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Charlie Weis would be a splash hire!

I mean obviously he's the best coach available. I'm only saying most all of his cachet is built off elevating programs that were already high, and who knows if he knows how to do a true rebuild.

re: Lavonte, it's a non-issue. This has become a common trend amongst players in the league over the last few years - week by week they'll shoutout different places they're from, including sometimes high school. No reason to see it as a dig at us, only giving props to one of the places that helped him in his journey.

I don't know if Urban would absolutely be the home run that even I think he would. Important to remember that when he took over Florida they had finished #3, #24, #24, #25 the four years before him. When he took over at OSU they were an 11 win top 5 level team that had a single anomalous blip. Do we know that he's got the right skillset to resurrect and not just build upon an already existing strong foundation?

Realistically, 1. Mickey (if he somehow gets us to a bowl game) 2. Jim Leonard 3. Matt Rhule 4. Luke Fickell 5. Matt Campbell (4 and 5 are last because I think they're less realistic)

If Mickey somehow gets us to a bowl game, I think he should be given a shot. Risk big to win big. It worked out pretty dang well for the last school that fired a coach midseason and hired their WR/AHC to be the interim coach, I think in large part due to starting off the bat with a great culture of care and accountability.

How does it feel living inside your brain must be wild

100% right and anyone peddling otherwise is revealing really piss poor awareness

Hopeful for a sober minded hindsight from the fanbase. We too often hold far too much animosity towards those who fail or leave here. Hopeful for a sober minded hindsight from the fanbase. We too often hold far too much animosity towards those who fail or leave here.

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.

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?

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how many of archy's +1 posts do you think are people who buy bannon's gaslighting diatribe hook, line and sinker?

god my state sucks

if Iowa sucks, then what does that mean that we do?

People that wish agony and pain on people already dead, including the worst examples of human beings including Hitler, are f#&%ing r***rds.

Fitzgerald is one of the absolute best to ever do it, and I hope his understated/quiet demeanor doesn't work against him in cultural remembering or conversations about best wide receivers ever. Dude was just quietly an absolutely beast for almost as long as Tom Brady.

Before a few weeks into 2017, his reputation as a player was dramatically underrated. Nobody included him in their top 5, even top 10 quarterbacks in school history which was an understandable but frustrating shame. People re-saw his playing career through a new lens once we saw Riley's sinking ship and Frost's rising stardom.

It's 100% targeting. The rule is 'forcible contact to the head or neck area of a defenseless player", which that absolutely was. He launched, and hit a receiver in the area with force to the head or neck area. It's not ambiguous.

If Frost gets fired, with time the animosity and frustration will cede ground to sympathy as people realize he gave it every ounce he possibly could and was more disappointed in the outcome than any of us. Plus, I have a suspicion that he'll go on and have a lot of success elsewhere which will hopefully show us all that the problem wasn't Frost, it was Frost at Nebraska that didn't work for whatever spooky reason.

UCLA has it really rough in a few areas. Number one, the Rose Bowl is about 30 miles away from campus in LA traffic. Number two, they aren't even in session yet as a school. Not that they would have incredible attendance otherwise, but a week one home opener definitely makes it worse than it is. Without a conference they're guaranteed to not be able to get a first round bye. Which aint nothin'.

I'm literally not confident in anybody outside of Saban/Urban and to a lesser extent Jimbo/Dabo/Kirby, but I'm especially wary of coaches who took over programs, had a down year, then had an amazing year, then left.

I loved Beck's offense. It was inventive, creative, based off power running principles and the closest anything could come to being a modern Nebraska offense. Trouble was never the scheme, it was his ability to call a game. Sometimes he was incredible, other times he just went straight into the ditch and couldn't get out.

You never know for sure, but he's an elite coordinator, and has been a huge part of a program modeled on consistency, development, toughness and culture. Hiring a coordinator is not any more of a risk than hiring 95% of head coaches (see Stoops, Pelini, Riley, Dabo, Kirby, and plenty of other examples of success), and outside of getting somebody from Saban's rehab program he's got the potential to be an elite head guy. Honestly, I'd probably prefer a long-tenured elite coordinator over a head coach with the classic 2-3 year miraculous turnaround. Those are much more deceiving on a resume than consistency at a high level one step lower is imo.

Beck ran a good bit of diamond formation when he was here. As far as coaches, I can't believe more people aren't at least including Jim Leonhard on the list.