I fkin love it. I appreciate the journey he and his teams have taken us on in the last 6 years
He could probably do a better job with the timing and excessive nature of it while he’s in the coaching seat (save it for your therapist). Seems he’s also branding himself as Americas CBB honesty broker as it’s pretty clear he’s looking for a path to media after his coaching career.
I don't think we are landing many NIL first kids. Hurley talks about kids from good families being a priority but while that makes them generally more coachable, it also usually means they are less likely to be chasing a short term payday. We also have loads of international kids who aren't eligible for NIL. I don't think that is a coincidence.
I agree. He has a ton of irons in the fire and is one of the most intense coaches in the country. He vents, releases steam and it helps him decompress. He’s not hiding or deceiving anyone either.
Hurley has other things to sell that make up for short term payday, and it’s not as though he can’t get close. What motivates a player is an important variable in team sports and if it’s money alone, it rarely works.
True. Meanwhile ,Calhoun inherited two NBA players one a first round draft pick and the other played over 10 years and was an All-Star..
Jimmy G looked pretty good with the Pats. No question they'd still win with him.
They won with Drew. They won with Matt Cassel. They won with Jimmy G and Brissett. Bill's downfall was entirely as a GM not as a coach. He wasn't really adapting to changes in college football that impacted evaluations of NFL talent, especially on offense. When almost every team is in shotgun and running a spread, it's harder to project who will work well in a Erhardt-Perkins style offense.
3 games? League figured out JG pretty quick. Cassel was on a roster that went undefeated the year prior.
Csonka and Mercury both ran for 1,000 yards and they played 14 games then. The 3 headed backfield along with Jim Kick was kind of a big deal. I remember them on the cover of SI. Warfield was a star but didn't have a banner year with Morrall. Teams threw the ball so much less then anyway. Langer and Little were all-timers. I mean it depends on your definition of what a star is. Yeah, they had no Brady or Manning or Mahomes, but they had great all-star level players. They just weren't glamorous or household names outside of football. Csonka was kind of well known I guess.
Belichick was 5-13 as the Patriots head coach before Brady took over as starter after Bledsoe's injury
Hmm. Tom went 20-5 and won two bowl games at Michigan. He went for 370 yards and 4 TDs against Bama in the Orange bowl win his senior year.