Bunting out at UNC

You forgot to add that he ripped a placekicker and never apologized to her. Also, he acted totally oblivious about the whole thing when Tharp and Hoffman got ran out of town. When you have an PT assistant lining up escorts on a school credit card, and players and administrators out of control, how in the fuck do you not know what's going on around you like Barnett? He had to go.

He needs to sit out until '08 then start looking for a gig. In case if you forgot, Colorado self-destructed late in the season last year, losing to Iowa State, getting blasted by Nebraska and then Texas handed them their asses and balls to them on a gold platter. This team was garbage before Hawkins got there. It'll take him this year and probably most of next season to get the type of team he wants. Those kids wanted Barnett and they play like they still want him and not Hawkins.

CU needed to get Hawkins in there with a new AD and prez there in Boulder. Keeping Barnett last year under a new regime made it all the more uncomfortable for Barnett to stay there.

 

when did north carolina start playing in a real football league? i thought they were still in the acc

 

1. Stop listening to Logan's radio show.
2. Look at his overall record.
3. Realize there is a reason why he is saying that he doesn't want to coach in college again. That's because no one is beating down the door to hire him. His radio show is very good, but he acts like he won three national championships. He did a good job of recruiting Eastern North Carolina and getting a lot of players with questionable academics (which scared away the big boys) into school. But he lost me the moment he said James Pinkney is the best quarterback in N.C. and Thaddeus Lewis is second. :

 

1. I don't listen to radio at all, much less Logan's show
2. His overall record isn't going to sparkle as he had to pick up the pieces after Bill Lewis quickly fled to Georgia Tech (where he promptly flopped).
3. I won't argue that people aren't beating down his door to coach again. It doesn't mean he wasn't pretty good - and can't be good again. He did take advantage of the fact that ECU's academics are shaky at best, meaning he didn't have to find brilliant minds.

Choosing the best QBs in the state of North Carolina is kind of like finding the fifth-best viola player at the local crossroads. NCSU's Daniel Evans isn't bad, but is nothing to celebrate. Wake Forest isn't a passing machine, and Jim Grobe isn't looking for the next wunderkind. Chapel Hill? Please. Pinkney has a rocket arm, but no brains ... I'll concede that. No one knows how good Thaddeus Lewis is because Duke's line can't block long enough for him to find anyone.

Doubt Logan all you want as a head coach, but he knows QBs. He helped coach Jeff Blake under Lewis, and he also found David Garrard. Marcus Crandell wasn't half-bad, either.

 

Agreed, even though folks in Oxford are still blaming Cutcliffe for the sad state of football down thattaway. Maybe they should let Orgeron stay to recruit for another year or two, then re-hire Cut so he can actually coach up all that talent... cause Crazy Ed can't.

On paper, the UNC job seems tempting. On paper. Good facilities, good sports-crazy fanbase... but, in the ACC, they're always going to be playing catchup in football to FSU, Clemson, Miami, BC, Virginia Tech and arguably even Virginia in terms of the program and prestige and all that jazz.

Why would Cutcliffe leave his current gig to go to the seventh-best program in an inferior conference?

 

I don't doubt that they can do that every 20 years or so. But even Mack's glory years were not so great. That was the pre-major expansion ACC, and Carolina never came close to beating Florida State.

 

But no one else came close too beating FSU then either. The landscape has changed.

If you can be competitive at Wake and win big at Virginia, you should be able to at Carolina, too.

 

I think Logan could be an inspired choice as a QB coach, even an offensive coordinator. He is very good at developing raw talent.
But the man is too far gone to ever coach a major program.

 

That's all I'm saying. It just seems like nonsense that folks go down on Logan so much. If he was so good, he would already be in a better position than he is today.

If you want trick plays, hire Ken Whisenhunt and recruit a Hines Ward. I really feel those ACC-type kids will see NFL, and embrace UNC.

 

There ... that's what I guess I was trying to say.

 

Because the paycheck for one is around 4 times larger than the other. It's also nice to be in charge - Philip's been known to meddle at times.