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College Football Offseason: FEAR THE TREE (and other non-threatening PC mascots)
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See, how can we take you seriously when you post links to such amateur rags?
Repost your news, but use this link: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...-latest-recruit-to-decommit-from-lane-kiffins
Voila. Instant credibility.
BertramCooper
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C'mon, Jimmy. You really had to do a two-year public beta to figure out that everyone would hate those awful names?
Cornballer
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Given how bad Cal was this year, I'm not sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing that there will be a lot of player turnover before next year. It'll be good to get a new quarterback going, but obviously losing Keenan Allen and Steve Williams is going to hurt.
Someone mentioned this last week on Twitter and I thought they were joking. I hope this doesn't damage the long term viability of SI as they have a few writers I follow and read pretty regularly.
Ack! Midwest invasion! I'd be down for a meet up over in Berkeley.
BertramCooper
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Every hire is average or better!
bucknuticus
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Sirpopopop
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Dude gave USF hiring SKip Holtz an A-.
Heh.
Heh.
GoldenEye 007
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diploma mill
His staff is like 50% of guys he played with at Tech. I don't think that this will turn out as well as Tech fans are hoping.
ZombieSupaStar
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I'm not worried about the offense as much as I'm worried about the defense. Leach's offense was incredibly uncomplicated but required absolute 100% buy-in from the coaches and players to work; it should work to our advantage having guys that played together as coaches on that side of the ball. The odd thing is how many of the hires Kingsbury has made of people he played with but that will be coaching defense.
As I've mentioned before our Co-DCs are 1. Mike Smith, a guy who has coached for 4 years total, 3 of which have been LBs in the NFL, and 2. Wallerstedt, a guy whose defenses at previous DC gigs got worse than they were before he got there and who is only getting to hire one of his own assistants as the other hires were already made weeks before he was brought on. We're apparently switching to a 3-4 defense from a 4-3 but we only have 7 LBs on the entire roster, 4 of which are currently juniors.
On the optimistic side, Smith was getting co-DC consideration at other schools before this year (including apparently accepting a position at West Virginia before reneging when he found out his duties weren't as expected) and A&M tried awfully hard to keep us from stealing Wallerstedt so their must be something good there. Patterson at TCU has been a big fan of Trey Haverty (our safeties coach) ever since he was a GA at TCU so that was a pretty good hire for us (though admittedly the last S coach we got from TCU crashed and burned horribly).
If nothing else I have to think our defense can't be worse than WVU's and Baylor's were last season.
I think a lot of Tech fans are saying that we'll have to deal with a number of bumps in the road with such a young staff but I don't think they're really ready for it to happen. The DC hiring process was big mistake #1 as far as I'm concerned but I guess we'll see how it works out. We're definitely in for some growing pains.
5 years total with Sumlin: 2 as an assistant, 3 as an OC.
50% was actually exactly right going by who has been hired already: he played with Cumbie, Haverty, Curtis, and Smith. Morris was at Tech after Kingsbury left but was a coach with him at Houston. Hays, Jinks, and Wallerstedt have no Tech ties. One hire left: DL coach, and unless we somehow hire Kris Kocurek away from the Detroit Lions we won't have a guy he played with there, either.
BertramCooper
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"Alternate universe" championship t-shirts end up in Central America; billboards, on the other hand, end up in Charlotte.
Such lies.
We all know Texas A&M won the ACC Coastal Division this year.
Sirpopopop
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For those who are interested in reading Jon Bon Jovi's article, please click on the following link:
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/344912-alabama-contacted-by-the-big-10
He's a fine example of the high quality of journalism one can find on Bleacher Report.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/344912-alabama-contacted-by-the-big-10
He's a fine example of the high quality of journalism one can find on Bleacher Report.
"Alternate universe" championship t-shirts end up in Central America; billboards, on the other hand, end up in Charlotte.
maybe UNC has a Kiffen Clone as coach, but that's Kiffin.
Azwethinkweiz
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"Alternate universe" championship t-shirts end up in Central America; billboards, on the other hand, end up in Charlotte.
God, the coastal was so bad this year.
My favorite part of the article is that somebody took it seriously enough to comment on it. One Mr. Jacob Diefenthaler, no less.
BertramCooper
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To be fair, Wolf Blitzer is basically the Bleacher Report of cable news.
In that respect, it kind of fits.
In that respect, it kind of fits.
I like this. Praise Malzahn's offense for winning the MNC, completely ignore that it was one of the worst in the country the following season.
It's pretty clear at this point that buying Cam Newton was the sole reason they won the MNC.
When you go back, they had 3 or 4 games they had to fight back to win that year.
Miss State, Clemson, South Carolina 1, Kentucky, LSU was a battle as was the Oregon game, and of course, the choke job Alabama pulled off. All with Uber QB. When a Malzahn team doesn't have a mediocre to poor defense, then I'll "worry".
Yep. And people wonder why schools constantly get caught cheating.
James Franklin's business card: http://www.sbnation.com/college-foo...mes-franklins-business-card-is-cool-as-far-as
It's better than whatever shitty business card your coach has.
It's better than whatever shitty business card your coach has.
Affeinvasion
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Gamecocks625
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Ace Sanders going pro. Ugh!
I thought he'd already announced that he was returning.
Gamecocks625
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perfectchaos007
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link it when they put it up on youtubes plz
Affeinvasion
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"I was referring to my erection...just to be clear."
perfectchaos007
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Conan reruns on TBS in 8 minutes so I'll watch it then
bigtroyjon
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Musberger threw it back in ESPN's face last night when he did the b-ball game.
His Sign off
His Sign off
bucknuticus
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+10 respect for Brent.
Dude said wanna make a big deal over it? Stick this in your pipe.
StrikerObi
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Not gonna get much better with Lolville coming in to the Atlantic in Maryland's spot. Unless UNC, VT, and Miami all get their acts together, the Atlantic is going to dominate this conference for the foreseeable future.
Every single year, amirite?
"Alternate universe" championship t-shirts end up in Central America; billboards, on the other hand, end up in Charlotte.
BWAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Holy shit if thats real.
bigtroyjon
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TMZ talks to Brent
Dude don't give a fuck at all.
"Individuals say what individuals say. And corporations do what corporations do,"
Dude don't give a fuck at all.
"Individuals say what individuals say. And corporations do what corporations do,"
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