Running Regular Season 2010 College Football Thread

Is it too late to go crawling back to Mangino? He lost the team in the second half of the season last year, but by God he would have never let something like this happen.

 

Saw this one coming a mile away. North Dakota State is a physical, physical team. Not much speed but good size. Their coach, Craig Bohl, is very good at beating larger schools with a first-year school. (Ask Minnesota in 2007).

Wasn't certain NDSU would win but figured it would be close.

Never, NEVER back a team with a new system/new head coach on their first game. NEVER.

Oddly enough, what happened to Mangino at KU also happened to Glen Mason at Minnesota. One disappointing year (after a string of success) and he was out the door. Then the new coach comes in and immediately takes a step backward. Frankly, I'm not sure Minnesota will EVER get back to 8 of 9 bowl seasons as under Mason. I doubt we'll see Kansas playing for the Big XII North in the next decade either. They had the benefit of a weak Nebraska, weak Colorado and weak Kansas State the last few years and STILL didn't win it.

 

Is it ever OK to get rid of a coach after one game? I wonder if KU could get Mike Leach to come in a finish out the season. This isn't like losing to Appy State or Richmond. NDSU was a bad Missouri Valley team last year.

 

In 1992, Arkansas got rid of Jack Crowe after they lost the opener against The Citadel, 10-3. Remember that? Broyles showed up on Sunday morning with the guillotine.

But it wasn't Crowe's first game at Arkansas. Just the first game of the season.

 

Oh, I agree on that about Mason. He had terrible PR off-the-field and epic collapses on-the-field (Michigan 2003, N.C. State in his final game). Mason is a great coach getting teams from a "D" to a "B". Can't go from "B" to an "A".

I'm not sure Brewster can get these guys to .500 in the Big Ten every year.

 

Mason wasn't fired because of one year. He paved the way for his dismissal.

As far as going to bowl games, Brewster has gone to two in his three years.

Edit: Apologies. My first post had quote problems. And no, Coach Brew is not the answer.

 

How far has the BBOC fallen?

 

You know the best part of this weekend? It makes baseball an afterthought until the playoffs

 

Michigan's Tate Forcier is not happy:

After sitting the bench in Saturday's game and watching fellow sophomore quarterback Denard Robinson steal the show in a 30-10 win over Connecticut, sophomore Tate Forcier told AnnArbor.com's Mike Rothstein after the game that "all you need to know is I’m out."

http://www.michigandaily.com/content/report-forcier-says-hes-out-his-father-responds

Dad says no:

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=5534672

 

The SEC has not exactly covered itself in glory today.

 

This is why we love AP. Here's the lead from their Northwestern-Vanderbilt gamer:

Besides getting the final score wrong (NW won 23-21), I believe there might be a game between, oh, Penn State and Alabama scheduled next weekend. Not that the Associated Press has heard about it.