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By your logic, all forms of transportation are welfare programs. They are all in some way subsidized with public money. Even private jets usually (although not always) utilize public airports.
No, public transportation programs are things that move people. Trains, bus, subway, etc. These programs lose money everywhere other than New York City.
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No i was thinking more along the lines of Ohio choosing not to invest in itself, and better position itself competitively in the global market. That approach has done wonders for my home state
How is a rail system like this an investment in the state? How does it make Ohio more competitive in the global market? It all sounds good when you say it and type it, but does it really do these things.
Only one public transportation system in the United States turns a profit, New York City. Every other transit system loses money and is basically a welfare program.
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Good interview DrZ. You missed the main question though. Is Marisa Tomei as hot in person as she looks on the screen?
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Well, history shows that if you have at least one winning season at K-ent, you can have a long BCS career. Ask Don James and Glenn Mason. The trouble is gaining that one winning season. (at K-ent!) Not many are willing to take a chance on it.
I agree. You just described almost every MAC school. Unfortunately, we are in somewhat of the same position Can't is in. The trouble with Akron is gaining that one winning season as well, and not a 6-6 record. Akron is in a good postion to turn things around if they could just turn a bunch of guys who don't believe they can win into a group of guys who believe they can win. There's a lot more to that, but in general, there is more up-side at Akron than any other floundering MAC school.
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Dean Pees did pretty well from Can't. He replaced Mangini at DC for the Pats. Pees left Michigan State for a HC position with Can't and I would say it worked out for him in the long run.
I agree. However, he didn't get to New England because of his great coaching record at Can't. He got there because of his personal/professional relationship with the head coach.
Being a HC at Can't didn't hurt his career.
It depends on what his career aspirations were. If they were to go to Can't and have losing season, one after another, then go to coach at New England, I would agree with you 100%. If he wanted the Can't job in order to parlay success into a BCS job, it hurt his aspirations.
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Dean Pees did pretty well from Can't. He replaced Mangini at DC for the Pats. Pees left Michigan State for a HC position with Can't and I would say it worked out for him in the long run.
I agree. However, he didn't get to New England because of his great coaching record at Can't. He got there because of his personal/professional relationship with the head coach.
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Maybe he wants to parlay one great season into a Big East gig, like one at Pitt (like Haywood just did)?
Maybe he wants to parlay his MAC success into a sweet gig at a school like Miami Florida (like Al Golden just did)?
Maybe he aspires to move from a HC job in the MAC to being a head coach in the Big 10 (like Jerry Kill just did)?
Maybe he wants a head coaching job in the Big 12, and feels the MAC is a good place to ascend (worked pretty good for Turner Gill)?
Where's Central Michigan's Butch Jones right now? Answer - Cincinnati
All good points.
The real question is, can you do that from Can't? I say no. I also say UofA is a great opportunity for a coach looking to do exactly what all of the coaches above did. It has everything a program would need to be successful. All Coach I has to do is turn a losing mentality into a winning mentality and they can go all the way.
Fans sometimes confuse a coach who goes from a MAC school to a BCS school as a great coach. Most coaches, and people working in college athletics, are opportunists. I don't blame them for making the moves they do, but I also don't confuse the moves they make as proof they are great at what they do. (For those of you who think you have to pay a coach a ton of money to get a good one need to have the fact pointed out to them that Haywood was the lowest paid coach in the MAC last year.) I have no problem with guys like Kill, Gill and Jones duping low level BCS schools into paying them a lot of money. They all have families to support and a million dollars at a BCS school goes a lot further than $200,000 at a MAC school. Most of these guys want to do great at their schools and then cash in even more like the greatest opportunist of the first decade of the 21st Century did, Brian Kelly. Kelly took short bursts of success at various schools and used it to cash in at the easiest to dupe school, Notre Dame...they hired Faust for crying out loud.
Here is what I want to happen at UofA. I want Coach I to go 9-3 next year, win the MAC and dupe a BCS level school to throw a bunch of money at him. It sure would beat the losing we have watched for the past 20+ years.
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And at least K-S-U had the sense to stick with an OHIO guy
This guy just won the MAC. Texas high school graduate. ND graduate. No Ohio ties other than a short time as an assistant.
In the 21st Century, Ohio schools have won the MAC four times. Only Toledo had an Ohio guy coaching their team. Miamioh had Hoepner...Indiana guy (sp?) and Haywood (sp?) Texas/ND guy. Akron had JD...Colorado guy. It is fantasy to believe it matters whether or not a guy is from Ohio. The facts just don't support it.
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I'm not worried about this guy. He's a nobody and probably way down on the list of candidates they were REALLY interested in. Can't is a terrible program (like ours for that matter) with little to offer (ours has a lot to offer). There is WAY more upside at Akron than Can't. The fact the guy coached at OSU does not impress me because I think what they have going on in Columbus is smoke and mirrors. Let's see how this guy does when he has little going for his program. The fact that this guy is from Ohio does not impress me and I'm not sure why it should impress me or anyone else for that matter.
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I'm probably not the average fan, but I like to see what talent levels are at practice, who is working hard, who is getting yelled at, who is getting the bulk of the work, what plays are being run, what is being taught to whom. After gathering this information,
I hate to come off as a dick to one of my favorite posters, but what makes you or any of us qualified evaluators of what is going on at a college football practice? Most fans really don't know who is good or bad. Most don't understand why a game plan is put together the way it is. Most don't understand why certain plays are being called. Most don't know if when a play fails if it was a bad play call or did one player break down. Most don't understand why certain players are used above other.
Most don't even know who is working hard or not. A player can work hard and not be a good player. Another player can look lazy, but he is working hard and is so good the physical action looks effortless.
Fans should not be allowed into practices, except for one and the spring game. It's D-1A college football, not a high school team where you can walk down to the stadium to watch them practice.
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We were in Inside Drill, which always gets heated,
For those of you who may not know, the Inside Drill is when every play is run between the tackles. There are no passing plays and the defense knows it is coming. It is the most brutal 20 minutes of any practice. Goal line is a close second, but there are passing plays on goal line offense so the brutality isn't there. What makes it brutal during spring is the first team offenses and defenses play against each other.
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Be prepared for all practices to be closed to the fans. Not sure what they have to hide, but we will never know.
You would be surprised how many teams come August will be sitting in film rooms watching some scragly video shot of their opening week's opponent's spring practices. When teams open up their practices to the public, it happens, and RI knows this because I'm sure they sent some GA's out in the spring when he was at ND. After all, Charlie Weis did come from the same coaching tree as Bill Belichick.
Our opener is OSU. I wouldn't be surprised if their spring game was broadcast on the BTN in full HD from multiple angles, and all of the practices up to that point are open to the public with a $20 gate charge. Our coaches will have no problem getting film.
Do you have a link for where it says this?
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The Big Ten commissioner was caught not just with his pants down, but completely off, by this stupidity and isn't sure what to say so he unleashed one of the most dreaded statements in college athletics. In the last paragraph of the link DrZ provided, he says something along the lines of "we are trying to build a fan base". Are you freaking kidding me? It's a BCS level conference and they are trying to "build a fan base". Attention Big Ten commissioner....your teams play in front of sold out stadiums every weekend and you have some of the largest alumni associations in the United States. THE FAN BASE IS THERE YOU MORON. Whenever you hear someone in college athletics bring up "building and growing" it should make you cringe because it is a sign that person has no idea what to do and is buying time until his next job. He may be able to slip that nonsense by the limited intellects of Big Ten graduates, but he isn't getting it by the intellect of this University of Akron graduate (twice).
The second thing the Big Ten should stay away from is marketing the past. I mentioned this on this board when I first saw the stupid division names and I was right. The way they named their divisions tells me they don't have much in the present to market and they know it. Major League Baseball markets the past and did anyone see the TV ratings for the World Series this year? Terrible. Market the present. If what you have in the present is not good, make what you have better. Americans like to look forward, not backward.
The one idea I like about the way the Big Ten is organizing the divisions is they are trying to make each division equally competitive. If they were really smart and creative, they would rearrange these divisions every 4-5 years. You can't make a decision in 2010 expecting to know what the conference is going to be like in 2020 or even 2015.
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If a guy is a good coach, it doesn't matter if he was a head coach or not prior to getting a MAC job. A good coach is a good coach regardless.
The funny thing about this hiring is it can prove the people who think you should hire a coach with lower level head coaching experience both wrong and right. The guy was successful at Miamioh contrary to this opinion. If he goes on to Pitt and wins, it will prove the opinion to be correct because he had experience coaching at a lower level school. It's funny how things can turn out.
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Rumor has it he even got a relative out of legal trouble in Mississippi.
He also has a hot girlfriend who is an expert auto mechanic. She traveled with him down to Mississippi. I believe her name was Miss Vito.
Herman Munster was the judge too.
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Be prepared for all practices to be closed to the fans. Not sure what they have to hide, but we will never know.
Fans should get to see one Saturday morning practice and the spring game. There are things that need to take place during spring practice that don't reflect very well but are necessary. There is a lot of fighting, cursing and vomiting......and that's just the coaches. Fans, and especially grade school kids, shouldn't be party to that.
I'm not sure why the average fan would want to go to a practice. College football practices are like watching paint dry. It's boring for the players too. All the players can think about during spring practice is the day when it will all be over. The best party of the year didn't take place after the last regular season game, it took place after the spring game when the feelings of dread come to an end.
All fans deserve is what they see during the regular season. That's all that matters anyhoww.
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OK...That's probably the most creative thing I've ever seen a band do. It was so simple, why hasn't anyone done something like that before?
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I can't believe we lost to those two squads. I think our match strategies have lacked the kind of imagination that it takes to be competitive at the regional level, let alone the national level. How long are we gonna keep our current gun coach? It is my understanding that our current coach had no previous head gun coaching experience before assuming the position here. I think we are overdue for a change.
Maybe the people shooting the guns should do a better job of doing what the coach tells them to do.
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Rumor has it he even got a relative out of legal trouble in Mississippi.
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What is probably the most frustrating is that we continue to have these looooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggg scoring droughts, usually late in the first half or early in the second half. I have absolutely no idea what the issue is there but KD is going to have to figure it out or there will be people that are going to start questioning if he is the right coach to get us to the next level. We've seen this for seemingly the last 3 or 4 years now. Time for something to change.
IMNHO, what Akron lacks, and has lacked for as long as I can remember, is a guy you can bring off the bench and he is automatic offense. Maybe there were some, but I just can't remember. When you put a guy like this in the game, you have to accept he is going to play defense poorly so you have to figure out a way to keep him from being too big of a liability on defense. KD won't put up with a guy who plays defense poorly so he doesn't have guys like this on his team. I think a guy like this is needed for the times when everyone else is having difficulty putting the ball in the basket, because you have to keep pace with the point pace of good teams until you figure out what adjustments you want to make.
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I wonder if Faust said, "By golly, anyone who coached at Notre Dame is a good coach as far as I'm concerned."
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Haywood is a flush in the pan kind of coach whose on the field track record is shaky at best. These kinds of situations very rarely work out well.
You just described the majority of coaching hires. He knows the same as everyone else. If he can get good players, he will win.....if not, then we all know what happens.
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Let me be a politically incorrect realist for a second. Haywood got that job because of his skin tone.
I think there was more to his getting hired at Pitt than his race.
Pitt has had off the field problems and the school wants them fixed. He had problems like that at Miami and fixed them.
Secondly, I don't think there were many people interested in the job at Pitt. It is a third place school in a BCS conference in name only. The program is not impressive and has rarely lived up to expectations regardless of the coach. Haywood won't live up to expectations and will be out sooner than later.
Thirdly, Haywood won when it mattered...in the league championship game. Pitt has shown an ability in recent years to poop their pants late in the season with the conference championship on the line.
In the glory days of Pitt football (Majors and Sherrill) Pitt had, let's just say, laxed standards for a player ever seeing the inside of a classroom. Pitt won't put up with that any longer. Haywood won at a school with good standards and that is probably attractive to Pitt.
Sure, Haywood backed into the championship game by Can't beating OU, but he got there and won. JD did the same thing (OK, neither backed into anything). The big difference between the two is JD only won six regular season games. Haywood won eight regular season games, which is a good bit for a MAC school.
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Raise your hand if you seriously believe Ianello is capable of pulling off that sort of one-year turnaround.
And if your hand is in the air, I'd be curious as to exactly what you saw this season that gives you an inkling of hope for such a quick reversal of fortune.
My hand isn't in the air, but a lot of Miami fans had the same opinion of Haywood last year at this time.
Quick turnarounds happen all the time in the MAC with coaches nobody has heard of. Why not us?
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Maybe he needs the money.