Shows how you really can’t listen to these talking heads. No one would leave a Big Ten school for the Big 12. Everything is flowing in the other direction. The very reason Fickell left Cincy for Wisconsin.Was on another message board and saw that the first name this guy mentioned for “best guesses” for next Cincinnati head coach was Bret Bielema.
Just about dropped my phone and would have done a spit take if I had a drink in my mouth.
Guy also mentioned Jeff Brohm and Pat Narduzzi and Scott Satterfield. Why would any of those coaches be a “best guess” for Cincinnati. Absolutely preposterous.
Kansas ended up going 3-6 in conference, which probably ended any possibility of that happening. Doesn't mean it was nonsense at the time. If Kansas ends up finishing with a winning record in conference play, after their hot start to the season, maybe things go differently.Shows how you really can’t listen to these talking heads. No one would leave a Big Ten school for the Big 12. Everything is flowing in the other direction. The very reason Fickell left Cincy for Wisconsin.
And all the Lance Leopold talk. Ended up being nonsense.
Can you imagine Bruce Pearl and Hugh Freeze being the faces of your athletic program?The Auburn job can't be that desirable anymore. No one wants to be the guy who has to out Saban-Saban.
The Auburn fanbase kind of deserves them.Can you imagine Bruce Pearl and Hugh Freeze being the faces of your athletic program?
I'm going to get out in front of believing that Matt Ruhl will not "succeed" at Nebraska. He may make them a regular bowl-eligible team, but Nebraska fans I've seen believe he is capable of making them a competitor for the conference and the twelve team playoff.Big 10 will be monster in couple years. I could see B10 getting 3-4 spots every year just like the SEC (12 available)
Traditional:
Ohio State 11-1
Michigan 12-0
Newbies:
Penn State (10-2 this year)
USC (11-2, under Riley probably BCS bound)
Nebraska (will rebound under Matt Ruhl)
UCLA (9-3 under Chip Kelly BCS experience )
Very tough 2nd tier
Illini (Bielema 8-4)
Wisconsin (6-6 Fickell, BCS experience at Cincinatti)
Purdue (8-4)
Iowa (7-5)
Minnesota (8-4)
Possible future adds
Washington 10-2
Oregon 9-3
Matt Rhule. And it’s Lunney not LuhnneyI'm going to get out in front of believing that Matt Ruhl will not "succeed" at Nebraska. He may make them a regular bowl-eligible team, but Nebraska fans I've seen believe he is capable of making them a competitor for the conference and the twelve team playoff.
Sorry your past is history. They are down in the B1G West tier with Iowa, Minnesota, below Wisconsin, and maybe alongside us and Purdue. Ruhl certainly raised the floor where he went, but show me one impressive victory he had at Baylor or Temple. There's not much there. This conference is going to be a gauntlet, especially if USC is going to be one of their permanent rivals, like we expect. Being one of the top three or even four teams is going to be a huge ask, and being ahead of all but two of OSU, Michigan, USC, Penn State, Wisconsin, and even Iowa and Michigan State just isn't likely.
That's showbiz, kid.Leonhard was was blindsided and devastated by the news after he publicly expressed his desire to take over as Wisconsin's full-time head coach.
Wow, that is someone that had been loyal as possible to UW.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/spor...e-fickell-as-next-football-coach/69680209007/
I also believe Nebraska will be a bowl eligible team soon, but not an upper crust team. I just dont believe 4 star and 5 star players are going to be standing in line to come to the plains to play. What I was saying is, kids today will not be satisfied just because they have internet in Nebraska. They want to be entertained . I dont think they will find the lifestyle they are wanting in Nebraska. Sure they will get 3 star players from the urban areas like everyone else, Im talking about the truely elite players who can literally pick their poison.I'm going to get out in front of believing that Matt Ruhl will not "succeed" at Nebraska. He may make them a regular bowl-eligible team, but Nebraska fans I've seen believe he is capable of making them a competitor for the conference and the twelve team playoff.
Sorry your past is history. They are down in the B1G West tier with Iowa, Minnesota, below Wisconsin, and maybe alongside us and Purdue. Ruhl certainly raised the floor where he went, but show me one impressive victory he had at Baylor or Temple. There's not much there. This conference is going to be a gauntlet, especially if USC is going to be one of their permanent rivals, like we expect. Being one of the top three or even four teams is going to be a huge ask, and being ahead of all but two of OSU, Michigan, USC, Penn State, Wisconsin, and even Iowa and Michigan State just isn't likely.
You have no idea. I recall when they fired Earle Bruce the Monday before the Michigan game in '87. Here's his record through '86 at OSU. The locals called him "Mr. 9-3":Gonna be real awkward when Ohio State cans Day for going 1-3 vs Michigan next year.
Hope they don't also get Rattler (QB).
My keyboard on my phone is not my friend. My apologies, Tyler.Matt Rhule. And it’s Lunney not Luhnney
As someone having large thumbs I feel your paign.My keyboard on my phone is not my friend. My apologies, Tyler.
Wonder if he pissed off people in the administration? The guy was head coach in waiting there for a while, then doesn't even get a full season.That's showbiz, kid.
I really don't know, but my thought is that it's just a very cutthroat game. You take a job knowing that you're gonna get fired unless everything goes absolutely right, and both the schools and coaches have to make very difficult decisions to get where they want to go. It's not the same at every school, but I think that our former AD and Ford-Kinnick award winner Ron Guenther was an extreme outlier with respect to how he thought about loyalty, and we all saw how well that ended up.Wonder if he pissed off people in the administration? The guy was head coach in waiting there for a while, then doesn't even get a full season.