NCAA football, 2013-14

[MadBurgerMaker]

I bet they score a lot on Wyoming next September!

Wyoming hired that dude from NDSU, didn't they?

[Ed Anger]

Texas needs to be more SEC

Texas needs to join the Big 10, so I can get entertaining Texas-Ohio State games. And kick out Penn State.

[PDH]

Craig Bohl?  Yeah.  He made North Dakota State into a monster, but he says he wants to build.

Well, he is in on the sub-basement level here.  Build away.  I expect next year to be rough, but I hope the days of giving up 50+ points to mid-level Mountain West teams is over.

In reality, in a few years I do think he has a chance to make Wyoming very good.  Then he can leave for Nebraska.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Texas needs to join the Big 10, so I can get entertaining Texas-Ohio State games. And kick out Penn State.

Fuck that, it's cold up there.

[PDH]

Texas needs to be more SEC

Texas needs to join the Big 10, so I can get entertaining Texas-Ohio State games. And kick out Penn State.

No way Texas leaves with Wyoming soon to be joining the Big 12.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Craig Bohl?  Yeah.  He made North Dakota State into a monster, but he says he wants to build.

Well, he is in on the sub-basement level here.  Build away.  I expect next year to be rough, but I hope the days of giving up 50+ points to mid-level Mountain West teams is over.

In reality, in a few years I do think he has a chance to make Wyoming very good.  Then he can leave for Nebraska.

Yeah that's his name.  He was on Gameday when they went up to Fargo. 

[PDH]

He took NDSU from a D2 school to 3 time (this year undefeated - and the beat KState) championship D-1a (er, I mean FCS) team.

He was something like 7-3 against FBS teams in his tenure there.  I hope he still wants to build.

[Ed Anger]

Texas needs to join the Big 10, so I can get entertaining Texas-Ohio State games. And kick out Penn State.

Fuck that, it's cold up there.

My nipples are hard from the cold. You can cut glass with them.

[MadBurgerMaker]

After that Gameday interview I was thinking it'd be interesting to see what he could do in Austin. 

[PDH]

Jeremy Fowler had the Bohl hire as one of his top 10 coaching changes - in effect saying "Why is such a good coach going to Wyoming?"

If he is that good, I have to agree - but Bohl seems to want a challenge.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/writer/jeremy-fowler/24404848/coaching-changes-daily-ranking-the-top-10-coaching-hires

[Valmy]

They could have easily scored more.

Yeah, they were kicking field goals because they felt bad for Mack.

No they were kicking field goals because they were an undisciplined team that mainly relied on big plays to cover up execution problems.  Color me unimpressed by them, though they were certainly very talented.

[Valmy]

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/writer/jeremy-fowler/24404848/coaching-changes-daily-ranking-the-top-10-coaching-hires

I don't get the hand wringing over Strong at Texas and his supposed inability to handle the politics and the media.  The media had me thinking he was some sort of country hayseed who could barely speak a coherent sentence, the Forrest Gump of coaches.  Instead he comes down here and rocks every interview and every press conference.  He even had Red McCombs calling him up to apologize.  I don't get it.  Are they confusing Strong with somebody else?

4. Craig Bohl, Wyoming: Wyoming got Craig Bohl? That was my first question when I saw the news. This is like when Jermaine Dupri landed Janet Jackson. Probably shouldn't have happened. Bohl could have had a Big Ten job. Now he's in Laramie. Still a bit shocking.

Clearly he is unaware of the secret negotiations to bring Wyoming into the Big 12.  But seriously getting Wyoming to win is not that much harder than getting Minnesota to win.  What is Bohl's stance on screaming 'First Down Motherfuckers'?

[MadBurgerMaker]

No they were kicking field goals because they were an undisciplined team that mainly relied on big plays to cover up execution problems.  Color me unimpressed by them, though they were certainly very talented.

So they probably couldn't have easily scored more. 

I don't get the hand wringing over Strong at Texas and his supposed inability to handle the politics and the media.  The media had me thinking he was some sort of country hayseed who could barely speak a coherent sentence, the Forrest Gump of coaches.  Instead he comes down here and rocks every interview and every press conference.  He even had Red McCombs calling him up to apologize.  I don't get it.  Are they confusing Strong with somebody else?

Dude, they seriously might be.  With the amount of shit about Strong not being good with the media, etc, I was almost expecting some sort of anti-social psycho to just angrily stare down any reporter dumb enough to ask him a question.  As you say though, instead he is nailing every interview and press conference.

[grumbler]

I think it is a bit premature to declare that Strong has l33t political and media skills.  BOB at Penn State also knocked every interview and press conference out of the park, and still ended up hating the politics and media exposure.  That's part of the reason why he left so soon.

I think that Strong will be just fine, but I also think that it is understandable that some writers might note that he has never shown these skills in the past.  Probably the bulk of what you hear, though, is the echo-chamber effect, as writers often base their own stories off of what other writers are saying, rather than what the subject of their writing is saying or doing.

[dps]

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/writer/jeremy-fowler/24404848/coaching-changes-daily-ranking-the-top-10-coaching-hires

I don't get the hand wringing over Strong at Texas and his supposed inability to handle the politics and the media.  The media had me thinking he was some sort of country hayseed who could barely speak a coherent sentence, the Forrest Gump of coaches.  Instead he comes down here and rocks every interview and every press conference.  He even had Red McCombs calling him up to apologize.  I don't get it.  Are they confusing Strong with somebody else?

Maybe they're mixing him up with Joker Phillips.  I suspect a lot of Texas boosters and media types can't figure the difference between Kentucky and Louisville.