OT: Ron English will replace GERG at San Jose State
http://www.mwcconnection.com/2016/1/25/10823966/ron-english-san-jose-st…
Congratulations to Coach English, and hope he learned from his EMU experience.
Another potential patient for Heiko in the Bay Area...
January 25th, 2016 at 1:29 PM ^
Congrats to coach E! Was hoping he could pull in a HC gig.
January 25th, 2016 at 3:32 PM ^
EMU has been a career-killer for coaches for the last 25 years. I hope English can get back the DC mojo he had before the last two games of 2006 and the first two of 2007. I always thought he deserved better than what he got after he left Michigan. I was pretty disgusted that EMU was the best offer he got.
January 25th, 2016 at 2:28 PM ^
Don't give up, Greg. Remember the Little Engine that Could.
January 25th, 2016 at 1:33 PM ^
Hope this is the start of something big!
January 25th, 2016 at 1:34 PM ^
Good for him, but it is really funny to see SJSU being set up as a halfway house for old Michigan coordinators.
January 25th, 2016 at 5:16 PM ^
All of our former coordinators are rotating through San Jose State. You could say our coaching talent has been.....poor over the last decade
January 25th, 2016 at 1:36 PM ^
January 25th, 2016 at 1:42 PM ^
Being awesome on WTKA on Fridays before home games. Other than that... I don't know.
January 25th, 2016 at 3:25 PM ^
Doing what every former EMU coach is doing: wondering why he ever took a coaching job at EMU.
January 25th, 2016 at 4:17 PM ^
January 25th, 2016 at 1:41 PM ^
IIRC, he was fired for some homophobic screed after a loss (any given Saturday at EMU). Before that, he had some dodgy observations about how players from single-parent families were inherently high risk.
San Jose ain't San Francisco, but hopefully Coach English brought along a new filter. But still, I always think of this when I think of his great defenses at Michigan from about a decade ago [NSFW]:
January 25th, 2016 at 3:18 PM ^
...has been running the S---bird defense for a few years now.
January 25th, 2016 at 1:44 PM ^
I have no idea why he ever took that EMU job. It's impossible to win there. But he's still a young man so hopefully he'll do well enough to start climbing the ladder again.
January 25th, 2016 at 1:53 PM ^
I wonder why that is. It is the closest school to the Metro Detroit talent base and be honest EMU isn't going up against UM/MSU for recruits. EMU is going against WMU, CMU, and Toledo. A good coach should be able to pull in most of the MAC level talent in the Detroit Area. Otherwise I guess I don't know much about EMU as a school. But no MAC schools are recruiting on Academics (other than Miami Ohio). Seems like with the right coach they should be able to do well. I know they have atrocious facilities but isn't that something they are addressing?
January 25th, 2016 at 2:01 PM ^
Why does Michigan beat out Miami (YTM) or Cal for recruits? I don't claim to be an expert on MAC football, but it seems that higher level MAC recruits would be willing to go slightly farther to play for a WMU or Ohio or N. Illinois vs. Eastern if given the chance. Everything about EMU football just seems sad and low quality. Their stadium is a joke, they don't play in any early season higher profile games, and they continually struggle to bring in quality coaching. I'd rather just go across the state and play for PJ Fleck.
January 25th, 2016 at 2:56 PM ^
EMU should bring a passing spread offense and get one of these under recruited QBs from the state to run it. There should be something they can sell to the kids besides playing on a gray football field.
There's no reason why GVSU or SVSU should have a better team than EMU.
January 25th, 2016 at 2:04 PM ^
It's an average commuter state school with absolutely no fan or student interest and no history of success whatsoever, and just about a five-minute drive from a national football powerhouse. Ergo, why EMU is absolutely terrible. It shouldn't be that surprising they don't get talent in there.
Plus,
January 25th, 2016 at 2:21 PM ^
What the fuck are they doing? Why the hell would any team come out of the tunnel like that. This is the dumbest thing I can imagine a football team doing to start a game (well, not the dumbest thing, but pretty dumb).
January 25th, 2016 at 2:42 PM ^
This probably did not make it much past the followers of MAC football or Detroit media (the reasoning, that is - the video went viral in ten minutes), but this was the inaugural entrance of the EMU football team to "The Factory", which is essentially the attempt at rebranding EMU football into something which sounds as if it churns out meaningful things. I think that clip is from the 2014 game against Morgan State, which Eastern actually won despite coughing up about 450 yards of offense to a MEAC school, as I recall.
January 25th, 2016 at 2:57 PM ^
I left at halftime as they trailed Northern Iowa 3-0. Only cool thing was seeing a half baked Charlie Batch outside the stadium.
January 25th, 2016 at 3:00 PM ^
This cannot be real.
January 25th, 2016 at 3:05 PM ^
"It is unclear exactly what made Eastern Michigan think entering the field through a brick wall would be a good idea. However, it’s possible the move was an homage to the Eagles’ new concrete gray turf.
“Having gray turf, that’s something that no else in the nation has,” said Eastern Michigan offensive lineman Lincoln Hansen, one of the guys trying to break the concrete wall in the video. “It’s unique, and it’s something that puts us on people’s minds.”
http://www.laughspin.com/2014/08/31/eastern-michigan-football-concrete-…
“The wrench, the field, the concrete wall, we know people will have comments, but they all have real meaning for us,” Creighton said. “It all goes back to the idea of investing, and working for something. It is about putting on those steel-toed boots, and going to work.”
https://emutalkarchive.wordpress.com/2014/09/04/emu-football-team-stick…
January 25th, 2016 at 3:26 PM ^
They should roll with this. Keep doing it each week. If you think of EMU as that school with the goofy field entrance where they knock down a concrete wall, very slowly . . . hey, at least you're associating them with something.
January 25th, 2016 at 3:58 PM ^
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January 25th, 2016 at 2:27 PM ^
January 25th, 2016 at 2:41 PM ^
There was a party store in Ypsi with an owner that was super coked out all the time. He would sell booze to pretty much anyone. So Ypsi had had going for it, which was nice.
/he's probably dead now.
January 25th, 2016 at 3:20 PM ^
January 25th, 2016 at 3:18 PM ^
Eastern simply has no identity in football. This has a lot to do with being located right next to Ann Arbor. Central and Western are isolated enough that they can draw locals who want to take in a college football game. If you live in Washtenaw County and are thinking of going to a college football game, are you going to choose the EMU game over U-M?
January 25th, 2016 at 3:56 PM ^
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January 25th, 2016 at 3:46 PM ^
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January 25th, 2016 at 2:06 PM ^
Is to admit you are powerless over the spread offense and running quarterbacks. (Piggybacking on the halfway house comment earlier)
January 25th, 2016 at 2:44 PM ^
January 25th, 2016 at 3:35 PM ^
You're thinking of Jimmy Clausen.
Brookfield Zoo by Chicago recently added an exhibit with several you can walk amongst, and, from my experience, they don't bite--they seem to just like chewing on shoelaces. As a side note, the emus are in the same exhibit as the wallabies, and I may or may not have once seen Wyatt Shallman walking out of the zoo with one.
January 25th, 2016 at 3:40 PM ^
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January 25th, 2016 at 2:46 PM ^
I don't recall much fan angst over him at all, apart from the fact that we could never stop a spread QB, which is true of every M coordinator of all time including Durkin.
January 25th, 2016 at 2:55 PM ^
The Horror
January 25th, 2016 at 3:07 PM ^
Other than that, he was pretty damn good here.
And while I blame him the most for that particular event, there was plenty of blame to go around that day.
January 25th, 2016 at 3:38 PM ^
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January 25th, 2016 at 2:50 PM ^
Congrats to coach E!!!!
January 25th, 2016 at 3:07 PM ^
...when Borges leaves.
January 25th, 2016 at 3:17 PM ^
hired English over Brady Hoke at Oregon, but that's just me.
January 25th, 2016 at 3:37 PM ^
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January 25th, 2016 at 7:44 PM ^