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Big Ten Coaches on the Hot Seat

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cincibuck said:
Oh come on, let's talk about why this thread was started: Franklin isn't leaving Happy Valley anytime soon. Ferentz is a God in corn country. Dontonio has won at least three more years with the Rose Bowl and the CCG. The only way Fitz will leave Northwestern is on a gurney. Wisconsin isn't going to get rid of a coach who they like much more than Black Bart. Minnie - I dunno - Kill has done something up there with limited means. I guess it comes down to how many games he has to miss each season. Sad that a talented coach has to be judged on such a basis. Who cares about Ruskers and Maryland. Give them a couple of years in the conference so that we know how well, or how poorly, they fit into Big 10 football.
Indiana, Purdue and Illinois making changes will surprise no one, so here's the two that matter - how much longer will Basset Ears stay in Lincoln and is Ann Arbor sold on Michelin Man? Nebraska should quickly become the perennial West Division champ. That's what I really dislike about this conference split - they put three and a half of the long term best programs in one division and left one and a half in the West. Same problem the SEC faces. Hoke should enter conference play 4 - 1, with luck 5 and 0. Depends on which Gardner shows up. But if he loses to Notre Dame, Little Brother and Ohio State - and if he gets blown out in two of those - it won't matter what he does with the rest of an admittedly soft schedule.
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The exact two I was wondering about.
Bo seems to have as many lives as his cat when it comes to that job.
I always hope choke can stay alive for another year of laughs...
 
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cincibuck said:
Oh come on, let's talk about why this thread was started: Franklin isn't leaving Happy Valley anytime soon. Ferentz is a God in corn country. Dontonio has won at least three more years with the Rose Bowl and the CCG. The only way Fitz will leave Northwestern is on a gurney. Wisconsin isn't going to get rid of a coach who they like much more than Black Bart. Minnie - I dunno - Kill has done something up there with limited means. I guess it comes down to how many games he has to miss each season. Sad that a talented coach has to be judged on such a basis. Who cares about Ruskers and Maryland. Give them a couple of years in the conference so that we know how well, or how poorly, they fit into Big 10 football.
Indiana, Purdue and Illinois making changes will surprise no one, so here's the two that matter - how much longer will Basset Ears stay in Lincoln and is Ann Arbor sold on Michelin Man? Nebraska should quickly become the perennial West Division champ. That's what I really dislike about this conference split - they put three and a half of the long term best programs in one division and left one and a half in the West. Same problem the SEC faces. Hoke should enter conference play 4 - 1, with luck 5 and 0. Depends on which Gardner shows up. But if he loses to Notre Dame, Little Brother and Ohio State - and if he gets blown out in two of those - it won't matter what he does with the rest of an admittedly soft schedule.
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Not sure about I agree on that one. Most Iowa fans know they're not getting a proper ROI on Ferentz's ridiculous contract. Hell, some of them were pining for Bielema before he split for Fayetteville :lol:. At this point they know they're stuck with Ferentz and are just waiting it out.
 
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Buckeye Pete said:
Came across a site that ranks the Big Ten Coaches and gives a breakdown of each teams expected win totals for the year. Interesting to see how much love Dantonio gets for one frickin good season! Unreal.
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Dantonio is 64-29 at Michigan State, for a .688 winning percentage.

So what would that get him at Ohio State?

Woody Hayes, .761 winning percentage ... FIRED
Earle Bruce, .755 winning percentage ... FIRED
John Cooper, .715 winning percentage ... FIRED
Jim Tressel, .810 winning percentage ... FIRED

Coaches at Ohio State are always on the hot seat.
 
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LordJeffBuck said:
Dantonio is 64-29 at Michigan State, for a .688 winning percentage.

So what would that get him at Ohio State?

Woody Hayes, .761 winning percentage ... FIRED
Earle Bruce, .755 winning percentage ... FIRED
John Cooper, .715 winning percentage ... FIRED
Jim Tressel, .810 winning percentage ... FIRED

Coaches at Ohio State are always on the hot seat.
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In fairness, neither Woody or JT were fired for their record on the field. But, your point is valid. A .688 winning percentage in Columbus won't make for a long stay. And Dantonio's first three seasons 7-6, 9-4, 6-7 (0-3 in bowls) would quite possibly run him out of town.
 
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LordJeffBuck said:
Dantonio is 64-29 at Michigan State, for a .688 winning percentage.

So what would that get him at Ohio State?

Woody Hayes, .761 winning percentage ... FIRED
Earle Bruce, .755 winning percentage ... FIRED
John Cooper, .715 winning percentage ... FIRED
Jim Tressel, .810 winning percentage ... FIRED

Coaches at Ohio State are always on the hot seat.
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I know you're trying to make a point, but having Woody and Tressel there is obviously not true. If your point is fired due to on-the-field success.
 
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LordJeffBuck said:
Dantonio is 64-29 at Michigan State, for a .688 winning percentage.

So what would that get him at Ohio State?

Woody Hayes, .761 winning percentage ... FIRED
Earle Bruce, .755 winning percentage ... FIRED
John Cooper, .715 winning percentage ... FIRED
Jim Tressel, .810 winning percentage ... FIRED

Coaches at Ohio State are always on the hot seat.
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Punched
Screwed
Couldn't beat Michigan (which Dantonio can)
Lied
 
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BuckeyeNation36 said:
I'm fine with Mark Dantonio getting good press. He did a good job with the Buckeyes and has to work harder at recruiting. He's reduced that team up North to secondary status in that state. If we didn't like the loss last season in the championship game, then do something about it this year.
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x2 Dantonio is good for the conference. He's succeeding while Nebraska fails to deliver, scUM is sliding into oblivion, Wisconsin can't do anything out of conference, and State Penn has gone full cult.
For as much as we joke about FSU being in a 1/2 team conference... it's not going so well in the B10 recently either. It's a 2 school conference right now.
 
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kujirakira said:
x2 Dantonio is good for the conference. He's succeeding while Nebraska fails to deliver, scUM is sliding into oblivion, Wisconsin can't do anything out of conference, and State Penn has gone full cult.
For as much as we joke about FSU being in a 1/2 team conference... it's not going so well in the B10 recently either. It's a 2 school conference right now.
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The "Big 2 and Little 8" years would like a word with you. :wink:
 
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Dantonio took over a poor program and has brought it a long way. If that program was in better shape attitude wise and had better talent when he took over his winning percentage would be even better. Dantonio can flat out coach defense so as long as he's there MSU is gonna be solid at the very least. When Dantonio was here OSU was the best tackling team in the country. Now that he's there MSU has the best tacklers. That alone should keep them in the game at Oregon this season.


Pelini took over an in the dumps Nebraska program. He's taken the Huskers to a handful of conference title games and they've beaten some good programs in bowl games too. Most of the bowl games they've lost they had a chance to win too. Nebraska is also doing it with second-tier talent at best. BTW, I saw an interview with their stud DE Gregory who grew up in Indiana. He said OSU was his dream program growing up. How nice would it be to have that kid on OSU's team this year?


When the Huskers were terrifying in the 90s and a little earlier they loaded up on Prop 48 kids. Kids many other power programs stayed away from due to some academic or other issues. I'm pretty sure they did it under their LD program like MSU did in the past. I remember former OSU DB Mike Burden's HS head coach vehemently protesting his selection of OSU. He said Mike need to go to Nebraska or MSU if he was gonna last.


Go Bucks!!!
 
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