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The stadium cams don't seem to be working.Unfortunately, this thread still is......

If you really want to do something fun and you own a shotgun. This is a good gun club out by the Research Triangle.

Raleigh is actually close to Pinehurst. Lots of great golfing around Pinehurst besides the main club you see on television. Around Greensboro is a place called The Grandover that is very nice but a bit of a drive. Basically, you are surrounded by good golf courses there.

What has he done to earn your trust?1.) He actually interviewed the candidates, rather than only look at won/lost records on a school's web site, or idiotic comments on fan forums. 2.) He didn't look at Central Michigan and think "This is the only possible way to have success in the MAC."3.) He released a coaching staff that was still under contract for a year. In these economic times, he could easily have said "Hey, my hands are tied...we have to keep the guy." But he made the tough (monetarily) call. 4.) His own career advancement depends on it.Look - I have a long way to go before I buy into YouTube Tom part-and-parcel. The way he handled Reno's dismissal was absolutely wrong and he has a mile to go to make up for it. But he knows better than anyone on this board whether or not Ianello was the best candidate for the Akron HC job.Below is my rebuttal to your strained logic (number correspond to numbers above):1. Isn't it his job to interview the candidates. Why does that deserve respect?2. I guess you have a point there.3. Making obvious choices does not deserve respect. It's like saying Mike Thomas was brilliant for hiring Kelly when in fact it was the obvious choice.4. People in college athletics advance their careers in all sorts of ways. One of those is hiring their friends so incase they need another job they have their friends to fall back on. I think this is lazy management.Maybe it's my natural dislike for authority and honestly it is still early in his UofA career, but the guy makes me nervous in a way that Mack and Thomas didn't. I think he is a ready...fire...aim guy.

What has he done to earn your trust?What has he done to lose your's?Trust isn't given, it's earned.1. Reno raw deal.2. Taking the easy road and hiring a buddy.3. Giving away tickets to the final football game.Now go cry to the moderators and have them make you another sign, sign bitch.

What has he done to earn your trust?

You're right. I hate the "building" nonsense. You don't build a program....From day one, you improve a program. I expect this team, next year, to be improved over last year. Building implies..."Give us a couple of years". No thanks.

I'm a patient man, so I'll wait and see while eating the same pile of crap I have been for the past 20+ years. I have a feeling I know how this story is going to end.

My roommate played college football and is now a medical doctor. Another from my suite on Brown Street is a doctor. Another is a pharmacist. I have a masters degree. Another suitemate has a masters degree. I know guys who are MBAs, CPAs and lawyers. It can be done and there are plenty of examples. The kid just didn't want to come to UofA.

I'm disappointed too. However, this is what I expected. People in college athletics have almost zero creativity. Tom could have taken the difficult road and hired someone highly qualified. Instead he hired a buddy from a past job.......lazy. This is typical.....sad, but typical. Guys like Tom don't care because they always have their eyes on the next job.The only thing I disagree with is us having everything we need to go "big time". We have everything we need to win the MAC, but not even enough to win a second tier conference or even compete in one.

We had one already. His name was JD Brookhart. 2005 MAC Champions.

Smug as always...i hate UNC.and whiners. Seeing it first hand is amazing.

I have a customer who is an NC State graduate and has seen this soccer complex. He said it is awesome!

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.