'09 season ncaa football thread

you know, i agree with the score. he ran up the middle. we should have stopped him. i would like to recant my previous message.

yeah, our bet is still on. how's monday to monday. i'll have it up by then.

i am finally home. Was a great trip. My wife and I went with my mom. I was truely blessed with the opportunity to go and to go with my mom. She has been a football nut for years. Was a great night and she had a blast.

If any of you ever have the opportunity to go to the Rose Bowl, go. It really is an amazing place to see a game. I was 76 rows up and the seats were awesome. there is not a bad seat in the place.

Texas D played a great game a freshman QB. Bama knocked out our number one guy. They one fair and square and props to them.

I made memories to last a life time. Thanks fer letting me share my experience here.

Oh, and to the bama faithful on here, ya'lls fans (at least around me) were awesome. Nothing but southern hospitality. So, horns up to you guys.

Hook'Em.

 

thanks,i,m glad you had a good time.one things for sure, they will meet again sooner or later.

 

I've been to the Rose Bowl once... first game of the 2000 season. Alabama was pre-season #3 after winning the SECC in 1999. We stopped UCLA on their first possession and ran the punt back for a TD... then NOTHING else went right that season. We ended up w/ just 3 wins, and our coach quit w/ 2 or 3 games left. Great stadium, though. We had to park in a golf course, for some reason???

I really do think there's a shot that we meet again next January. If your QB continues the way he did on Thursday, you really won't miss a beat, and we have most of our starters coming back.

I'm glad our fans were good to you. You might not get the same hospitality if you're wearing orange at the Tennessee or Auburn games, but otherwise most of us are pretty civil at games, despite what some on here might want you to believe.

Monday to Monday is fine!

 

Bama bcs trophy on display at tuscolusa walmart...

http://www.shaggybevo.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=56262

scroll to bottom for pictures.

 

I don't know if you're poking fun at Alabama or not... Also, I can't see the pictures...

but to anybody who wants to make fun of Alabama for displaying the trophy at WalMart locations... it was a marketing deal reached with WalMart and the BCS... It would have been in Texas WalMarts, too... you know, if they'd had the opportunity...



Unrelated... WTF with Pete leaving USC going to Seattle??? One bad year and he cuts and runs? I guess the NCAA isn't going to make life easy on them for a while, either.

 

Wasnt just one bad year. It years of NCAA violations catching up to him.

 

I just watched clips from Saban's press conference when he accepted all the NC trophies. Three of my favorite quotes...

On the Gatorade bath:

I'll be saying that every time I take one from now on.


On the INT turned TD at the end of the half, and the celebration penalty that followed:

I've never seen a coach so pissed off after a touchdown. Dude is INTENSE!


On the win in general:

Never be satisifed.

 

i heard tubby's going to texas tech.

 

Woo! UGA made an offer to Kirby Smart! Come on home, Kirby!

 

i think alabama should go after will muschamp

 

The ESPN story I read said UA will "do everything necessary to keep him." If UGA is really offering him $700k/year to be the DC, then I bet they're really offering him the 'coach in waiting' job, b/c I don't see Richt around much longer. It'll be difficult for us to keep him, even if we offer him the same $$$.

During his last press conf. in CA before coming home, they asked Saban if he expected to lose some coaches the way NC staffs often do. He said this:

I think he was trying to send Smart a message. Not like it'd really matter what Saban thought of him if he was at UGA, but still.

 

Yea, supposedly at least a 3 year contract of 700K+/year, makin him the 3rd highest paid assistant coach in the country. He may in fact be the coach in waiting...we'll have to see. I think Richt has at least another 3 years, if he wins 9+ games each year...but Bulldog nation is ready for a national championship. If he wins 9+ games for the next 3 years, they might give him another year or 2, because they're gonna have to break in a new QB this year. (Can't be worse than Joe Cox.) Now that they've fired the defensive coaches, and Cox graduated, I think there's renewed hope in GA. Now if we can get rid of Bobo and get someone who knows how to call offensive plays, we might be ready to win another SEC title and be a real contender.

Oh yea, Rennie Curran is entering the draft...that sucks.

 

Muschamp would be stupid to go to Alabama.. he's coach in waiting at Texas.. why would he go to Alabama unless he could actually be the head coach?

It's supposedly a done deal now...

 

^^ +1

Muschamp makes $907k/year at Texas and is the next in line for the HC job. No way we get him to Alabama. I don't know who we'd go after, but I'm not terribly worried about it as long as Saban's the head coach.

Tubbs is def. the TTech coach now. I'm glad for him.

 

sig changed. Yes. mws4us is now my daddy.

my avatar is damn ugly, too.

Long read on the Texas Tech trail of ousting Leach:

Saturday, Dec. 19

Hance received a call from Board of Regents Chairman Larry Anders informing him of a complaint by the father of one of the team’s inside receivers.

Craig James, father of player Adam, told Anders that Leach forced his son to stand for several hours in a shed after suffering a concussion during a Dec. 16 practice.

Hance called Leach, who complained about the Jameses’ constant questioning of his decisions about Adam.

“I think he was very mad at the James family, that Craig James second-guessed him on occasions — I guess on the air or something — or that, according to Mike, that he second-guessed his playing time. He was pretty upset. He was pretty vocal. He was not mad at me. He was mad at them.”

Leach finally agreed to change his treatment of James.

Hance also spoke on the phone with Athletic Director Gerald Myers and with the James family.

Sunday, Dec. 20

The coach reportedly put Adam James on a stationary exercise bike in a dimly lit room during the day’s practice, thus fulfilling his promise to Hance.

“I think that’s not unusual,” he said. “I don’t think anybody’s contesting that.”

Hance also discussed the situation with Tech President Guy Bailey and Myers again.

An in-house attorney for Tech began collecting statements from Craig and Adam James.

Monday, Dec. 21

The attorney met with team physician Dr. Michael Phy and athletic trainer Steve *******. She also collected information from other training staff members and Leach.

Hance met with Leach again.

Tuesday, Dec. 22

Tech’s investigating attorney submitted a report.

“The investigator told us there’s not a lot of dispute,” Hance said. “Mike told them — when they mentioned some of the words that were said — Mike said, ‘That sounds like something I’d say, and if I didn’t, I wish I had.’ There wasn’t a big dispute on that.”

During a conference call, Hance, Bailey, Myers, Anders and Board Vice Chairman Jerry Turner all agreed some sort of disciplinary action should be taken.

“I told (Leach) that we discussed everything from doing nothing to termination, and that no one was for doing nothing, including myself,” Hance said. “I said, ‘We have a couple of people believe in termination. We’ve got to work this out and I’d like to work it out in a way that everybody wins and it’s quiet and we move forward.’ But when I told him there were some people that were for termination, he went off.”

Leach then used “profanely defiant” language in protest of the possible reprimand, Hance said.

“I’ve never talked to an employer the way he was talking to me, and I’ve never had another employee do that,” Hance said. “I kept telling him, ‘Mike, settle down. Take a deep breath. Don’t call anyone. Wait until tomorrow. Talk to your lawyer. Let’s see what we can work out. Work with us.’ He was having no part of it. He was mad, very mad.”

Hance said the conversation took place in a roughly 15-minute phone call.

Then, Hance said, after the barrage of insults, he told Leach he was to work through Bailey and Myers from then on.

“I thought I’d pass that pleasure around, maybe let them get cussed out,” Hance said.

After attending Tech’s basketball game against Stanford that evening, Hance received his first call from Ted Liggett, Leach’s attorney.

Wednesday, Dec. 23

Hance spoke briefly with Myers, Bailey and several regents about the issue.

A meeting was set up between Myers, Bailey and Leach for Dec. 24.
Thursday, Dec. 24

Leach canceled the meeting, citing a snowstorm that had him stuck at home.

“Accommodate him,” Hance remembers telling Myers and Bailey. “Meet with him some other time.”

Saturday, Dec. 26

Hance said he was hopeful Leach would reconsider in the time that had passed since their telephone conversation.

“I thought at the time, it might be good because he would’ve had Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and part of Saturday. … He would have had 3½ days to reflect on it and maybe he’d work with them,” Hance said.

Leach met with Myers and Bailey, who asked him to sign a letter apologizing for his treatment of James.

The letter also asked Leach to begin conforming to certain safety standards.

Hance said he wanted a firm guarantee mistreatment of a concussed player wouldn’t happen again.

“When you’re talking about a brain concussion, that’s a serious matter,” he said. “We needed a commitment from him that that would not happen again.”

They gave him about 48 hours to sign the letter.

Hance said he reminded Bailey and Myers to “emphasize to Mike: ‘Work with us. Try to solve this problem.’ ”

“He did not move in that direction,” Hance said. “But he had calmed down and did not give them a good cussin’ or anything.”

Myers and Bailey also met with Liggett.

Sunday, Dec. 27

Hance met more with Tech’s legal counsel.

Leach backers began calling Hance, who recalls saying to them, “Hey, he just needs to work with us and help us get through this.”

“I was hoping we could work something out that probably none of the parties would love, but it was something that would be better for everyone and we could move forward,” Hance said.

Hance said Leach had ample opportunity to sign the statement.

Monday, Dec. 28

Leach got on a flight to San Antonio for the Jan. 2 bowl game against Michigan State.

“We didn’t hear from him,” Hance said. “He was just refusing. There was some thought that suspension would bring him to his senses, that he might come back and say, ‘OK. What do I do?’ But it did not.”
The deadline came and went.

Bailey and Myers decided to suspend Leach.

Tuesday, Dec. 29

Liggett filed a temporary restraining order so Leach could coach the bowl game.

“Usually, trying to work a problem out with your boss, it doesn’t improve the situation to sue them,” Hance said. “There was a lot of consideration, hoping that suspension would bring him to his senses and he’d sit down and try to help solve the problem. But his response was a lawsuit. His response was to sue Texas Tech.”

Bailey and Myers made the ultimate decision to fire Leach, Hance said, after a long conversation with him and with input from several regents.

Wednesday, Dec. 30
Minutes before a hearing in a Lubbock courtroom on the temporary restraining order, a Tech attorney delivered notice to Liggett informing him of Leach’s termination.

Hance said the decision had the unanimous support of the board.

“I think we are in good shape,” Hance said. “We did the right thing. We stand behind our actions.”

 

I wish it could be Eric Zeier...(sp??)

he seems to really know his shit.

 

Who wants to start a list of people passing on the USC job??

NCAA might finally slap them with sanctions. here's to hoping.

 

Handsom avatar, sir!

+1 on the list of coaches passing on USC. It's not going to be as big around here as out in Cali, so I won't be much help assembling the list, but it'd be interesting.

 

Dude that just left to go to Washington has already said he dont want it.

 

January 10th, 2010

We Are The Champions



Alabama, you win the national championship and take it to Walmart. You are making this easier than Colt McCoy did.
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