Weekend Wrapup
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baimun
Funkasaurus Rex
You bend over..... grab your ankles.... and the big, sweaty, hairy guy behind you yells "OUPA!!!!" as you wince.
Prages
User Error
I dunno who Rich Rodriguez is.... did he ditch his 12-0 team right before the bowl game, the second one they've EVER been to?
Sort of.
He was WVU's head coach from 2000 to 2007. In 2007, WVU was in the running for a national championship berth, when just before the final game, Rodriguez had a meeting with the University of Michigan. WVU lost that game, and Rodriguez was gone before the January 3 Fiesta Bowl vs. Oklahoma. Bill Stewart was named interim coach, and went on to win the Fiesta Bowl, and later was named as the official head coach of the team.
Rodriguez's departure really left a bad taste in the mouths of every WVU football fan though. Our only consolations are that WVU still won the Fiesta Bowl that year, and Michigan has gone 8-16 the last two years under Rodriguez. WVU's football team is still good, though not as good as we were under Rodriguez. The last two years we've gone 17-7 in the regular season under Stewart, and won both the Fiesta Bowl and the Meineke Car Care Bowl under Stewart. We're in the Gator Bowl this year.
Everyone loved Rodriguez while he was here though. The previous coach, Don Nehlen, had been the coach forever, but lost 8 straight bowl appearances from 1987 to 1998. Rodriguez coached us in 6 bowl games and we won 3 of those. Then the team that he abandoned right before the Fiesta Bowl won that one too.
So yeah, the situation is eerily similar.
FenderPusher
Beardcore Apologist
You bend over..... grab your ankles.... and the big, sweaty, hairy guy behind you yells "OUPA!!!!" as you wince.
Dew Knot Hump
Sausager
It's sort of like Texas Toast, thick cut bread.
When I go out of town and have breakfast I always ask for the Greek Toast out of habit but apparently it's a Chicago thing because the waitress always goes "wheat toast?"
Before I started travelling I never knew how much stuff only existed here. For example, if I walked into a BBQ joint in Texas and said "let me get some tips, a hot link and a pop" they'd say "get the hell out of here, boy."
Sad Navigator
Banned
Coda
Not John Watt
...for years we used to have to mail my uncle who moved to Florida cases of Tastykakes...regional food is regional...
Gary Blanchard
beloved, local musician
Not much of a weekend this past weekend. We are preparing for a multimedia show this Wednesday and my wife is obsessing overy every little detail. We checked that the projector is working, the laptop is working, the Powerpoint file on the hard drive was working, the backup Powerpoint file on CD was working, the other backup file on the flash drive was working, the CD played was working, the connecting cable was working, the back up...well, you get the picture.
Other than that I had a couple of clients on Saturday morning and did some stuff around the house.
Other than that I had a couple of clients on Saturday morning and did some stuff around the house.
FenderPusher
Beardcore Apologist
Tastykakes and Entenmann's... none better.
Kerouac
weird musical dildo
Kelley has only been here for two years. For the last two years we made it to a bowl game, a first for UC and this year we've had an undefeated season. Even worse, the press had already leaked he was leaving before he told his players, who are not happy. A lot of them are putting on their "game faces" but a lot more of them have angrily spoken out about it. Even worse, UC isn't in the championship because of all of the undefeated teams. We're 3rd and while it's exciting going to a bowl game, it's all kinda a kick in the pants.
Oh, and Home Depot gave Brian Kelley the "Coach of the Year" honor.
baimun
Funkasaurus Rex
Even worse, the press had already leaked he was leaving before he told his players, who are not happy. A lot of them are putting on their "game faces" but a lot more of them have angrily spoken out about it. Even worse, UC isn't in the championship because of all of the undefeated teams. We're 3rd and while it's exciting going to a bowl game, it's all kinda a kick in the pants.
Oh, and Home Depot gave Brian Kelley the "Coach of the Year" honor.
I saw all of that on Sportscenter, including the players saying things like "WE got us here... WE did the work... we can win without him..." and such.
It almost made me feel like him taking the job was like joining a gang.... "Okay, first you have to pull the rug out from under all the people who looked up to you all year.... and then your soul will belong to us". messedup0
Kerouac
weird musical dildo
Seriously... how can any of his new players trust him not to do the same thing to them? He's already proved that the $$$ is all that matters to him and that if another offer comes along he'll be gone in a heartbeat.
I hope he fails though. It'll suck for you guys, but damn that shit was cold. This city (and the school) has been damn good to him and we got fucked with a sandpaper condom.
Dew Knot Hump
Sausager
That's one of the main reasons I don't like college football at all, instead of having playoffs the champs are determined by computers and sportswriters.
Psychotronic
Bored Silly
Sat.: Went to the Meadowlands Arena to see Trans-Siberian Orchestra. After several years of turning down an open invitation to see them, I finally relented. For those of you who don't know, I was part of the management team for that project when it started in the 90's. I've since left the biz and wasn't interested in "dating an old girlfriend", as it were. Anyway, I went and hung out backstage briefly before and after the show but didn't stay long. I'll give them this: they have a great stage show! And Joe Walsh came out and did a few of his hits -- man can that cat play.
Sun.: Put up the outside Christmas lights. I try to add to it every year. It's one of my favorite things to do this time of year.
Sun.: Put up the outside Christmas lights. I try to add to it every year. It's one of my favorite things to do this time of year.
Kerouac
weird musical dildo
I'm not really a football fan much at all, but I am loyal to UC because I went there (briefly
) and that's where I met some of my best friends, knew a lot of the guys in the marching band, etc. The whole thing is kinda fucked though. For decades the Bearcats were an afterthought because we had Huggins on basketball duty and now that they've found their legs and are kicking ass they still aren't taken seriously.
baimun
Funkasaurus Rex
Most people here are focusing on statements that he's made over the years that he has always had a couple schools in his sights as "dream jobs" and that the other schools were steps along the way.
They portrayed Cinci like a college that was appreciative of their time together but understood that he was moving on like when a player moves up from college to the pros or such, but perspective is always funny like that.
I can't help but feel that Cinci and their players would have felt much differently about the move if it had happed the week AFTER their bowl game, but what do I know? idn_smilie
Kerouac
weird musical dildo
Yeah, that would've helped. It would've been a blow to the program anyway, but to abandon the guys who helped bring you that kind of high profile attention before their biggest game is fucking weaksauce. If the Bearcats hadn't been this great this season Kelley wouldn't have even been considered.
baimun
Funkasaurus Rex
Agreed.... but I'd put the blame of that weakness 50/50 on his choice and the ND Athletic Director probably saying "the job is yours if you want it today... if you wait 2 weeks we might find someone else".
Kerouac
weird musical dildo
Agreed.... but I'd put the blame of that weakness 50/50 on his choice and the ND Athletic Director probably saying "the job is yours if you want it today... if you wait 2 weeks we might find someone else".
Which is why ND and Kelley both have all of the bad mojo they've got coming to 'em.
Prages
User Error
Kelley has only been here for two years. For the last two years we made it to a bowl game, a first for UC and this year we've had an undefeated season. Even worse, the press had already leaked he was leaving before he told his players, who are not happy. A lot of them are putting on their "game faces" but a lot more of them have angrily spoken out about it. Even worse, UC isn't in the championship because of all of the undefeated teams. We're 3rd and while it's exciting going to a bowl game, it's all kinda a kick in the pants.
Oh, and Home Depot gave Brian Kelley the "Coach of the Year" honor.
Yeah, it sounds a whole lot like the Rich Rodriguez scandal here.
And the year before, there were rumors about him leaving and the boosters raised a bunch of money so they could pay him something like $4 million/year. He stayed for one year, then right before our last game of the season in 07, the rumors started flying about him going to Michigan, and he was officially out the day before the bowl game.
And, there was a $4 million buyout clause in his contract, which he was only 1 year into a 5 year contract or something like that. After he left for Michigan and WVU tried to get their $4 million buyout, Rodriguez tried to sue the University so he could keep the money. I think it ended up being settled for $2 million, which Michigan payed...not Rodriguez himself.