Two other things I forgot to mention:
11) Jay Hill, who should have been an FBS head coach a few years ago and was who I lobbied for to Marshall, suffered a heart attack Thursday night after his practice as DC at BYU. Expected to make a full recovery.
12) If I were an AD, I would rarely get involved in day-to-day, personnel, or play-calling with my head football coach. But what Deion Sanders did on Friday night would be enough to call him into the office and ask him what the fvck was going on.
- Colorado was winning 31-26 in the fourth quarter with the ball at their 40 yard line.
- Colorado had the ball with 1:41 left in the game facing a 1st-and-10.
- Their opponent, North Dakota State, had one timeout remaining.
Assuming you tell your QB to just take a couple of steps back and take a knee, that would have left about 1:37 when NDSU uses their last timeout. 2nd down do the same thing, which puts the game block at about 54 seconds when snapping the ball on third down. Another 44 seconds off of the block, puts the clock at 10 seconds on fourth down when you need to punt. If you don't want to risk punting the ball away, you can hand off three times instead of taking a knee. That would take the clock down another handful of seconds, and even if you don't get a first down after three runs, you may not even have to snap it on fourth down . . . or at the most, have your QB run backwards for a few seconds before falling down.
But nope. Deion decided to throw the ball on 1st down. Read the setting again and think about it- his dumbass threw it! Of course, it was incomplete, Colorado had to punt the ball with 38 seconds, and NDSU threw a hail-of-mary which was completed but only to the five yard line.
That's decision-making showing you have the wrong guy leading your team.
The alumni base at UCLA is fine with the Foster hire. Why should you worry about it?
I spend more time concerned about your asinine posts than I do about DeShaun Foster being the UCLA head coach. The point was that he doesn't have a lot of what a P4 head coach should have at the time of his hire. I'm not sure that classifies as me being "worried about it."
Also his record is really good his first 2 seasons there. Would be a great hire.
It isn't just his good record - it's that he completely turned that place around very fast. Just as important, he is getting guys he previously coached with to leave the best program in FCS to join him. That usually means they are either 1) paying them a lot more than South Dakota State was or 2) guys he previously coached with have enough faith in him that they are willing to leave the #1 program in the country to join him. I am guessing it is more likely #2.
Many years ago, I interviewed twice with Eck and the rest of the SDSU offensive staff and their old head coach to be their RB coach as one of the finalists for it. They ended up going with a minority hire who had been on the staff the previous year, but I remember them being a very serious, no-joking-around group of guys there.
I'd add Billy Napier to your list of fading luster.
I didn't add him, since he already made it to a blue-blood. Campbell, Fleck, and Fickell have 30+ programs that are better than their current job. Florida, though with outdated facilities compared to a lot of their top peers, is considered an elite opportunity. Nobody considers Iowa State, Minnesota, or Wisconsin in the same mold.
