2009 College Football Thread

[Waco Kid]

The bottom line is that Wannstedt didn't have a chance to succeed in Chicago because he wasn't Da Coach.

Yeah, that's the reason why Wanny didn't have a chance to succeed in Chicago.

Good god this writer is awful.

[CubFaninHydePark]

 CFiHP's irrational agenda notwithstanding, Wanny's getting the last laugh right now.  

I have an agenda?

Wanny's track record is 1 Bowl Game in 5 years, and a 3-0 shutout to Oregon St. in that bowl game.

He has a good record now, but the one loss on Pitt's schedule tells more about any of their wins against mediocre to bad teams.  The last three weeks will tell the story about this season...but Cincy could still lose to Illinois and then to Pitt.  Even if Pitt wins out, it could be a BCS team w/o a win over a BCS Top 20 school (and if Cincy loses to Illinois, perhaps Top 30).

I'll be excited we're in a BCS game, but I'm not going to delude myself into thinking that Pitt's program or Wanny's coaching is anything close to good.

The best thing that you can say about him is what you could say about his Fins' tenure.  If you give him a little talent and a weak schedule, he can beat most of the teams on that schedule.  That's a ringing endorsement...

[Waco Kid]

 CFiHP's irrational agenda notwithstanding, Wanny's getting the last laugh right now.  

I have an agenda?

Wanny's track record is 1 Bowl Game in 5 years, and a 3-0 shutout to Oregon St. in that bowl game.

He has a good record now, but the one loss on Pitt's schedule tells more about any of their wins against mediocre to bad teams.  The last three weeks will tell the story about this season...but Cincy could still lose to Illinois and then to Pitt.  Even if Pitt wins out, it could be a BCS team w/o a win over a BCS Top 20 school (and if Cincy loses to Illinois, perhaps Top 30).

I'll be excited we're in a BCS game, but I'm not going to delude myself into thinking that Pitt's program or Wanny's coaching is anything close to good.

The best thing that you can say about him is what you could say about his Fins' tenure.  If you give him a little talent and a weak schedule, he can beat most of the teams on that schedule.  That's a ringing endorsement...

Is Cincy not planning on showing up for the game? I hadn't heard anything.

[SKO]

I thought you all would want to know that Wanny has been "rebranded."

http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/The-rebranding-of-Dave-Wannstedt.html

Everything about this piece, down to the author's bio is hilariously awful.  The only thing it gets right is that it would be hilarious if his college coaching internship lasts longer than Fat Charlie's.

I would think you would be somewhat happy with Wannstedt right now.  The guy ended up a disaster here, but in fairness to him, there's something that might be going right for him at Pitt.  Of course, if they lose to ND on Saturday, forget everything I just said.

I remember it like it was yesterady when Wanny and Chew Chew Charlie made their college head coaching debut on the same field in September, 2005.  ND kicked the hell out of Pitt, Wanny was doing his "anxiously combing hand through hair" routine that we had grown all-too familiar with whilst he was coaching the Bears, and life was glorious, at least for those of us who were Bears fans while also backing the Irish.  Holy crud have the times changed since then.  CFiHP's irrational agenda notwithstanding, Wanny's getting the last laugh right now.  

Again, please ignore this post if Coach Frontbutt and Crew somehow fall ass backwards--a la Cosmo Kramer--into a win Saturday, which would be a horrible setback for a Pitt program that still has some tough games ahead this season.

Really? Because he's having a modicum of success in the one conference that the Big Ten can legitimately claim to out rank in a lesser league of football? Yes, I'm shutting up about the complete and abysmal failure the Wannstache was in Chicago because he's managed to win a few ball games over Youngstown State, Buffalo, Navy, Louisville, UConn, Rutgers, Syracuse, and South Florida.The teams Pitt has beaten are 36-42 (.462%), and not a one of them ranks higher than 4th place in any of their respective conferences. The team that beat Pitt was NC State, and they're 4-5 and in 5th place in the ACC Coastal. Woop de damn doo, Wanny's got a top ten team. Has anyone actually Looked at the state of college football this year? Ohio State is back in the top ten somehow, the 4-6 teams are TCU, Cincinnati, and Boise State, and USC is somehow ranked #11, with Oregon at #14, just a week after Oregon beat USC by 27! points. Fuck Wannstache. He hasn't done a fucking thing in his entire career that screams anything other than "I'm mediocre at best, a god damned yinzer accented, franchise destroying, hair-lipped fucktard at worst."

[ChuckD]

I thought you all would want to know that Wanny has been "rebranded."

http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/The-rebranding-of-Dave-Wannstedt.html

Everything about this piece, down to the author's bio is hilariously awful.  The only thing it gets right is that it would be hilarious if his college coaching internship lasts longer than Fat Charlie's.

I would think you would be somewhat happy with Wannstedt right now.  The guy ended up a disaster here, but in fairness to him, there's something that might be going right for him at Pitt.  Of course, if they lose to ND on Saturday, forget everything I just said.

I remember it like it was yesterady when Wanny and Chew Chew Charlie made their college head coaching debut on the same field in September, 2005.  ND kicked the hell out of Pitt, Wanny was doing his "anxiously combing hand through hair" routine that we had grown all-too familiar with whilst he was coaching the Bears, and life was glorious, at least for those of us who were Bears fans while also backing the Irish.  Holy crud have the times changed since then.  CFiHP's irrational agenda notwithstanding, Wanny's getting the last laugh right now.  

Again, please ignore this post if Coach Frontbutt and Crew somehow fall ass backwards--a la Cosmo Kramer--into a win Saturday, which would be a horrible setback for a Pitt program that still has some tough games ahead this season.

Really? Because he's having a modicum of success in the one conference that the Big Ten can legitimately claim to out rank in a lesser league of football? Yes, I'm shutting up about the complete and abysmal failure the Wannstache was in Chicago because he's managed to win a few ball games over Youngstown State, Buffalo, Navy, Louisville, UConn, Rutgers, Syracuse, and South Florida.The teams Pitt has beaten are 36-42 (.462%), and not a one of them ranks higher than 4th place in any of their respective conferences. The team that beat Pitt was NC State, and they're 4-5 and in 5th place in the ACC Coastal. Woop de damn doo, Wanny's got a top ten team. Has anyone actually Looked at the state of college football this year? Ohio State is back in the top ten somehow, the 4-6 teams are TCU, Cincinnati, and Boise State, and USC is somehow ranked #11, with Oregon at #14, just a week after Oregon beat USC by 27! points. Fuck Wannstache. He hasn't done a fucking thing in his entire career that screams anything other than "I'm mediocre at best, a god damned yinzer accented, franchise destroying, hair-lipped fucktard at worst."

Let me tell you a little something about gauging strength of schedule on the combined records of your opponents ...

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[SKO]

I thought you all would want to know that Wanny has been "rebranded."

http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/The-rebranding-of-Dave-Wannstedt.html

Everything about this piece, down to the author's bio is hilariously awful.  The only thing it gets right is that it would be hilarious if his college coaching internship lasts longer than Fat Charlie's.

I would think you would be somewhat happy with Wannstedt right now.  The guy ended up a disaster here, but in fairness to him, there's something that might be going right for him at Pitt.  Of course, if they lose to ND on Saturday, forget everything I just said.

I remember it like it was yesterady when Wanny and Chew Chew Charlie made their college head coaching debut on the same field in September, 2005.  ND kicked the hell out of Pitt, Wanny was doing his "anxiously combing hand through hair" routine that we had grown all-too familiar with whilst he was coaching the Bears, and life was glorious, at least for those of us who were Bears fans while also backing the Irish.  Holy crud have the times changed since then.  CFiHP's irrational agenda notwithstanding, Wanny's getting the last laugh right now.  

Again, please ignore this post if Coach Frontbutt and Crew somehow fall ass backwards--a la Cosmo Kramer--into a win Saturday, which would be a horrible setback for a Pitt program that still has some tough games ahead this season.

Really? Because he's having a modicum of success in the one conference that the Big Ten can legitimately claim to out rank in a lesser league of football? Yes, I'm shutting up about the complete and abysmal failure the Wannstache was in Chicago because he's managed to win a few ball games over Youngstown State, Buffalo, Navy, Louisville, UConn, Rutgers, Syracuse, and South Florida.The teams Pitt has beaten are 36-42 (.462%), and not a one of them ranks higher than 4th place in any of their respective conferences. The team that beat Pitt was NC State, and they're 4-5 and in 5th place in the ACC Coastal. Woop de damn doo, Wanny's got a top ten team. Has anyone actually Looked at the state of college football this year? Ohio State is back in the top ten somehow, the 4-6 teams are TCU, Cincinnati, and Boise State, and USC is somehow ranked #11, with Oregon at #14, just a week after Oregon beat USC by 27! points. Fuck Wannstache. He hasn't done a fucking thing in his entire career that screams anything other than "I'm mediocre at best, a god damned yinzer accented, franchise destroying, hair-lipped fucktard at worst."

Let me tell you a little something about gauging strength of schedule on the combined records of your opponents ...

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That the Big East sucks nearly as much, if not more so, as the Big Ten and that just as Iowa's narrow victories over the "best" Big Ten teams were hollow, so are Pitt's victories over the shittiest of shit teams from the Big East?

[CT III]

I thought you all would want to know that Wanny has been "rebranded."

http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/The-rebranding-of-Dave-Wannstedt.html

Everything about this piece, down to the author's bio is hilariously awful.  The only thing it gets right is that it would be hilarious if his college coaching internship lasts longer than Fat Charlie's.

I would think you would be somewhat happy with Wannstedt right now.  The guy ended up a disaster here, but in fairness to him, there's something that might be going right for him at Pitt.  Of course, if they lose to ND on Saturday, forget everything I just said.

I remember it like it was yesterady when Wanny and Chew Chew Charlie made their college head coaching debut on the same field in September, 2005.  ND kicked the hell out of Pitt, Wanny was doing his "anxiously combing hand through hair" routine that we had grown all-too familiar with whilst he was coaching the Bears, and life was glorious, at least for those of us who were Bears fans while also backing the Irish.  Holy crud have the times changed since then.  CFiHP's irrational agenda notwithstanding, Wanny's getting the last laugh right now.  

Again, please ignore this post if Coach Frontbutt and Crew somehow fall ass backwards--a la Cosmo Kramer--into a win Saturday, which would be a horrible setback for a Pitt program that still has some tough games ahead this season.

Really? Because he's having a modicum of success in the one conference that the Big Ten can legitimately claim to out rank in a lesser league of football? Yes, I'm shutting up about the complete and abysmal failure the Wannstache was in Chicago because he's managed to win a few ball games over Youngstown State, Buffalo, Navy, Louisville, UConn, Rutgers, Syracuse, and South Florida.The teams Pitt has beaten are 36-42 (.462%), and not a one of them ranks higher than 4th place in any of their respective conferences. The team that beat Pitt was NC State, and they're 4-5 and in 5th place in the ACC Coastal. Woop de damn doo, Wanny's got a top ten team. Has anyone actually Looked at the state of college football this year? Ohio State is back in the top ten somehow, the 4-6 teams are TCU, Cincinnati, and Boise State, and USC is somehow ranked #11, with Oregon at #14, just a week after Oregon beat USC by 27! points. Fuck Wannstache. He hasn't done a fucking thing in his entire career that screams anything other than "I'm mediocre at best, a god damned yinzer accented, franchise destroying, hair-lipped fucktard at worst."

Let me tell you a little something about gauging strength of schedule on the combined records of your opponents ...

[/stickpokery]

Let me tell you something about Pat Fitzgerald.  He can take his'n and beat Iowa, and he can take your'n and beat Iowa.

[MAD]

I appreciate SKO's beatdown as I'll gladly defer to him for football thoughts and things, but is the Big East really that bad...I mean worse than the Big 10?  

What about Miami and VA Tech.  Good, yes?

And Pat Fitzgerald's hilarious.  He quotes his old mentor Gary Barnett like he's not an opportunistic scumdouche, and he apparently truly believes that Northwestern has been a perennial power since he had been roaming the middle for that '95 team that began NU's current bowl winless streak by getting spanked in Pasadena by Keyshawn and Co.

[PenFoe]

I appreciate SKO's beatdown as I'll gladly defer to him for football thoughts and things, but is the Big East really that bad...I mean worse than the Big 10?  

What about Miami and VA Tech.  Good, yes?

And Pat Fitzgerald's hilarious.  He quotes his old mentor Gary Barnett like he's not an opportunistic scumdouche, and he apparently truly believes that Northwestern has been a perennial power since he had been roaming the middle for that '95 team that began NU's current bowl einless streak by getting spanked in Pasadena by Keyshawn and Co.

Outside perspective from someone who doesn't really know anything about college football:

Pat Fitzgerald seems like a pretty good coach.

[SKO]

I appreciate SKO's beatdown as I'll gladly defer to him for football thoughts and things, but is the Big East really that bad...I mean worse than the Big 10?  

What about Miami and VA Tech.  Good, yes?

And Pat Fitzgerald's hilarious.  He quotes his old mentor Gary Barnett like he's not an opportunistic scumdouche, and he apparently truly believes that Northwestern has been a perennial power since he had been roaming the middle for that '95 team that began NU's current bowl einless streak by getting spanked in Pasadena by Keyshawn and Co.

They left the Big East for the ACC in 2004. Jesus.

[MAD]

I appreciate SKO's beatdown as I'll gladly defer to him for football thoughts and things, but is the Big East really that bad...I mean worse than the Big 10?  

What about Miami and VA Tech.  Good, yes?

And Pat Fitzgerald's hilarious.  He quotes his old mentor Gary Barnett like he's not an opportunistic scumdouche, and he apparently truly believes that Northwestern has been a perennial power since he had been roaming the middle for that '95 team that began NU's current bowl einless streak by getting spanked in Pasadena by Keyshawn and Co.

They left the Big East for the ACC in 2004. Jesus.

Yes?

[Armchair_QB]

I appreciate SKO's beatdown as I'll gladly defer to him for football thoughts and things, but is the Big East really that bad...I mean worse than the Big 10?  

What about Miami and VA Tech.  Good, yes?

And Pat Fitzgerald's hilarious.  He quotes his old mentor Gary Barnett like he's not an opportunistic scumdouche, and he apparently truly believes that Northwestern has been a perennial power since he had been roaming the middle for that '95 team that began NU's current bowl einless streak by getting spanked in Pasadena by Keyshawn and Co.

Outside perspective from someone who doesn't really know anything about college football:

Pat Fitzgerald seems like a pretty good coach.

That's because he is.

[MAD]

NIU!

When do we play Alabama?

[Internet Apex]

NIU!

When do we play Alabama?

Indoor track season?

[Andy]

Since the Huskies already took down Bama in Tuscaloosa a few years ago, they'll never get invited back.

Jerry Kill is a really good football coach.  He looks like he should be living under a bridge, so DeKalb's a perfect place for him long-term, but I think they did good when they picked him when Joe Novak retired.

If they win at Ohio next week then they go to Central Michigan for a chance to win their half of the MAC, and then play in front of 1200 of their best friends in Ford Field for the MAC title.