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qcdeac said:
Is there any reason to keep this clown around? The novelty of the playground has worn off.
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I like you but really, this is incredibly easy to avoid if you don't like it (unlike when he's allowed to post on the whole board
 
Not when the little man is next to the thread because I have posted on it. I almost always read new posts on those threads.....particularly during such a dead work week/good sports week. :)
 
I'd walk up to Cantona's face and call him a "dirty frenchman" and tell him "to go back to France" today. There is nothing overly offensive about that.

Well, if he hadn't of made those sweet Nike commercials, of course.
 
KanhojiAngre said:
Abuelaish is a real person. So is Patch Adams. They are not the same person, at all.
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They change the name of shit like that from culture to culture. Like Santa Claus is called Baba Chaghaloo in Afghanistan, Hoji. So maybe they call Patch Adams Abuelaish in Palestine. Don't know that for a fact, but I'm going where the evidence is leading me.
 
BillBrasky said:
Santa goes to Afghanistan? No fucking way.
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Oh yea. Goes by Baba Chaghaloo there. Loves to make jokes with the locals about how he wishes he lived there instead of the North Pole, so he could slap the shit out of Mrs. Claus when she crawls up his ass about stupid bullshit (He's just kidding of course, but she can be a handful from what I hear).
 
Um...yeah.

Seriously. Read the book. It's tremendous. I don't think one could look at the Palestine-Israel debate/"peace process" the same after having done so.
 
Coaches who have made BCS bowls in their first year as a head coach:

Larry Coker, Ralph Friedgen, Charlie Weis, Chris Petersen, Dana Holgorsen, David Shaw

Only Coker and Petersen won. It would be a monumental coaching achievement if Holgorsen won a BCS bowl in his first year considering the circumstances under which he came to the helm of the WVU program. Coker, Petersen and Shaw came into situations ready to win. Holgo took over something that was anything but stable and stocked. It's quite an achievement that he even made it to a BCS game. They were really close to being 6-6 and under Stewart may have been lucky to do that well.

Terrific coach and he's having a really good year recruiting as well.
 
BillBrasky said:
Meh, Holgerson's BCS bid is from the Big East.

Womp. Womp.
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It is worth noting that none of those are from the Big 12, Big 10 or SEC...IMO clearly the top 3 leagues.

Still think that considering the unstable situation he took over, making the BCS in his first year is impressive.

Friedgen and Weis are the only ones that really had to put together a team...the others inherited Ferraris.
 
Gunner Kiel to LSU: Dawning of an era of complete non-competitiveness as LSU + a real QB = blowing people away?

Or...

Top recruit that will be mismanaged and underdeveloped by a coaching staff that doesn't have a great record of developing great QBs?
 
Hahaha Dan Hawkins just went a little nuts in the USAFA/Toledo game over an official's call.

Shades of "It's the Big 12!"
 
KanhojiAngre said:
It is worth noting that none of those are from the Big 12, Big 10 or SEC...IMO clearly the top 3 leagues.

Still think that considering the unstable situation he took over, making the BCS in his first year is impressive.
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EHHHHH, this is a stretch. With Louisville down who else in the conference is even remotely close to a football power? It's basically West Virginia and the 6 dwarves. And West Virginia isn't exactly running train on the Big East.
 
Wakeforest22890 said:
EHHHHH, this is a stretch. With Louisville down who else in the conference is even remotely close to a football power? It's basically West Virginia and the 6 dwarves. And West Virginia isn't exactly running train on the Big East.
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What's a stretch? He got to the BCS in his first year. Not many guys have done that. It's a fact.

The previous coach did not win the conference in any of his 3 full seasons. His recruiting had been poor and it showed in the talent on hand pretty much everywhere except at WR. It's not like Holgorsen jumped into a situation tailor-made to win.

I understand you all don't have the perspective I do from having watched every game, and so you don't understand how close this team was to really not being very good, how low they are on depth from Stewart's insane recruiting plan, how poor their offensive linemen are. You might not be aware that the team's top running back was a true FR that was purely a Holgorsen recruit. You didn't see the many ways he utilized one of the few game breakers he had in Tavon Austin. It may have escaped you how after the Louisville game the team adopted an attitude that said they were more interested in winning than looking pretty (unfortunate that didn't come together earlier in the year). If you watched the whole year and you know what you're watching (disqualifying a lot of fans I realize), you just can't come away with any other conclusion but that Holgorsen did a great job getting a BCS bowl game out of this group.
 
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KanhojiAngre said:
Coaches who have made BCS bowls in their first year as a head coach:

Larry Coker, Ralph Friedgen, Charlie Weis, Chris Petersen, Dana Holgorsen, David Shaw

Only Coker and Petersen won. It would be a monumental coaching achievement if Holgorsen won a BCS bowl in his first year considering the circumstances under which he came to the helm of the WVU program. Coker, Petersen and Shaw came into situations ready to win. Holgo took over something that was anything but stable and stocked. It's quite an achievement that he even made it to a BCS game. They were really close to being 6-6 and under Stewart may have been lucky to do that well.

Terrific coach and he's having a really good year recruiting as well.
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lol @ a really good year in recruiting. One Four star in the class, along with numerous three stars and a two star. I thought West Virginia held themselves in a higher regard compared to schools like Wake?

and uh, West Virginia's year this year isn't some awesome turnaround. Bill Stewart went 9-4 every year at West Virginia..West Virginia is 9-3 this year and very likely to finish 9-4. The only difference is that this year's Big East is the worst year a BCS conference has ever had.
 
KanhojiAngre said:
Gunner Kiel to LSU: Dawning of an era of complete non-competitiveness as LSU + a real QB = blowing people away?

Or...

Top recruit that will be mismanaged and underdeveloped by a coaching staff that doesn't have a great record of developing great QBs?
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Who knows. Les Miles recruited a #1 overall QB only to turn him into a wide receiver.
 
RazorWFU said:
lol @ a really good year in recruiting. One Four star in the class, along with numerous three stars and a two star. I thought West Virginia held themselves in a higher regard compared to schools like Wake?

and uh, West Virginia's year this year isn't some awesome turnaround. Bill Stewart went 9-4 every year at West Virginia..West Virginia is 9-3 this year and very likely to finish 9-4. The only difference is that this year's Big East is the worst year a BCS conference has ever had.
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That's not true. This isn't even the worst year the Big East has had. The league had a 4-way tie at 4-2 one year. That year Pitt got dismantled in their BCS bowl game against Utah and Walt Harris was replaced after a BCS bowl appearance.

Good thing you don't get wins and losses based on recruiting stars. How many stars did Dustin Garrison have? A couple fewer than he should have, that's for sure. Texas wanted to offer Ford Childress this fall but Ford told them not to bother, so they didn't. How do I know? His HS coach posts on the WVU scout board. Childress is very excited about being a Mountaineer and playing for Holgorsen. You all should know as well as anyone that it's all about talent evaluation if you're not recruiting the players that anyone could tell you are good (and even some of those, look at Texas's problems). If Garrison is any indication, Holgorsen and his staff can find diamonds in the rough. And if you look back at Rodriguez's classes from 04-06, Holgorsen's classes blow them away. But RR found guys that fit what he wanted to do. Stewart's classes were good on paper until you looked at who actually made it into school, onto the team and onto the field.

WVU has 27 commits in December. I don't think I've ever seen that. Stewart regularly brought in small classes and then had several people flame out for one reason or another, leading to an acute depth problem. To wit, WVU could sign up to something like 32-33 players as long as enough players count toward last year's recruiting class. I would put quite a bit of money down that WVU has the fewest players on scholarship of any team in a BCS bowl. Holgorsen is getting exactly what the program needs.

WVU's rated #21 on scout right now. Wake Forest is 70th. As anyone that followed Bill Stewart's recruiting can attest, none of that matters if the players don't make it to campus. But to say WVU is recruiting on a similar level to Wake is just not even close. But that only means so much. GT is rated 51st, but I'd bet Paul Johnson doesn't rate them there.

Would you trade Grobe for Holgorsen? If you wouldn't, you don't want to win.
 
Hello said:
Who knows. Les Miles recruited a #1 overall QB only to turn him into a wide receiver.
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How true. Kiel's not likely to be a WR though. Maybe he'll make him a tight end or defensive end lol.

Looking at recent NFL draft results, it's hard to see a real pattern of programs that do a consistently good job developing NFL QBs other than USC. Auburn has a couple, Purdue has had a couple, Florida, Texas not surprisingly. California had Boller and Rodgers but nothing since. Kind of wonder if great QBs aren't most often made before they get to college rather than molded once they get there. Otherwise wouldn't you expect to see a greater concentration of them under certain coaches? Just a thought.

I know if Miles has a real QB and shows an ability to use him with the talent they have had outside the QB position the last few years, they could be historically good.
 
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