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the official 2011-12 college football thread! part 1 ver. WHERE IS SMOTPOKER??

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I know, I saw the sabEn and was like wtf? Yeah, it's twitter. That means shorter words and limited characters....NOT mispelling. F'n idiot.


Oy, psychopath...welcome to the thread. You just combined the latest 2-3 headlines about tOSU with everything that's been said about the SEC. Glad to see you catch up to us in just one post!


EDIT - just started wondering how the Little10+2 was going to start scheduling, now that they have 12 teams like the SEC. Comparing FL and tOSU (as I'm given to do), I see the following differences:

1. Looks like both have 8 conf games (makes sense)
2. OOC is:
- - tOSU: Akron + Toledo (take turns bouncing in the bottom half of the MAC) , MIA (made a surge 10 yrs ago, but last 5 have been averaging 7-5), and COL (last winning season was 7-6 in '05)
- - FLA: FAU (ALWAYS sucks, lucky to get a win every few years), UAB (generally sucks, avg 4 wins/yr), Furman (FCS!), FSU (made their BCS Conf Championship last year...though not for the previous 3+ yrs)

I'll take FSU > MIA (sorry 3,4) give COL > UAB, call AKR/TOL = FAU, and give AKR/TOL > Furman.... tOSU for SOS by a hair
 
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Twas a matter of time before LSUfreek gave us something:

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I think he could have done better, but the Brutus is a nice touch.
 
I like the proposal to pay the players a small amount, $300 per game seems reasonable IMO. The problem obviously can't be covered up, there needs to be an infrastructure for giving benefits to the players IMO. The fact is, there are a lot of high profile/ NFL bound kids in Div I, they are not simply student athletes.
 
looks like the Ohio State University is the next hot coaching spot for the next year (fantastic and young Defensive Co-ordinator Luke Fickell is the interim head coach for this season)

here is a run-down of the rumored next Buckeye Head Coaches:

Bo Pelini: current Nebraska HC and former LSU coach when they won the NC; grew up in Youngstown and was a star Buckeye strong safety

John Gruden: SB winner and current NFL analyst, former Dayton Flyer

Bob Stoops: from Youngstown, current Oklahoma HC

Urban Meyer: from Ashtabula, OH and played in Cinci and got his coaching start at tOSU

Mark Dantonio: former tOSU DC when they won the NC and were truly scary at linebacker (AJ Hawk)

those are some big-name candidates, and I would almost be happy with any one of them to represent my NCAA team. I can't believe that every single one of these HC possibilities are from the State of Ohio. further proof that the Buckeye State is the Cradle of Football Civilization
 
^Stoops is the only guy I see as realistic on that list. He is suffering from 11-1/10-2 syndrome at Oklahoma, where he will probably never win another NC again.

You do not want Meyer, he tore the Teflon coating off of Florida, if anybody thought that was possible, and was always a gimmick offense type coach who eventually burnt out to the point where his health began to deteriorate. I really don't see him coaching again.

Gruden will pretend to run for the job and fall back at the last minute. He is happy with what he does.

I don't know, maybe I should include Dantonio. I don't think he would be a great hire for OSU, however. You guys need to do like Michigan and Miami, and get some under the radar guy like Golden or Hoke. Both of those guys will bring their respective programs back to success. Hey, it worked with Tressel coming out of Youngstown.
 
^The option is not a gimmick, the reason it isn't utilized in the pros IMO is because the value of the players is so high. IMO, stuff like the option is what elevates college over pro football.
 
the option is a gimmick offense-- look at Ga Tech. They run a triple option. It went over like gangbusters the first year, until they ran into a team that actually had time to prepare and practice for it, whereupon they were crushed (by Wisconsin in a bowl, iirc).
 
^Maybe relying on it completely is a bad idea, but a true dual-threat QB is pretty unstoppable IMO.
 
Do you really think Stoops would go to tOSU? tOSU is about to get smacked by the NCAA. We will see where the investigation goes, but it is not looking good so far. Stoops likes Norman, and his family likes Norman. He also has a great relationship with our president and AD. I don't see him going anywhere soon..maybe once his kids are old enough to go to college.
 
I think the assistant, whatever his name is, will take over this season and try to run the same program that already exists amid the sanctions. If he does well, he'll stay for another season.
 
I disagree. I think the asst. is a lame duck using the opportunity to put '(interim) head coach' on his resume while tOSU flushes this season away. They'll get a decent name head coach for the following year, and he'll clean house of anyone remotely carrying this NCAA tainted Tresselness.

It would be interesting to see how the coming season plays out for the round of head coaching candidates. I mean, Stoops *is* stuck in OU with the 10-2 / 11-1 stigma. With TX down and NEB gone, he'll have a much better chance of getting to the NC, or at least winning the conference, so combine that with the fans worried he'd bolt for tOSU and I suspect he gets a contract extension to keep him there. If there's enough grumblings amongst the OU fans...he may say 'fuggit' and jump back to tOSU.

Bo Pellini? HA! I think he's found his home in NEB - historical football school on par w/ tOSU in many ways, but he's got the glory of rebuilding from ruin AND leading them into the new conference affiliation. While tOSU would be closer to home, I think he'll be more than content to visit them every other year on game weekends while remaining the Cornhusker King. Not much attraction to swap one high profile B10 Head Coach job for another....especially if tOSU is climing out from under NCAA sanctions (scholly restrictions, whatever else they might think to apply).

I think 3,4 is right on Gruden - entertain the notion long enough to grab headlines, then recline back to the announcing gig some more.

The timing might work out for Meyer, if he takes a year off to recover his health and really start to miss coaching. There's a chance he'd come in, imo. However, you wouldn't want him - take this from a FLA fan. He'll never have the fire you'd want to see out of him - you'd be betting on a roaring return, and get a shell of guy trying but not willing to kill himself for it. I don't know he'd get the coaching staff under him like he used to have, either (and I don't just mean what won NC's at FL). The good coaches he had have moved on to bigger and better, so how's he going to pull together a good staff to support him? Don't buy this used car....

I don't know Dantonio. I do like the suggestion to go 'under the radar' and get an up and comer; but tOSU is like ND in that they think they deserve the big names and don't have to gamble on an unproven coach. :\
 
it was Iowa and Ricky "the True American" Stanzi that bested the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. I will forever remember his post-game shenanigans

I didn't mean to stir the pot so much with the Buckeye HC hopefuls, and I realize that some of them are long-shots, but fwiw the local newspaper reported almost the exact same names as future Buckeyes HCs

honestly I am just ready to move on, and hear some good news. at least I can be comforted that my team is a prosperous destination for some hefty footbaw minds

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but tOSU is like ND in that they think they deserve the big names and don't have to gamble on an unproven coach. :\
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lest you forget Tressel was essentially a no-namer outside of the small city of Youngstown when he got hired. sure, he won many National Championships, but those only get a coach so far when he accrued them in Division 1-AA (or FBS or whatever the fuck they call it now). let's just say that at that time I spent my entire life in Ohio and I didn't really recognize the name (you might have been different because iirc you spent some time in that hell-hole mafia town that is Y-Town?)
 
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It is only natural for any coach from Youngtown to be considered. I was just saying why I don't think Stoops would take the job at this point in time. SI recently rated the top 20 coaching jobs in the US, with Texas, tOSU, and Oklahoma coming in at the top three in that order. I would be a lot more worried if Stoops' kids were older, but he has said time and again that he doesn't want to leave Norman because his family is very comfortable there. Not to mention tOSU can't offer too much more money than what he is making.

Moreover, I don't buy the 10-2, 11-1 stigma. I love that he wins so many games. We were in the BCS national championship 4 times in the last 11 years, with many other BCS bowl appearances. You can't win the NC every year, and just getting there is no small feat. The road to the national championship should be easier with a new smaller Big12, and no conference championship game. I would say he is set up pretty good for another run at a championship this year!! BOOMER SOONER!
 
Even in Fla I knew Tressel's name during the 10 yr run he had at YSU (yes my time there confirmed the legacy, the feat and respect, and the dirty side). 10 yrs of that kind of success at YSU will not go unnoticed at D1 and WILL carry weight. Given tOSU is the only real 'big' school in the state and not that far from YSU, it wasn't a gamble on their part.
 
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Even in Fla I knew Tressel's name during the 10 yr run he had at YSU (yes my time there confirmed the legacy, the feat and respect, and the dirty side). 10 yrs of that kind of success at YSU will not go unnoticed at D1 and WILL carry weight. Given tOSU is the only real 'big' school in the state and not that far from YSU, it wasn't a gamble on their part.
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damn you must really keep up on the pulse of all football activity in the State of Ohio; from Divisions 1 to 3. an Ohioan doing such is one thing, but a Floridian is an entirely different monster. I didn't think you would be that enamored, to say the least. ever heard of Mount Union??
 
the only time I ever wanted to never play football again was when my team played Mount Union :(
 
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