Do not like the pending hire
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What are your qualifications to make these judgments? Many years as a coach or the fact that you are from Marshalltown?
Well let me try to decipher this mess.
My handle is bobcat. My name is robert and i like kittens. I know coach loney by way of the newspaper and my cousin Rodney had a crush on the new S&C wife and she didn't like him. My hero is yoda and I enjoy speaking in code and only letting other jedi masters figure out what I'm saying. After minutes of studying youtube tapes of the new S&C I firmly believe he's not right for our program. Please excuse me while I clean the litter box.
I'm curious as to what standard you're judging this by--going by the only objective standard I know (results at the NFL Combine, let alone on the field), our S&C coaches have been mediocre at best going back to Donnie Duncan.
Now, this one I can't argue with. Hiring Iowans just because they're Iowans can be just as bad a premise as recruiting Iowans simply becase they're Iowans. The talent has to be there in the first place.
CycloneErik
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It's so simple. It just might work! :mask:terrible hire, should have hired this guy
:no:Actually, you don't have to do any such thing, you simply choose to. I for one, wouldn't mind at all if you kept your opinions and negative crapola to yourself.
Just because a coach hasn't had an opportunity at this level, or isn't written up as an, "up and coming commodity", by ESPN magazine, or some other national publication that does it's research on increasing sales, not on sports, doesn't mean they're not qualified or able to get the job done. :yes:Bum Phillips went from high school coach to head coach of the Houston Oilers and was successful, although he never took them to the Superbowl. I'm pretty sure most people didn't think Bum was qualified for that position either.
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CycloneErik
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Bum Phillips - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He did, but with some college and pro stops in between. Nevertheless, I think the point was that he started as a high school coach, and ended up as a very successful pro one.:smile:
Couple thoughts on these coaches having ties to Iowa. I, personally, don't care if they have Iowa connections or not. If they're a great fit for the position and have Iowa ties, great. If they're a great fit for the position and don't have Iowa ties, great. I think the athletics department is emphasizing even if it's some far-stretched, six-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon-type connection to Iowa in each hire it applies to ease some people who were completely upset about Chizik leaving like he did and not caring about Iowa or being committed to us, blah blah blah...so I don't think it's a bad thing to tell everyone a particular coach has an Iowa tie. I highly doubt we're hiring coaches based on that! Like I said, the new coaches having some sort of tie to our state is probably comforting to some, and clearly by some of these posts is the opposite to others. Just have some faith and take it for what it is.
Dude, do you have a stuttering problem in real life or just on message boards? Slow down and catch your breath. We are all friends here.
If you go to this link: Rice Official Athletic Site, it says he is married to the former Lynn Karns of Joplin.
You say the OC hire is great, yet he recommended the S&C coach that you do not like. How can both of those be true?
Can fans participate too?
I'm curious to see the opinion of SCclone and Kcclone? They were pretty vocal about the previous staffs and the search... What do they think?