His contract is the only thing keeping him in the desert.
Just want you to know that I have enjoyed your posts lately. Someone said that you were brown-nosing for a moderator position a while back.
And I say: Here Here!
You have been brown nosing for the position, & deserve an unpaid (at first) internship.
Case in point: You suggested Obama for honorary captain at the OSU game. And we win the game!
Gold
Other than gratuitously trolling a fellow Michigan fan about stuff that never leaves this web site?
August 1st, 2017 at 11:50 PM ^
My point?
I think it would be great for recruiting if Obama was Honorary Captain for The Game won by the good guys. Sorry it got lost in clumsy attempt at humourous translation. George would be sad.
No trolling, I thought Mr. Yost's post on another thread was gold.
ASU hasn't seriously competed in the Pac 12 under Graham and the field has been wide open with USC and UCLA both failing to reach their potential for most of his time there. ASU isn't Michigan or anything but they do care about football and they want to win, and he's not even in the top tier of his conference.
Those seats are about 112° today
I will bow to the knowledge of those who have been. I stand corrected.
You've obviously never been to a Detroit Lions game.
I want to know why Dantonio isn't on this list. How is a coach NOT on the hotseat after going 3-9 the year after a trip to the CFP???
The Green Wall must be out in full force. Damned Green Wal bastards...
Hopefully Freeze gets fired so he can spend more time with his family.
it that we're losing recruiting battles to Mora and (to a lesser extent) Kelly.
Also the ND fellatio was a bit tough to read.
The positive side is that signing day isn't until after the season. If their seat gets hotter, there's a good chance there will be some decommits.
Although I'm not going to lie, I want Kelly there in 2018 so Harbaugh can make him turn purple.
"Oh, they have very high academic standards and zero tolerance for bad apples".
Buuuuull Shit.
Stanford is a better school by any measure and they don't seem to have trouble recruiting and winning.
EDIT: I see Farnn beat me to the punch on this.
Next to Georgia, UCLA is the most under-performing program of all time given its intrinsic advantages.
Brian Kelly is an odd one...but it's ND. Mora...ugh, how we keep losing recruits to them is insane.
Sumlin doesn't make much sense until you consider he coaches in the SEC. I don't like the guy, but it could be a lot worse and they're not going to find anything better.
Butch Jones is on the hot seat every year just like Sumlin.
What has Brian Kelly done besides that one lucky year when they got thrashed by alabama. Pretty much every other year has been 7/8 wins.
Get really purple.
The 2015 season was decent.
Notre Dame was 10-2 in the regular season, and their 2 losses were by 2 points each to #2 Clemson (14-1), and #3 Stanford (12-2)... It just ended on a poor note with a 44-28 shellacking by Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl.
Funny they say that ND is a tougher job than those they compete with because of academic issues when they play Stanford annually.
Yeah, that got overplayed. Stanford takes academics and discipline seriously, too, and they win. I will say this in ND's defense: It's hard to get into like Stanford, without being Stanford. I don't know exactly what the respective rankings are, but if you're a quality football player that can get into both places, and you're thinking seriously about your education, how is Stanford not a better choice? It's got a GREAT academic rep and people who go there are wildly successful in their chosen professional fields.
That said, the problem with ND isn't academics; it's Brian Kelly.
Depends on circumstances I suppose. A catholic kid from Chicago land that gets into both Stanford and ND is probably going to chose ND. A california kid from the bay area is probably going to chose Stanford.
Stanford is a great school no doubt about that, but I get the sense that an ND Degree probably carries more weight in the midwest.
chooising ND, it's a good school.
But it shouldn't even be in the same fucking conversation as Stanford, any high school graduate should know that.
Culturally in the midwest if you look at professional networks, etc. An ND degree will probably get your further than a Stanford Degree. Especially in the legal profession or financial industry.
There is no doubt that Stanford is a higher ranked school. But there is more to it than raw rankings. For example, Ohio State is a higher ranked school than Colorado State, but if I were looking for work in the Front Range Urban Corridor I think I'd rather have a degree from Colorado State. Kind of an odd example I will admit.
So if I wanted to get into tech, and work in silicon valley then Stanford wins hands down. If I wanted to be lawyer in Chicago then ND wins hands down.
I'm not saying ND Mendoza is a bad program—it's well regarded—but Stanford's biz school is much more highly rated.
https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-business-schools/mba-r…
Funny as ND being 4-8 was, I think Bill C had them like top-30 or so on advanced stats, so I assume they had a lot of bad luck which will revert to the mean for BK.
Kliff Kingsbury still having a job never ceases to amaze. Is he just too goddamn handsome to be fired or what?
It's Texas Tech.
You have to think to yourself...do they have a better option?
They fire him and who do they hire?
Well now I suppose they can say fuck any little bit of moral compass and get Art Briles. But realistically they're about Sonny Cumbie or Kendal Briles. A coordinator. Are those options THAT much different from Kingsbury?
If it's Texas or Texas A&M...I get it, but realize we're talking about TTU in Lubbock effing Texas. All they can do is hire the next hot OC who knows how to run the wide open Texas HS offense.
They missed their chance. They should've gone after Lincoln Riley before he got the OU job (he's a Mike Leach protege I believe)
Agree 100%...
That said, he was the best of the OC types.
Lincoln Riley at OU is a lot different than Lincoln Riley at TTU. That's kind of my point, you have to know who you are.
Even though he may be a slightly better coach, is it enough to move the needle for Texas Tech? At the end of the day, they're still Texas Tech.
They were good under Mike Leach, and in the wide open Big 12 where defense is optional TTU can be successful IMO. Not championship caliber, but 9 or so wins on average with the occasional year where they win the Big 12
Maybe with "the occasional year where they (compete to) win the Big 12."
Basically their ceiling under Leach, and about the best they can hope for with any coach that's not some kind of miracle. In their best season they still wound up out of the conference title game and the BCS thanks to the Big 12 rules prioritizing BCS standings (that was the year of the incredible Michael Crabtree TD catch to beat Texas--they also got smoked by Oklahoma, who themselves lost to Texas).
Sometimes I wonder though if the defenses in the Big 12 are bad, or if their offenses are just too potent/high-powered for their defenses to contain for a full game. They went a perfect 6-0 in the 2016 postseason I think.
I think the defenses are lousy.
They had a decent record (4-2), but you'd have to look at the match-ups (which I don't have in front of me at the moment):
http://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/bowl-records-by-conferen…
prevent him from interviewing at Houston, Purdue, and other jobs. He knew he was going to be the OU head coach, he wasnt leaving.