Leaving Texas Tech for the Cincinnati seems like a downward move. One of the weirdest coaching moves of the year in my opinion.
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8726388/tommy-tuberville-...
Must be getting a pay raise I
Narduzzi to Texas Tech.
You
We all know the big 12
We all know the big 12 doesn't care at all about defense.
Imagine the Sparty implosion
Imagine the Sparty implosion over that move.
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Yeah, this is a strange move,
Yeah, this is a strange move, but maybe Tuberville thought he was on thin ice after that incident with his assistant coach.
Cincy > Lubbock
Cincy > Lubbock
Pretty much everywhere >
Pretty much everywhere > Lubbock.
Hail to the college whose colors we wear,
Hurrah for the Yellow and Blue!
Columbus = Lubbock of the
Columbus = Lubbock of the North
3-3-5 til the day I die y'all
East Lansing = Lubbock of
East Lansing = Lubbock of Michigan?
3-3-5 til the day I die y'all
Escanaba
Is more like the Lubbock of Michigan. Lubbock is deep in the middle of nowhere.
Have you ever been to East
Have you ever been to East Lansing?
Grow Blue
I wouldn't say that
I wouldn't say that EL is in the middle of nowhere--it's right next to our state's capital.
I love Greg Mattison
woah.
Don't bring Escanaba into this. Lubbock is far worse. As a current resident of Lubbock, I get it Tubbs.
You will now feel the wrath
of unbridled Yooper rage. Escanaba is quite nice nestled on the shores of Little Bay de Noc. I'll take the view of Lake Michigan any day over the greater Lubbock metro area.
The Eskymos (yes, that's how
The Eskymos (yes, that's how it's spelled) will hunt you down like Remnar Soady after giving him some sappy whiskey.
Tradition is something you can't bottle. But it is there to sustain you when you need it most. I've called upon it time and time again.
Escanaba in da Moonlight
Yea, especially in da moonlight. /s
Maybe Cincy is Big12 or ACC
Maybe Cincy is Big12 or ACC bound? Some Texas Tech fans are suggesting they'd have a shot at Dana Holgorson or Sonny Dykes. They aren't going to outbid Ok St. and Dykes isn't leaving Cal before he coaches a game there.
Dykes is going to cal
Lol
He only got the job because he's a Michigan Man not because he was the best. Is that what Michigan is all about? You do the best, you get the job. This MM meme is crap.
Upward Mobility...
"The university has been disappointed by the Big East's massive exodus and lobbied to get into the Atlantic Coast Conference. Instead, rival Louisville got accepted by the ACC, leaving Cincinnati hoping it could make the move in a few more years."
Cincinnati's estimation of its own upward mobility is one context in which a move like this might make sense for them anyway, as the name Tuberville brings with it some credibility already. That, and a few articles out there seem to indicate that Tuberville was looking to make 2012 his last at TTU anyway and that he had hoped for an SEC job ideally, so perhaps this is Tuberville trying to re-establish his own upward mobility (and get into the SEC) by producing winners in a less competitive conference.
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Everything about college
Everything about college football makes so much sense to me lately.
The Team, The Team, The Team.
To paraphrase Sheldon Cooper:
To paraphrase Sheldon Cooper: "This is sarcasm, isn't it?" /s
Cue the Big East > Big XII
Cue the Big East > Big XII schadenfreude
Big East >Sec and Big 12 now.
Big East >Sec and Big 12 now. Cool.
"that's why you don't go to Ohio State, Lawrence"
Technically Louisville is
Technically Louisville is moving to ACC, so it is ACC > SEC > B1G/Pac12 > BigEast > Big12. So ND did the right thing and joined THE power conference. (But then Maryland went and screwed up the entire hypotheses.) /s
(Still love your avatar.)
As a UC fan...
...I am thrilled. This guy is well into his career, too, so the odds of bolting, as so many other coaches have from UC lately, is very low -- plus, hell, he LEFT Texas Tech to come to Cincy. A fantastic hire. I don't think the Bearcats could have asked for much more than this.
You could probably replace
You could probably replace all the UC's and Cincy's with Texas Tech and find that exact quote somewhere on a TTU board 3 years ago. He just bolted from a seeminlgy stable job at TTU so I wouldn't rule him out to do it again
Doubt it.
If he were going from Cincy to Texas Tech, 10 years ago? Sure. This way? I'm not so sure. I think he's going to be there a while. And hell, at Cincy? They'd be happy with anyone who's there more than three years, at this point. All signs were, as others have said, that he was going to be run out of Lubbock soon, anyway.
Tuberville sees where Butch
Tuberville sees where Butch Jones and Brian Kelley ended up...maybe he sees success at Cincinnatti as his way back to the top. When Meyer has his personal issues look for Tuberville to take over Ohio, Texas, the next big SEC job that opens up, or USC if Kiffin flames out...who knows, I just think Tuberville sees the stepping stone that is Cincy. Plus he is now further expanding his recuiting ties from the South to Texas to Ohio. Sounds like a good business move to me.
Does it still count as a
Does it still count as a stepping stone if you are walking down the stairs
The Team, The Team, The Team.
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The Team, The Team, The Team.
1 step back to take 2 steps
1 step back to take 2 steps forward...i also don't consider TTech to be a premier job, but a good one. He now has expanded his recruiting base and is at a school that has produced UT's and ND's coaches.
I guess my thinking is UC has
I guess my thinking is UC has hired up and coming coaches and Tubberville is a retread and known quantity. I don't think UC will open the same doors for him so his decision to take a step backward really confuses me.
The Team, The Team, The Team.
UC has had 3 head coaches in
UC has had 3 head coaches in 7 years. This is the second time in 3 years they will have someone other than their regular season coach leading them into a bowl game. What they wanted, quite obviously, was stability. This gives them that.
There are no points for hiring up and coming coaches when they use your program as a stepping stool and each one leaves without even seeing a single class graduate. What they need is someone who can stabalize all the progress they've made and keep them in the sights of the ACC or Big 12 so they can get out of the disaster that is the Big East.
When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing. -- Bo Schembechler
What's next?
Mack Brown will leave Texas for Colorado State.
Mark Richt will leave Georgia for Wisconsin
Nick Saban will leave Alabama for Auburn
Brian Kelly will leave Notre Dame for Alabama at halftime, and beat himself.
Lol. That last one gave me a
Lol. That last one gave me a good laugh. Thanks
John 14:6 - Jesus said " I am the way the truth and the life, no one comes to the father except through me."
I guess the SEC and MAC
Wanted to get their own coaching exchange program going.
did the orbit of the earth
did the orbit of the earth change and we are all now in some strange opposite world?
Well UC has been a better
Well UC has been a better football program recently.
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
- Vince Lombardi
I guess...
...that means that th big 12 isn't as good as...um...whatever conference Cincinnati is in.
I love logical fallacies so, so much.
Why so difficult to
Why so difficult to comprehend?
I can imagine a world in which people leave jobs when they are simply not happy with the cotextual conditions, relationships, and so on. Humans are not always robotic rational economic actors (yes that is redundant). And coaches tend to be, save a few obvious exceptions, human.
Thinthinatti is a heckth of a
Thinthinatti is a heckth of a thool
We're gonna go inside, we're gonna go outside, inside and outside. We're gonna get 'em on the run boys and once we get 'em on the run we're gonna keep 'em on the run.
This is a head scratcher for me
It will be interesting to hear his reasoning for doing this. Makes me wonder if he was unhappy with the support, or lack there of, in Lubbock.
Kliff Kingsbury to TTU
He'd be skipping the mid-major head coaching step that most have him slated for next, but I think he'd be a great hire.
The Big East is imploding,
The Big East is imploding, Cincy is one of the only plausible schools that could be added to a bigger conference. They saw how Louisville essentially invested their way into the ACC and now they're determined to show a commitment to football so they overpaid to get a big name. Not that surprising. The new Big East football TV deal is likely to only pay out $60 million a year in total, this is desperate for them.
When the ACC implodes, Cincinnati has probably earned their way into the resulting middle class football/elite bball conferences. Which, yes, would be the Big East plus but would have the biggest TV deal of the non-power schools and control the Orange Bowl revenue. T
When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing. -- Bo Schembechler
Huh? Seth Doege threw the
Huh? Seth Doege threw the ball 496 times for almost 4,000 yards. That's not anywhere close to Lloydball.
I mean not everyone is going
I mean not everyone is going to replicate a Mike Leach offense. Also, it's also a little easier when you have Michael Crabtree to throw to.
I mean I'm not trying to say Tubberville is a godsend and I probably don't know as much about TTU as you do but it seems like you're critczizing the dude for not being able to follow in the footsteps of one of the best offensive minds in the nation who had the perfect QB for his system in Harrell and a 2 time Bilieitenkoff winner to boot.
Your previous statement still
Your previous statement still doesn't make sense.
Tuberville wasn't a pass-all-the-time coach before he got to Texas Tech, but he was still flexible enough to allow the team to throw the ball almost 500 times. Whether you like it or not, that's not a conservative approach to football. He might not have been as aggressive as Mike Leach, but that's because Leach is a crazy man. That's like saying Leon Hall wasn't a good cornerback because he wasn't as good as Charles Woodson, or like saying Denard Robinson isn't fast because he's not as fast as Usain Bolt.
Borges to TTU
gotta stick with the coaching tree
When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing. -- Bo Schembechler
I thought he had family ties
I thought he had family ties to that area.. I guess it was about the $$
Maybe he started hearing
Maybe he started hearing stories about CJK5h and wanted to get out of town before they ghosts of the dearly departed 5 started to haunt his sleep.
"The goal, the expectation of this program is the Big Ten Championship"
Must be getting a pay raise I guess.
Looks like Narduzzi is staying at MSU another year.
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