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  1. Oregon and Washington are well ahead of the rest of the pack from their top finishes, even if their average isn't quite as separated from the pack. Going back to 1968 (when AP began consistently ranking more than just the top 10), 20 schools have 5 or more top 5 finishes. Nobody else more than 3 (and only Pitt, ASU and UCLA even have 3). Oregon has 6, same as LSU, Auburn and Tennessee. Washington and the much degraded Colorado program have 5. You, of course, mentioned all the ones with more than 6 (the 8 blue bloods, PSU, FSU, Miami, Florida, Clemson, UGA). All of these schools but Tennessee have 3 or more top 3 finishes. Tennessee has 2. Outside those 20, only Pitt and TCU have 2. In fact, there are only 14 top 3 finishes in 54 years that are not one of those 20 schools. Those 20 have 52 of the 54 AP MNCs in that period (Pitt and BYU the outliers). Now Oregon and UW don't have AP titles, but UW has a coaches title. Those 20 (but excluding Colorado now) are the only schools who are a serious threat to finish #1 in any given year. Minnesota is not 3rd tier anymore. They were a blue blood at one point in time, but 1967 was their last really good year. Except for Pitt, the rest of your 3rd tier has no more than 2 top 5 finishes since 1968 and combined only 6 top 3 finishes. Just not on the same level as UW and Oregon.
  2. Cancelling Coastal Carolina didn't surprise me, but UVA-VT being cancelled was a surprise. Could be used to honor the dead. And really, life goes on after tragedies.
  3. Plus a 40-13 loss to Tennessee at home. USC lost by 1 to #14 Utah and beat ranked UCLA and Oregon St. You are really bad at facts.
  4. Yeah. LSU ahead of USC and Tennessee is ridiculous (for those of you who don't remember, Tennessee beat them 40-13 in Baton Rouge mid-season). I'd rate Clemson ahead of them. Clemson, besides having one less loss actually beat Florida St.
  5. So The Game is on Fox at 11 am Saturday. Are you referring to Cal-Stanford or Harvard-Yale? What channel is Ohio St.-Michigan on?
  6. With Washington and Oregon on the fringe of "near blue blood."
  7. One of the things I don't like about divisionless.
  8. I don't like it, but I agree. They will all go that way. Think 6 conferences have already committed to single division by 2023. Big 10, SEC, MAC and Sun Belt are the holdouts.
  9. Some other relevant comparisons: David McWilliams 11-11 John Mackovic 11-10-1 Darrell K. Royal 14-7-1 Fred Akers 18-4 Mack Brown 17-5 Sark is NOT like the latter group.
  10. He's regularly late to scheduled TV shows? That is not normal, responsible behavior. Its not a joke. He's got some sort of issues. (note-I'm taking the poster's word that he is regularly late).
  11. given that we really didn't rough the punter and almost blocked it and our offense did zero all day, not a bad risk. It turned out bad because of Big 12 refs and a flop by the punter, but it wasn't a bad call.
  12. If the players aren't executing, 1) the coach needs them better prepared; 2) the coach needs to bench them; and/or 3) the coach needs to call something they can execute. All 3 are on the coach if it lasts the whole game. And then we stalled and got no points.
  13. bullet

    Who is next?

    I guess the other Kelly is too old to want to move again.
  14. bullet

    Who is next?

    Sure makes it look like a really short list. Patterson is too old and Gundy with his mullet is all Okie St. So Aranda or Chip Kelly.
  15. bullet

    Who is next?

    And Sark would be 3-7 coaching UNC.
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    Who is next?

    Well McWilliams was totally unproven. Mackovic was exactly what he was before. So was Mack Brown-very good but almost always 2nd place. Strong was unproven. Herman was just like he was before. Sark appears to be just like he was before. Maybe we should hire somebody with some history, who at least has been very good before. We keep betting on finding the next DKR, someone relatively young who will be something different than their history would suggest. We're TEXAS. We don't need to gamble on a coach. We can hire someone proven.
  17. There's a difference between giving them confidence and giving them experience in bad situations. In HS when I was a senior, the coach put our 2nd and 3rd best runners, both Sophomores, in the JV division at the district meet in cross-county to help their confidence. He ran the worst sophomore with 4 seniors on varsity. Not surprisingly, we all ran the worst race we had run since early in the season. Not that we had a chance--the top 3 teams in our district were the top 3 teams in the DFW region (and 4th may have been the 4th best, but only 3 made region) and one won state. Now the 2 sophomores finished 1st and 3rd in JV and the team was 4th in region the next year and 2 years later the team won everything until the state meet. That worked for them. But what Sark is doing is what the coach did to that sophomore he put on varsity (who quit and became a trainer for the team). I didn't realize he even finished, he was so far behind everyone else. Its just a bad situation where it hurts their confidence.
  18. I think we're better with Ewers when he's on. But continuing to play him on his bad days is just a mistake. For the team and probably for him.
  19. Ewers sucked 2 of the last 3 weeks. Its on Sark to replace him when he had a bad night. But he DID have an awful night.
  20. So, the SEC steamrolled Washington, Michigan and Notre Dame. Your point is? That we aren't Alabama, Georgia or LSU?
  21. 5-7, 7-6, 7-6, 7-6, 8-4. He sucked at Washington. How do you think he got the name 7 win Sark?
  22. After that night, Ewers probably doesn't deserve the right to wear a mullet. Shave the head!
  23. I think you missed his point. If Plonsky liked it, it had to be a bad hire.
  24. Sark is now 4-9 in one score games. When you have better talent, you should win most of those games.
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