Franklin to South Bend....

JoeBot409

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Haha. Wow you are really trying hard. Rahne at OD and Pry at VT ( that is not to bad). Coach chaos is with the giants. How is Herb Hand, John Donovan, and the other bums doing? I bet in your eyes his coaching tree rivals Nick Saban’s.
 

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Haha. Wow you are really trying hard. Rahne at OD and Pry at VT ( that is not to bad). Coach chaos is with the giants. How is Herb Hand, John Donovan, and the other bums doing? I bet in your eyes his coaching tree rivals Nick Saban’s.
Out of curiosity, how does it compare to Saban's first 10 years as HC? And judged vs the same time period.

Does Saban get credit for Kiffin? He was a HC before working for Saban.
 
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Don’t worry. Franklin will issue a statement confirming his unwavering commitment to Penn State imminently.

o_O
 
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Will save you the click.

A FEW OTHER NAMES WORTH MONITORING: John Harbaugh, the Baltimore Ravens’ coach. Harbaugh has direct ties to some members of the Irish staff, has visited campus and talked ball with Notre Dame coaches in recent years and … oh yeah, his daughter, Alison, is an all-conference member of the Notre Dame women’s lacrosse team. Maybe casually keep an eye on … Carolina Panthers coach Matt Rhule and Penn State coach James Franklin.
 
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A FEW OTHER NAMES WORTH MONITORING: John Harbaugh, the Baltimore Ravens’ coach. Harbaugh has direct ties to some members of the Irish staff, has visited campus and talked ball with Notre Dame coaches in recent years and … oh yeah, his daughter, Alison, is an all-conference member of the Notre Dame women’s lacrosse team. Maybe casually keep an eye on … Carolina Panthers coach Matt Rhule and Penn State coach James Franklin.

With the tuition discount Harbaugh makes sense.
 

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A FEW OTHER NAMES WORTH MONITORING: John Harbaugh, the Baltimore Ravens’ coach. Harbaugh has direct ties to some members of the Irish staff, has visited campus and talked ball with Notre Dame coaches in recent years and … oh yeah, his daughter, Alison, is an all-conference member of the Notre Dame women’s lacrosse team. Maybe casually keep an eye on … Carolina Panthers coach Matt Rhule and Penn State coach James Franklin.
Will save you the click.

A FEW OTHER NAMES WORTH MONITORING: John Harbaugh, the Baltimore Ravens’ coach. Harbaugh has direct ties to some members of the Irish staff, has visited campus and talked ball with Notre Dame coaches in recent years and … oh yeah, his daughter, Alison, is an all-conference member of the Notre Dame women’s lacrosse team. Maybe casually keep an eye on … Carolina Panthers coach Matt Rhule and Penn State coach James Franklin.
It probably would have been better to not bother. If I wanted to read fiction, there are a lot of writers better at it than these clowns.
 

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Fickell almsot took SC job, then found out Kelly might be leaving, sounds like ND will wait for Fick.. per Neuhesial today on the radio..
 

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Fickell almsot took SC job, then found out Kelly might be leaving, sounds like ND will wait for Fick.. per Neuhesial today on the radio..
I don't buy the idea that Riley was a second choice for USC. Comparing who is getting hired with the lists of candidates that had been thrown out there by various talking heads, I think 99.999% of what is being thrown out there is the writer/speaker's guess and nothing more. I'm not knocking you for repeating what Neuheisel said, I just think he's doing with the rest are doing.
 
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I don't buy the idea that Riley was a second choice for USC. Comparing who is getting hired with the lists of candidates that had been thrown out there by various talking heads, I think 99.999% of what is being thrown out there is the writer/speaker's guess and nothing more. I'm not knocking you for repeating what Neuheisel said, I just think he's doing with the rest are doing.
Who knows what is ultimately true, but Fickell was Bohns guy at Cinci, so it makes sense he would want him in LA, also makes sense that Fickell, a Catholic.idwest guy would really want ND. Think ND still in the playoff pic just couldn't wait on Fickell and had to make this move.
 

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Who knows what is ultimately true, but Fickell was Bohns guy at Cinci, so it makes sense he would want him in LA, also makes sense that Fickell, a Catholic.idwest guy would really want ND. Think ND still in the playoff pic just couldn't wait on Fickell and had to make this move.
Fickell to ND would have made a ton of sense for both parties. I wonder if ND tried to get him to jump early with all the rest of the changes and Fickell refused. If that's the case, I commend Fickell for sticking it out in Cincinnati. That had to be a very tough decision.

While I don't have any issues with these coaching changes, the timing of them stinks. All driven by the early signing period and trying to maintain and/or build recruiting classes.