Illinois Hokie's Recent Comments
I don't understand why Syracuse backed out of joining in '04. ACC expansion went from Miami and 'Cuse to Miami, VT and BC. Always seemed odd to me.
It has been amazing to watch Chicago turn on Goose Island after the AB-Inbev acquisition. Goose Island used to be Chicago's brewery, and basically all the beer snobs in Chicago (and there are many) have jumped ship to Revolution.
In five years we've gone from, "Hey, do you think our tight end can play quarterback?" to "Among our fifth-year senior with starting experience, our number one JUCO recruit or our four star developmental project, who would you like as a starter?"
Amen in principle, but I just can't stand most American light lagers (the style of lager, not "light beer"). It's not just the old cliche that American beers are bad, I think it's because they brew with funky adjuncts. Budweiser and Coors are brewed with rice, Miller with corn starch. To me, that just fouls up the taste something terrible. It's not all "cheap" beer, either. I can drink PBR, and am actually pretty fond of Old Style when I'm in the mood for a lawnmower beer.
Part of me is pissed they're making the Orange Bowl odd man out, but I actually think it'll be a net plus compared to being on NYE.
Backloaded contracts are the adjustable rate mortgages of the sports world. Enticing on paper, and an albatross around your neck in practice. I see this blowing up one way or another.
Basically all the high school football talent in the state is in the Chicago area. There is an entrenched Chicago-to-Notre Dame pipeline, with all the Catholic schools there. This move might significantly disrupt that. Yeah, religion is important, but this is a chance to play your college ball for the last coach that took your home team to the Superbowl.
$3 mil would tie for 34th place on this list, very middle of the pack for a P5 program.
Coincidentally, $2 mil would tie for 55th place, and that's where Lovie's sitting for the next two years.
Backloaded as hell, though. 48% of the contract's total value comes in the last two years. It looks like this is structured on the assumption that Lovie won't be around by year five of the contract.
Compare to Fuente's contract, which is worth a combined $20.45 million (compared to Lovie's $21 million), but increases incrementally only from $3.2 to $3.65 million over the same period of time. Fuente's is a "let's build a lasting relationship" deal, while Lovie's contract dangles the carrot.
We are who we are basically a
500.581 (.556)team
FTFY
I'll take "Badass Motherfuckers" for a thousand, Alex.
I am aware that is the reported version of events, and I have no solid reason to doubt it. But until this announcement, I had heard nothing of Scott coaching safeties. It just was enough to make me wonder.
We just sniped a position coach from another P5 program like it was nothing. Culture change is coming.
Also, to put on my tinfoil hat for a second, I wonder if all the hemming and hawing about what Scott's position was going to be on D was because Fuente/Bud couldn't say, "Galen will be coaching safeties after Torrian Gray leaves after signing day."
Bureaucracy.
I'm guessing he was "hired," showed up to work, and let the lawyers get everything in order before it was official.
That went about as well as the title could possibly have allowed.
Yeah... I've been meaning to ask, could you please get around to trimming the hedges outside your house? They are getting really uncomfortable to sit in.
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# | Justin Fuente and Staff Embark on Series of Coaching Clinics to Build a Brand in Virginia Okay, we're using that word completely differently. To me, a bullshitter is someone who can just talk anecdotaly for extended periods of time. I never use that word to imply incompetence or deceitfulness. Just an avid conversationalist.
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# | Justin Fuente and Staff Embark on Series of Coaching Clinics to Build a Brand in Virginia I will disagree with you that Stiney wasn't a bullshitter. He had a story for just about any situation or topic of conversation. He certainly had the gift of gab, and it suited him very well on the recruiting trail.
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# | Justin Fuente and Staff Embark on Series of Coaching Clinics to Build a Brand in Virginia Regarding point 3, I imagine it went something like this:
Fuente: "Galen, I want you to come with me, but you're going to have to take a demotion from DC to a position coach."
Scott: "Why would I ever agree to that?"
Fuente: "You'll be working directly under Bud Foster."
Scott: "I can be packed in an hour."
Can confirm.
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# | Justin Fuente and Staff Embark on Series of Coaching Clinics to Build a Brand in Virginia I wouldn't know Comey from Adam, but that quote, especially the part about Comey having a background in selling insurance, struck me more as an instance of a man who wanted to be wined and dined and given a sales pitch. From everything I've heard, it sounds like Burden is way more business, straight to the point, directly to the recruits themselves than treating the head coach as a gatekeeper. Burden's Twitter presence certainly seems to support a more direct approach to the players themselves.
Nothing against Comey, but his quote sounded more like he wanted to work with a recruiter who was going to go out to dinner and spend four hours just bullshitting. And in that regard, I definitely think Stinespring was cut from that cloth.
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# | Justin Fuente and Staff Embark on Series of Coaching Clinics to Build a Brand in Virginia Can you incorporate "quality-ass stories" in the branding of TKP somehow? Like a front-page banner or targeted web ads?
Mike? Mike O'Cain? How you been, man?