Posted on 10/04/2016 6:52:49 AM PDT by C19fan
Texas isn’t firing Charlie Strong, but it certainly isn’t doing him any favors, according to a report that indicates he is “very close” to losing his job at the end of the season after consecutive losses to Cal and Oklahoma State.
A high-ranking official described Strong’s status to SI’s Pete Thamel, adding that his job is safe until the end of the season. Strong is in his third season as coach of the 2-2 Longhorns, who wrap up their schedule Nov. 25.
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Yep, tougher than even replacing the Bear, because Bama was in decline even in The Bear’s final years.
OU is also suffering from being in a subpar Conference, you get them to the Pac 12 or SEC and I think things would improve dramatically, even if it means the competition gets a bit tougher.
I think above that is probably why Texas and OU are suffering. Blue Chip players want to play in the SEC or Big Ten, the Big 12 is a loser. Geez, they’re desperate just to get a team like BYU, or Houston to join them.
I give the Big 12 three more years, tops.
I don’t know why anyone would actually want the job in South Bend. ND fans are smoking crack, meth and snorting mescaline when football season rolls around. I should know, I grew with them in a Catholic neighborhood in Indy and many of my college friends were from South Bend. If you don’t win 11 games, you suck and they want you dead. Yes, dead. Ask Dan Devine. He wins a National Championship in 79 and two years later he’s getting death threats.
While I’d be glad to see Urban Meyer leave THE Ohio State University, he’d be crazy to go to South Bend.
How did he mishandle Grier?
He has a policy against using a scholarship to get a good placekicker. Given Georgia's history of some of the truly outstanding kicking, it is that policy which might end up getting him fired. Folks understand that the offensive line is not his fault (although the offensive play calling may eventually land in his lap).
They would have done better staying in the Big 12. They've been stuck in 'the middle" in the SEC until this year.. and, this year ain't over.
Both Norte Dame and Texas have declined since their exclusive network deals. Obviously having NBC is more lucrative for Norte Dame.
The decline of the Big 12 coincided with the LHN. Texas does not get good exposure in the rest of the country and that hurts recruiting. KIds want their families and friends to be able to see them play each week. The SEC, B!G, PAC10 have large coverage areas, especially the SEC that helps them tremendously in recruiting. Texas and Oklahoma should join the SEC but Oklahoma State is the thorn.
First of all he should have been on top of what medications his players are taking, and been aware of the rules. Kids aren’t going to know these things, it’s the responsibility of the coach to know.
And then he strung him along as to whether or not he would be the starter when he came back, and then basically pushed him out the door.
The implosion of the Big 12 has been a surprise; it should have been a premier conference. But other than Texas and OU, the good teams have been parted out elsewhere. And it has hurt the premier recruiting for the teams that are left. They ought to bring back Rice and re-create the old Southwest Conference.
“What comes out of a Chinaman’s ass? Rice! Rice! Rice!”
A classic Aggie chant from the old SWC days.
I guarantee A&M’s Athletic Department is pulling in a lot more moolah now than they ever could have dreamed of. There’s no way they expand Kyle Field to 100,000+ if they weren’t in the SEC.
Texas needs to man up, admit it made a mistake, and re-cut the deal with ESPN to make it the 'Southwest Conference Network'. Oops, make that the 'Big (some random number) Network'
I can see OU and Ok State and Texas Tech going to the Pac 12. Kansas and Iowa State to the Big Ten. West Virginia to the Big Ten/ACC. And the other Texas schools to the SEC.
So essentially you will have 4 Mega-Conferences. I think you could structure the conferences in such a way that you could have a conference semi-final and then a Conference Final, with the four Conference Champions going to the National Semi-Finals.
To my understanding all athletes at Florida receive annual instructions about taking otc supplements.
Why would Mac commit to Grier as the starter when he would not be available for team practices until the Missouri game?
Four mega-conferences makes a national playoff much easier to manage and guarantees the rich stay rich and the doormats stay doormats.
As for the split of the Big 12, having the Cyclones join the Big 10 is overdue. I wanted them and Missouri instead of Rutgers and Maryland; those additions made absolutely no sense from a competition and cohesiveness standpoint. Iowa State would bring their natural rivalry with Iowa into the conference, along with Missouri’s natural rivalry with Illinois in the St. Louis market. Plus, both schools are natural rivals with the other western Big 10 schools like Nebraska and Minnesota.
The whole idea behind adding Rutgers and Maryland was to get east coast exposure for the conference, but really? Are there really going to be that many Rutgers fans going to Lincoln to watch them play the Huskers? Last year, there were only about 20 of them in Memorial Stadium to watch them play the Hoosiers. Which as far as I know is the entirety of the Rutgers fan base.
Even worse, the conference scheduled the Big 10 Basketball tournament for Madison Square Garden...the weekend BEFORE the Big East Tournament. That’s when the ECAC Metro Atlantic North has their championship. Yeah, I’ll go to Banker’s Life Fieldhouse or the United Center to watch the tournament, but I’m not going to New York. And not many other Big 10 fans will, either. This is going to be a disaster.
OK. Rant over.
Heck, I remember years ago we went up to New York to watch the Gators play Rutgers at the Meadowlands, and the stadium was virtually all Gator fans.
Kirby Smart will NOT get fired after year 1 at Georgia. Hell, even Saban was 7-6 during his first year at Bama. After the season, Texas will fire Strong and back up the brinks truck to Tom Herrman’s house.
Isn't Mackletooth the guy who said even a dog could run his offense? Guess they just dont make dogs the way they used to. That offense is terrible.
Not always, in years past they have done well that one game against the Sooners... you never really can tell.
That’s an interesting question. LHN began in 2011. However, I believe it is coincidental with another circumstance that affected football, basketball, and baseball simultaneously. That coincidence being that around around the same time the coaches and teams in each sport were beginning to suffer decline. This resulted in the dismissal of each coach over a relatively short period of time. Each had success and even reached the pinnacle winning a national championship. Augie Garrido’s baseball team won college world series’ in ‘02 and ‘05; Mack Brown’s football won championship in ‘05 season and played in another after ‘09 season; and Rick Barnes basketball got to Final Four but lost in championship in’03. In another words it had been awhile between when the summit was reached and the tenure over. In the case of Mack Brown, the football team’s talent level had already diminished before appearing in the championship against Alabama. This was especially true of the number of players taken in the NFL draft. The same can be of the other two.
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