walksalone
Heisman Trophy Winner
He also managed to kill the 9 game winning season streak and the bowl streak
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He also managed to kill the 9 game winning season streak and the bowl streak
two words, human amoeba
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walksalone
Heisman Trophy Winner
Sorry, still blinded by my hate for Clownahan
Hilltop
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Yes but that is where 99% of all Penn State Recruits come from. There was serious interest from other good schools close but he was able to get them to play there. For what it's worth, Hackenburg's home town sits about the same distance to State College as it does to Columbus. Alabama had him as their number 1 target as well.
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Wasn't there a bit of an exodus following? That's probably too strong a description. Point being, O'Brien didn't inherit and ideal situation. It took some skill to steady the ship that led to their eventual success.
3gunhusker
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if we loose saturday, start watching for flights from jacksonville to lincoln...
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You do realize there are some people who feel the same way about Frost? Folks where I live think he's a cowardly POS who hid in a closet while Lawrence Phillips beat up the girl. All of these coaches have one thing or another. Solich had issued. Even Osborne is ridiculed by some for steroids and partial qualifiers.
Finding a quality coach with no skeletons in his closet is like finding a needle in a haystack.
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Lorewarn
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Scott Frost won the AP, AFCA, AAC, Eddie Robinson, FCA, Paul "Bear" Bryant, and Home Depot Coach of the Year awards. Mike Riley won the Pac-10 Coach of the Year award.
Who cares?
Lorewarn
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This is one of the most egregious examples of revisionist history I can possibly imagine.
Callahan's offense was the problem in his three years before he lost the team, which is not on the DC. Think back to 2005 - we were 25th in scoring defense.
Sure we gave up some points in our four losses, but Zac had at least two picks in each of those games and we struggled mightily on that side of the ball with the most porous offensive line I have ever seen.
But forget about '05. Think about 2006, his best year. We won 9, lost 5. Of those 5, only one of those is on the defense. Against #4 USC we played conservative vanilla-ball to the tune of 10 points. We held #5 Texas to 22 (their third lowest of the season behind OSU and A&M). We held #8 Oklahoma to 21 (their third lowest of the season while we scored a measly 7 points and had 4 interceptions). We held #10 Auburn to 14 points and couldn't do anything after our opening drive.
2007 is an anomaly due to the staff completely losing the team. Callahan built a championship team in '06 and it was the defense that did their job well enough against elite level competition when the offense couldn't get it done.
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My response was to TG who was implying he didn't have any P5 coaching experience. Those are just a small part of his resume which, since you aren't following along, I'll add is much better than Frost or Riley's.
I'm not going to say that football coaches are model members of society. Urban Meyer has skeletons but I'd be happy to hire him. You don't need bring in a guy that runs a program full of crime, and I know that's not the argument you're trying to make. I don't care about having a clean coach, shoot I like Chadwell and he's probably going to be fined by the NCAA for being unable to run a program himself.
There's a class of scandals in college football history that have documentaries about them or could and the Baylor scandal will eventually. Briles wasn't just ignorant there, he was involved in covering it up. Details are pretty gruesome.
Freeze's scandals at Ole Miss aren't really what I care about, I think they're kinda funny honestly. The guy's just a psychopath who can't let a single person say a bad thing about him. He's also surrounded himself with everyone involved in the baylor thing and has defended their actions on the record going so far as publicly confronting victims.
You can win with a lot of coaches but you don't need to hire either of these two. If you could, they would be coaching somewhere other than Liberty.
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We play 1-3 games over there annually between rutgers, penn st, and maryland. This might not translate completely but it would be nice to get into that recruiting market since its in the big ten footprint.
On BOB and recruiting, bringing an operation that is operationally similar to alabamas would be game-changing. Nobody in the B1GW has a high-level recruiting operation. We could lock down the 500-mile radius with the right coach.
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