Bear Down Wildcats

Combine this with their announcement today of a new injection of cash ($42 million). Wow.

When I heard about Riley leaving, I felt like that was a huge moment for the Beav....basically they had to decide whether they were going to compete or start fading into the permanent 2nd tier of the conference.....looks like they ante'd up to compete.

Time for us to flatten Sancet and put in our hybrid indoor practice facility/game-day beer garden like Oregon...gotta keep up....

I think he's a solid coach.

In the Big Ten championship game, it looked like he was primarily running a pro style offense. I will be interesting to see how that competes with Oregon.

Oregon state decided to man up and make a sports investment for the first time in decades.

Gotta be honest.

I was counting on Oregon State hiring whoever they could get - meaning someone non-threatening. Yes, OSU is in the other division, but I was counting on that North entire division to continue being as bad as it is (OSU, WSU, Cal, +Colorado) for the sake of gimme wins.

Give Gary Anderson a few years and they'll be a solid prostyle team - a mini, 7/8 win Stanford.

CatsbyAZ wrote:Gotta be honest.

I was counting on Oregon State hiring whoever they could get - meaning someone non-threatening. Yes, OSU is in the other division, but I was counting on that North entire division to continue being as bad as it is (OSU, WSU, Cal, +Colorado) for the sake of gimme wins.

I'm torn...part of me wants to keep some gimmes on the schedule, but on balance I would rather moves like this happen - in the long run it benefits us for the conference to be seen as strong & a desirable place to play/coach beyond just USC.

CatsbyAZ wrote: Give Gary Anderson a few years and they'll be a solid prostyle team - a mini, 7/8 win Stanford.

I wouldn't go that far - Corvallis is the 2nd hardest recruiting sell in the conference next to Wazzu. But, I can't imagine ntOSU making a better hire than this - definitely will be interesting to see how they do.

azthrillhouse wrote: I wouldn't go that far - Corvallis is the 2nd hardest recruiting sell in the conference next to Wazzu.

Truth. Mike Riley never lost less than 4 games there in 14 seasons and never did better than tied for 2nd in the PAC.

azthrillhouse wrote:
I'm torn...part of me wants to keep some gimmes on the schedule, but on balance I would rather moves like this happen - in the long run it benefits us for the conference to be seen as strong & a desirable place to play/coach beyond just USC.

When it comes to football I'll always take more conference gimme wins than worry about how tough the conference is. I just look at a program like Georgia or South Carolina getting beat up in the SEC year after year despite having enough talent and coaching to win their shares of Big Ten's or Pac 12's. Rather be a 9 win team in the Pac than a 6 win team in the SEC.

CatsbyAZ wrote:Gotta be honest.

I was counting on Oregon State hiring whoever they could get - meaning someone non-threatening. Yes, OSU is in the other division, but I was counting on that North entire division to continue being as bad as it is (OSU, WSU, Cal, +Colorado) for the sake of gimme wins.

Give Gary Anderson a few years and they'll be a solid prostyle team - a mini, 7/8 win Stanford.

Gary Anderson was never a good fit in Wisconsin given the clash between Barry Alvarez affinity for the pro-style offense and Anderson's affinity for the spread offense. Anderson didn't have the personnel to fit his scheme, but I guarantee you see a spread offense up in Corvallis before long.

I bet you also see a defensive scheme fairly close to Utah as well

We won't have OSU to kick around much longer.

Chicat wrote:We won't have OSU to kick around much longer.

OSU has had our number for quite a while

Something must be fucked up at Wisconsin for him to leave to Oregon St.

Salty wrote:

Chicat wrote:We won't have OSU to kick around much longer.

OSU has had our number for quite a while

This is true, but I was thinking about the whole conference. Riley's teams played spoiler from time to time, but for the most part they rolled over. I think they just got a whole lot tougher in their mindset.

Osu is 12-2 against us since 99. We're their biggest punching bag in the conference

ASUHATER! wrote:Osu is 12-2 against us since 99. We're their biggest punching bag in the conference

They have our number like we used to have UCLA's.

Alieberman wrote:Something must be fucked up at Wisconsin for him to leave to Oregon St.

It's shocking.

Wisconsin to Arkansas makes a little sense, this makes no sense at all.

I guess Wisconsin isn't the coaching destination job Alvarez says it is.

azgreg wrote:I guess Wisconsin isn't the coaching destination job Alvarez says it is.

Paul Chryst to Wisconsin.

And we can start the Coaching Searches 2017 thread with "Paul Chryst to __________".

Man, Pitt can't keep a coach for more than a week or 2.

CTG to Pitt??

azgreg wrote:Man, Pitt can't keep a coach for more than a week or 2.

Pitt Stop

Chicat wrote:Paul Chryst to Wisconsin.

And we can start the Coaching Searches 2017 thread with "Paul Chryst to __________".

Pitt should call up Al Golden right away. Average results thus far? Yes, but he'll always have them above .500.

The environment has turn absolutely toxic against Golden down in Miami; he's looking for a way out sooner rather than later. Place, for Pitt, he's a local PA guy who does as good of job as anybody when it comes to recruiting the New Jersey, PA, Florida trio. Plus he wouldn't be sweating through his shirts/ties so much.

CatsbyAZ wrote:

Chicat wrote:Paul Chryst to Wisconsin.

And we can start the Coaching Searches 2017 thread with "Paul Chryst to __________".

Pitt should call up Al Golden right away. Average results thus far? Yes, but he'll always have them above .500.

The environment has turn absolutely toxic against Golden down in Miami; he's looking for a way out sooner rather than later. Place, for Pitt, he's a local PA guy who does as good of job as anybody when it comes to recruiting the New Jersey, PA, Florida trio. Plus he wouldn't be sweating through his shirts/ties so much.

We don't want the Miami job to come open according to some of the insiders. That's one place RR might go.

Miami is actually the perfect place for RR.

Pelini just accepted the job as HC of Youngstown State.

UAEebs86 wrote:

CatsbyAZ wrote:
Pitt should call up Al Golden right away. Average results thus far? Yes, but he'll always have them above .500.

The environment has turn absolutely toxic against Golden down in Miami; he's looking for a way out sooner rather than later. Place, for Pitt, he's a local PA guy who does as good of job as anybody when it comes to recruiting the New Jersey, PA, Florida trio. Plus he wouldn't be sweating through his shirts/ties so much.

We don't want the Miami job to come open according to some of the insiders. That's one place RR might go.

Say the same about CTG?

CatsbyAZ wrote:

UAEebs86 wrote:

CatsbyAZ wrote:
Pitt should call up Al Golden right away. Average results thus far? Yes, but he'll always have them above .500.

The environment has turn absolutely toxic against Golden down in Miami; he's looking for a way out sooner rather than later. Place, for Pitt, he's a local PA guy who does as good of job as anybody when it comes to recruiting the New Jersey, PA, Florida trio. Plus he wouldn't be sweating through his shirts/ties so much.

We don't want the Miami job to come open according to some of the insiders. That's one place RR might go.

Say the same about CTG?

Damn I would love Wristbands to take his show on the road to maimi and just get smoked!!!!

Will Muschamp interviews for coaching vacancy at University of Houston

http://www.chron.com/sports/cougars/art ... 953029.php

the real dill wrote:Will Muschamp interviews for coaching vacancy at University of Houston

http://www.chron.com/sports/cougars/art ... 953029.php

Many sources confirming Muschamp to be Auburn's next DC, a very highly paid DC at that.

Coop Cat wrote:

Big fan of that hire.

Will he have to wear a vest?

Miami is a no no. That's appealing to RR. Bring the Miami swagger back and recruit Florida as much as he wants.

there's supposedly a video or audio out there of Bo at the player's meeting where he was fired. apparently calls the AD a 'pussy' and has quite the expletive filled rant against any and all

Ian Rapoport ‏@RapSheet 8m8 minutes ago
Sources: #Michigan has made another run at Jim Harbaugh after he initially rebuffed the school. U-M has made an offer of 6 years, $48M. Wow.

holy crap

wouldn't that make him the highest paid coach in all of ncaa football?

PieceOfMeat wrote:wouldn't that make him the highest paid coach in all of ncaa football?

largest NCAA contract:

Nick Saban: 8 years, $55M or 6.9/year

largest NFL contract:

Sean Payton: 5 years, $38M or $7.6/year

So on an annual basis, it would be the largest contract in football history.

PieceOfMeat wrote:wouldn't that make him the highest paid coach in all of ncaa football?

NFL too, tied with Pete Carroll and Sean Payton at 8 million.

Hired one too many sub 2 year tenure coaches I guess.


Steve Pederson out as Pitt's athletic director

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootbal ... c-director

the real dill wrote:

PieceOfMeat wrote:wouldn't that make him the highest paid coach in all of ncaa football?

largest NCAA contract:

Nick Saban: 8 years, $55M or 6.9/year

largest NFL contract:

Sean Payton: 5 years, $38M or $7.6/year

So on an annual basis, it would be the largest contract in football history.

UAEebs86 wrote:

PieceOfMeat wrote:wouldn't that make him the highest paid coach in all of ncaa football?

NFL too, tied with Pete Carroll and Sean Payton at 8 million.

holy shit balls.

insane money.

Remember folks, they don't need a Michigan Man.

$8M a year plus. I think I heard that's around $1.25M more per year than Saban. That's a pretty strong level of desperation; it will be interesting to see what happens if Jim doesn't actually go there.

Chicat wrote:Remember folks, they don't need a Michigan Man.

Think about how much it's cost them needing a "Michigan Man." They probably had a coach that would've won them the games in RR at about $3M a year. Instead they go with Hoke which slides fairly quickly into disaster. Then they feel they need to pay $8M to Harbaugh to get things going.

That's an expensive and destructive habit.

Lots of chatter on Michigan's State's impressive DC Narduzzi to Pitt

ugh...screw UM.

and hopefully the niners quit on him against the cards today.