If you want to play for a great coach that believes in continuity, leadership and teaching things beyond basketball then Coach K is as good as it gets.
If you just want a 1 year stop-over on your way to the pros or the street then there is this really slick guy in Kentucky ...
Mack and his staff got fat/complacent with talent evaluation ... and it showed. Muschamp will always be the one that got away at a critical juncture. Extremely short-sighted of Dodds not to pull the trigger and promote him. They should have made a play for Charlie Strong when he was available. Gary Patterson would be a good choice too but he's no longer available. You snooze you lose.
No one, outside of a few delusional homers, wants to watch a D1 team play a FCS team. I get it that the "extra home game" with FCS/LSOP maximizes profit via gate receipts vs. small payout, but no one wants to watch the crap that transpires on the field. It's even less interesting than a NFL pre-season game.
In the NFL the league controls 100% of the scheduling, and their method guarantees that each team will have played every other team in the league over a 3 year period. SEC could easily do something similar.
1. Drop the goofy "cross-division rival" nonsense. 2. Drop the obligatory FCS creampuff game. 3. Play a 9 game conference schedule where players in one division have a chance at facing a few teams in the other division before they graduate.
"books in the library" is so old school. Today's students would rather stream e-books to their tablets ... along with video games. Everything in one place makes it convenient.
If you just want a 1 year stop-over on your way to the pros or the street then there is this really slick guy in Kentucky ...
Mack and his staff got fat/complacent with talent evaluation ... and it showed.
Muschamp will always be the one that got away at a critical juncture. Extremely short-sighted of Dodds not to pull the trigger and promote him.
They should have made a play for Charlie Strong when he was available.
Gary Patterson would be a good choice too but he's no longer available.
You snooze you lose.
'Bama vs. FL - must watch TV.
'Bama vs. UGA - must watch TV.
'Bama vs. SCe - oh how I'd love to see you guys hand Spurrier his *** on a regular basis.
No one, outside of a few delusional homers, wants to watch a D1 team play a FCS team. I get it that the "extra home game" with FCS/LSOP maximizes profit via gate receipts vs. small payout, but no one wants to watch the crap that transpires on the field. It's even less interesting than a NFL pre-season game.
In the NFL the league controls 100% of the scheduling, and their method guarantees that each team will have played every other team in the league over a 3 year period. SEC could easily do something similar.
Better?
1. Drop the goofy "cross-division rival" nonsense.
2. Drop the obligatory FCS creampuff game.
3. Play a 9 game conference schedule where players in one division have a chance at facing a few teams in the other division before they graduate.
I love it ... and he's right.
Calipari has the Godfather