Charlie Strong to South Florida
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He'll have their strength and conditioning program as good as any team in the country... the roids will be flowing like a river
Great fit for Cholly. No idea what they're going to pay him, but that's a job he can retire comfortably from with a fraction of the hassle and expectations of Tejas. At age 56, that's a retirement destination with a really nice paycheck.
I still maintain that ESPN owes jurich a ton of favors for him scheduling a game on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday (high school footballs night, although that is a bit of a joke now), with an occasional Saturday game-------not to mention playing on the sabbath. This shows up in a lot of ways, primarily in the slimeball that WAS the NROTY (twice, we know how he did it at the U, how did he do it at UL? The same way pretty obviously.) getting all of the credit from his great class transferred to Charlie. His great class in 2010 (NOT Strong's, who won the NROTY?) had five four stars from Miami, and MORE than half the commits from Florida, IIRC, one from Louisville and maybe another one from Kentucky.
Weird how hurtt just disappeared from the face of the earth as far as being mentioned by ESPN AND Transfer U as soon as his sordid past became public--------although I am convinced that BOTH jurich AND Strong knew all about it before he was hired.
Here is an excerpt from ESPN's writeup on the hiring:
."In the two NFL drafts after Strong left Louisville for Texas, the Cardinals had eight players selected in the 2014 draft and 10 players taken in the 2015 draft, including four first-rounders. One of Strong's top players at Louisville was current Vikings quarterback Teddy Bridgewater, whom Strong recruited out of Miami."
Pretty sure hurtt was the prime mover in the recruitment of BW, AND the other ELEVEN Florida commits from the 2010 class.
Weird how hurtt just disappeared from the face of the earth as far as being mentioned by ESPN AND Transfer U as soon as his sordid past became public--------although I am convinced that BOTH jurich AND Strong knew all about it before he was hired.
Here is an excerpt from ESPN's writeup on the hiring:
."In the two NFL drafts after Strong left Louisville for Texas, the Cardinals had eight players selected in the 2014 draft and 10 players taken in the 2015 draft, including four first-rounders. One of Strong's top players at Louisville was current Vikings quarterback Teddy Bridgewater, whom Strong recruited out of Miami."
Pretty sure hurtt was the prime mover in the recruitment of BW, AND the other ELEVEN Florida commits from the 2010 class.
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This is a very good fit for Charlie Strong. Good recruiting area
Charlie Strong is a good coach and a big name for that school. His reputation and experience alone will draw kids from that area to USF. USF former Coach Willie Taggard has landed at Oregon and will also draw many Florida kids out west. Look for both USF and Oregon to be on the same offer list as many UK targets from Florida.
Not sure why Charlie wanted to give her the dirty bird in the first place. Bow-wow.
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Agreed. I always said charlie wouldnt last at texas because his success was a byproduct of uofl and their below average schedule. He had a few decent victories but mostly because he had some decent players. As a head coach hes just not very good.
What do you mean Charlie is a terrible head coach? That's asinine. He inherited an absolute mess here and took us to a bowl in his first year. Not to mention he won the Sugar Bowl over a Florida team that had an argument for being in the title game that year.
Charlie inherited a mess at Texas and only failed because the expectations are so out of hand in Texas. Plus he was set up to fail from the get go. While Charlie is no Bobby, he is still one of the premier coaches in the country. To say he is a terrible head coach is one of the dumber things I've ever seen on these boards. He is an amazing coach.
Charlie is a pretty good coach but overrated as a recruiter. Without Butt-Hurtt to cheat for him at Texas, he struggled to attract top talent. Last year, Texas did not land a single instate recruit ranked in the top 35. That is an epic failure for what used to be the state's premier program.
He had success at Transfer U because of the talent the two time NROtY brought in, and we all know how hurtt did that-------and I am sure both Charlie and jurich knew what they were getting before he was hired, Charlie recruiting against him in the same state and probably signing recruits that hurtt had also recruited, why wouldn't they enlighten him? Why do you think Charlie had to have him at TU to take the job, seems like the other coach they hired did pretty good recruiting without him. It should be national headline news when Thug U turns down a coach that won the NROTY TWICE-------and that coach was NOT Charlie Strong..
Do you think the $5,000 "loan" that hurtt was given by the scam artist at the U was to keep hurtt's electricity from being cut off or was it for 50 $100 handshakes? If you think it was to keep the electricity on maybe I can get you in contact with the jailbird that had $930,000,000 of other people's money he had to spend before they caught up with him, he probably can still get you some great investment deals.
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I happened to look up the four stars in Texas in 2010 and there were 44 from that state-------not counting the FIVE stars. That was a year when the whole state of Kentucky had ZERO four stars, and I think we got the highest rated to commit, Patterson, a 5.7 Remember him?
That year Texas had a full class with about 15 four stars, and out of the whole class I think there were THREE from out of state, Texas was THE destination for most of the top talent in the state before hitting the skids. Sstill has tremendous recruiting advantages, watch out for them now that they hired a real coach if he pans out. Although they have a big hole to dig themselves out of they still have talent we would love to have here.
Let's see. One time he chose offense when he won the coin toss in overtime. I'm pretty sure he tried to defer to the other team at the beginning of the game and at the beginning of the 2nd half. Other than that, I agree with you. You might as well call the guy Bear Strong.
He cheated to get players at UL. Btw, how did you like UK beating that *** in the Pizza Pit? Probably about the same way you will like Cal beating Pimptino like he does every year later this month at the Bankruptcy Center.
From my post above:
Here is an excerpt from ESPN's writeup on the hiring:
."In the two NFL drafts after Strong left Louisville for Texas, the Cardinals had eight players selected in the 2014 draft and 10 players taken in the 2015 draft, including four first-rounders. One of Strong's top players at Louisville was current Vikings quarterback Teddy Bridgewater, whom Strong recruited out of Miami."
Pretty sure hurtt was the prime mover in the recruitment of BW, AND the other ELEVEN Florida commits from the 2010 class.
So, doesn't that sound like pretty good talent for Charlie to work with considering their schedule?
And how in hell did they manage to attract that kind of talent to a program that wasn't very good at the time? The beaches on the Ohio river where you can't eat the fish? I think hurtt is the answer, although jurich did yeoman work scanning the police release records and players kicked out of real Universities.
Here is an excerpt from ESPN's writeup on the hiring:
."In the two NFL drafts after Strong left Louisville for Texas, the Cardinals had eight players selected in the 2014 draft and 10 players taken in the 2015 draft, including four first-rounders. One of Strong's top players at Louisville was current Vikings quarterback Teddy Bridgewater, whom Strong recruited out of Miami."
Pretty sure hurtt was the prime mover in the recruitment of BW, AND the other ELEVEN Florida commits from the 2010 class.
So, doesn't that sound like pretty good talent for Charlie to work with considering their schedule?
And how in hell did they manage to attract that kind of talent to a program that wasn't very good at the time? The beaches on the Ohio river where you can't eat the fish? I think hurtt is the answer, although jurich did yeoman work scanning the police release records and players kicked out of real Universities.
Maybe he can get hurtt back, didn't he have to have him to take the Thug U job, since they have such a poor recruiting record, and Knoxville did lose one of their bigger attractions due to the NCAA banning the "Orange Pride"-------well, officially at least.
And they could be running out of high paying jobs for relatives also, those are probably reserved for top ten rated recruits.
Now now thats all ancient history to cards fans. We cant keep living off of past achievements. We know in basketball its our super bowl and they dont really care about pimptino losing to Cal almost every year.
Glad he's not going back to louisville. Much better coach than who they have there now. Only three loses his final two years there. Bobby Petrino has the Heisman trophy winner and got that many in one year. So far.
Charlie, Lane, and Butch all in Florida is going to make recruiting there tougher.
Charlie, Lane, and Butch all in Florida is going to make recruiting there tougher.