1. I concur with comments about not understanding how Lane Kiffin has managed to have the career he's having so far. He was a bizarre choice for the Raiders and immediately showed he was literally out of his league. He's done piss-poor in a very short period at TN. Yes, apparently he can recruit (and so he must interview well for a job, too.... same skills set, eh?). But he inherited a well-established offensive system and great players when he became USC offensive coordinator.... and as I say was apallingly incompetent in Oakland.

2. From the blogs of BruinNation: The Chow rumors were stategic by USC... apparently a couple 4-5 star recruits were wavering and thinking about UCLA, and SC also hoped some other recruits about ready to commit to UCLA would be shaken by a Chow-is-gone message. SC sucks and is the most corrupt college athletic program in history. Kiffin may be a coach able to understand the SC "culture." Fuck them. Or as my friend in eastern TN and youtube says, "fuck Lane Kiffin."

3. Kiffin was third or fourth choice. Jack del Rio was the first choice.

4. Colt McCoy... I disagree that the hit was soft and didn't look enough to knock him out of the game. It came hard from the side, and I thought he might have popped a clavicle. But the whole "oh I couldn't even throw to Dad" narrative in the yahoo piece and other places is bathetic. I am going to go with the "no mas, no mas" award for him. Bruins play Texas in Austin next year and I predict a win. No really.... Although this is predicated on the hope that Chow, in his third season, could actually produce a Bruin offense.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4828327

David Cutcliffe turns down Tennessee.

I wouldn't have thought a school with one of the largest football stadiums in America would have this much difficulty recruiting a quality coach to their program. They must have some serious issues with Boosters/institutional control that are scaring off perspective coaches.

Derek Dooley to Tennessee.

This is old news by now in Dawg Nation, but some Obs may be interested that UGA has hired Dallas Cowboys D-Line coach Todd Grantham as their new Defensive Coordinator.

LINK

this quote gave me an Ob:

What else was he going to say "I look forward to coaching an undisciplined, under-instructed defense that continues to give up big yards on intermediate passing routes, missing tackles, and playing without passion"?

I mean, I'm all for getting someone in here, but let's not start sucking each others' popsicles just yet.

I'm just heard something on the radio about how the new coach has to retain 6 assistants?

I get keeping one or two(by choice),but being made to keep that many has to be a dealbreaker.

Yeah, Cutcliffe wanted to bring his own guys and they wouldn't let him because all these assistants they've got are signed to like three year deals.

I also heard that Cutcliffe isn't interested in working the 18-20 hours a day it takes to run a program like UT at this point in his career. If so, good for him--all these guys are just a beat away from being the next Skip Prosser if they aren't careful.

I've always liked Dooley from his days as LSU's special teams coordinator.

Cutcliffe would have been a terrible hire. UT doesn't have much in-state talent, so the coach needs to be a recruiter. Cutcliffe sucked at recruiting people not named Manning. Cut is a very good coach otherwise.

Jesus man. I'm no UT apologist but they just got left under cover of night 3 days ago. I'd cut 'em a little slack.

It's also what, 3 1/2 weeks before signing day?

Aside from the aforementioned assistant retainment issues, maybe Cutcliffe just isn't a scumbag like Lil Kiffy.

From his statement about the whole thing:




Kiffin put UT in an impossible situation but I still think UT is one of the best jobs in America.

Yes, let's just sit back with our arms folded and wait and see. WTF?

I won't pretend I know how ANY of this is going to play out but just by looking at his resume and the guys he coached under (Frank Beamer, Nick Saban, Dom Capers, Romeo Crennel), if I were a AD I'd hire him as well.

I love the hire.

He's also coaching one of the best D-line's in the NFL right now. The NFL ties only help in recruiting.

Bingo.

"Yeah, I used to make Demarcus Ware my bitch in practice EVERY day and I'll do the same to you. Come to Georgia, kid"

I'm just saying that Stu is a more bipolar fan than you or I put together

Andm all 4 of us seem to take the opposite position of the others, at all times, on everything.

But, I'm right.

I would feel for them if my Huskers didn't have to overcome the same situation when former AD Steve Pederson decided to hire Bill Callahan after being denied from several other coaches in a rather short period.
I guess the lesson to be learned is never hire a former Oakland Raiders Head Coach to coach your college football team.

Tennessee should have just sucked it up and named Pat Summitt.

He's a damn good coach for sure.

Ol' Steve Summitt.

FUH

(LOMIT)

This is apropos of NUTH, but more something I was curious about....NCAA Division I-A football team records by decade

I guess the thing you can read into it is how fast a dominant program (Say, Nebraska or FSU in the 90's) can go away just a few years later. Read that page long and hard, Lane Kiffin and USC fan: Past performance is not indicative of future results.

Also, REMEMBER MICHIGAN!?!?!

Getting close to signing day, any big issues/players for your respective teams?

Harry, I and rparis are battling it out for the next Ndamukong Suh to come out of Oregon. He's a DE named Owamagbe Odighizuwa. UCLA, Oregon State and Nebraska are his final three picks.

The Huskers are also trying to get Brion Carnes, the cousin of Tommie Frazier, to play QB here. They went to the same high school and currently he's a waffling commit to USF.

Other than that, we are sitting at #28 in the recruiting rankings, which is more reminiscent of Osborne than it is Callahan.

LSU is poised to finish with another top-10 class. Currently, we're hoping for Texas rb Lache Seatrunk (RYIL Noel Divine), who will decide between LSU and Oregon tomorrow. We're also hearing rumblings that Cassius Marsh, a Cali DT, will switch commitments from LSU to USC. We're also hoping that Trovon Reed, the #1 player in La. will switch his commitment from Auburn to LSU.

http://tinyurl.com/yelln6b

Tim Tebow is sucking it up at the Senior Bowl. I guess Jesus can't take snaps under Center.

No, what you're "saying" is that you're a contrarian just for shit's sake. What I was saying is that his quote is the EXACT opposite of Willie Martinez's philosophy of "sit and wait" and it's the kind of defense we've been missing.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/c ... rid28.html

Eastern Washington University is installing Red Turf.
Any bets on who's the first to install purple, orange, gold or black turf?

http://footballrecruiting.rivals.com/te ... sp?SID=880

Final recruiting rankings for the year.

1. Florida
2. Texas
3. Auburn
4. USC
5. Alabama
6. LSU
7. Oklahoma
8. UCLA

Other Obner schools:

12. Penn State
13. Oregon
14. Notre Dame
16. Georgia
19. West Virginia
21. Missouri
23. Nebraska

UCLA jumped up after landing Owamagbe Odighizuwa, who decided to be a Bruin instead of play for Nebraska or Oregon State. I think he made the right choice for academic reasons, but definitely not football reasons.