Wisconsin coach let go
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JugbandFrog
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good spot for Aranda…
An-Cap Frog
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It's easier to recruit at Baylor TBT...
Fred Garvin
I service the entire Quad Cities Area
When you only gain 2 rushing yards against Illinois, you get fired.
An-Cap Frog
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The decision was made before this weekend's game...
The Artist Formerly Known as PhormerPhrog
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Isn't he something like 40 games over .500? .500 is the standard in BIG. Don't know why they expect so much
An-Cap Frog
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Lance Leipold was at UW-WW
An-Cap Frog
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The teams in the Big10 west suck. Wisco should win every year...
Fred Garvin
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This year is a new low. The highest ranking of BiG West teams is currently Minnesota at #37
An-Cap Frog
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PurplFrawg
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Bielema is a Registered Nurse? Or maybe Royal Navy?Bret Bielema RN...
Big Frog II
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Since they have moved recruiting up, more an more coaches are getting fired mid-season.
PurpleBlood87
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Good job for GP.
Eight
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as what?
illini_frog
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It was a good weekend for me
Limey Frog
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I said this last year when he made noises about caching again elsewhere, and I believe it now more firmly: GP's ceiling as a head coach in the current market (i.e., people looking for the newest thing, importance of adapting to the new world of NIL/transfers/players' social media) is a G5 school that is in the pits. I don't believe that GP will land any HC gig that he feels is worthy of him, and I wish for his sake that he'd just retired last year. I wish him well, I hope I'm wrong, and if he's the HC of a school that isn't our rival I will 100% root for him. But I just don't think it's going to happen. He's too old in too many ways for a school at the level of, Nebraska, Georgia Tech, Colorado, or Wisconsin to go for.
That said, he could at least tell the people in Madison that, unlike any recent Wisconsin HC, he has actually won a Rose Bowl!
East Coast
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Interesting thing is Chryst has already been mentioned for the Louisville job that pundits are saying will come open sometime this year.
TCUdirtbag
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5 weeks in, and 5 P5 coaches fired.
Harsin at Auburn is likely next. Could happen after Georgia blows them out Saturday.
Harsin at Auburn is likely next. Could happen after Georgia blows them out Saturday.
Limey Frog
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This is going to be the new normal in the transfer portal era, where other schools can just straight up buy players off your roster with NIL deals. If you want to know why it's going this way, look at Oklahoma for a good example of what happens when your coach leaves you in lurch in January. As unpleasant as it was to have things with GP blow up in October last year, would we be in anywhere so good a position as we are now if our players didn't have half a season to think about where things were going, and if we hadn't zeroed in on Dykes in time for them to think/talk about playing for him?
Up at Michigan State Mel Tucker started so late (February of 2021) before last year; he hit some major home runs in the portal and looked really good at 11-3, but as it turns out Kenny Walker covered over a multitude of sins. The program is, arguably, still recovering from the timing of that transition.
If you've given a guy one more year to prove himself and the writing is on the wall by week 5 that he hasn't, I don't think you want to wait until mid-December to even start the conversation.
