 4
Kansas State 5
Oklahoma 6
Oklahoma State 7
Iowa State 8
Texas 9
Texas Tech 10

Bow down, inferior conferences.
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WEEK IN! WEEK OUT!

There are no layups in the Big 12 like Kentucky, Vanderbilt, Tennessee... alright the entire SEC East! WHOOOOO!
 
ConfusingJazz said:
We are affected because our OOC schedule sucked. How are we supposed to compete when we got UCLA and BYU holding our schedule back. We should have just played 3 more games against the Big 12.
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Nope, you should schedule teams that you know will do well that year like we did with U-LaLa and Tulsa.

Expecting UCLA to help your SOS in any given year is... :jnc.
 
squicken said:
Well there was that Indiana report that had UT's football program valued at $800 million. Again, I've seen nothing credible online about Saban to UT. Just that the money involved wasn't the reason I was skeptical.
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I saw what you were talking about, the rumor was saban to UT for 10 million a year. They currently pay mack 5 million.

Dunno if they would double the salary of the highest paid coach though.
 
So...

Lets say LSU beats Arkansas, Auburn beats Alabama and eventually OU takes care of OK State. And VT thumps UVA.

Could Virginia Tech possibly be ranked #2 in that scenario even though their schedule is pretty weak compared to most in the top 5?
 
Another crazy alternate history is if Cut had stayed one more year at UT and not taken the Duke job Pryor would have come here, Fulmer never would have been forced out the next year and Kiffin would have probably ended up at somewhere like Clemson.
 
tycoonheart said:
So...

Lets say LSU beats Arkansas, Auburn beats Alabama and eventually OU takes care of OK State. And VT thumps UVA.

Could Virginia Tech possibly be ranked #2 in that scenario even though their schedule is pretty weak compared to most in the top 5?
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I think Stanford would have a more compelling resumé, personally. But if VT beats Clemson in the ACC Championship Game (their only previous loss), they would probably be right there. Unless Oregon loses another game, Stanford won't have another chance to impress voters after next week like VT will.
 
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