How good is Ohio State? How bad is UConn?
GoodTurnovers killed UCF as they should easily have won the game.
Two years ago we were a play away from beating Cincy in their place and beat them 3 years ago at the Rent. It is possible for teams to improve.
Two years ago we were a play away from beating Cincy in their place and beat them 3 years ago at the Rent. It is possible for teams to improve.
That Cincy team of two years ago is a completely different animal than where they are at right now. Look at their roster and the depth and talent Fickell has recruited, and it's pretty crazy he's done it without a p5 designation. The kid with the pick 6 last night Gardner is a true frosh db from Michigan, 6'2 corner. Top 50 recruit in Michigan out of Detroit. I though next year would be really where they started to show the difference with a little experience, but they've got a lot of athletes. I read a recap of that game last night, and they played 23 kids on the defensive side of the ball. It's like a 2 deep at each position. Luxury over the course of the season. I think Bobby D was sitting somewhere last night and watching the Civil Conflict which my guess is Ucf and Cincy.
Programs have to be trying to improve. We haven’t been trying for the last 5 years.
Almost Every AAC school is getting better. Tulane, Cincy, SMU have upped their squads. The AAC is a real football conference. Not P5 but not even close to the rest of the G5 conferences . We just simply suck and are incompetent at putting together a well coached program.Fickell and his staff have finally made Cincinnati a major player in recruiting across the entire state of OH. You look at the RBs - Warren was OH Mr. Football out of Toledo and the backup Thomas was a 4 star from Dayton with offers from everyone. They don't need to beat OSU for recruits but they are getting a lot of kids that Michigan St and Wisconsin type programs typically get. You look at their current commits and nearly all of them had multiple Big 10 offers.
Not to open this can of worms, but we pay the assistant to the assistant basketball assistant coach/chief clipboard holder more than our offense/defense coordinators.UC coaches over the last 20 years: Mark Dantonio, Brian Kelly, Tommy Tuberville, Butch Jones, Luke Fickell.
Hire (and pay) good coaches. Luke Fickell makes $2.3M + incentives. Edsall makes $1.2M+.
You get what you pay.