Nah, I'll say this I think Wilson is a legit coach.
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College Football Week 14 - Last Chance (For Chaos)
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Nah, I'll say this I think Wilson is a legit coach.
Purple Cheeto
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Meanwhile, in Chapel Hill...
Not surprising.
And Miami..
Draxal said:
True, he's doing pretty well considering Indiana's historical success. They've been to 9 total bowl games in their history, so to go to a bowl game this year is a pretty big deal for them.
Affeinvasion
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I wish I could live in fantasy-land with you. It's hard here in the real world where what you've described hasn't ever happened.
zyxwvu4321
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I think I'm ok with that at this point.
You know who would be a good fit at WVU? Rich Rodriguez.
Houston Nutt is always ready and waiting for whoever is willing to give him a shot. Though he's starting to wonder whether he'll get another shot (you think?).
So is Schiano, and I"d probably take Nutt over Muschamp, can't believe the cocks did that.
zyxwvu4321
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How can you not give Nutt another chance? He is, after all, in the people heppin' bidness.
True, Schiano is the new Houston Nutt. I agree with you regarding USCe, not sure what they were thinking. The funny thing about the conference yesterday was that their president said he's expecting them to win the East next year and to be in the playoffs very soon.
Did he watch them play this year?
mre said:
True, WVU needs some heppin'.
I've heard that Doc Holliday at Marshall is just waiting for that position to open up.
Randolph Freelander
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Seriously? Will Wyatt Earp come along, too?
bucknuticus
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Big Get for UM, Jake Butt is coming back for his senior season.
timetokill
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No surprise, but: Court rules NCAA disregarded the truth in Reggie Bush USC case
I guess that's what happens when you're so hard up with hate for a school that you base your entire case on a two-minute phone call with a convicted felon.
But NCAA gonna NCAA I guess
I guess that's what happens when you're so hard up with hate for a school that you base your entire case on a two-minute phone call with a convicted felon.
But NCAA gonna NCAA I guess
I could see USC having to give up games but man, the order where they can't even acknowledge Reggie Bush was complete overkill.
And then another school facilitates a child rapist and gets off lighter... :/
FloydtheFathead
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Nick is comin home to WV .. Fire up John Denver.
timetokill
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What's especially funny is Reggie was at the Pac-12 Championship game because he was named to the "All-Century" Pac-12 team.
USC fans were chanting, "Reggie! Reggie! Reggie!" constantly.
An interesting article actually digging into the Cook/Griffin debacle a bit more than blanket denouncements.
You know what? Honestly this makes me feel differently about the whole thing, between his apology to Griffin, Griffin accepting it, and the completely believable fact that he didn't feel he deserved it and hadn't thought of what he was going to say. His "this is for the O-Line" wasn't an empty platitude and he really gave them the trophy. That's pretty cool.
Also, apparently the voting for MVP for that game was due with 8 minutes left in the game...so that's probably why Scott didn't win. I would have still given it to Calhoun, given that fact, though.
You know what? Honestly this makes me feel differently about the whole thing, between his apology to Griffin, Griffin accepting it, and the completely believable fact that he didn't feel he deserved it and hadn't thought of what he was going to say. His "this is for the O-Line" wasn't an empty platitude and he really gave them the trophy. That's pretty cool.
Also, apparently the voting for MVP for that game was due with 8 minutes left in the game...so that's probably why Scott didn't win. I would have still given it to Calhoun, given that fact, though.
Looks like our RB coach and associate head coach Mike Jinks got named the head coach of Bowling Green today.
This one hurts a bit, though we knew it would happen sooner or later. He was of the Art Briles/Chad Morris mold, a guy that already basically had one full career as a Texas high school football head coach that was looking to move on up, so his time as any kind of college assistant was clearly limited from the get-go. Hope it doesn't hurt our recruiting too much. Big time name particularly in the San Antonio area. Two guys on our roster that were from the high school he coached at, and three current commits from there (including our 2017 QB).
His replacement is likely already on campus; we took another high school coach last offseason, Emmett Jones from Dallas, as our "Director of Player Development" that has pretty obviously been a coach-in-waiting for whatever offensive spot happened to open up.
This one hurts a bit, though we knew it would happen sooner or later. He was of the Art Briles/Chad Morris mold, a guy that already basically had one full career as a Texas high school football head coach that was looking to move on up, so his time as any kind of college assistant was clearly limited from the get-go. Hope it doesn't hurt our recruiting too much. Big time name particularly in the San Antonio area. Two guys on our roster that were from the high school he coached at, and three current commits from there (including our 2017 QB).
His replacement is likely already on campus; we took another high school coach last offseason, Emmett Jones from Dallas, as our "Director of Player Development" that has pretty obviously been a coach-in-waiting for whatever offensive spot happened to open up.
Seems like a good hire for BG, I can't remember the last head coach that was a running backs coach before. They seem to hire from OC's, DC's, or at least QB coaches.
ACC definitely has a lot more exciting hires. Time will tell on which hires were better, though I think the Muschamp hire is likely doomed from the start. It is interesting to see all the talk propping up Richt now that he's at a different program when he was being dogged so much before he was fired from UGA.
Bud Elliott @ SB Nation has a good article on the expectations of Smart and Muschamp's first year.
He also brings up a good point, while UGA has been getting high ranked classes, they're still typically 3rd or 4th annually in the SEC. So while it's good, there's a huge dropoff from top ranked classes in the conferences to #4. That depth adds up, so there's still quite a bit of work to do for Smart to improve depth across the class. Richt has always been good at signing one or two 5 stars, maybe five 4 stars, and mostly 3 stars.
He also brings up a good point, while UGA has been getting high ranked classes, they're still typically 3rd or 4th annually in the SEC. So while it's good, there's a huge dropoff from top ranked classes in the conferences to #4. That depth adds up, so there's still quite a bit of work to do for Smart to improve depth across the class. Richt has always been good at signing one or two 5 stars, maybe five 4 stars, and mostly 3 stars.
I think it's good too, as he's a great coach. Don't think BGSU fans are too excited about him, though. Probably just don't know much about him yet, which is understandable, given that he's just over 40 but has only been a college coach for about 3 years. One comment I saw was something along the lines of "this guy was a candidate for the OC at UTSA, and now we've hired him as a head coach?"
Pretty far outside of the only recruiting grounds he's ever known, though. BGSU only has one player from Texas on their entire roster, and that's a transfer that washed out at Baylor. I'm sure he'll still try to hit Texas pretty hard but it's going to be interesting to see how it works out.
Azwethinkweiz
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Much like UNC in general, their meltdown underwhelmed.
Sirpopopop
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I can't believe fans are concerned about Chris Ash already.
Every move he makes is part of a complicated plan that you can't understand, because you're not a head coach. I don't understand why you guys post anything that's remotely critical of your coaches & school. They know better than us. We can only support their every decision.
Every move he makes is part of a complicated plan that you can't understand, because you're not a head coach. I don't understand why you guys post anything that's remotely critical of your coaches & school. They know better than us. We can only support their every decision.
You're going to complain about Ferentz getting it? You sound like a Buckeye fan! Go sit in the corner and think about your life choices.
Iowa and Florida were pretty much even last year, in terms of their on-the-field results. Iowa was 7-6, Florida was 7-5 (Idaho game was canceled, so really, UF would have been 8-5).
Sure, McElwain had a great season, but Ferentz and Iowa had an even better season.
Sirpopopop
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I am talking to the world.
Sometimes I just get so angry at the negativity. This needs to be a safe space.
Lol. I honestly can't tell if you're serious.
This year told us nothing about how McElwain will do.
Muschamp could easily have had an identical year. One player goes down and the entire offense goes to complete and utter shit.
Ferentz would be the only other choice but honestly, their schedule was so much easier than ours. Considering many predicted Florida to barely have 6 or 7 wins and we're under dogs for much of the season, I say he did pretty damn good.
Cool, no one is talking about Muschamp though. We're talking about a guy and a program that everyone doubted going into the season. He's the first coach in the sec to go into the SEC championship his first year.
Urban Meyer's first year 9-3
Muschamp 7-6
McElwain 10-3 with the SEC East
With no response yet from Cumbie on the job offer, it looks like Tulsa OC Sterlin Gilbert is visiting Austin right now.
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Guess they already have a response from Cumbie after all.
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Guess they already have a response from Cumbie after all.
Turns out that Ruffin McNeill may not have been "fired" so much as he was "offered an extension that low-balled his assistants and decided not to sign it."
Apparently his prior contract stipulated that in his NEXT one his assistant salary pool would be in the top half of the conference, but the new contract they offered him earlier in the year didn't comply. Ruffin didn't sign it, and as the season played out they rescinded the extension.
Apparently his prior contract stipulated that in his NEXT one his assistant salary pool would be in the top half of the conference, but the new contract they offered him earlier in the year didn't comply. Ruffin didn't sign it, and as the season played out they rescinded the extension.
PlayALLtheGames
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If he had beaten FSU and Bama and didn't get it, he'd have been robbed, or maybe if he won one of those and didn't get it.
Ferentz did the best job.
He was still fired, his contract ran until 2017 I believe. The extension would've added onto it.
That strength of schedule though
Anways it seems we could agree it shouldn't have been Dabo
That's what I get for skipping the intro paragraph and taking the link text from where I originally saw it at face value.
Azwethinkweiz
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You guys are crazy. Dabo had to replace his whole front 7 on defense, his whole o-line, and lost his top WR in the first quarter of the first game of the year. Then went on to beat 3 top 10 teams and be the only undefeated team in the country.
But I'm sure your coach navigating through one of the two worst divisions in college football and losing all but one of his ranked games did a better job.
You lost Chad Morris as well right? Yeah, can't argue against Swinney winning it this year.
I think having a Heisman finalist (possibly winning) quarterback automatically knocks you out of contention for coach of the year. I think Ferentz is a good pick this year.
Squirrel Killer
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Just how many coach of the year awards are there? Sure Ferentz got the Woody Hayes Coach of the Year, but he's only still a finalist for the Eddie Robinson, George Munger Coach of the Year Awards. Swinney picked up the Home Depot Coach of the Year.
Apparently, Wikipedia lists 12 COY awards, and one defunct one. Place yer bets on who the defunct one is named after!
And like I said when Dantonio lost the B1G COY, losing to Ferentz this year is not "getting robbed." Certainly not any more than Ferentz getting robbed of the Home Depot COY. Now, if any of them lost it to say... Coach Flood - as great as he is - then we could talk about getting robbed.
Azwethinkweiz
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Lol it's clear we could make cases for everyone being coach of the year if you want to do that, here's McElwain's case.
First year head coach
Projected to be second to last in the east
No O-line what so ever.
Projected to be an underdog in every game
Didn't really have decent QB play until midseason
Starting QB suspended.
No solid running game
Only two solid receivers
No kicker
No 21. in recruiting compared to Clemson's No. 8