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I'm sorry, but the one person I didn't want was Mike Johnson. Reminds me too much of Ianello from coaching aspect.... There is another name though I would be happy with...been mentioned here before and has not been actually mentioned as being "in the running" for the job...and no, I'm not talking about the sweater vest...

Part of me feels that TW did put all his eggs in Tressel's basket, and didn't want to share any to Winters, Narduzzi, and others. Part of me thinks that Wistrcill's plan all this time was "Tressel, or I'm fired" mentality... I just feel(as in my opinion), that some of these names that have been mentioned during this search, were just smokescreens. That he's been hoping that he could just get Tressel after the NCAA sanctions have been released. Part of me wonders if Wistrcill tipped off to Andy Staples to write something like that to get Tressel's attention. For what it's worth,on Andy Staples' twitter account, he said "I'm only half kidding saying some school should hire Tressel. Really, it's a smart move."

Unless there's organizations like the Kansas City Chiefs who know that they're going to promote Romeo Crennel to head coach, and Crennel is starting to put his staff together...

exactly...which gives me an idea/theory, but I'll keep my mouth shut. Oh why not bring it up...Why not Romeo at KC? At this point, it might be better off for UA to just give the head coaching job to an AK-rowdie, and then make the rest of the coaching staff students as well. Then, all UA has to do is pay the tuition, books, etc. while they're coaching. If the real reason we're not getting a "qualified" coach is because of $$$$$$$. then UA should do this...

What I'm saying is people were saying it would be terrible if looking for new AD and coach at same time...but what happens if we were able to get someone to come here and be both the AD and the football coach?

Unless the new football coach is also the AD...just saying...

just a little wishful thinking on my part

This is getting interesting real quick.... However, whoever is our coach, whether it's Jon Gruden or Joe Shmoe, I'll give them time to see what they can do. This is what i need to see: Year 1: The first 6 games, I need to see progress from game to game. Doesn't have to be enormous progress, but at least getting better each and every day and game. The second half of the season, at least get 1-2 MAC wins. Year 2: Win a couple OOC games and be competitive for all four quarters in the other OOC games. Then, I expect 3-5 wins in the MAC. Year 3: I expect to finish in the top 5 or 6 of the MAC, and contend for a MAC East title possibly. Year 4: Contend for MAC Championship. This may be a little far fetched, but I feel that if we see the improvement in year 1 and year 2, I could care less what the coach's name or pedigree is...

With what I heard (don't put too much into what im going to say), it's looking more and more like Winters is NOT coming here. I wonder if ZachTheZip bribed him away from here... ... ... ...

Could the amount of top players in this particular class we're getting, be in effect to the previous national championship appearances, or the fact that Coach Porter is the U-23 coach for the Olympics? Or a little bit of both?

I saw they have a poll up, that asks "What Zips sport did you attend at least one game of in 2011?" It has Football, Soccer(men's and women's), Basketball(men's and women's), Baseball, Softball, Women's Tennis, Rifle, and many others as options. It says to check for all that apply. I think it will be interesting to see what people went to other than soccer in 2011... Here's the link

worst offensive output I've seen from a Purple Raider team in years...growing up 10-15 minutes from UMU gave me opportunities to see them a lot in years' past...

I'll be okay with Winters or Narduzzi...

This is Game 7 of the DIII National Championship....Mount Union and Wisconsin-Whitewater have met in the title game for seven straight years now...each have won 3 national titles in the past 6 years...this will be the Game 7...

The problem is that if opponents' start seeing us playing a zone, they're going to start playing faster tempo to try and attack us before we have a chance to get into our zone....which if we're not back fast enough, and Zeke is, he could pick up some fouls there...

My junior year in high school, I got to see them up close. They played at my alma mater(West Branch) in 07-08 season, and we should of won that game against Jackson. But that's a topic on high school forum, not here... Egner was the one that stood out to me there. At that time, there was rumors that Duke was looking at one, and UNC was looking at the other... Apparently they didn't get the performance UNC and Duke were looking for to improve over their high school career... I'm hoping they(Egner more obviously) do finish out their college careers like their high school careers where they just had opportunities and executed well...

Monday baby! Sunday as well... eguins, you just proved to me that you don't read the threads here...all you do is post without actually reading...We already discussed the Narduzzi article in the Vindicator... Also, Mark is a supposed "finalist". We have no idea if he actually is or not. TW is keeping this so hush hush that we don't know if any of these 4 names are even going to get the job...

Maybe he was talking about Norm Chow?

I'm REAL surprised. Simply amazing. I wasn't too far off..Not surprised he stayed in OSU like I said above, but what I said people should be surprised about, is that he's probably going to keep his head coaching salary without having to have much responsibility with only being the playcaller on defense partially(heard Withers and him were going to split it). Now, things have seemed to possibly change just a little. I figured he may only be a position coach, which would surprised me and thought many people were going to be surprised too, but apparently, i was off by a lot on this one. Oh well...I'll take the heat this time

Mike Stoops or Mark Stoops? Because I originally heard Mike Stoops, who was fired from Arizona. Now I'm hearing Mark Stoops. who is the Florida State defensive coordinator. Am I the only one lost here?

Exactly...and the reason for it, is because as a coach, you don't want to hire someone that you don't know and can't trust. IF you hire someone you know and can trust, then you know you won't get backstabbed in the process......

this mystery candidate is still getting to me...who is it? GP1? if so, can I be the TE coach, GP1?

Interesting article on Narduzzi