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If I was conducting that interview...

"So, Larry Coker has a national title and you don't..."

 

Georgia OC Mike Bobo hired at Colorado State.

 

Did Bobo get a $10 million buyout?

Seriously, I like how CSU thinks. Hire a young guy from a top program and hope you can get 3-5 years out of him before he leaves. It's the way Tulsa used to be in college hoops.

 

Multiple sources say Sparty DC Pat Narduzzi has been offered and will accept the HC gig at Pitt.

Narduzzi was supposedly the informal designated successor for Dantonio at MSU; the thinking is Narduzzi can go off and gain a half-decade or so of HC experience and presumably be ready to go when Dantonio, now 59, hangs it up.

Of course a number of events could foul up this plan: 1, Dantonio's program suddenly and drastically heading south so the idea of a hand picked successor loses its luster; 2, Narduzzi completely face plants at Pitt so his cred as a HC candidate tanks, or 3, Narduzzi is spectacularly successful at Pitt and boosts the program to the point that MSU would be a lateral or downward move.

 

The Michigan Daily came up with this story about Harbaugh from Stanford. I had never heard this one before. The writer has a future, and good lord is Harbaugh a whack job:


It was 2007, his first year as Stanford’s football coach, and during what was meant to be a motivational speech, Harbaugh told his players that he wanted to play in the game alongside them. He wanted this so badly that he informed his players that he wanted their blood on him if they bled during that week’s game.

Offensive lineman Chase Beeler and many of his teammates thought nothing of it. There was no way Harbaugh could’ve been serious. It was a maniacal request, at best. More likely, it was insane.

But in the game, right tackle Chris Marinelli ran off the field with the rest of his offense after a touchdown drive, his arm bloodied. He went straight to Harbaugh to show him.

Harbaugh looked at the blood and did exactly what he said he would. He took his hand and wiped it on Marinelli’s arm. The player’s blood was on the coach’s hands.

Then, Harbaugh took it a step further. He smeared Marinelli’s blood all over his own face like war paint.

“(Harbaugh is) standing on the sideline with the offensive line, really jacked up, screaming, yelling, jumping around with blood smeared on his face,” said Chase Beeler, one of the team’s offensive linemen.

http://www.michigandaily.com/sports/harbaugh-eyes-former-players

 

Big deal, there's a million stories like that. Grant Teaff ate a bug prior to kickoff to fire up his guys at Baylor. Rugby guys smear each other's spit on their faces. Now, if Harbaugh drank the blood, that's a story.

 

Actually, it was a worm that Teaff ate, and he didn't actually eat it (a fact I just now learned, and I had heard this story for years).

http://bit.ly/1CLUpPZ

 

I'll be the first to agree that Harbaugh is a bit of a nutcase, but most of the good ones are.

 

Narduzzi officially announced as the new head coach at Pitt. Considering the guy agreed to take the job not knowing who his Athletic Director will be I suspect the new Chancellor has made promises that these fuckers are actually gonna' care about football again instead of just talking about caring.

 

Yeah, it's pretty safe to assume the new AD will be at least compatible, if not subservient, to Narduzzi.

 

Has the funding for the new stadium been secured?

And Bobo better not screw up. He has been guaranteed a lot of money. If that program goes in the tank attendance will plummet and the school will be in a big financial hole.

 

I think that is already true at almost any school where the football coach is successful.