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Pregame and post game Friday? Again, 42nd Street Oyster Bar is great.

I'd just like to remind everyone that regardless of how cold it is out or how hot it is out, it's always 72 degrees on a barstool.

The problem with HS coaches is this. A lot of parents look at how many players the coach places in D-1A as a benchmark for how well they are doing their job. This puts coaches in a bad spot. They don't sit enough kids down and tell them and their parents they are not good enough to play D-1A football. Most kids know, the parents are the problem. Instead, coaches let the parental pressure get to them and try to talk college coaches into taking their players. When the coaches see the tape of the player and his lack of talent, they develop a sour opinion of that coach and do not trust what they have to say....that's where the relationship fractures.We don't live in an honest enough society.

Thanks for he link. Both of these sound very familiar. It all starts with talent.The second is extremely familiar. Every fan board out there says they have a bad offense and the coach can't make adjustments. There's nothing new about that complaint. The first complaint stems from the fact that fans watch the team every week and they get tired of watching the same offense. The lack of variety in play calling stems from the lack of variety in team viewing. The second complaint about adjustments stems from people who want to complain but can't really thing of what to say...."The coach is losing the team" is the same type of complaint.The bottom line is the guy continues to win and we should at least interview the guy.

Nice!!!

I don't know when they will be given out, but are Lily and Grandpa attending this year?

An offense has to be able to game plan for a variety of defenses as well.Asking a defensive coach for advise is like asking an Amish man for advice on how to build a nuclear powerplant. They are nice people and all, just not very sharp.......and lacking in the looks department........and tend to live with their mothers too long......and generally unclean.

People who play/coach defense have the brains of an ant. Anyone with half of a brain plays offense. We need an offensive coach who won't run a gimmick defense and we will be fine. My guy will have played TE in college, coached defense in college or pros, and maybe has some head coaching experience, his first name might be Mike...(I'm not speaking of a specific guy, there are a few of these guys out there)I'd like this guy too.....However, someone needs to tell this guy to take easy fieldgoals in the first quarter so pressure is put on the other team and the offense can show some accomplishment.

Thanks. I think g-mann17 has lost his mind today.

And man does it cost. I couldn't wait to flee the 3% city income tax.Mayor Don has turned the City into such an unattractive place that the house my company bought off of me two and a half years ago still sits empty in one of the nicer neighborhoods on the west side.Well good riddance, you douche bag.Tired of your garbage comments, how many fees you got living down there? I bet it all ends up working out the same, I know my friend that teaches in Walterboro, SC pays about 25% more for the normal "government" necessities (taxes, registration, fees for this, fees for that).Stupid south can't even control the use of it's own resources. Income tax for the city was and is not 3% (never has been). And hey you big Libertarian tool, I'll make the same deal with you as every other conservative moron. You walk down to your local city hall (or county admin building) and tell them, I will not pay taxes or fees for anything, in exchange I won't use anything the city or county has built or subsidized, hell do that for the federal stuff too. You know what? You wouldn't be able to do anything. The internet? Subsidized, Phone? Roads? Schools? Your Job? All subsidized. But yeah let's complain about taxes. You wouldn't even have a job down there if the community you were in didn't give away free land (subsidy) and the power wasn't so cheep because of what? Yes Public works programs and government subsidized Nuclear Plants.So stop using and you can stop paying or just stop complaining. Freaking tool.Thank you for your kind words. At least where I live now isn't turning into Youngstown (nice suburbs, awful city).Your friend is just plain wrong. The fees are higher, but once you net out the costs, government fees of all types are much lower in South Carolina. My condolences to your friend living in Walterboro.....I'm sure it is hard to find a relative to marry that far away from Ohio.

People who play/coach defense have the brains of an ant. Anyone with half of a brain plays offense. We need an offensive coach who won't run a gimmick defense and we will be fine.

Your probably right. The Big Ten is the national joke and tOSU is just the punchline.You hear a lot about the Big Ten because you live in the midwest. It is laughed at by the remainder of the country. Unfortunately, the media has to talk about it and since tOSU is the top team in that horrible conference, they get most of the media play.

And man does it cost. I couldn't wait to flee the 3% city income tax.Mayor Don has turned the City into such an unattractive place that the house my company bought off of me two and a half years ago still sits empty in one of the nicer neighborhoods on the west side.

tOSU is a national joke and will get taken apart by Oregon. tOSU lost to Purdue. That should be enough said. However........They shut down the Big Ten? Wow! That's almost impressive considering Big Ten offenses shut themselves down and all the defenses have to do is show up. I can't think of an elite offensive player in the Big Ten.They shut down USC? Wow! USC is the fifth place PAC 10 school and they still LOST to them at HOME. Everyone shut down USC. tOSU's defense couldn't shut them down in crunch time when good players and good coaches rise or fall.tOSU and Notre Dame are becoming the same team. Everyone talks about them yet they are irrelevant. tOSU has the advantage of hiding in the Big Ten and playing MAC schools for most of their OOC schedule. ND is just lost.

If he wasn't interested, I'm not interested.In a lot of ways, I don't blame a kid from Garfield going away to college. A lot of us went away from college and I'm sure most of us are glad we did. I don't think a young person can fully mature if they don't leave their home after high school and go see the world a little.As far as football, if this kid is good enought compete in the Big East, more power to him. It is a BCS conference and the competition is better than the MAC. There are plenty of kids out there who would make us competitive in the MAC.

Drafted?.....NoA guy or two making a team?......Yes

Your plan worked for years in basketball at Cincinnati, but they ended up firing Huggins anyway.Coaches are hired to get fired. Eventually, Huggins would have been fired for some reason or another.

It works in the SEC and it worked in The Longest Yard.

Excellent idea for lunch Saturday! If you go, hit the fish market and get the fried flounder. Flounder is very popular in the Carolinas and they do a good job of frying it here. I take customers here all the time...the locals love it.

Aren't they always the same coach and the circumstances around them change?The guy that just got fired from Colorado was considered brilliant when he was at Boise State. Is he all of the sudden a bad coach or did he go to a school that was struggling (on and off the field) and was asking their coach to both recruit choir boys and win? Now he is finding out that a team full of choir boys and winning don't go together. My guess is five years from now the graduation rate at Colorado will be lower than what it is this year because alumni care more about winning than graduation rates. I'm actually of the opinion that most coaches are very good at what they do and are at least smart at the Xs and Os of football. JD understood the offense and defense he was putting on the field, but the problem was the offense and defensive strategies were destined for failure.I guess to follow your logic to it's extreme we would conclude. Almost all coaches eventually get fired. Since all coaches get fired, they all have to be bad coaches. Hence, there are no good coaches. I just don't buy that. I think the real mistake colleges make is they are always looking to make a splash instead of looking to win. The Zips need to find a winner.

I'm not sure what the definition of success is and I'm not sure of the answers to the questions below.Was Nutt successful at Arkansas before Mississippi? He did have some good years there I believe. Was Newheisel (sp?) successful at Washington before UCLA? Did he have some winning seasons at Colorado? Was he fired at any of them?I think the point is this. Coaches are hired to get fired. Just because a guy gets fired at a BCS school may not mean the guy is a bad coach. When a coach takes over a program, the previous coach has probably been fired (especially at the BCS level) so he is not walking into the best of circumstances. Turning around a loser at the BCS level is much more difficult than turning around a loser at the MAC level because it takes a lot of really good players to win at the BCS level. A few good players can get you over the hump in the MAC.Rodriguez is going to get fired at Michigan after next year. Does that mean he was actually a bad coach at WVU?Bobby Bowden basically was fired from Florida State. Does that make him a bad coach? He will be in the Hall of Fame some day.Lou Holtz was fired from South Carolina. Was he a bad coach? He won at Arkansas.... He also won at South Carolina...... He won a National Championship at Notre Dame.Dennis Erickson will get fired from ASU before too long. Was he a bad coach at Miami?

Places to go:BBQ is good, but there are a thousand good BBQ places in Raleigh. The Pit is just one of them.The 42nd Street Oyster Bar is great. Good sea food and live music at night. This is my #1 pick for anyone going looking for something to do at night. Below the OB, across the RR tracks is an Italian place that is great. Sunday for brunch ask someone how to get to NOFO for brunch. Burgers....Ted's Montana Grille.Carolina Brew House is a good sports bar.The bars around NC State are dumps. Unless you are in college, stay away. If you are in college, go find a Carolina girl and report back to this board on Monday. Saturday, drive to Chapel Hill and walk Franklin Street. Walk the UNC campus...it is an amazing place.See if the Hurricanes are playing Saturday. If they are, go. It is a great place to see an NHL game.If you feel like a drive on Saturday, go to Wilmington and walk the beaches or visit the downtown.

Please stop making sense......

Or maybe he made the mistake of saying exactly what he is planning to do.....It makes absolutely no sense for a non-qualifier attend Akron, then transfer. No one does that in Division 1 college football. Anywhere.I agree. It makes no sense, but who says a high school kid with a sub-par intellect has to make sense? I have a feeling the Zips should take a pass on this kid. Something doesn't seem right.

Temple can beat Army. And Marshall might just be bad enough to lose to OU.I agree...the MAC just might get a win this bowl season.Army still has to get past Navy this weekend and I don't see that happening. Temple will not beat a PAC 10 team.Marshall is bad, but I don't know if they are OU type bad.Keep your fingers crossed. Let's keep the embarrassment to a minimum. When the conference finally comes to it's senses and drops down to I-AA, we can talk about MAC teams in a national championship hunt instead of how foolish we will look in post season play.