Is 'The Hat' in trouble?
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If his "little birdy" was just accurate once in a while, he'd be the total package.
But which one are you?
Except for the fertile recruiting base with little or no competition for the HS talent? Louisiana is an incredibly fertile recruiting base. Tennessee? Not so much.
Any coach that takes over LSU is walking into a MUCH better situation than Meyer walked into when he took the Florida job. Miles leaves the next coach in a much better situation than Fulmer left Kiffin.
LSU is stacked with talent right now. And that program has a pipeline to one of the best recruiting states in the south.
Your ability to perform an intelligent analysis is on par with the other retards over on your smack board. You should just stay over there.
Mark Schlabauch@Mark_Schlabauch
Breaking news: FSU Head Coach Jimbo Fisher has announced he will accept the Head coaching job at Louisiana State University. More on ESPN
Breaking news: FSU Head Coach Jimbo Fisher has announced he will accept the Head coaching job at Louisiana State University. More on ESPN
Pretty sure that was all true in the 90's. How did Gerry Dinardo and Curley Hallman do?
Hell Miami has all you described. How's it working out for them?
No doubt about it! They have a young team and they are returning a lot of starters, and they have been pulling in highly ranked classes for a while. The right guy will win right away there.
It is true that it can be a tough job, because the SEC is a hard road to make the playoffs, and you will he living in the long shadow of Saban, but that type of thinking is for wussies....one of the characteristics of top tier coaches is type A+ competitive drive....in other words, very very good coaches continuously take jobs in the SEC because if you wanna be the best you gotta be the best.
So, I do not know if jimbo would rather maintain his current very easy schedule and conference, or if he would rather go to a very familiar place where he has a lot of friends, and wants to prove that he compete in the SEC, that he can compete year in year out with Saban. Oh, and by the way, Saban won't be there forever! But my gut instinct tells me jimbo is happy living on easy street....
Well, frankly, if Bianchi says, then it is probably wrong, but is he basing that on?
There are no troll on the interwebs. Mark Schlabauch is a respected journalist. He does not report fake stuff.
You missed the part about the incoming coach having a loaded team, and the incoming coach being a good recruiter. Dinardo and Hallman did not inherit a loaded team, and neither were particularly good recruiters. Hell, Florida and FSU regularly poached talent from there, prior to Saban.
Except for the part about LSU being stocked with talent and Miami is not. Except for the part that LSU has no instate competition, but Miami does. Plus LSU athletics makes a lot more money than Miami athletics and has much better facilities. So, except for all that, they are exactly comparable.
Like I wrote earlier, your analysis suggests that need to say over with the retards on the smack board.
In his press conference, I heard he made a Freudian slip and referred to Treon Harris as Brandon Harris.
And, LSU has been pulling in talent consistently for several years under Miles, and competing most years as well.....Miami has been about as relevant as Miami (Ohio) for more than a decade.
It's interesting that Louisiana's recruiting base is so strong. They have 2/3s of the population of Tennessee and 1/4 the population of Florida.
But, I guess Saban's doing quite fine in a state that that has the same population as Louisiana.
This interactive map, from the NYTimes, explains why:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/08/u...-the-most.html?ref=sports&_r=4&abt=0002&abg=0
But, I guess Saban's doing quite fine in a state that that has the same population as Louisiana.
This interactive map, from the NYTimes, explains why:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/08/u...-the-most.html?ref=sports&_r=4&abt=0002&abg=0
It is from this standpoint:
FSU has access to a very fertile recruiting area AND have one, sometimes two teams at most to compete with in-conference. Throw in UF, and most years that's three good games. Clemson, Miami, and UF. On talent advantage alone, FSU should have 9 wins every year. Hard to get much better than that if you're being objective. That's not the case in a lot of places that might have more resources, LSU for example.
Yep. Which is the same analysis Bowden used when he lobbied FSU not to join the SEC
Call me that again and I will hit you with my purse
Uh, huh. Maybe it would be helpful to consider the perspective of that source. A more-or-less central-Florida boy (Pinellas Co., i.I.r.c.) and an alum of the UF J-school, completed a job cycle with the hardcopy Gator Bait (Stirt & Cohen, proprietors) and a Jax daily paper, then settled in at the Orlando Sentinel. But at an unsettling time for newspapers, when the many-decades-old business-model for newspapers began to crumble against the impacts of the Internet. It's become common for middle-class families not to have a standing subscription to their local papers. And the surviving newspapers publish more content from nonlocal sources that are not the traditional newswires (UPI, anyone?), reducing the need to employ writers full-time. For years, it's seemed that Bianchi's priority is to maximize the number of his readers, not to apply his experience to most accurately inform his readers. So readers may notice that in a short span of time, Bianchi sometimes contradicts a recent column of his own, apparently believing that by arguing each side of a debate (on different days), he'll gain the benefits of getting on the written record as having argued whichever side eventually wins.
As a famous Miami Herald humor columnist wrote in the late 1990s (albeit not quite his exact words, but nearly so):
Dave Barry said:
So despite the peaks in sports interest provided by the combinations of baseball & football season, then more football and an in-town NBA team that's playing in their excessively long NBA season, I'm sure that the Sentinel sports section routinely had a lot more pages[#] back when Orlando's population was a lot smaller, and had a lot fewer sports franchises in-town or in-state. How could that matter to ITG readers everywhere else?
I believe that Bianchi "the Bulldog" is more doggedly determined to keep whatever job security he might still have as a newspaper sports-department employee, than to dare risk his job in search of greater rewards. And he projects that onto Jimbo Fisher, who now has job security at FSU, with great advantages at little risk--but not much energizing challenge. Yet I infer from hints or rumors about Jimbo & Candi[*] that at least one of them is willing to pursue, um, private rewards in return for social risks that can have permanent consequences.
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Note #: Nowadays, the Orlando Sentinel sports section on many week-days is routinely only 6 pages long: that's only 1½ full sheets of newsprint.
Note *: I claim no insider knowledge of Bianchi nor the Fisher family; some regulars here have obviously heard or read a lot more about the latter than I have.
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