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Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark critical of Notre Dame AD Pete Bevacqua's comments: "I don't like it. His behavior has been egregious. It's egregious going after Jim Phillips."— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) December 9, 2025
Oooh I am sure that will end well for ND
You are judging Pry as a poor coordinator hire using his performance as HC as the criteria and not his previous performance as an actual DC.
Regarding the salary pool for assistants, if we are going to get more support and recruiting staff to allow the coaches to coach, then I'm 100% on board. No next to nothing about this cat, but again I trust JF to make up his own staff
^^^^ This! 1000%
And my battery is at 5%
Thats a full string of delusional copium.
Let the chips fall and the ACC show them the door. They'll be left in a wasteland. Adios!
Also, remember there is context. If we played really crappy competition, our defense would likely look a lot better. Pry was putting together top 10 defenses playing against Big 10 teams.
If we put together that caliber of defense, we should do well in the ACC.
How much development is a coordinator responsible for vs the individual position coaches? Bowen I think was good a developing schemes that the player we had could run (did take awhile for him to figure it out, but after he did, was pretty effective behind a horrible line - something he inherited). I would think individual position coaches develop players, coordinators come up with schemes the players you have can be successful running. So, seems to me Bowen was successful.
Sure, ND fans go ahead and implore the school to sue for damages over the COVID year. I'm sure discovery in such a case would be so kind to your favor. No really, do it
I would have been fine with grabbing coordinators from competitive G5 programs.
I'm not expecting us to get Glenn Schumann to leave UGA for VT, but if we hired UNT's OC or something it would have probably passed the smell test better than Howle, IMO.
(I picked UNT at random based on their SP+, I know nothing about Jordan Davis, just using him for illustrative purposes)
I've dealt with enough PE's that I say no thank you. PE firms don't give a fuck about the "industry, product, people" they are investing in. Their motive, to buy, build a portfolio and sell to another PE. . I don't see how this will end well for Utah.
*psst*
I'm fairly certain VT is bridge financing a decent amount of the new athletics budget.
Yeah that's out of bounds
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Looks like the donors have the option to purchase stake in the new for-profit entity they're creating as part of this deal
That's why I want to go all in on super conferences, so that the entire playoff bracket is a conference championship.
I think the bigger problem in college football is that the conferences have totally half-assed expansion. They're all in for themselves at the expense of screwing everyone else, even though there are viable solutions that will make it better for everyone. Of course, step 1 would be dissolving the ACC and Big 12....
The other piece about BYU is yes they dropped one spot but if they had not dropped one spot, they still dont make the CFP at 11 due to two lower ranked conference champions getting in.
Thank you for this point. If both teams had been on the same side of the bracket cutoff prior to last weekend, then we could more fairly compare if one was punished more than the other for losing.
Franklin has a decade+ of successful teams using this strategy, a lot of it with Pry in the same role and roller coaster of different OCs I don't think there's anything to panic about. Pry tried to replicate it with 1/4 of the resources and knowledge and none of the experience. There are parallels you can draw but they're certainly not on the same level.
To your point even if we can use Prys ability to scout the portal and Franklins ability to build high school relationships we'll be in positions where our roster is consistently better ( more importantly deeper) than 2024.
As waterboy? You absolutely cannot have seen Drew Allar play this year and think, "I wanna hire the guy that coached him."
I know you hate the Franklin hire, and as much as you hate Pry you don't want to see him anywhere near the program, but JMFF has 10+ more years successful HC experience than Pry does (it could be argued that it's 14 years, given that Pry had 0 years of success.)
We're paying well below those 3 coaches salaries for JMFF and we're getting significantly better coaches (on paper) than Pry and his staff.
If the DC's resume didn't have Pry's name at the top but all the rankings and stats that he put up at PSU, everyone would be over the moon for him.
So 2 years of budget that will cost revenue in 7 years like the big 10 deal?
Also why would I donate money to a private equity group?
To be fair, bringing Kirby Smart and his entire staff, Cignetti and his entire, or Day and his entire staff doesn't guarantee anything either.
Coaching changes, especially when the HC is replaced is a huge question mark.
This is true. But we're paying for something closer to the level of these 3 coaches. And getting something a whole lot closer to what we just had with Pry
That's ok, the AI can't tell either.
The SEC got a massive loan for 2020 to keep things afloat. So getting a loan isnt new or unheard of.
Exactly, the responsibilities and measureables are not the same for a DC as they are for a HC. He failed miserably as a HC.
As a DC at PSU, he was very successful. At VT, the defenses weren't successful, but that was because he didn't hire good coordinators and coaches, not because he was a bad DC.
There a many great coordinators who were promoted to HC, spectacularly failed, and then became great coordinators again. I think the list starts with the previous 2 Detroit Lions head coaches.
Has anybody here done an analysis of whether HC hires actual go and try to hire who they think is the actual best, most qualified coordinators, or do they hire people they already know. I'd be willing to wager it's like 90% people they know, and not until the coordinators fail or get hired away do they potentially reach out for someone they don't know.
ALSO, I'm seeing a lot on here about OCs not developing QBs (even though they were a position coach for different positions). How much is it a coordinator job to develop a QB? I would think it's like 95-99% the job of the QB coach.