Is about as close as you get to the New York television market.
I'll disagree with you slightly. There shouldn't be a Power 5, there should be a Power 4 with 16 schools in each. Arranging things geographically as you suggest is fine with me.
Those 64 should be what is currently FBS.
The next 64 (MAC, Sunbelt, CUSA, Mountain West, most of the AAC) should be their own division with a playoff and championship structure akin to the FCS.
Let the big boys who can compete financially stay up top, and give their players a larger stipend than the second tier of FBS.
The ideal situation may be Under Armour stepping in with an on-par offer. UA's done some wacky stuff with Maryland but they've been extremely reserved with Auburn's classic look. (An extensive Googling reveals no alternate uniform horrors.)
Have you even glanced at what Under Armour has done to Toledo? Don't walk, run in the other direction from UnderArmour. Not only are their uniform designs terrible, their alternates are a joke and the items they make available to the fans are overrated, overpriced and poorly designed.
You're better off with anyone other than UnderArmour. Seriously. Call Puma or ressurect Starter from bankruptcy if you have to.
Not as good as you think. No running game. Hasn't had a good interior defensive line since the mid 1990s. They do have a quarterback, however and that does make it a better situation than Oakland or the NY Jets.
However, they're also in the same conference as the 49ers; something I guarantee you the 49ers would have a problem with. That's high compensation to give up on the Falcons part, high enough that it would give the Falcons problems when trying to rebuild over the near term.
On top of that, the Falcons problems are, in my opinion, caused by a front office with a poor player acquisition strategy, particularly on defense, as much as they are by Mike Smith's coaching. How much of that front office do you suppose Arthur Blank is willing to clean out to make room for Harbaugh?
I can't see the 49ers letting him go to Oakland, because the PR nightmare of dealing with him in their backyard is highly undesirable. I find it more difficult, but not impossible, to see them letting him go to Atlanta. The Jets I could see, but they're a tire fire with a meddling owner and a clown for a front office.
College is a different animal than the pros. He could own his alma mater, and they're willing to back the Brinks truck up to get him. That makes them the leaders in the clubhouse, at least in my mind.
You left out Jack Pardee's 14-6 record with the Florida Blazers of the WFL in 1974, but other than that, some of the comical ineptness Jim Mora Jr showed in Atlanta, and the utter lack of lockerroom control Pete Carrol had in New England this is as good a summary as any.
I would agree with the sentiment that Jim Harbaugh coming back, when factoring in age, experience, proximity to NFL career and prior success would be close to unprecedented.
Jim Mora, the guy who didn't understand the NFL playoff rules and had to call someone to have them explained to him on a cellphone in the middle of a game, was famous for using smelling salts to keep himself awake on the sidelines during the game while coach of the Falcons and was so entrenched at his job that he told Seattle radio that he'd quit mid playoff run to take the job at UW, was a decent NFL coach?
Jim Mora, who was fired after one season in Seattle?
The UCLA job is a difficult one for a lot of reasons, so I'm glad he's found success there. I can understand why he'd want a promotion/raise or another job. But let's not characterize his NFL years as something they weren't.
Harbaugh is not Bobby Petrino. He isn't going to just walk out on the 49ers to take the Michigan job or any other job, for that matter.
Nor is he Nick Saban, where he's going to entertain answering questions and deny interest in a job.
He's going to do what Al Groh did, which is fulfill his duties with conscious blinders on then, after the Niners finish out their season, he'll either be fired almost immediately by the front office, or he'll sit down after the end of season post-mortems and evaluate his options.
Regardless of whether there's more data needed in your opinion, someone who is currently employed in a 90+ hour per week job probably hasn't had the bandwidth to do anything other than a cursory evaluation of the data at hand. And other possibilities may not yet have materialized.
So have some patience, and look at the lack of activity as a good sign. It's all good.
To give you a pro example, everyone on planet earth knew the Colts were going to release Peyton Manning and draft Andrew Luck. You could objectively look at a situation from the outside and see that that was the logical choice to make based on the money, injury, state of the franchise and the opportunities the NFL Draft that year presented.
Everyone knew this except Peyton Manning. He had no idea. He was rehabbing and preparing to enter the season as the QB of the Indianapolis Colts.
It's entirely possible that, while the media can talk to Jim Harbaugh about these possibilities, and while you may have back channel conversations galore, and reasonably so, Jim Harbaugh himself may have no idea what he wants to do because, in his mind, he's the Head Coach of the San Francisco 49ers and that's his time horizon as much as he knows about it as of this moment.
In a sense, that's how generally top tier professionals work, with conscious blinders of their place outside the organization and the challenges in front of them. It's maddening for us fans, to be sure, but in a way, a univeristy that (rightfully) considers itself top tier wants this type of candidate, no?
While the campus is very nice, there are no good recruiting areas very close to Boulder.
You mean having legalized weed isn't helping recruiting?
In all seriousness, I agree with you on the state of CU. Athletic department budget restraints going back to the Dan Hawkins years and a, how do I put this politely, periodically antagonistic relationship at times between the student body and athletics (I have memories of this back to the Chuck Fairbanks years) don't help matters.
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Is about as close as you get to the New York television market.
I'll disagree with you slightly. There shouldn't be a Power 5, there should be a Power 4 with 16 schools in each. Arranging things geographically as you suggest is fine with me.
Those 64 should be what is currently FBS.
The next 64 (MAC, Sunbelt, CUSA, Mountain West, most of the AAC) should be their own division with a playoff and championship structure akin to the FCS.
Let the big boys who can compete financially stay up top, and give their players a larger stipend than the second tier of FBS.
He's an average Republican, then.
The ideal situation may be Under Armour stepping in with an on-par offer. UA's done some wacky stuff with Maryland but they've been extremely reserved with Auburn's classic look. (An extensive Googling reveals no alternate uniform horrors.)
Have you even glanced at what Under Armour has done to Toledo? Don't walk, run in the other direction from UnderArmour. Not only are their uniform designs terrible, their alternates are a joke and the items they make available to the fans are overrated, overpriced and poorly designed.
You're better off with anyone other than UnderArmour. Seriously. Call Puma or ressurect Starter from bankruptcy if you have to.
Not as good as you think. No running game. Hasn't had a good interior defensive line since the mid 1990s. They do have a quarterback, however and that does make it a better situation than Oakland or the NY Jets.
However, they're also in the same conference as the 49ers; something I guarantee you the 49ers would have a problem with. That's high compensation to give up on the Falcons part, high enough that it would give the Falcons problems when trying to rebuild over the near term.
On top of that, the Falcons problems are, in my opinion, caused by a front office with a poor player acquisition strategy, particularly on defense, as much as they are by Mike Smith's coaching. How much of that front office do you suppose Arthur Blank is willing to clean out to make room for Harbaugh?
I can't see the 49ers letting him go to Oakland, because the PR nightmare of dealing with him in their backyard is highly undesirable. I find it more difficult, but not impossible, to see them letting him go to Atlanta. The Jets I could see, but they're a tire fire with a meddling owner and a clown for a front office.
College is a different animal than the pros. He could own his alma mater, and they're willing to back the Brinks truck up to get him. That makes them the leaders in the clubhouse, at least in my mind.
One way or the other, it's gone forever. Wave it goodbye, pour yourself a drink and hang on for the ride.
The Miami Dolphins don't really have fans. Just people who have migrated from other cities who pop in when their team visits.
Wannstedt's claim to fame was his mustache.
/FTFY
You left out Jack Pardee's 14-6 record with the Florida Blazers of the WFL in 1974, but other than that, some of the comical ineptness Jim Mora Jr showed in Atlanta, and the utter lack of lockerroom control Pete Carrol had in New England this is as good a summary as any.
I would agree with the sentiment that Jim Harbaugh coming back, when factoring in age, experience, proximity to NFL career and prior success would be close to unprecedented.
Jim Mora, the guy who didn't understand the NFL playoff rules and had to call someone to have them explained to him on a cellphone in the middle of a game, was famous for using smelling salts to keep himself awake on the sidelines during the game while coach of the Falcons and was so entrenched at his job that he told Seattle radio that he'd quit mid playoff run to take the job at UW, was a decent NFL coach?
Jim Mora, who was fired after one season in Seattle?
The UCLA job is a difficult one for a lot of reasons, so I'm glad he's found success there. I can understand why he'd want a promotion/raise or another job. But let's not characterize his NFL years as something they weren't.
Harbaugh is not Bobby Petrino. He isn't going to just walk out on the 49ers to take the Michigan job or any other job, for that matter.
Nor is he Nick Saban, where he's going to entertain answering questions and deny interest in a job.
He's going to do what Al Groh did, which is fulfill his duties with conscious blinders on then, after the Niners finish out their season, he'll either be fired almost immediately by the front office, or he'll sit down after the end of season post-mortems and evaluate his options.
Regardless of whether there's more data needed in your opinion, someone who is currently employed in a 90+ hour per week job probably hasn't had the bandwidth to do anything other than a cursory evaluation of the data at hand. And other possibilities may not yet have materialized.
So have some patience, and look at the lack of activity as a good sign. It's all good.
Is it true that, with a ruptured appendix, you can no longer read anything in the backs of books?
Riley was awesome in Winnipeg. So that has to count for something, right?
I'm happy to buy Les dinner and maybe a movie if my first choice doesn't show. That has to be at least $30, right?
Hey, are you guys done with Nussmeier? Because my British Columbia Lions need a Head Coach and I'd like a shot at him for the Head Coaching position.
To give you a pro example, everyone on planet earth knew the Colts were going to release Peyton Manning and draft Andrew Luck. You could objectively look at a situation from the outside and see that that was the logical choice to make based on the money, injury, state of the franchise and the opportunities the NFL Draft that year presented.
Everyone knew this except Peyton Manning. He had no idea. He was rehabbing and preparing to enter the season as the QB of the Indianapolis Colts.
It's entirely possible that, while the media can talk to Jim Harbaugh about these possibilities, and while you may have back channel conversations galore, and reasonably so, Jim Harbaugh himself may have no idea what he wants to do because, in his mind, he's the Head Coach of the San Francisco 49ers and that's his time horizon as much as he knows about it as of this moment.
In a sense, that's how generally top tier professionals work, with conscious blinders of their place outside the organization and the challenges in front of them. It's maddening for us fans, to be sure, but in a way, a univeristy that (rightfully) considers itself top tier wants this type of candidate, no?
While the campus is very nice, there are no good recruiting areas very close to Boulder.
You mean having legalized weed isn't helping recruiting?
In all seriousness, I agree with you on the state of CU. Athletic department budget restraints going back to the Dan Hawkins years and a, how do I put this politely, periodically antagonistic relationship at times between the student body and athletics (I have memories of this back to the Chuck Fairbanks years) don't help matters.