Success With Hyperlinking Is Just Living In Devon's World
by Peter Gray on Dec 12, 2011 12:00 PM EST
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Damn right. Devon Still, consensus first-team All American. Sounds pretty good, doesn't it? Devon was selected to the first-team by CBSSports.com last week, and picked up additional selections from the Football Writers Association of America, AT&T/ESPN and the Walter Camp Football Foundation over the weekend. The recognition is richly deserved after Devon put up awesome numbers for a defensive end, but did so as a defensive tackle.
News regarding other minor awards. Robert Griffin III won the Heisman Trophy, and did so while wearing superb socks. If you haven't watched his speech, take a moment and do so. RG3 seems like a truly impressive young man, both on and off the field.
Ten in a row. That's how many times in a row Navy has beaten Army.
Coaching moves.
Kevin Sumlin, from Houston to Texas A&M. (The immediate question is how this will affect Houston in the bowl game, but we'll get to that soon.)
Tim Beckman, from Toledo to Illinois. (I actually like the hire.)
Jim Mora Jr., from... somewhere to UCLA. (If you want to see some incredible outrage, please check BruinsNation. UCLA fans are... not happy, nor should they be.)
Charlie Weis, from Florida to Kansas. (LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL)
Thankfully, none of these jobs were filled with potential Penn State candidates. Are we going to hear something this week? Waiting is fun!
Also, happy trails to Iowa defensive coordinator and incredible bad ass Norm Parker, who announced his retirement last night.
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Wait?!?!
UCLA really hired Jim Mora, Jr.? That has to be the worst hire ever.
11/9/11 - the day the music died.
The bitter with the better.
by Esteban d' Amur on Dec 12, 2011 12:18 PM EST reply actions
Pretty much my response.
Well, that, then “where the f**k are we in OUR coaching search?”
"my dad says Michigan used to be good"
Does UCLA..
no longer care about football? I don’t get it.
11/9/11 - the day the music died.
The bitter with the better.
by Esteban d' Amur on Dec 12, 2011 12:31 PM EST up reply actions
After skimming some of the posts at Bruins Nation
this does indeed seem to be the case (i.e., the AD and rest of the admin doesn’t care about football).
At least that guarantees that nothing bad will ever happen with UCLA football, since, you know, bad stuff can only happen at football factories like Penn State.
That which we are, WE ARE...PENN STATE.
Forever.
by Nittany_Ryan on Dec 12, 2011 12:34 PM EST up reply actions
Maybe they're going the Indiana route, since IU Basketball seems back on track and UCLA wishes they were
step 1: openly hate your football team
step 2: ????
step 3: winning basketball
Kansas is doing it too
GO IOWA AWESOME
UCLA at least...
has a decent football tradition. IU had about 5 good years in the late 80’s-early 90’s.
11/9/11 - the day the music died.
The bitter with the better.
by Esteban d' Amur on Dec 12, 2011 1:41 PM EST up reply actions
I guess
UCLA is a bi-polar program. They’re like some strange west coast hybrid of Indiana and Notre Dame: kinda bitchin’ from the mid-30s to the mid-60s, but a random smattering of 10 win seasons sprinkled amongst Indiana-level football since.
Random fact: 1954, as a year, didn’t actually happen. The evidence? UCLA won the football National Championship, Penn State went to the Final Four. AS IF ANYONE WOULD BELIEVE THAT
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UCLA hasn't given a **** about football since 1998.
Depending on who you listen to, they were a hurricane delay away from playing for the national title, before going on to play “the worst team ever to go to the Rose Bowl” (i you listen to Craig James #firecraigjames)…
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by OBrienSchofieldismyHero on Dec 12, 2011 6:00 PM EST up reply actions
1998 was a strange year that ended even stranger
Kansas State was robbed; they deserved to go and would have killed Tennessee. That is all.
Thing is, that Wisconsin team probably was the worst 10-1 B1G team ever: they got their face kicked in by a 3 loss Michigan team (who very narrowly beat terrible Iowa and jNW teams), scraped by a 9-4 Purdue team at home, and narrowly escaped against a 4-7 Indiana team. They beat a meh SDSU team in week one by 12, which would be OK except that team would get obliterated in the next two weeks by an 8-5 USC team and an Arizona team that would get obliterated by UCLA.
Then Wisconsin just went out there and physically manhandled them. UCLA football has never recovered. Alvarez was awesome.
GO IOWA AWESOME
3-loss Michigan
lost to eventual #2 Ohio State, Donovan McNabb-led Syracuse, and a 9-win ND team.
That was about the time that I truly began hating Michigan, too.
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by OBrienSchofieldismyHero on Dec 12, 2011 9:14 PM EST up reply actions
where the f**k are we in OUR coaching search?"
Probably scrambling to find a new candidate since ours was just stolen away by UCLA.
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by skarocksoi on Dec 12, 2011 12:41 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Tim Beckman to Illinois
Tom Amstutz was left with a mess after the misdeeds of Gary Pinkel (why isn’t there an investigation at Missouri / show cause penalty for Pinkel??) and couldn’t turn things around. Beckman did.
That being said, Toledo, along with Temple, was by far the most talented team in their division and couldn’t win it outright.
Didn’t Illinois just get done with a fellow who showed a great ability to amass talent, keep games against good teams close, but always underachieve? Maybe that’s just their style.
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Wow, I missed this
I remember Pinkel as coach of the Chester Taylor-led Toledo team that beat PSU, but didn’t see anything about NCAA infractions while he was there. I will have to look it up this evening, but wouldn’t complain if a link got posted here for laziness’ sake.
The depth of both my sadness and anger is unfathomable.
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So...
with the Toledo job open, does that become a potential destination for someone from the Penn State staff? Toledo could do a lot worse than hiring one of the PSU assistants, including JayPa.
The depth of both my sadness and anger is unfathomable.
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Right or wrong (I tend to think wrongly)
I don’t see the Paterno name among any hires in the near future.
"my dad says Michigan used to be good"
I'd bet Scrap would be the #1 choice
then maybe LJ or Vandy. LJ was a hot commodity a few years ago and I believe Vandy was in the conversation for the Maryland job at one point. I think Scrap would be good at a MAC school, but theres still the question if people would shy away from him due to the scandal.
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I think Vandy might be the most likely choice.
He is relatively young, has a great reputation and has been a head coach. I really have no idea if Larry Johnson will even look to take a head job or whether he would prefer to be a DC somewhere, go to the NFL or even leave coaching for the ministry, as has long been speculated. I have zero doubt that Scrap could win a MAC title at Toledo, but I wonder whether he isn’t too closely associated with the scandal right now. That could be an issue, though to a lesser extent, with LJS also. I think it’s least problematic for Vanderlinden.
Sadly, I fear hbeach is right re: Jay, and that is a damn shame.
The depth of both my sadness and anger is unfathomable.
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Thats what I would assume as well
though I could maybe see a MAC team taking a shot on Bradley. I mean, you could take a risk and buy low on a solid coach. Though I wouldnt be surprised to see him sit out a year and let things blow over as well.
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Does this mean we're going to start hearing "Jim Mora Jr. in the Corner Room" rumors?
"The only difference between a brown-noser and a shit head is depth perception"
-PSU_Lions_84
I think its more
“Rick Neuheisel sleeps on the bench outside the Corner Room”
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Did he fill out his bowl picks yet?
I'm not rationalizing - I'm being totally irrational
by GoodOleDays on Dec 12, 2011 12:48 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I'm very impressed with Robert Griffin III
Deans List and 3.67 GPA. as well as Heisman Trophy winner?
Sounds good to me.
A plateau is a high form of flattery.
Apparently he was the valedictorian of his HS class as well.
Impressive kid.
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by Adam Collyer on Dec 12, 2011 1:20 PM EST up reply actions
He's a well spoken kid
Seems like he has a good head on his shoulders.
I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not sure.
I said the same thing
I hope this young man finds success in the NFL. But if he doesn’t it sounds like he will be prepared to face the real world.
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by carolinaeasy on Dec 12, 2011 2:10 PM EST up reply actions
Whenever it seems like things can't get worse...
I’m going to remember that Charlie Weis isn’t Penn State’s coach and immediately feel better.
I wouldn't trust old rooster me neither.
by spakajewia on Dec 12, 2011 1:44 PM EST reply actions 10 recs
You win the thread.
Had to make this green.
"The only difference between a brown-noser and a shit head is depth perception"
-PSU_Lions_84
So, since Kansas hires the likes of Mark Mangino and Charlie Weiss....
it must be in the Kansas job description that the head coach must weigh more than the heaviest player!
I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not sure.
by PaJoe on Dec 12, 2011 1:54 PM EST reply actions 3 recs
So is the coaching search currently on Plan M
or are Joyner and Co. just being very diligent?
"Every time you go to that cook-off you get drunk as a poet on payday!"
In recruiting news
It sounds like Tommy Schutt is going to de-committ and committ to OSU. #urbranmeyer’d
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by Peter Gray on Dec 12, 2011 2:46 PM EST up reply actions 4 recs
There are rumors of Mornhinweg and others bolting, too.
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by Chris Grovich on Dec 12, 2011 3:31 PM EST up reply actions
Awesome
I think PSU should just wait until the 1st of August to make a decision on their next coach. That’ll really show everyone how deliberate and how much thought they are putting into this. Because we all know that the longer this takes, the better the person PSU is going to get is….right?
that will REALLY show them
just how much we hate child abuse!
Honestly, as our search drags on, I have no idea if this is a good thing or a bad thing. Perhaps good, because we didn’t make a rushed, rash decision (looking at you, Jim Mora!). Perhaps bad, because all of our top candidates have passed/we’re trying to pay them $500k a year.
Maybe the silver lining is that the only person left who might want the job is Tom Bradley. Who would be my first choice anyway.
by Tailgate Shogun on Dec 12, 2011 4:17 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah
maybe that’s their plan: let it all die down a bit, then hire Bradley. Sadly, that would be smart and media savvy, and if the BoT has demonstrated anything thus far, it’s that they’re neither.
GO IOWA AWESOME
Anyone else surprised
by the complete lack of coaching search rumors right now, credible or otherwise?? I don’t know whether this makes me optimistic or extremely nervous in a “It’s quiet… too quiet,” kind of way.
The depth of both my sadness and anger is unfathomable.
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its called transparency. We just can't see how busy they are.
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by BMAN13 on Dec 12, 2011 6:13 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
As I have said before
I will be shocked if they make a good hire. I expect this to go as well as everything has up until this point. And I’m usually one of the eternal optimists around here. I trust the BoT, President Lackey, and just about everybody else involved as far as I can throw them.
I, for one, plan to continue my life long contempt for the powers that be and I fully expect to be disappointed with whatever choice is made. ~PSUgirl
Not surprising
Weren’t we pretty much his thrid choice behind ND and UM?
"Every time you go to that cook-off you get drunk as a poet on payday!"
He's obviously a pussy, so who cares?
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by ReadingRambler on Dec 12, 2011 3:47 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
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