10-11 ncaa football thread

I want to be happy about LSU losing, but as long as Arkansas is coached by Bobby Petrino, I can't. ANYBODY BUT ARKANSAS!

okla-okla st is a great game -- both coordinators are two of the more innovative in major college football

ga tech kicker conspiracy

Yay, USC lost!!!

Also, this should come as a surprise to no one, but Randy Shannon is now unemployed.

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no surprise at all.

i keep hearing that um can't/won't pay for a top-notch coach or top-notch facilities, both of which are dragging the program down. no idea if that's true.

Brad Childress is available, just sayin.

UM's donor base -- as a private school with barely over 10k enrollment a year -- is incredibly small compared to pretty much every other big time college program

miami can offer some intriguing things (nice weather, tradition, great support from ex-players, pipeline in arguably the most fertile recruiting county in america) but money, facilities and fans are not any of those things

the names i'm hearing: dan mullen, randy edsall (sorry j crunch), mark richt and...... jon gruden (sorry ilnfl)

not familiar with those names (except for gruden, obv).

was "a private school with barely over 10K enrollment a year" when i went there in the mid-80s. somehow, tho, we found a string of magic coaches that created a massive dynasty. we're in our "lost in the wilderness" years now, i suppose.

um was . . .

college football is a much, much bigger money sport now than it was in the mid 80s

agreed.

Mullen - currently at Mississippi St.
Edsall - currently at Connecticut
Richt - currently at Georgia

well duh, coaches do move around sometimes, y'know

he was answering my question i think.

ohhhh lol

apologies, johnny

i've heard of richt, and i know georgia is a viable program. is he the best of these choices?

mullen & edsall are two fairly obv choices -- two well thought of coaches that are punching below their weight at their respective schools

richt is a bit more tenuous -- he played at UM and is from the area & i guess people think that he might be willing to jump ship on uga before they make him walk the plank

ummm uga has had down years recently but i'm inclined to say that anyone that has won the SEC multiple times would probably do okay in the acc

oh yeah

also mike leach, but that goes for like... every open job in the country (altho he did interview for the job after they fired coker)

Apparently, Vandy is going to make a run at Gus Malzahn. tbh, I'd rather see him go to UM. Especially if Auburn gets to the championship game and loses, it's now or never time for him to call his own shots.

going from auburn OC to vandy HC is a backwards move

agreed

Will Muschamp is just sitting out there in Texas waiting for Mack Brown to retire. I think if Mack decides to stay for another season, Muschamp will entertain offers from other schools.

(as he should)

yeah not sure exactly what he's up to

& his defense was.... less than stellar this year

mike leach not being the head coach for a major program (or nfl team) atm is a travesty imo

his problem is that he clashed a lot w/ the texas tech brass & likely has a reputation of a pain in the ass -- which is why i think he'll prob have to rehabilitate himself somewhere that's not seen as a top 15 or 20 job

I think Mike Leach being as litigious as he is kind of scares some schools away.

Leach did kinda get screwed though. I'd love to see Leach and/or Gruden in the SEC, that'd be entertaining.

I think Georgia would be dumb to get rid of Richt, but it's a finicky fanbase so who knows. I can't imagine he'd willingly leave for Miami without being fired first. He's not the greatest gameday coach but he's a hell of a recruiter and he's straight as an arrow, which personally I appreciate even if you don't love the god squad stuff. I'd rather have a losing Richt than a winning Tom Osborne anyway.

I'm sure the equipment shed incident is just the final straw for Texas Tech re: Leach. They'd been looking for a good way to relieve him of his duties for a couple seasons, and he gave it to them on a platter. Personally, I think he's an asshole and has demonstrated it on numerous occasions since his firing, but he's a great x's and o's coach that can lift lowly teams and make them look good. Vandy should be looking at him.

yeah exactly

i don't see any reason to not aim high (re: malzahan) cuz the worst that someone can say is no, but i think leach is much more realistic

wherever leach ends up, I`m gonna watch the games

i watched some texas tech games in 08, having never previously taken much interest in college football - texas (#1 at the time) was a fantastic game, then they were completely destroyed by oklahoma.

now i'm sort of following SEC due to numerous colleagues who are alums, but i don't personally have connections to any of the schools so i have no idea who to root for.

As long as you don't root for Tennessee, we'll be friends 4ever.

Leach isn't THAT big a dick. We're not talking Mangino level, and ESPN really does owe him an apology or something for how they handled that Adam James shit. I bet Gruden would have an even tougher time dealing with boosters than Leach.

anything bad that happens to craig james' family is okay w/ me

^^^

lol

Oh yeah, informal survey time: raise your hand if you think Rich Rodriguez survives past this season at Michigan...

So thankful he backed out of the "done deal" at Alabama a few seasons ago.

lol

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ON THE MONEY

luke head coach, irvin o coordinator, warren sapp d coordinator

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SORRY, JOHNNY. COULDN'T HEAR YOU.

So let's say Georgia sacks Richt (for some insane reason), it's probable they'll go after Alabama DC Kirby Smart. They wanted him after last season for their own DC position (he's a UGA alum), but I suspect he could actually be wooed by a HC position after this year. Richt ends up at the top of Miami's list...EXCEPT I just read that Miami was really interested in Malzahn at Tulsa before he even went to Auburn, so he's definitely on the list. If he goes, that leaves Richt the odd man out. I'm sure some schools will make a play for him, but probably not any that are on the level he should be considering.

xp haha those piggies are funny

i don't actually think that UGA would fire richt this year tbh