Recent content by mattp

he lost me at red pants

I never mind redshirting a player, but I don't mind a RB playing as a true freshman. Great RBs tend to leave early anyway, so if he can help on the field get him out there. On paper, Newsome is our highest touted recruit ever at the position, and probably a top 3 highest touted player we've...

fake classes? it sounds like there was a fake academic department. I don't understand how there hasn't been more talk of UNC losing their accreditation. I always thought the whole point of accreditation is to make sure colleges aren't giving kids B-S degrees without making them take any classes.

We had that dominance against South Carolina in Birmingham. It was an awesome game to watch. Our pass protection with Foley may not have been great, but the OLine wasn't the reason our passing game sucked. I'll take dominant punch you in the face run blocking with just adequate pass blocking...

It's perfectly logical for all the reasons listed above. I wonder if it's legal to have the first week of practice during Spring Break. The players would be able to spend all of the week thinking football, almost like NFL spring training, then you could take a week off, let it sink in and let...

On the bright side, we get our toughest games at home for the most part and we have terrific destinations for those looking to travel to an away game. Our conference is what it is, but this is all we can hope for from our AAC schedule. We'll need at least 5 conference wins if we want a bowl...

It's tough to get too excited before a down is played, but the top assistant at Notre Dame and Frank Broyles award winner is about the best we can ask for on paper. When we hired P I was glad that we didn't have to worry about him going anywhere, looking back I can't believe what an idiotic...

Correlation doesn't equal causation. The instances of black quarterbacks has probably increased by a similar percentage and there haven't been any rules requiring coaches consider black QBs. It's the changing times, not the rule. Eventually owners learn that if they want to win a championship...

what about Cochran and Boyle? Vann and Ashiru were highly rated guys that seem to be panning out well.

It doesn't pain me to say it at all, P was a good recruiter, or at least his staff did well with recruiting. P had other problems. We have a few guys on the roster that we probably wouldn't have gotten under Edsall. I think Diaco should be better still, but we won't really be able to gauge...

great pick up

Our "monster" classes never ranked higher than 6 out of 8 Big East teams, and off the top of my head I'm pretty sure we were 7 or 8 out of 8 every year in the Big East except maybe one 6th. P actually did a decent job of bringing in "bigger" name kids than Edsall. We have 2 guys in the Big33...

Position coach in the NFL is a lot different than HC of a college program. HC of a D1 football program is a full time, life consuming job. All he has to do for the Bears is punch a clock and spend 5-6 hours a day trying to teach a little bit of technique to 6 or 7 line backers. He'll have...

soooooo when's the Spring Game?

I don't know that I feel too strongly about players that choose to follow Franklin to PSU, they're following the coach that recruited them. I think the real in this situation is Franklin for telling some kid that he doesn't have a spot at PennState and they have one or two weeks to remake...