Can’t really start a search for new head coach while your current one is just suspended…
Or maybe it’s just that after you leave Washington, people notice that you’re fucked up all the time.
Ducks heading up to Seattle for possibly their last interesting game of the season this weekend. One of the few bright spots in this miserable season is that the Beavers are also having a horrific season by their own, rather more modest, standards, so the Civil War is still looking like a win. The rest of the schedule is Cal, Stanford, ASU and USC, and I think it would be optimistic to see even one win coming out of there.
So keeping the 11 year win streak against our archrival alive might be the high point of the season. Besides, it will be really fun if the Duck fans in Seattle get to wave some of those stupid “12” flags the Seahawks use after the game.
Helfrich is pointing out that we ALMOST beat MSU and WSU, and could very easily be 5-1. I guess that’s true, but then we’d be…a 5-1 team that barely beat WSU and still has the meat of the schedule coming up. Maybe we haven’t really gotten this bad at football that fast, but I am taking it one week at a time.
And in my continuing effort to distract myself from this year’s Duck team, I note that Hroniss Grasu made his debut starting at center for the Bears in a win yesterday!
Recent results to the contrary, I cannot accept that the Bears are good or the Ducks are bad. Anything good that happens is always a pleasant surprise. (40 years of frustration will do that to one’s psyche.)
Speaking of which, Spurrier is retiring, effective immediately.
Time to look for another former, big name college coach to reach new levels of mediocrity! Any suggestions? I’ve heard Jim Tressel’s name tossed around (not really).
Holy shit; Spurrier is 70???
I remember when he took over at Florida, he seemed so young. <checks calendar> Holy shit; I’m how old now??? That can’t possibly be right… <vague muttering>
Next coach is probably currently working anyway. Maybe in Philly…
What’s about to come out at South Carolina? Abrupt midseason “retirements” just don’t happen.
There is a press conference scheduled for noon, but it doesn’t surprise me too much. Spurrier seems like the kind of guy who knows when to call it quits. I can’t imagine a scenario where he is being forced out.
If he quits now, he retires without ever having a losing season.
That’s a good point. I can’t believe he’s been at USC almost as long as he was UF
Losing season in his first year at Duke as well with the Redskins.
Now he’s just The Old Ball Coach.
Apparently not or he would have retired after last season. He said he left the NFL because he didn’t give a damn anymore and I suspect he feels the same way now.
bite your tongue!!
At the press conference he said winning the bowl game last year “reenergized” him. I bet he’s wishing he’d called it a day then, but he’d never admit that now.
Well, Mr. Dantonio, it’s been nice knowing you. I’m betting South Carolina is about to back a Brinks truck up to your house and help you unload it.
I know he played for South Carolina, but Dantonio would have to be an utter fool to leave Michigan State for USC, and I am betting he knows that.
I hope so. The weather is certainly more agreeable up here, he has a good relationship with the powers that be, he gets on well with Izzo, the facilities are quite good. My concern is that he may be nostalgic for his alma mater.
The last successful B1G coach who took over a mediocre SEC team is probably regretting that move.
The Brinks truck coming out of SC isn’t as heavy as it is out of some other SEC schools…