College football 2018 Week 12 thread

Let's just say it's not much of a stretch for me to imagine the mindset of a lover of cheap beer and lake water.

 

Completely off the subject: Claytor Lake State Park has an awesome campground.

 

I don't see how there isn't at worst tension and at best open resentment with this. I don't care how much they want to sell the narrative that they arranged a play date between Bud and Fuente before he was hired and they liked each other and wanted to work together. At the end of that day Bud wanted that gig. Bud wanted a head coaching job, period. He applied at Pitt and was interviewed and looked over for any number of the cavalcade of morons who came before Pat Narduzzi. You can't tell me that every time the offense gets a ball gag lodged in its mouth that Bud isn't thinking, "I would have done that different. Thought this guy was an offensive guy." Conversely, Fuente is probably feeling the same way every time Bud's defense gives up another big play.

 

Bud hamstrung himself because he was never going to pull a Rickey Bustle and go suffer in the Sun Belt hinterland for years trying to grind his way to a P5 job. He felt like he should have gotten one of the many P5 jobs that opened. He turns 60 next July, and head coaching is a young man's game. I think he's pigeonholed himself into two choices -- stick it out at Tech or retire.

 

Rickey Bustle: perhaps the worst coaching move ever made. Guy went from hot coordinator to the dustbin of coaching history. I suppose he wanted to be a head coach in the worst way.

 

Just heard the entirety of Coach Mullet's rant on libruhl values ruining America. He really said that every kid of that generation bends and breaks in the face of difficult circumstances. He didn't qualify anything. He expressed it in absolute terms, demeaning a relatively large section of the population.
To make things worse, one of the talking heads on the podcast in question loved it. Said it's so refreshing to hear a coach utter something other than boring coach speak.
Nope. A comment is not worthy of praise simply because it is "different" or "unscripted."
The timing of this diatribe is interesting. It came two days after the Cowboys lost to their bitter rival to fall to 5-5 on the year. A perfect time, the coach apparently decided, to offer a coded shout-out to the billionaire benefactor who presumably agrees that the sloth and cowardice of modern American youth can be traced exclusively to one particular political viewpoint.

 

That is awesome and bizarre all at the same time.

 

Mike Gundy’s been a ‘snowflake’ plenty of times before

 

Remember, he's a man.

 

Some kids in the crowd had it when GameDay came to Pullman, and later gave it to Leach.

 

Earlham, we hardly knew ye.

D-III Earlham suspends football after 53 straight losses