I think the song that is most likely to cause me to cry is Come Away Melinda by Uriah Heap on an early album. I think you will see what I mean when you watch this video version.
According to justin williams of the athletic, UCs list to replace fickell is not very impressive. Tom herman already took FAU job and no way they hire urban or deon or kerry combs. So unless UC AD has something up his sleeve, it is eithet guduigli or toledo or akron HC or one of about 4 OCs or DCs at P5 schools. As i said, it is not very impressive. Hartline, who everybody seems to love, is staying at osu or so he says so.
It doesn’t “tear” me, but the “Dock of the Bay” is an underrated depressing song if you know the backstory.. its sad lyrics get lost in the whistled, carefree chorus, and it ended up easily being Otis Redding’s biggest hit.. recorded just a few days before he died. Always strikes me as very sad.
This morning’s Denver Post has nothing new on Deion Sanders & CU (University of Colorado). Deion acknowledged yesterday that CU had made an offer. That program has gotten worse every year, and the sportswriters usually just ignore it. Just thought I’d share that update.
Is Neon Deion looking to switch jobs or is this just the usual chatter? I watched the interview with him (60 Minutes?). He didn’t sound like a man who had accomplished what he intended to do.
Generally all things undergraduate are of secondary importance to UC (in my opinion),but I understand there is an ear for the alumni.
Cpuld not agree more with you on new UC football coach. They are not promoting combs or guduigli. Deon sanders would be a huge mistake. Doubt they even talk to him. Not impressed with tom herman or anybody else i have seen mentioned. They should go after coastal carolina HC but doubt they do.
Jim DeBrosse wrote a couple of great mystery novels set in Cincinnati in the mid-to-late 1980s. He's up there with Jonathan Valin (Harry Stoner novels) as one of the greats to showcase Cincinnati's pulpy noir underbelly.
I keep hearing rumors that Brian Hartline (Ohio State's WR coach) could be UC's next coach. I'd hate that as a Buckeye (dude can recruit) but he'd be another solid hire for UC.
Songs that make you cry. Another Auld Lang Syne by Dan Fogelberg. "And as I turned to make my way back home, the snow turned into rain." Gets me every time.
I did watch US-Iran and was amused, so to speak, with the play-by-play commentators and studio analysts who never, uh, specifically described what happened to Pusilic. He suffered”an abdominal injury,” they kept saying, noting they were quoting the US coach. But all the replays induced every guy who saw those replays to reach for his crotch and wince.
The scuttlebutt from "insiders" on Twitter have the Neon Deion coachwatch down to three schools now -- Colorado, UC and South Florida. Colorado is out, just via common sense ... no one with a lick of self-esteem would want to take that job. So that would, seemingly, narrow it down to two, UC and South Florida.
South Florida would make sense for him, given his Florida roots, and would be a good in-between from Jackson State to a Division I school. Yet, this is Deion we're talking, and if he wants to send shockwaves through college football, him going for UC would do just that. The recruiting would be unlike anything Clifton has ever seen, and when it comes to his coaching, while he's not exactly "proven" yet, if he surrounds himself with great coordinators, it just might work.
Like you said, though, let's see what happens at the press conference. Until then, it's all hot stove.
I do wonder somewhat if Fickell's leaving was an aftershock of how Cunningham did Brannen and his firing. I seem to remember a snippet of a text, supposedly from Fickell to Brannen, claiming that what Cunningham was doing was "bull&$t." Yet, I've not seen that mentioned as a potential reason for Fickell leaving UC so abruptly after signing an extension. I know the money, the league, etc., was there for him at Wisconsin, but maybe Cunningham's actions regarding Brannen had a role to play in his packing of the bags for Madison.
Either way, it's either nail this hire for UC or return to the Rick Minter days ... and while those days weren't bad, considering what UC was pre-Minter, they would be a regression the fanbase, boosters and alumni would not be able to stomach easily.
Songs that make you cry? Try out Miranda Lambert's "The House That Built Me." Tearjerker.
Is Deon going to accept 5 mill a year or less? He sure as hell not getting more than that. Keep in mind that Deon has an enormos ego. Im sure he expects to be paid in top 10 range. That aint at UC.
Another good question, Josh. He might accept $5 million a year, given from what I've read he makes all of $300,000 annually at Jackson State. Or, he might not. Believe me, if somehow he does end up at UC, I'm under no delusions he'll be there for more than 4-5 years tops before moving on to a bigger school. But, that 4-5 years would be a much better bridge than what UC is trying to traverse now.
That bridge is starting to wobble and crack in some places, just based on the de-commits and those announcing their entering the transfer portal.
Like Doc said, Deon is just not a good fit here. This new AD is an odd dude though. Who knows who he will hire. I suspect Deon is looking for something bigger. When OU and Tex leave, big 12 is going to be another glorified AAC or pac 10. Notwithstanding TCUs one off great season. That wont happen again.
I truly don't see Deion coming here, to be honest. I see more of a South Florida in his future, if he leaves Jackson State. As far as the Big 12, glorified PAC-10 it will be (will still be better than the AAC). It will still have Oklahoma State, TCU, West Virginia, Baylor, Kansas State, Kansas and Texas Tech ... all who have had some modicum of national success at different points in football (except maybe Kansas). Add in Houston, UCF, UC and BYU, and it's not all that bad. Haha.
But yes, the big-timers of OU and Texas will be gone, and who knows how long Oklahoma State, TCU, West Virginia and Baylor will hold out, either.
Fickell being motivated in part by the treatment of Brannen is an interesting point. But it's also a point that pre-supposes loyalty. And if loyalty were Fickell's (or any College coach's) thing, why would he dismiss the loyalty of the players that he signed (with his own implicit pledge of loyalty to them!)?
Good question, Pat. I'm thinking if it did play any sort of role for Fickell, it was more along the lines of "I'm getting out of Dodge before this guy screws me over, too," rather than a loyalty toward Brannen. Much like if you're at a workplace and see it becoming a sinking ship due to management, and some of their actions towards your fellow employees ... you start looking for a new job, more out of self-preservation than loyalty to your co-workers.
I read in one of the national online sites that Fick had his feelings hurt when his former assistant got the ND job. Apparently Team Fickell was actively seeking/inquiring about the Nebraska or Wisconsin jobs midway through the season. That might explain why Cunningham, in his presser, was a bit oblique about his conversations with him. I speculate that Cunningham knew Fick was leaving and, borrowing from Doc. he “vested” that info for team and fundraising purposes. Probably also why there was no chance for UC to match the 8 million which they would have done.
No one can blame a guy for making a move to what he feels is best for him. He was a great ambassador for UC. He vastly improved the program.
No to Prime for every reason Doc said. I will, however take Herman at UC. Texas has chewed up and spit out a few coaches that have prospered after leaving Austin. And, I like the HC from Toledo, Jason Candle. Young, smart, and is already a head coach.
Herman, honestly, wouldn't be a bad choice, either. He could be looked at as a "retread," but as you stated, Texas has done a dandy of a job on coaches, so he might not be too much to blame there. He's a Cincy kid, which would allow for continued strong relationships with the local high schools regarding recruiting, and is young enough to not be a Tubervillain mailing it in before retirement. And his offensive schemes worked at both OSU and Houston, so that success I think is due more to him than Urban Meyer.
If Fickell got his feelings hurt because a protégé got a plum job over him -- though he had the biggest bowl game in UC history looming -- then he's not as strong of a man as we all thought he was.
Maybe “pissed” would be a better word. He brought Freeman along with him. Freeman left him for ND. Freeman gets the ND job a year later which, if Luke didn’t have his team in the CFP, would have possibly gone to him.
One of the mobsters speculated that Fick needed to coach in the Big10 so that OSU could see that he was ready to take over at some point. I agree with that. His first opportunity there at OSU as an interim HC was a disaster. He may have needed Big10 validation for him and his future OSU career.
I've read that, too, about the needing a stint in the Big 10 as a waystation of sorts on the road back to OSU. That could be the plan, and not a bad one if that's his goal.
NIL is going to be huge in the decision. Can the new coach recruit and recruit top talent that are going to want NIL money in the 5-6 figures without a decimal point.
I think the song that is most likely to cause me to cry is Come Away Melinda by Uriah Heap on an early album. I think you will see what I mean when you watch this video version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaT_MtqjcZU
According to justin williams of the athletic, UCs list to replace fickell is not very impressive. Tom herman already took FAU job and no way they hire urban or deon or kerry combs. So unless UC AD has something up his sleeve, it is eithet guduigli or toledo or akron HC or one of about 4 OCs or DCs at P5 schools. As i said, it is not very impressive. Hartline, who everybody seems to love, is staying at osu or so he says so.
It doesn’t “tear” me, but the “Dock of the Bay” is an underrated depressing song if you know the backstory.. its sad lyrics get lost in the whistled, carefree chorus, and it ended up easily being Otis Redding’s biggest hit.. recorded just a few days before he died. Always strikes me as very sad.
Totally agree, Matt. One of my favorites as I've sat there more than once...
This morning’s Denver Post has nothing new on Deion Sanders & CU (University of Colorado). Deion acknowledged yesterday that CU had made an offer. That program has gotten worse every year, and the sportswriters usually just ignore it. Just thought I’d share that update.
I just saw that Christine McVie died today. Remembering her solo performance of Songbird in Lexington in 1981 does indeed make me want to cry.
Big loss and she wrote so many of her own songs.
Here’s a real eye glazer by Randy Travis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCVw8Qjeg84
Is Neon Deion looking to switch jobs or is this just the usual chatter? I watched the interview with him (60 Minutes?). He didn’t sound like a man who had accomplished what he intended to do.
Generally all things undergraduate are of secondary importance to UC (in my opinion),but I understand there is an ear for the alumni.
Cpuld not agree more with you on new UC football coach. They are not promoting combs or guduigli. Deon sanders would be a huge mistake. Doubt they even talk to him. Not impressed with tom herman or anybody else i have seen mentioned. They should go after coastal carolina HC but doubt they do.
Jim DeBrosse wrote a couple of great mystery novels set in Cincinnati in the mid-to-late 1980s. He's up there with Jonathan Valin (Harry Stoner novels) as one of the greats to showcase Cincinnati's pulpy noir underbelly.
I keep hearing rumors that Brian Hartline (Ohio State's WR coach) could be UC's next coach. I'd hate that as a Buckeye (dude can recruit) but he'd be another solid hire for UC.
"What A Wonderful World" - Louis Armstrong makes me sad every time I hear it.
Songs that make you cry. Another Auld Lang Syne by Dan Fogelberg. "And as I turned to make my way back home, the snow turned into rain." Gets me every time.
Songs have to remind me of someone or something that has died to get me. Red Dirt Girl by Emmylou Harris comes to mind.
A Fickell 2.0 would be an up and coming coordinator at a Big 10 or SEC school ... I’d give priority to the later.
I did watch US-Iran and was amused, so to speak, with the play-by-play commentators and studio analysts who never, uh, specifically described what happened to Pusilic. He suffered”an abdominal injury,” they kept saying, noting they were quoting the US coach. But all the replays induced every guy who saw those replays to reach for his crotch and wince.
Um, yeah.
The scuttlebutt from "insiders" on Twitter have the Neon Deion coachwatch down to three schools now -- Colorado, UC and South Florida. Colorado is out, just via common sense ... no one with a lick of self-esteem would want to take that job. So that would, seemingly, narrow it down to two, UC and South Florida.
South Florida would make sense for him, given his Florida roots, and would be a good in-between from Jackson State to a Division I school. Yet, this is Deion we're talking, and if he wants to send shockwaves through college football, him going for UC would do just that. The recruiting would be unlike anything Clifton has ever seen, and when it comes to his coaching, while he's not exactly "proven" yet, if he surrounds himself with great coordinators, it just might work.
Like you said, though, let's see what happens at the press conference. Until then, it's all hot stove.
I do wonder somewhat if Fickell's leaving was an aftershock of how Cunningham did Brannen and his firing. I seem to remember a snippet of a text, supposedly from Fickell to Brannen, claiming that what Cunningham was doing was "bull&$t." Yet, I've not seen that mentioned as a potential reason for Fickell leaving UC so abruptly after signing an extension. I know the money, the league, etc., was there for him at Wisconsin, but maybe Cunningham's actions regarding Brannen had a role to play in his packing of the bags for Madison.
Either way, it's either nail this hire for UC or return to the Rick Minter days ... and while those days weren't bad, considering what UC was pre-Minter, they would be a regression the fanbase, boosters and alumni would not be able to stomach easily.
Songs that make you cry? Try out Miranda Lambert's "The House That Built Me." Tearjerker.
Is Deon going to accept 5 mill a year or less? He sure as hell not getting more than that. Keep in mind that Deon has an enormos ego. Im sure he expects to be paid in top 10 range. That aint at UC.
Another good question, Josh. He might accept $5 million a year, given from what I've read he makes all of $300,000 annually at Jackson State. Or, he might not. Believe me, if somehow he does end up at UC, I'm under no delusions he'll be there for more than 4-5 years tops before moving on to a bigger school. But, that 4-5 years would be a much better bridge than what UC is trying to traverse now.
That bridge is starting to wobble and crack in some places, just based on the de-commits and those announcing their entering the transfer portal.
Like Doc said, Deon is just not a good fit here. This new AD is an odd dude though. Who knows who he will hire. I suspect Deon is looking for something bigger. When OU and Tex leave, big 12 is going to be another glorified AAC or pac 10. Notwithstanding TCUs one off great season. That wont happen again.
I truly don't see Deion coming here, to be honest. I see more of a South Florida in his future, if he leaves Jackson State. As far as the Big 12, glorified PAC-10 it will be (will still be better than the AAC). It will still have Oklahoma State, TCU, West Virginia, Baylor, Kansas State, Kansas and Texas Tech ... all who have had some modicum of national success at different points in football (except maybe Kansas). Add in Houston, UCF, UC and BYU, and it's not all that bad. Haha.
But yes, the big-timers of OU and Texas will be gone, and who knows how long Oklahoma State, TCU, West Virginia and Baylor will hold out, either.
Fickell being motivated in part by the treatment of Brannen is an interesting point. But it's also a point that pre-supposes loyalty. And if loyalty were Fickell's (or any College coach's) thing, why would he dismiss the loyalty of the players that he signed (with his own implicit pledge of loyalty to them!)?
Good question, Pat. I'm thinking if it did play any sort of role for Fickell, it was more along the lines of "I'm getting out of Dodge before this guy screws me over, too," rather than a loyalty toward Brannen. Much like if you're at a workplace and see it becoming a sinking ship due to management, and some of their actions towards your fellow employees ... you start looking for a new job, more out of self-preservation than loyalty to your co-workers.
I still think Cunningham did Brannen wrong.
Oh, he most definitely did. No doubt 'bout it.
I read in one of the national online sites that Fick had his feelings hurt when his former assistant got the ND job. Apparently Team Fickell was actively seeking/inquiring about the Nebraska or Wisconsin jobs midway through the season. That might explain why Cunningham, in his presser, was a bit oblique about his conversations with him. I speculate that Cunningham knew Fick was leaving and, borrowing from Doc. he “vested” that info for team and fundraising purposes. Probably also why there was no chance for UC to match the 8 million which they would have done.
No one can blame a guy for making a move to what he feels is best for him. He was a great ambassador for UC. He vastly improved the program.
No to Prime for every reason Doc said. I will, however take Herman at UC. Texas has chewed up and spit out a few coaches that have prospered after leaving Austin. And, I like the HC from Toledo, Jason Candle. Young, smart, and is already a head coach.
Herman, honestly, wouldn't be a bad choice, either. He could be looked at as a "retread," but as you stated, Texas has done a dandy of a job on coaches, so he might not be too much to blame there. He's a Cincy kid, which would allow for continued strong relationships with the local high schools regarding recruiting, and is young enough to not be a Tubervillain mailing it in before retirement. And his offensive schemes worked at both OSU and Houston, so that success I think is due more to him than Urban Meyer.
If Fickell got his feelings hurt because a protégé got a plum job over him -- though he had the biggest bowl game in UC history looming -- then he's not as strong of a man as we all thought he was.
Maybe “pissed” would be a better word. He brought Freeman along with him. Freeman left him for ND. Freeman gets the ND job a year later which, if Luke didn’t have his team in the CFP, would have possibly gone to him.
One of the mobsters speculated that Fick needed to coach in the Big10 so that OSU could see that he was ready to take over at some point. I agree with that. His first opportunity there at OSU as an interim HC was a disaster. He may have needed Big10 validation for him and his future OSU career.
I've read that, too, about the needing a stint in the Big 10 as a waystation of sorts on the road back to OSU. That could be the plan, and not a bad one if that's his goal.
Regarding soccer, the European equivalent of booing (whistling) at a soccer game sure sounds like a lot like those 17 year cicadas
NIL is going to be huge in the decision. Can the new coach recruit and recruit top talent that are going to want NIL money in the 5-6 figures without a decimal point.