Bradley Now Said to be Frontrunner for Pitt Job
by nittnut on Jan 6, 2011 8:56 AM EST
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PrintThe York Daily Record has a story this morning suggesting that Tom Bradley is the front-runner for the head football coaching job at Pitt. It also says a Pittsburgh area TV station has reported that Bradley has accepted the job. Pitt denied the report, but the Associated Press confirmed that Bradley interviewed for the job with Pitt athletic director Steve Pederson and members of Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg's administration. Lot of smoke. You can see the story here: http://www.ydr.com/psu/ci_17021008
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Seems like a more logical report
However, wasn’t Bradley the first guy they’ve talked to since they fired the wifebeater? Pretty easy to be the front runner when you’re the only horse that has left the gates so far.
Luring recruits with my new "Posting HD" scheme since '08.
Re Bradley ...
Not sure if he’d be the best choice to replace JoePa or not, but in the past year I have heard 2 rumors that may be fueling the Bradley thing:
1. The administration doesn’t like the fact that Bradley is a bachelor and, apparently, quite the ladies man and (Spanier in particular) doesn’t want a “charlatan” like that in charge of their prized football program.
2. Spanier wants to leave his imprint on the football program and can only really do so if he brings in someone from the outside, not by promoting a guy who was at Penn State before he arrived.
Not sure if either are true but, if they are, it’s kinda sad for Tom …
If point 1 is true...
…then you’d think Pitt would be avoiding him big time after the Haywood fiasco.
I just don’t want Bradley as PSU’s next head coach. No firm reasons. I don’t dislike him at all. I just think that something is lacking with him as far as being the top dog at PSU.
why on point one?
This seems better….no wife to abuse (“allegedly”)
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by NittanyAlum02 on Jan 6, 2011 9:45 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
Hypothetically they could be aiming for the family man.
Rather than a bachelorrrrr.
"We have the plainest uniforms you can make. We know who we are. We are Penn State, and that's something special."
Haywood wasn't married to the woman either.
It was some baby mamma drama
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by Jeff Junstrom on Jan 6, 2011 10:18 AM EST up reply actions
Paul Alexander stated
on 93.7 FM Pittsburgh this morning that he had confirmed, wit 2 sources, that Bradley was going to interview with UCONN
Because it's a Bowl Game!!
-My wife when asked why she didn't tell me she was having contractions Jan. 1 2007
Paul Alexander....
Now there’s one annoying PSU grad. (At least I’m pretty sure he’s a PSU grad. I may be wrong. )
You have to wonder
If Bradley got cold feet after the initial reports came out and he was caught having accepted a job without notifying Paterno, Curley, or Spanier first. I can imagine a situation where Bradley said a little too much to his friends which got immediately leaked to the media and now he has to backpeddal at little to keep from embrassing PSU. Delaying the official decision and maybe taking another interview will be a means of saving some face. Of course I’m just speculating, but so is everyone else.
Maybe.
At this point I’d be sort of surprised if he was still with Penn State next season.
"We have the plainest uniforms you can make. We know who we are. We are Penn State, and that's something special."
Maybe he told them he'd only take the job if....
…he could bring Jay in as OC, at which point the mere thought of a Paterno at Pitt caused “Pitt World” to go into some kind of goofy spin and fly off into the sun.
Yep, I’ll bet that’s what happened.
Or
Pitt is afraid Bradley is actually a sleeper agent waiting to be activated once hired and bring down the program from within. Like all the other coaches have before him.
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by skarocksoi on Jan 6, 2011 11:12 AM EST up reply actions 2 recs
Could be, but there's just one little problem with that theory.
What’s to bring down at Pitt???
Well Pitt fans are irrational
so they don’t concern themselves with “facts” or “well thought out conclusions”.
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or "going to the Homecoming game".
"I’ll drink through the weirdness." - Illegal Formation
by leeharvey418 on Jan 6, 2011 11:31 AM EST up reply actions 3 recs
They've also been known to
“eat their own dandruff…”
http://www.hulu.com/watch/19049/saturday-night-live-bennett-brauer
Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed.
They don't
“have dried up cakes of deodorant under their armpits”
I see your point...
but really, frickin’ Homecoming and the stands are empty?
"I’ll drink through the weirdness." - Illegal Formation
I got news for you...
Something changed in the last two weeks, and “Pitt World” wants Bradley really bad.
Racism, cannibalism, I leave those things to the suits in Washington. I’m just here to eat a dude.
I believe...
Bradley talking to anyone wasn’t the start of the rumor of him being Pitt’s next coach. The rumor started with a source involved with Pitt. I do, however, believe that his strong reaction to the hint that he’ll be the next coach there is simply out of not wanting to ruin everything before it’s locked in.
by smashtheguitar on Jan 6, 2011 1:19 PM EST up reply actions
Something still feels weird about this whole scenario. Sure, Bradley recruits well in the Western PA area, but how does one go from selling the Penn State program to kids – who in a lot of cases – have narrowed their choices to Penn State and Pitt, to selling the Pitt program instead. How does he sell Pitt over Penn State when he chose Penn State as a player, he remained at Penn State as a coach for 27 years, etc… I just don’t get it. Granted it’s not apples to apples, but would you ever see a Michigan coach go to Ohio State? It just doesn’t compute. I’m just really confused.
Because when he says "Joe is old and senile"...
…“Jay is a little pr*ck who’s only there because of his old man”….“Penn State is a racist place”…etc. he has credibility because he lived it.
I would think
Scrap wouldn’t stoop that low, especially since he’s been loyally on staff for so long. If I had that much disrespect for my boss, I wouldn’t stick around that long.
Luring recruits with my new "Posting HD" scheme since '08.
Granted it’s not apples to apples, but would you ever see a Michigan coach go to Ohio State? It just doesn’t compute.
You mean like Bo Schembechler, who was a coach at Ohio State prior to going to Michigan?
by Laaaaazzz on Jan 6, 2011 11:23 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Is that true?
Bo was the coach at Miami University before he went to Michigan.
Racism, cannibalism, I leave those things to the suits in Washington. I’m just here to eat a dude.
So you're saying that Bradley will be the next coach of Michigan after he coaches at Pitt?
"I don’t spend a lot of time dwelling on the negative. I believe that having a good, peaceful mind is the basic premise for a good life."
/rumor mongor'd
"I don’t spend a lot of time dwelling on the negative. I believe that having a good, peaceful mind is the basic premise for a good life."
Don't know about a Michigan coach going to OSU, but....
….an OSU coach by the name of Bo became the head coach at Michigan.
by J Breezy on Jan 6, 2011 11:23 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Bo Jangles?
"I’ll drink through the weirdness." - Illegal Formation
by leeharvey418 on Jan 6, 2011 11:32 AM EST up reply actions
Couldn't have been.
Bo Jangles had a .500 record in Rose Bowls.
"The forecast is zero. And the chill factor's high."
by ReadingRambler on Jan 6, 2011 11:34 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
BAZINGA!
"I’ll drink through the weirdness." - Illegal Formation
by leeharvey418 on Jan 6, 2011 11:34 AM EST up reply actions
you know
he danced at minstrel shows and county fairs all through the sounth
Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.
Tom Clancy
Who? RichRod?
"The forecast is zero. And the chill factor's high."
by ReadingRambler on Jan 6, 2011 11:51 AM EST up reply actions
No time for dancing
That snake oil don’t sell itself.
"I’ll drink through the weirdness." - Illegal Formation
by leeharvey418 on Jan 6, 2011 11:56 AM EST up reply actions
Fact: There are nowhere near enough minstrel shows.
"Sentence fragments...just phrases!"
by ReadingRambler on Jan 6, 2011 12:10 PM EST up reply actions
The difference is...
“But you’re coming to play for me, and I’m at Pitt”
easy sell, works no matter where you are the coach.
And I get that,
But you can’t say that the recruiting business is the same game that it was back then. I mean now. Maybe I’m extremely naive about this, but I can’t see a Tressel assistant interviewing for the Michigan job. And I don’t know what’s going through these recruits’ heads, but you look and that Mangiro (spelling?) interview. He eliminated the schols that used negative recruiting. So their are some rational recruits out there. If I’m a recruit, do I trust a guy who has been pushing the Penn State brand, as opposed to the Pitt brand, for 27 years, but then does an about face? I mean, what’d he say to Rickets or Diffenbach that sold them on Penn State? Whatever he said, does he retract that now?
but PSU doesn't negative recruit.
Bradley never says anything negative about Pitt, the only brand he tries to sell is PSU and not at the expense of another school. He will go into Pitt and try to sell their brand. NFL facilities, good dental program, yellow seats……
Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.
Tom Clancy
It’s not in cow country. Pro sports and basketball in the offseason. Easy travel around the country…
It may not be in cow country.
But cow country has a giant stadium bought and paid for by a massive fanbase.
"Sentence fragments...just phrases!"
by ReadingRambler on Jan 6, 2011 12:24 PM EST up reply actions
Does it count as "easy travel"
if you have 3 connections to get where ever you want to go?
I'm on the Internet cause I'm an Internet thug.
Cow country is surprisingly nice.
I’m a NYC kid who fully intended to go to a NYC school. That obviously didn’t work out, but I’m happier for it. Don’t knock the middle of nowhere until you’ve tried it.
"We have the plainest uniforms you can make. We know who we are. We are Penn State, and that's something special."
You can go to cow country
or go to Pitt and if you stray off campus by one block, be in one of the worst areas of Pittsburgh. That’s a great selling point.
We should be fine, we should be fine, we should be fine…
I lived in Oakland for three years.
It was awesome. But for city taxes, I’d move back. People are too friggin’ paranoid.
Racism, cannibalism, I leave those things to the suits in Washington. I’m just here to eat a dude.
But would you go out at night?
I went to a school in Chester, Pa so I’m not paranoid in the slightest but if people want to spout stereotypes about PSU I can do likewise :)
We should be fine, we should be fine, we should be fine…
Yeah. All the time.
Never had a problem. Not once. You just couldn’t be a dick. You can be total frat bou douchebag at bars in State College, if you take that game up to Mitchell’s in North Oakland you could be in for a long night. But if your just there for the beer, AC and cable TV, just like everybody else, your fine.
Oakland is fine.
Racism, cannibalism, I leave those things to the suits in Washington. I’m just here to eat a dude.
I like North Oakland's approach better.
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Pitt don't scare me none!
I went to Pittsburgh for the very first time last semester. It seemed nice enough, if strangely empty and kind of quiet.
"We have the plainest uniforms you can make. We know who we are. We are Penn State, and that's something special."
It seemed nice enough, if strangely empty and kind of quiet.
So you went to a Pitt Football game?
We should be fine, we should be fine, we should be fine…
by jman07 on Jan 6, 2011 1:12 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
No, but I drove past the stadium at least three times in my father’s endless journey to get as lost as possible. I didn’t think we’d ever make it out.
"We have the plainest uniforms you can make. We know who we are. We are Penn State, and that's something special."
Well Heinz Field is about three or four miles from Pitt's campus.
Oakland is rarely empty or quiet.
Racism, cannibalism, I leave those things to the suits in Washington. I’m just here to eat a dude.
We were in Oakland.
My brother was visiting Pitt and I decided to tag along because I’d never been to western PA. There just happened to be almost no people around while we were there. It was the strangest thing.
"We have the plainest uniforms you can make. We know who we are. We are Penn State, and that's something special."
A LOT of yellow seats
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by Bob Sacamano on Jan 6, 2011 12:24 PM EST up reply actions
Bradley's not going to have any problem recruiting at Pitt.
Paige's sparking personality is intoxicating; her beauty breathtaking; her intellectual prowess incomprehensible to mortals. Her radiance...her luster...drive men mad. Her omnipotence dangerous, yet alluring. It is her power that ensures gravity remains constant; her genius that inspires. She is not only responsible for the Earth's rotation, but may cure what ails the heart with a glance. I am Paige's pool boy...a serf to her ladyship. I am at her beck and call. I bow to her. I am not worthy. War Eagle.
-Auburn-USC Sig Bet Debt Repaid
gossiping like a freaking sewing circle here lately
"Life is no way to treat an animal"
by Mr. Rosewater on Jan 6, 2011 1:51 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Well I heard
that’s not Sue’s natural hair color. I’m not sayin’, I’m just sayin’.
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I'm watching this Tim Tebow show on ESPN,
And they’re showing how droves of Gator fans lined up to meet him, shake his hand, etc.
One guy painted his dirt stock car orange and blue with Tebow’s number because Tebow was his “hero”. The guy was late 40s/early 50s.
Another girl, after hugging him, started to cry hysterically.
Is this a Southerner thing?
Probably not. It's a college football thing.
Have you seen the way people treated Michael Robinson after 2005? Or how they treat Joe Paterno now?
College football fans are second only to global soccer fans in the way they support and care about their teams and players.
"I don’t spend a lot of time dwelling on the negative. I believe that having a good, peaceful mind is the basic premise for a good life."
I'm a college football fan, and a Penn State fan,
but other than a handshake and hello, I can’t imagine acting any differently.
Of course, I’m a fairly boring person.
Me too. I think people are totally crazy.
I saw Mike get mobbed on the street and in the bar in 2005-2006. It was insane. I met him at the Cafe through a friend once and hung out with him for a bit. Super nice guy, but I tried desperately not to talk about football.
"I don’t spend a lot of time dwelling on the negative. I believe that having a good, peaceful mind is the basic premise for a good life."
I don't get freaking out over celebrities.
I suppose it’s a little cool to say “Oh, I met such ’n such.” But I really don’t give a shit if my friend ran into Jennifer Aniston or Tom Brady. I just don’t understand.
Now, if you make out w/ Ms. Aniston, that’s a totally different story. Haha.
Paige's sparking personality is intoxicating; her beauty breathtaking; her intellectual prowess incomprehensible to mortals. Her radiance...her luster...drive men mad. Her omnipotence dangerous, yet alluring. It is her power that ensures gravity remains constant; her genius that inspires. She is not only responsible for the Earth's rotation, but may cure what ails the heart with a glance. I am Paige's pool boy...a serf to her ladyship. I am at her beck and call. I bow to her. I am not worthy. War Eagle.
-Auburn-USC Sig Bet Debt Repaid
Yeah, I'd consider that a minor win.
CHOOSE: Aniston or Mila Kunis?
"I don’t spend a lot of time dwelling on the negative. I believe that having a good, peaceful mind is the basic premise for a good life."
Definitely Aniston
then again I have a thing for girl next door type blondes
I have a friend who's sister is on a TV show (yes you would know her and she is hot)
it makes him sad when people only want to talk to him about her
Mauti Matters
If I met Joe, which is still one of my life goals
I honestly think I’d be nervous, and definitely in awe/shock of who I was standing in front of. There have been a few constants in my 23 years of life, and Joe and PSU were two of them. I grew up listening to tales of Joe from my dad, so just to meet this guy who is on such a pedestal for me would probably be anxiety provoking, then again I get nervous about a lot of things I shouldn’t.
Players I’ve never really felt the same way about. I met Michael Robinson at an autograph session downtown this past year. I was a little hesitant at first, but he was so down to earth, it was almost impossible for me to get nervous about meeting him. I actually got more nervous when I met Deon Butler, Clark, and DWill one time at the same time. It was during the 2008 season, so it was a little different since these were the guys on the field as I was watching them. Even then I didn’t get extremely nervous, but I did do the awkward, “Great game last week, man” to DWill (this was right after he had the awesome game against Illinois on my birthday that year), which I felt stupid for later, but still got an autograph.
My niece got to fit JoePa with his radio mike before one of the Rally in the Valley events.
Jealous?
"I’ll drink through the weirdness." - Illegal Formation
No offense intended to your niece, especially because if she's of legal age, she sounds hot
but I don’t really want to be all up in the man’s business, I’d just like to meet him sometime or shake his hand and get an autograph maybe.
He came through my 10 items or less line in...
…wait for it…1994. I was 17, he signed his reciept, it’s framed in my living room.
Racism, cannibalism, I leave those things to the suits in Washington. I’m just here to eat a dude.
Real Italians don't buy pasta.
They buy semolina flour and eggs.
"I’ll drink through the weirdness." - Illegal Formation
I think it depends on who you meet.
There are some people I can see myself being entirely collected around. And others where… you know, not so much.
"We have the plainest uniforms you can make. We know who we are. We are Penn State, and that's something special."
Might be a UF thing.
Of course, they still wear jorts.
Paige's sparking personality is intoxicating; her beauty breathtaking; her intellectual prowess incomprehensible to mortals. Her radiance...her luster...drive men mad. Her omnipotence dangerous, yet alluring. It is her power that ensures gravity remains constant; her genius that inspires. She is not only responsible for the Earth's rotation, but may cure what ails the heart with a glance. I am Paige's pool boy...a serf to her ladyship. I am at her beck and call. I bow to her. I am not worthy. War Eagle.
-Auburn-USC Sig Bet Debt Repaid
Is that really the best you can come up with?
"Sentence fragments...just phrases!"
by ReadingRambler on Jan 6, 2011 10:28 PM EST up reply actions
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