OFFICIAL 2015-2016 College Football Season Thread

[nako xl]

 

Daelin is a stud as a player but his mother has him by the short and curlies... Running his recruitment

What's the story behind his lack of interest in UM despite being in HS in A2?

Went to HS in SoCal too with Ricky Town and Bryce Dixon. Only moved to AA because of custody issues with his parents (I believe) and his mom took him half way across the country. She doesn't want him going to school in California so getting his early commitment and his steadfastness has been a huge deal. But she's been pushing him to go to ND. I don't know that Mich was even in the running although writers loved to say that they were for their various reasons.

For him it was always 1. USC 2. ND then everyone else trailing. His mom HATED the Salute to Troy business though and he took a visit to ND soon after it, but said it reinforced his belief that he should go to SC. Welp, after this his mom wants him nowhere near Sark. She's using it as ammo to drive him elsewhere.

It's not over though. He was supposed to be an early enrolee but he'll prob be a signing day commit somewhere now. Depends how the season goes and how Clay or whoever the eventual coach they hire turns things. Daelin was tight with Sark but he loves SC, and that's what counts most ultimately.

Assuming Sark doesn't come back...

 

[dacomeup]

Interesting, Michigan 247 guys say that the speculation around their interest in him is overblown anyways and that he'll end up at ND. 

 

[nako xl]

Elika Sadeghi is the host of CFB Daily on ESPNU.

When even ESPN is warning you certain reporters are posting ******** for publicity, you should consider heeding it.

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Sorry if I keep harping on it but seeing that Arizona State game slander just irks me. The fact that people think anything that dude says is credible is terrible.

 

[nako xl]

Posts by the guy that runs the ESPN USC site that got dug up on a message board about why Sark got the gig over JDR:

Jack would have taken the job if offered and he did interview with Haden during the fall after Kiffin was fired. Jack had spent time during the previous off-season with one of his former teammates who is a college coach, to learn about the college game and what would be expected so that he would be prepared in case the opportunity came up. I've long thought he would have been a great choice and here's the article I wrote that fall on why I felt that way: http://espn.go.com/blog/colleges/usc...ing-to-trojans

As to your question about why Haden didn't hire Jack, this comment from Haden in a recent Q&A with Steve Bisheff indicates one reason, as that's the fact that Haden was looking for an offensive minded coach:

''The game has changed a lot in recent years. People want us to play the way Coach McKay and Coach Robinson played, and you can’t. This is just a different era. Believe me, I’ve studied this, and the top five indicators of winning football the past five years are all on offense. Look at Ohio State. They won the national championship and their defense wasn’t that good. Check their stats. You’ll see.''

Nothing we don't know but I remember some debate over it on here way back when.

 

[Johnny_Cakes]

Who was asking about that in here?

 

[nako xl]

Who was asking about that in here?

I actually think it was you who said a few weeks back: "Jack turned down SC when offered." Saw the post resurrected with that Ohio St. quote from Haden so just decided to share.

 

[Johnny_Cakes]

So I'm guessing you believe this writer when he says Jack Del Rio would have said no to an NFL head coaching job if USC asked him to coach?

 

[nako xl]

So I'm guessing you believe this writer when he says Jack Del Rio would have said no to an NFL head coaching job if USC asked him to coach?

GarryP is very credible (he won't post about things until he's confirmed them) but personally I think it would have depended on the NFL job, but at that time JDR wasn't really getting any NFL attention. He was pretty open about wanting the SC gig.

I don't think there's any chance of him leaving an NFL job for it now though.

 

[nako xl]

@NIKESUX what's with this loud rumbling about Nebraska fans (boosters?) calling for a new coach already?

 

[mr marcus]

*gives Nako a hug*

 

[Bobby Layne]

 

[nako xl]

*gives Nako a hug*

 

[Bobby Layne]

@NIKESUX what's with this loud rumbling about Nebraska fans (boosters?) calling for a new coach already?

They need to focus on getting a new AD first. 

 

[witnesskb24]

I'm probably late but I hate this dude more than any other person in CFB. Can't wait until he no longer has a job

 

[Trey Bantz]

Hope Sark gets the help he needs, addiction isn't a laughing matter.

On another note, do you guys think Golden survives this three game stretch? Up next we have VT, Clemson, and Duke. This could get ugly folks.

 

[nako xl]

Will beat VT. Lose to Clemson and prob Duke.

No way Miami fires him in-season though right? If he has a 4-4 record?

 

[swendro]

Bielema could've stayed at Wisconsin and punched his ticket to the B1G championship game nearly every year.

Now, he would've got beat down nearly every year by Michigan/ osu, but it's better than what he's doing with Arkansas.

 

[Trey Bantz]

Will beat VT. Lose to Clemson and prob Duke.

No way Miami fires him in-season though right? If he has a 4-4 record?

AD says he will be evaluated at the end of the season. Our AD is incompetent too though. The pressure to blow this thing up mounts every day around here. We need to give this clown the Kiffin treatment and pull him off the bus to fire him in the parking lot of the stadium after our next loss.

 

[spacedoodoo]

The only W I can give miami on those next 3 games is duke. They've lost to them once ever since joining the ACC, clemson is the best team in the ACC so there's that. VT vs Miami is a toss up. VT might be getting michael brewer back for the game, which would boost the offensive production. 

 

[witnesskb24]

Bielema could've stayed at Wisconsin and punched his ticket to the B1G championship game nearly every year.

Now, he would've got beat down nearly every year by Michigan/ osu, but it's better than what he's doing with Arkansas.

Definitely with how weak that division is. I'm still wondering what went through their minds when they made them

 

[Bobby Layne]

Definitely with how weak that division is. I'm still wondering what went through their minds when they made them

"Michigan, OSU, and PSU are going to play each other every year."

 

[statis22]

The B1G west is slowly becoming the old Big 12 north under everyone's noses.

Nebraska just can't catch a break.

 

[Bobby Layne]

The B1G west is slowly becoming the old Big 12 north under everyone's noses.

Nebraska just can't catch a break.

It's worse.  The old Big XII N at least had the end of the Nebraska dynasty, KSU, pre-scandal CU, and Mizzou. 

 

[statis22]

The B1G west is slowly becoming the old Big 12 north under everyone's noses.


Nebraska just can't catch a break.

It's worse.  The old Big XII N at least had the end of the Nebraska dynasty, KSU, pre-scandal CU, and Mizzou. 

Sure, that was still more towards the beginning era of the conference. By 2005 no B12 north team could compete with a competent B12 south team. Tech was hanging 70 on Nebraska. Colorado became a dumpster fire & got so bad at KSU that they had to rehire Bill Snyder.

And all of that coincided with the rise of Missouri and they still lost by 2 TDs to the good teams.

 

[5am6oody72]

Hope Sark gets the help he needs, addiction isn't a laughing matter.

On another note, do you guys think Golden survives this three game stretch? Up next we have VT, Clemson, and Duke. This could get ugly folks.

Word, as easy as it is to joke about there is usually a root cause of why people have such issues. One of my friends got suspended from his job for being drunk on the job a few months ago. I found out secondhand that he had recently got home from work early one day and walked in on his 4 year old daughter being molested by his uncle It had apparently happened multiple times over a year, and she's now in therapy for it but has become distant/withdrawn and not happy like she used to be. He had to move his family out of that house (his uncle lived there too) and the prosecution of the case has been a total nightmare, and his wife had just had a second kid.

All that was too much for him to handle and he pretty much just had a breakdown and was drinking just to make it through the day every day. Most people who have that kinda issue aren't drinking to feel good, they're drinking to not feel anything at all/avoid feeling something worse.