Pelini is from Youngstown. He is a graduate of Cardinal Mooney High School.
Based on the two (2) audio tape leaks, I would highly-doubt he would be hired here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Pelini
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Coach Stoops Better Replace D.J. Eliot After the Season...
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Based on the two (2) audio tape leaks, I would highly-doubt he would be hired here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Pelini
He called his last AD a pu**y amongst other things, I cant imagine what he would say about MB...
UK's responsibility is to win the game vs who they play. If the three teams are not good that's not UK's fault.
That is a true statement.
That said, when we still to need win 3 more and the level of play against the poor competition is lacking then it is ok to be concerned and discuss the performance on the field and the coaching.
Southern Miss is not good either. They didn't perform their responsibility there correct?
rabid cat, I don't think Coach Stoops is going to turn the reigns 100% back to
DJ. He can not afford to, since his job depends on it. I do think he will let Eliot keep the title of DC, but run the program very much as it has the last 3 games.
They are friends, and he will cover up for Eliot as best he can. Let me ask you something, "If your job depended on certain actions, and you were the best at doing it, would you designate it to someone else? I know I wouldn't!
OLD STOLL FIELD GUY!
So if we dont go to a bowl game the stands will be empty? Then UK footaball fans suck. Period.
Yup. Our athletic department only cares about money, so the only way to make them take football seriously is to take their money away.
Would I designate the job to someone else if my job depended on it? NO, but if I was in "I couldn't give a $h!t mode" and had the kind of buyout that CS has, I might just do it. Most of us don't have the luxury of a $12 million dollar buyout looming over the heads of our employers and CS seems to be just pissed enough at the fan-base right now that he may have that "I don't give a crap" mentality. My guess is that after the season, he may revert back to allowing DJ to make the play calls purely out of spite, especially if it doesn't look like we are going to have a good/great season.
If you can't see the clear difference in not only how the D has looked but how it has functioned on multiple levels then I don't think you know much about football.
A big component of the D Coordinator is making the calls and dealing with player rotations. That has clearly been a BIG issue that has been resolved since Stoops started handling both of those duties during games. I lost ALL faith in Elliot when we basically played the same 3 downlinemen the entire game against USM and couldn't stop the same running plays run over and over again. His excuses after the game that they had to show it in practice even to give breather reps was beyond inexcusable as the other team marched up and down the field. Add that to the fact the defensive play calling seems much more creative with lots of timely blitzes. I haven't seen players looking to the sidelines with there hands in the air looking for a call since Stoops took over. That was an every game occurance with Elliot calling the plays.
The old "you don't know anything about football" because we disagree comment eh?
Anywho, the substitutions was a fair point but was corrected after the USM game and the D still looked horrid against UF and NMSU.
Stoops "took over the D" after the UF game and yet NMSU had no trouble scoring against us and neither did Bama, but of course that's Bama and they toyed with us a bit getting their young QB some passing reps in non passing situations.
And USCjr and Vandy have two of the most anemic offenses in ALL of college football so for me, the jury is still out on the D.
Let's reevaluate after facing some half way decent offenses and go from there shall we?
Gran and Hinshaw have an approach and relationship that is not like every other OC and QB coach.
I was responding to another message that used them as an example - but my point was more the assistant protocol:
OC on field - QB coach in box. Assistant to assistant. That is how 99% of teams do it.
Versus Head Coach on field handling the entire defense and Defensive Coordinator in box.
The HC has a lot to do, that is why they usually have coordinators. Not that it hasn't been done or that we couldn't do it.
We had best keep it like it is with the way the boys are playing on defense.
Is Chavis a good DC? Does TAMU have a good defense? You don't have to play the best offenses to assess improvement in a defense.
The defense played a very good team about as well as they could.
I am one of those that do not believe Bama took us too seriously, very questionable play calling and player substitutions, ect. And especially after watching the Arkansas game.
That said it was still Alabama, with the best players and coaches in America, and our offense put our D in bad spots. We played hard and did not lay down like we did in Florida.
Losing by 4 TDs is tough to find many positives but I certainly can attest to the energy level and effort. I think that game helped us more than it hurt.
And I am saying it is a good analogy. Many DCs sit in the booth. In this case, our DC is on the field with eyes in the sky that are on his same page and understand his approach. Not every team has that successfully. And that was not how UK was doing it previously.
And, many HCs retain the duties they had as coordinators. Many. More today than we used to see, by my observation. Some guys like Richt and Stoops are leaning back to that and are having success. Others, like Fischer and Harbaugh and Petrino, never really gave up control.
Elliot needs to be re-assigned to just coaching DE's.
Brumbaugh and Schlarmann both needed to be fired LAST YEAR. Brumbaugh was only brought in to help with recruiting Zedarius Smith, so keeping him made no real sense.
I had high hopes for Schlarmann, especially since he played here.
Jeff Graves will likely be out of a job at the end of the year (LSU) and imo is one of (if not the) best O-Line coaches in the country.
Brumbaugh and Schlarmann both needed to be fired LAST YEAR. Brumbaugh was only brought in to help with recruiting Zedarius Smith, so keeping him made no real sense.
I had high hopes for Schlarmann, especially since he played here.
Jeff Graves will likely be out of a job at the end of the year (LSU) and imo is one of (if not the) best O-Line coaches in the country.