Prister: UM coaching staff is middle of the pack among ND opponents
Tim Prister, senior editor for the ND Rivals site, ranked the coaching staffs of their 2011 opponents, along with their own:
- ND (surprise!)
- Pitt
- Mich St.
- Maryland
- Wake Forest
- South Fla
- UM
- Navy
- Air Force
- Boston Coll
- USC
- Purdue
- Stanford
Really??? Not much respect, I'd say.....
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Leave Michigan out of it...new staff, prove yourself and all that, fine. But the rest is crazy. Pitt, a cobbled together 2nd choice group of coaches with an incompetent DC and an OC who has never had a chance to show he wasn't just a puppet? New staffs at Maryland and recently S. Florida? At least MSU and Wake's coach have proven some stuff. And more established programs like Navy, Air Force and BC ranked so low? And certainly a new head coach...but Stanford's coach was still part of the program that was the most successful recently.
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<br>Is the list upside-down?
i agree that the rankings are silly. more notably, though, the idea of ranking coaching staffs — many of which have no track record whatsoever — is frankly absurd.
although, i'm perhaps more surprised by the number of people jumping on notre dame in general as well as their fans' mentality because one jackass on the internet (and prister is most certainly a jackass) wrote something stupid, particularly when the article itself is so tepid. if this was the standard for complaining about opposing fanbases, it wouldn't take long before you could bury every d3 team nobody has every heard of. its not like this was a press release from the SID.
tim prister is an idiot who writes about notre dame. there is an idiot on the internet out there that writes about just about every d1 team. not news.
Our new head coach has 3 winning seasons in 8 years as a head coach. He hasn't dominated the second tier of college football - or frankly done very well at that level. He's had 2 good seasons out of 8.
By comparison - Bo coached 6 years at Miami (NTM) and had 6 winning seasons finishing 1st or 2nd 5 years and 3rd once before he became Michigan's head coach.
No one should be surprised that Hoke doesn't have national respect - he hasn't earned it yet. Hopefully, one day he will.
But Pitt 2nd? Seriously? and Maryland above us? get the fuck outta here. Notre Dame is full of shit.
Though Mattison gift-wrapped some ND victories against Michigan by knowing every play in the MIchigan playbook and all of Carr's tendencies, none of the current staff was at ND then. As for Hoke, he really hasn't done anything yet. When you have a potentially elite team with an easy schedule that is now used to running the spread, a 47-51 head coach probably isn't going to inspire much fear.
I have said all along that this game could be Michigan's worst of the season, and haven't seen much to change my mind. Maybe ND has just given Michigan some bulletin board material, at least in the coach's office. If we're lucky, it might even matter.
But they're talking coaching staffs as a whole. We have a OC who has had success pretty everywhere much he's been. (Auburn, UCLA, SDSU , etc.) and had Cade McNown and Jason Campbell two scrubs at QB. Mattison has had top defenses here, at ND, Florida, and the Ravens. It sounds to me that they graded head coaches instead of the whole staff. I still wouldn't have Brady that low but they would more of an argument then.
Did I miss something or did you just call 2 QBs drafted into the NFL "scrubs?"
You only watched half of every game last season, eh?
I don't understand. ND has been torched the last few years in this series. Why would this year be any different?
Torched? You pulled out last second victories in each of the last 2 years..
I think what you all fail to realize is that these schedules are set well in advance of the years they are played in. At the time ND agreed to play S.Fla for example, they were one of the best teams in the country. You also seem to lack the forsight to look at upcoming schedules where BYU, Oklahoma, Miami, FLA, Arizona St, your vaunted UConn and Texas all make appearances on the schedule.
These teams are hardly the Michigan directional schools or Mac powerhouses you are used to getting beat by.
See also: Losing to Tulsa at home and losing to Navy 3 years in a row.
Oh wait...
When was USF "one of the best teams in the country?" I hope you don't mean the one week they were #2 in the country that was immediately followed by 3 losses...that's like trying to tell me UConn was a top team last year. The Big East is a joke of a conference.
Forget their ranking of Michigan. The ranking of Navy which has beaten Notre Dame 3 of the last 4 years is insulting... to Notre Dame! How bad must Notre Dame be if Navy's coaching staff is ranked seven ranks below them. Clearly, Navy must have superior talent.
/sarc
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