People need to remember this is one game. Candidates who are/were on our board are because of their whole body of work, their whole resume not what they do in this week or two. I still think Dusty would be a good pick. If I’m not mistaken he could bring some of these players with him potentially which would make the rebuild obviously go smoother. One game’s performance should not overshadow the whole body of work.
I think any of the four names at the end of the piece seem reasonable. Nobody is a slam dunk but they all have their pros and should be given a couple of years to get their system in place. I’d also add the WSU coach who has coached at a high major school and found success by developing diamonds in the rough.
Don’t forget just making the tournament would be a big step at this point. There are 68 teams that get in the field. You don’t have to be the best coach in the world to get to 19-12 which generally will be good enough to get a bid. Get a coach with a system, recruit and develop said players, improve the culture, and hopefully profit over the mid to long term.
Dylan has an article on this at umhoops but I’d be down for Porter Moser. He has a lot of ties to the Midwest and may want to come back to the region and had a lot of success with Loyola. He’s still relatively young and looks like he’ll make the tourney this year with Oklahoma so also had some high major experience. We basically need somebody who’s not afraid of building from the ground up. His style reminds me of Beilein a little bit.
So difficult to concentrate. Our team gives no f**ks they are going to give it their all and lay it all on the line. Washington is good. This will be a battle. Unless we do to them what Dante Divencenzo did to us in the 'Ship in 2018.
I get we’re not on the team and it doesn’t matter for us not to take this team lightly. But the team can’t take Washington lightly. We were supposed to beat TCU last year and because of sloppiness didn’t. This needs to be like that scene in Major Paine when the rag tag group of cadets tries to steal the trophy instead of earning it and get their butts kicked. We need to beat Washington’s head in this game and play a clean game. If we don’t turn the ball over and if we clean up special teams think we are the better team this year. Will still be tough and will need to force field goals as they’ll likely move the ball between the 20s but this is doable. The team just has to be uber-focused which I believe they will be given they are 60 minutes away from immortality.
It could be a classic but I hope we go full Nova on them like was done to us in the basketball championship where the Italian just gave us the business that night.
They face really good offenses week in and week out. Helps explain some of it. Though that is more than a standard deviation below average so there’s that.
Some context here matters. We had our offensive line coach, offensive coordinator, and head coach all rolled into one for our three toughest games of the season. That’s going to impact performance and the plan. I think our full complement of coaches can work better together to come up with a coherent strategy to maximize our offense’s talents to put out a good showing that will support our dominant defense. Sherrone is going to continue to shine especially when he has a more manageable role then having to do just about everything on game day.
You’re going to have to play some good teams to win a national championship. Saban is good but his team can be undisciplined at times and doesn’t always do the little things. We’ll need to open things up. We can definitely make the final. Won’t be easy. But doable. Let’s do this.
He’s still a good coach but this Bama team doesn’t always do the little things. They almost lost to multiple teams including a putrid Auburn. We can do this.
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People need to remember this is one game. Candidates who are/were on our board are because of their whole body of work, their whole resume not what they do in this week or two. I still think Dusty would be a good pick. If I’m not mistaken he could bring some of these players with him potentially which would make the rebuild obviously go smoother. One game’s performance should not overshadow the whole body of work.
I think any of the four names at the end of the piece seem reasonable. Nobody is a slam dunk but they all have their pros and should be given a couple of years to get their system in place. I’d also add the WSU coach who has coached at a high major school and found success by developing diamonds in the rough.
Edit: Kyle Smith is who I was blanking on
Don’t forget just making the tournament would be a big step at this point. There are 68 teams that get in the field. You don’t have to be the best coach in the world to get to 19-12 which generally will be good enough to get a bid. Get a coach with a system, recruit and develop said players, improve the culture, and hopefully profit over the mid to long term.
Dylan has an article on this at umhoops but I’d be down for Porter Moser. He has a lot of ties to the Midwest and may want to come back to the region and had a lot of success with Loyola. He’s still relatively young and looks like he’ll make the tourney this year with Oklahoma so also had some high major experience. We basically need somebody who’s not afraid of building from the ground up. His style reminds me of Beilein a little bit.
Let's go Coach Moore you've got this. Beautiful picture to head this post.
Thanks so much Ace. Really great piece. All the best.
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Woo hoo. Great recap Alex. The team the team the team. Go Blue!!!!
Nooobooodddyyy
Dreams do come true. This team is so awesome.
Mike is my spirit animal and Corum and JJ and Loveland heck all them
love you too man
Let's go JJ bring this home woo
Special teams ugh
Engage third quarter juju
So difficult to concentrate. Our team gives no f**ks they are going to give it their all and lay it all on the line. Washington is good. This will be a battle. Unless we do to them what Dante Divencenzo did to us in the 'Ship in 2018.
Come on men one more time.
Oh let’s do it
I get we’re not on the team and it doesn’t matter for us not to take this team lightly. But the team can’t take Washington lightly. We were supposed to beat TCU last year and because of sloppiness didn’t. This needs to be like that scene in Major Paine when the rag tag group of cadets tries to steal the trophy instead of earning it and get their butts kicked. We need to beat Washington’s head in this game and play a clean game. If we don’t turn the ball over and if we clean up special teams think we are the better team this year. Will still be tough and will need to force field goals as they’ll likely move the ball between the 20s but this is doable. The team just has to be uber-focused which I believe they will be given they are 60 minutes away from immortality.
My friend said it was a blown thing by ESPN the timeouts were called by Bama.
Basically it was a graphics issue.
It could be a classic but I hope we go full Nova on them like was done to us in the basketball championship where the Italian just gave us the business that night.
They face really good offenses week in and week out. Helps explain some of it. Though that is more than a standard deviation below average so there’s that.
That seems pretty low. I feel like we’re going to need to score at least 35 maybe more to win. Our defense is good but Washington’s Offense is legit.
Dare I say a Jackhammer
And here. We. Go.
Get thaw out there
Good call. We’ve gotten some breaks. Now we need to make our own luck although that was a heck of a play by McCarthy.
Engage third quarter juju
Pass rush feasting so far. You love to see that.
Call it even
That was fortunate
Let’s go
Having said that if it’s not indisputable can’t overturn call on field. Tough call.
I think he was out but whatever
Bet
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At some point fan interest is going to wane and the players, coaches, networks, and advertisers will be sorry for ruining the golden goose.
It just means more
Some context here matters. We had our offensive line coach, offensive coordinator, and head coach all rolled into one for our three toughest games of the season. That’s going to impact performance and the plan. I think our full complement of coaches can work better together to come up with a coherent strategy to maximize our offense’s talents to put out a good showing that will support our dominant defense. Sherrone is going to continue to shine especially when he has a more manageable role then having to do just about everything on game day.
Would probably be hard to poach him as a DC more likely he gets hired as an HC if that defense is nasty next year.
Fuck Sanderson is so good
This Cure Bowl is wild. The rain is driving hard.
I think Jim is here and at this point 70-30 Juwan is too so I’ll go with 1
Best dude ever. Congrats Mike to you and your girlfriend.
Calling it now. There will be an Orji pop pass to Edwards
The Rose Bowl is one of the sites therefore I guess the New Years Day game
Now they’re trying to make us lose lol. Saban has us right where he wants us being the underdog.
You’re going to have to play some good teams to win a national championship. Saban is good but his team can be undisciplined at times and doesn’t always do the little things. We’ll need to open things up. We can definitely make the final. Won’t be easy. But doable. Let’s do this.
He’s still a good coach but this Bama team doesn’t always do the little things. They almost lost to multiple teams including a putrid Auburn. We can do this.
Beat Bama