Posted on 07/11/2016 12:51:31 AM PDT by iowamark
I mean no disrespect to you, iowamark, but what the hell does FBS mean?
The NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), formerly known as Division I-A, is the top level of college football in the United States. The FBS is the more competitive subdivision of NCAA Division I, which itself consists of the largest and most competitive schools in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). As of 2014, there are ten conferences and 128 schools in the FBS. Despite the popularity of the professional National Football League, college football is very popular throughout much of the United States, and the top schools generate tens of millions of dollars in yearly revenue. Top FBS teams draw tens of thousands of fans to games, and the ten largest American stadiums by capacity all host FBS teams. College athletes are not paid, and colleges are only allowed to provide players with non-monetary compensation such as athletic scholarships that provide for tuition, housing, and books.
Here’s a few sticks to add to the offseason campfire.
“COACHES HOT SEAT RANKING”
http://www.coacheshotseat.com/CoachesHotSeatRanking.htm
Never heard the term FBS, thought it was some black lives matter group of athletes/thugs.
You obviously don’t follow college football.
Now he's going on 20 years, and so is his best bud Kirk Ferentz at Iowa.
For all the good work Stoops has done in his time and all the things he's done right, one thing that impressed me is that he really, really didn't want to play against his own alma mater and his best friend in the coaching business in... which bowl game was it, the Holiday Bowl, a few years ago?
Ping.
I guess it’s fair to say Strong and Stoops are on the hot seat at Texas and Kentucky.... but, I think the bar for them is not that high.
Both of them likely survive if they make a bowl game.
Stoops, maybe even if he doesn’t. The Cats have played harder, and better since he arrived. I don’t know if ANY coach could do much better at Kentucky.
“You obviously don’t follow college football.”
Not since I graduated from college. At that time I personally knew the coach and a handful of the players, these days, they are all just nameless kids playing a game.
2011 Insight Bowl, Oklahoma over Iowa 31-14
Thanks.
I feel sorry for South Carolina.
LOL... Yeah I noticed that name. Didn’t even have to look back.
About 7 weeks, with an August game in Australia... Don’t ask me why...
Stoops talks a good game, but he needs to deliver. If he doesn’t deliver this year I imagine his welcome will be wearing pretty thin.
In your view, why can’t Kentucky win in football?
They are not alone in this regard. How many schools are elite powers in BOTH football and men's basketball? Florida made a good try at it in the mid-2000's but couldn't keep it going. Ohio State probably comes the closest today. I assume it is because it takes too much time and resources to keep both sports at elite levels. It is hard enough to keep one sport at that level.
I think a lot of it is recruiting reputation.
Kids want to go where their sport will be the “big dog” on campus.
Michigan State has done well on this also.
This is true only if tenure is defined by continuous service time. Bill Snyder has much higher service time as head coach at K-State than Stoops has at OU. Snyder was hired as K-State's HC just after the 1988 football season but retired for four years before coming back for the 2009 season.
You're right. I forgot about the Spartans. They are very strong in both the major college sports.
Good question. The facilities are good. I think, it's mostly because they have such a LONG HISTORY of futility in football. In a conference that is SO TOUGH... it's pretty hard to recruit top talent to come here. I actually think Stoops has hit upon the right formula: Recruit Ohio kids, who want to play in the SEC but not move too far from home.
Rich Brooks did OK here... Four straight bowl games. But, no question: Lexington is a BASKETBALL town. People here just don't care that much about football. And, it shows in recruiting. I'd like to see it change. But, I doubt that it will.
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