Posted on 09/13/2021 2:47:45 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
All it took was one private message!
Seems like only yesterday when Bob was our DC for our 1996 Natty.
I would attribute it to job burnout as an umbrella title for a host of things. His passion was gone. His heart just didn't seem to be in it his last year. I've heard that he is disappointed in the direction that cfb is headed and he just wanted to do something different. Family is important to him and he is not willing to sacrifice it any more to his career. Plus, financially, he's set for life.
I think he just decided that he didn't want to do it anymore. He certainly wasn't forced out.
Good for him, then.
And as a Gator it’s what worries me with Mullen. I’ve heard things about how the UF fanbase is jumping on him with regards to how he’s handled the QBs, and now with the situation we have with Emory Jones and Anthony Richards, the things I see out there being said about Mullen frankly disgust me, as a Gator fan. It’s what drives coaches away, I know it’s what made Spurrier want to leave.
Once great programs, Texas and USC is where coaching careers go to die over the past 10 years. Those schools aren’t attractive as they once were. USC is surrounded by ghettos. Who wants 3-5 years of that.
You can add Nebraska to that list.
Blame the players
In hindsight, the Huskies should have done a full search when Coach Pete stepped down and I doubt Lake would have been the pick. I'm willing to give him a little while to see if he can turn this thing around. Saturday was not encouraging on the heels of the Montana debacle. I'm not optimistic that Lake can turn it around. With 20 starters coming back on a team that earned a slot in the conference championship game last year (only to have it taken by a covid outbreak), there is NO excuse for this level of putrid play. That has to be on the coach.
There are a lot of red flags waving around Montlake.
I always like to point out that Nick Saban lost to Louisiana-Monroe his first year at Bama. You basically have to give it a year for a new coach to instill a new culture on a program.
Peter Principle.
This was breaking news--just minutes old--when I posted it, and major sporting events are arguably news.
USC—University of Super Champions
Well they always clean up at the Gold Medal count in the Olympics.
Actually I (we) saw Mrs. S. first, kinda flittering around the place like she knew what she was doing. I thought to myself, "who is that lady, she doesn't like like she's from around here..."
About that time the Maitre D called her first name and she waved at her, and then stuck her head out the door and said "Bobby we've got a seat!" and then Bob gets out of the truck and walks in and they take their seats at the bar with Bob at the far end where no one can bug him. I don't blame him a bit.
Honestly though, it was really impressive the way she took care of business and ran interference for Bob, not heavy handed nor lording herself over people, just being cool about the whole thing. Bob too. Management knew they were coming of course... they just wanted breakfast, okay? :)
It wasn't always that way. As they rode to and from classes aboard trolley cars through the fields surrounding the campus during the 1890's, USC students would shoot rabbits.
Yes, Nebraska is another coache’s graveyard.
I was there in Arlington, TX when Helton started his first full season as USC head coach in 2016. USC received a 52-6 thunderfumpin’ from Bama after Bama’s first string QB was shelved for the backup QB — a man named Jalen Hurts.
Lou Holtz? Hardly. He is one of the finest men who ever coached.
University of Second Choice
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