Be Honest About Your Team Here (College Edition)

Day is honestly probably a guy who would be a better NFL coach than a college one.

He just seems to not really "get" the college game enough.
He’d be garbage in the NFL. Only reason his record is what it is now is because of recruiting. He’s not a good game day coach and professional players making more than him are never gonna respect a guy that an 85 year old Lou Holtz made cry.

But OSU fans absolutely should be praying an NFL team comes calling.

Kirby would be a shit NFL coach too FTR
 
Here's the final thing I'll say. I get it's a rivalry game and those games tend to be close a lot of times. The problem I have is Auburn is a program is total disarray and they have been the past 4 years. In the first two decades of this century (2000-2019), Auburn averaged 9 wins a year and that includes their 3 win season in 2012 and 5 win season in 2008. They've won 6, 6, 5, and 6 games the last 4 years. Clearly they are nothing close to as good as they once were. The whole "oh it's a rivalry, anything can happen" nonsense goes out the window when one program is falling completely off the rails like Auburn currently is.
You just aren't listening to anything anyone is saying. Fact: it doesn't matter how bad Auburn is ... for some reason, they play Bama tougher than most other teams in the Iron Bowl @home. That's just a fact. Period. No one has said or is saying, "Oh it's a rivalry, anything can happen" We are saying, "oh shit, it's the Iron Bowl @ Auburn, and historically some of the weirdest shit HAS happened in that game no matter how good or bad Auburn is. Therefore you can draw no conclusions from that game." I've said this about a half dozen times ... sit back and read through it ... then do it again. You are saying things no one else is saying.
 
Losing to Michigan was a giant kick in the nuts but THEN getting saddled playing some shitty 2nd rate ACC school in the Bowl game would just be adding salt to the wounds.
 
He’d be garbage in the NFL. Only reason his record is what it is now is because of recruiting. He’s not a good game day coach and professional players making more than him are never gonna respect a guy that an 85 year old Lou Holtz made cry.

But OSU fans absolutely should be praying an NFL team comes calling.

Kirby would be a shit NFL coach too FTR
Yep. Talent level is more evenly distributed in the NFL than it is in college. It is much harder for a few teams to stack talent more than the others.
 
Losing to Michigan was a giant kick in the nuts but THEN getting saddled playing some shitty 2nd rate ACC school in the Bowl game would just be adding salt to the wounds.

We played Utah a few years back in the biggest "who cares" Rose Bowl of all time and it was still entertaining as hell.

Good opportunity for the young guys to step up and show what they've got.
 
Yep. Talent level is more evenly distributed in the NFL than it is in college. It is much harder for a few teams to stack talent more than the others.
If I were an NFL team, the only college coaches I would consider are those that consistently outscheme and beat more talented teams

On the flip side, most good NFL head coaches aren’t gonna be very good college coaches. They’re not gonna like the recruiting grind required to be at the top in college
 
If I were an NFL team, the only college coaches I would consider are those that consistently outscheme and beat more talented teams

On the flip side, most good NFL head coaches aren’t gonna be very good college coaches. They’re not gonna like the recruiting grind required to be at the top in college
The list of coaches who were successful at both the college and NFL level is very short. Pete Carroll and (maybe) Harbaugh are the only ones that come immediately to mind. Spurrier, Rhule, Meyers, Saban were all terrible in the NFL.
 
so obsessed
Not at all. But they are the one team who went all in on NIL and started handing out blank checks.
Only way UM is ever going to recruit like the Georgia's or Alabama's is if we do the same.

Or are you under the assumption that all those kids signed with A&M because of the school and football program?!?
 
The list of coaches who were successful at both the college and NFL level is very short. Pete Carroll and (maybe) Harbaugh are the only ones that come immediately to mind. Spurrier, Rhule, Meyers, Saban were all terrible in the NFL.
You had some back in the day like Jimmy Johnson and Barry Switzer(though, Switzer pretty much just had to not get in the way), but it’s still a very short list

And with Pete, him being an NFL HC before going to USC probably helped him a lot when he came back
 
The list of coaches who were successful at both the college and NFL level is very short. Pete Carroll and (maybe) Harbaugh are the only ones that come immediately to mind. Spurrier, Rhule, Meyers, Saban were all terrible in the NFL.
Jimmy did pretty well.
 
Not at all. But they are the one team who went all in on NIL and started handing out blank checks.
Only way UM is ever going to recruit like the Georgia's or Alabama's is if we do the same.

Or are you under the assumption that all those kids signed with A&M because of the school and football program?!?
Your first thought in a thread about "your team" is Texas A&M. Your obsession is duly noted. Players have been paid for decades. Many schools went "all in" on NIL. The rules are the same for all schools, if yours is too poor to play then take it up with the shitty alum.
 
I just don't buy into the supernatural aspect of it. Auburn is a trash team. 2017 and 2019 weren't all that surprising; those two were good teams that only had very close losses to high-end teams as their only blemishes, not 21-point losses at home to teams that UMass is able to dismantle. The same SEC fans saying it's such a special rivalry that this is just what happens would never let another fanbase hear the end of it if the roles were reversed.
Of course people would talk shit -- That's what CFB fans do, especially rivals and fans of different conferences, etc.

Look how much shit we talk to each other 😂

I was just pointing out how crazy things happen in Jordan-Hare Stadium and it isn't a one time thing. It is almost every time and we all know Bama is WAY more talented than they are each and every year they play.
 
Your first thought in a thread about "your team" is Texas A&M. Your obsession is duly noted. Players have been paid for decades. Many schools went "all in" on NIL. The rules are the same for all schools, if yours is too poor to play then take it up with the shitty alum.
Hey, Fordman. Up for a game? Seems like a decent fit.
 
If I were an NFL team, the only college coaches I would consider are those that consistently outscheme and beat more talented teams

On the flip side, most good NFL head coaches aren’t gonna be very good college coaches. They’re not gonna like the recruiting grind required to be at the top in college

The list of coaches who were successful at both the college and NFL level is very short. Pete Carroll and (maybe) Harbaugh are the only ones that come immediately to mind. Spurrier, Rhule, Meyers, Saban were all terrible in the NFL.

I think its easier for the NFL coach to transition to the College game as long as they can put up with all the ancillary things associated with the college game (boosters, recruiting, university & ncaa rules). The biggest hurdle for them is that CFB is not at all an even playing field while the NFL is balanced with all teams having the same restrictions.

For the long time college coach, its a whole new world working with professional athletes. They can be dictators of their college empire, but that simply doesn't fly in the NFL. Plus they won't have the same built in advantages they had in college in terms of recruiting, etc.
 
You just aren't listening to anything anyone is saying. Fact: it doesn't matter how bad Auburn is ... for some reason, they play Bama tougher than most other teams in the Iron Bowl @home. That's just a fact. Period. No one has said or is saying, "Oh it's a rivalry, anything can happen" We are saying, "oh shit, it's the Iron Bowl @ Auburn, and historically some of the weirdest shit HAS happened in that game no matter how good or bad Auburn is. Therefore you can draw no conclusions from that game." I've said this about a half dozen times ... sit back and read through it ... then do it again. You are saying things no one else is saying.
I'm listening to you. That doesn't mean I have to agree with you, which I strongly do not. Auburn was a top 15 overall program during the first two decades of this century. The 3 worst Auburn teams Bama played against at Jordan Hare during that timeframe were all comfortable Bama wins:

2001 Bama at 7-5 Auburn: 31-7 Bama win
2011 Bama at 8-5 Auburn: 42-14 Bama win
2015 Bama at 7-6 Auburn: 29-13 Bama win

Auburn's last 4 years has been their worst 4-year stretch since the 70s, but you're gonna tell me "Ohhhh it's the Iron Bowl at Jordan Hare, weird shit happens so Bama shouldn't look good", bullshit. The "for some reason" you reference above has never happened. You should know that this game was never even played at Jordan Hare until 1989, so it's not like this is some crazy long history of games there. What we saw this year is not the norm. Again, given the other sloppy outcomes we've seen from Bama this year, the Iron Bowl should absolutely be held against them.
 
Your first thought in a thread about "your team" is Texas A&M. Your obsession is duly noted. Players have been paid for decades. Many schools went "all in" on NIL. The rules are the same for all schools, if yours is too poor to play then take it up with the shitty alum.
Only thing about A&M I'm obsessed with is their oil money. Other than that, you are a middling SEC team with male cheerleaders.

And no -- many schools didn't go all in on NIL. They pooled the money and distribute it even to a position group, or the team, as a whole. The only two teams who have went to handing blank checks to recruits is A&M and Miami. Two teams who have shown the rest of college football -- you can pay a kid all the money in the world, but if that is the only reason they came to your school. You will still be mediocre.
 
Of course people would talk shit -- That's what CFB fans do, especially rivals and fans of different conferences, etc.

Look how much shit we talk to each other 😂

I was just pointing out how crazy things happen in Jordan-Hare Stadium and it isn't a one time thing. It is almost every time and we all know Bama is WAY more talented than they are each and every year they play.
Oh it's not a one-time thing, you're right, but it's definitely very rare when Auburn is this bad and Bama is this good. As I mentioned earlier, this year was only the 17th time the Iron Bowl has ever been played at Auburn; it was neutral site from 1902 through basically the end of the century outside of 5 games at Auburn. That's why this whole "oh strange things happen at Jordan Hare" nonsense doesn't make sense. Unless Bama is also bad, they've handled bad Auburn teams at JH. These last two times have been the anomalies.
 
Only thing about A&M I'm obsessed with is their oil money. Other than that, you are a middling SEC team with male cheerleaders.

And no -- many schools didn't go all in on NIL. They pooled the money and distribute it even to a position group, or the team, as a whole. The only two teams who have went to handing blank checks to recruits is A&M and Miami. Two teams who have shown the rest of college football -- you can pay a kid all the money in the world, but if that is the only reason they came to your school. You will still be mediocre.
It's sad that you believe that.
 
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