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I was just about to post that. First reaction - "Ew". Second - "well, that actually might make sense"
So you're saying he'll be on the hot seat despite having only 1 recruiting class in and no returning qb? I say next year is a bit of a transition year. He certainly can't lose his job, but continuing to do poorly won't be great. 2015 is a big year in evaluating him, though.
oh my god... that is an amazing image.
At least those that do have a lot of passion. I mean look at that girl in the middle! I bet she'll be hoarse tomorrow!!
Your dad is the best
I'd be ok with a stipend for them, because being a college athlete is basically a full-time job, so they can't work someplace to get some spending money like a normal student can. I wouldn't have been able to buy groceries if I hadn't had a part-time job. But yeah, generally agree with you.
Yaaaaayyyyyyy
haha, thanks. I try to work it in whenever I can.
I've personally always thought that there are 3 sort of spheres of talent in college coaches. Recruiting, motivating, and actual coaching (improving/preparing players, scheming, clock management, that sort of thing).
A bad coach might do one of these things really well at the expense of the others - Mike London comes to mind (good recruiter, but pretty crappy at actual coaching).
A decent coach is probably really good at one or two of these things, or just average across the board.
A great coach (say, Saban) will beat you in all three areas.
Good staffs will make up for the gaps in their own coaches' abilities. (Dabo Swiney is a great recruiter and motivator, but an absolute boob of a gameday coach. Fortunately for him, he's surrounded himself with talented gameday assistants who he delegates responsibility to).
It's clear Bud is one of the (if not THE) best DC in the country at both motivating and coaching. He's just incredible. I also can't really knock Beamer in any area - great coach. And I think it's really fair to say the jury is still out on Loeffler - way too soon to judge. He's going to need a couple of years before any decent assessment can be made.
Jackoffginski, I believe was his name.
Yes - you have the right to an opinion, but you don't have the right to be an asshole about it. Or you do, but you should expect to get disapproval from others when you are.
I think the complaining about downvoting is really overblown. People seem to get so sensitive ("I got downvoted for that?!?!"). Usually, if you get downvoted for something that didn't deserve it, more rational people will upvote you to balance it out. And suppose you lose the anonymity for it - Say I downvote something I think is racist (or whatever). This guy looks, see who downvoted him, and proceeds to downvote me on every post he sees... Or what about just hurt feelings? People take it too personally already - why risk schisms in the community? Why open up that can of worms? I don't think making downvotes public solves enough problems to make it worth the new problems it introduces.
I disagree with this statement. It's all sort of relative. I mean, I guess you could say the kicker is a super important position in the NFL too, but you don't see teams taking them with first rounders very often, and when they do they get lampooned. You can get by with a good walk-on and save the scholly spot for a potential impact player (or even a senior kicker who has proven to be consistent in high pressure scenarios). That's how I look at it, anyway. I think I'd rather have another lb in the class or something and tell any kickers "hey - there's room to kick immediately if you're good enough" than spend a schollie on a kicker you hope will turn out.
I'd be against posting who downvotes - I'd hate to start vindictive voting. Most people don't (or shouldn't) care when they get downvoted - losing 1/1,000 legs isn't going to do anything. Plus, I think it's a decent measure to prevent dick-headedness. There was that one guy who got to -50 in a day, and was subsequently banned. If you've been posting for a while, just ignore it.
What are you talking about? Beamer was super aggressive. He went for it more times than I've ever seen Beamer go for it. The offense not scoring points ~= Beamer being passive
I was just about to post this (except titled "DON'T PANIC"). Coming into the year, we all thought this was a 8-10 win team. That hasn't changed. We are still good enough (because of that defense) to beat any team remaining on our schedule. We're also bad enough (because of that offense) to lose to any team left on the schedule. We've been living dangerously and winning by the skin of our teeth all season now, and we had to know it'd bite us eventually.
I would put the SEC East as a whole there - 3 top-10 preseason teams, and of which only one is even ranked by the first BCS standings (South Carolina), and that team is #21.
Clearly you weren't around for the Nick Schmitt years
Shenanigans. Cherry is the best. Significantly.
I thought this would be a good image to shop into a strip club or gay bar or something.
I think Frank is definitely the exception to the rule in this regard. Suggesting London could/will get better because Beamer did is disregarding the hundreds of coaches who didn't when given a longer chance (off the top of my head, Weiss, Zook, what's-his-face who was at Duke before Cutliff)...
Somehing something Windstar... something.
yaaaaayyyyyy!!!!!
Disagree. At the height of USC's power, UCLA was a doormat. Bama is currently at the height of their power, and outside of the one fluke year of Cam, Auburn has been a dumpster fire.
I hope so...