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My favorite metric is wins.
Schiano could turn Pitt into something. My gut reaction is that's a great fit, which spells trouble for us.
At least Beamer and Foster have coached against him. I guess. Not many ACC head coaches who have seen a Schiano-coached team.
Wait. You have 2002 Ohio State listed at 70th on O. Typo?
Balance is the name of the game.
Wow. Schiano could be a great fit at Pitt.
Is Steve Sobczak any relation to Walter Sobczak?
Actually that's bad on me. My intent was to refer to playing in a professional stadium, i.e. Pitt, Miami, Tulane, etc. Not sure why my brain latched onto the word municipal, ownership of the stadium is actually irrelevant.
That doesn't look like the Rock.
*game 2
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11 years 7 months
# | Has Scot Loeffler done enough to keep his position as Offensive Coordinator? Now, if this time next year, the team is 6-6 again and the offense still shows no signs of life, I think it'll be time to have this conversation.
This on a stick, dipped in chocolate.
Next year is judgment year for Scot. The gloves are off and all goodwill is exhausted. And reality is, with his first two years being what they were, his judgment will be a lot harsher than it would have been had we seen a middle of the pack offense these past two seasons.
I'm not saying we have to win the ACC next year, but the offense needs to be competent, efficient and disciplined. It needs to come together next season if Scot has any hope of saving his job.
And Miami was specifically who I had in mind as I wrote that comment.
And it was a glorious day beating that little woody!!!
Legs down the board for the discussion, sir.
Also a tangent. These non-compete clauses...how are they structured? Isn't it just a heavy financial penalty if you go to a competitor, or do they actually take away a person's legal right to accept a job with a competing company? I suppose I just always thought it was the that of crippling litigation that fueled them.
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11 years 7 months
# | Has Scot Loeffler done enough to keep his position as Offensive Coordinator? Broken record time.
He gets three years. IMO coordinators always get three years. Call me naive or old school, I've always said it and I still believe it.
For those trying to say this was really year one of the rebuild, no. Year one, you're always working with the other guy's players. You do what you can with what you've got. Trying to pad Lefty's three year allowance by claiming year one was "the Logan year" is an apologist argument.
Remember the Prisoner's Dilemma isn't an absolute obstacle, it just requires mutual trust among competitors. The incentive is still not to adopt the clause for fear that you place yourself at a disadvantage, but when you reach a shared understanding that having the clause is better for all than not having the clause, then you wind up in the best possible quadrant of the Prisoner's Dilemma. You just have to risk winding up in the worst possible quadrant to get there. So I'll stand by my assertion that the PD is appropriate.
To be fair, I think you think I'm saying it's harder to implement than I intend to say it is, and vice versa.
I will say, I think it'd have to be all or nothing. If one conference got together to adopt the policy, then that conference as a whole is at a disadvantage to the other P5 conferences.
I think he was an NFL lean and hearing Kiper's praises was the nudge that tipped him, with the assumption Kiper knew what the hell he was talking about. I'm not really blaming anyone, but you and I do disagree that Kiper's praise was not a major contributing factor to the decision to declare.
When was the last time we had a 330 lb O lineman?
Mila Kunis legs up is all I want for Xmas.
What's the old rule of thumb? Something like if you make someone happy they'll tell one person, piss them off they'll tell ten.
WOW that moved fast!
Those strongarm blanket tactics are really, really hard to enact, because you're expecting entities competing against each other to collaborate on policy for the common good when in practice they are trying to find a competitive advantage against one another. The lure of saying hey, we'll waive the non-compete clause if you sign with us is significant incentive them not to be used in general.
It's the Prisoner's Dilemma. On paper they COULD enact this policy, but the free market prevents them from doing so.
Pitt has abandoned their football tradition. Sad to see, because they have not always been an also ran.
If a team ever ends up playing in a municipal stadium, someone high up at the university either doesn't give a shit about or has given up on football.
Wait is it official?
Actually, I'd love to see what Foster's nickel D could do against Rich Rod. Obviously the 4-4 got exploited but the defense is significantly different now.
I never judge a college coach by his stint in the pros. Completely different culture, mindset, structure etc. A college coach requires a different skill set to succeed than an NFL coach requires (not in absolute terms, of course, but in terms of priorities and focus).