I'm worried about the Northwestern coach with promises of above .500 with tough academic standards.

If we hire Pat Fitzgerald, I'm taking someone with me.

Hell I'd rather just rehire Ty if this guy gets any whiff of serious consideration. But I think any talk is more to get Irish fans tilted than anything else. Although with this administration...

But he's like, totally Irish man. Las Vegas told me so:

must be Irish owned...

Looks like Gruden out as a potential replacement

If it makes you guys feel any better, when Lloyd retired, the rumor mills spun with all kind of terrible-sounding options, many of whom were just Lloyd's buddies -- Kirk Ferentz, Jim Grobe, Mike Trogvac, Brady Hoke, Mike DeBord, Ron English, etc. -- so that when we finally hired RR, everyone pretty much went gaga because every other name before him was thought to be not worthy.

So if I were an AD and I were running a coaching search, I'd totally leak some names I wasn't really considering that people would find underwhelming to set the bar low. Then you hire the guy you think is competent and has a better reputation than the schlubs you leaked, and even the potential critics will have to think "well at least we didn't go the Pat Fitzgerald route!"

I have to say, this Bob Stoops quote is fairly promising:

Never said anything about not being interested or staying at OU, just that there was no job open. I still highly doubt it, but that quote seems pretty strange.

Do not tease me like that. I've been trained to give equivocating answers like this if I'm a POW. Probably a meta-level, but we'll see.

I think in 04 we did the oppositte of what DVaut said, we started with Urban and moved down the line. At the end of the 05 Pitt game I thought we had lucked out, now I wonder what would have happened if we hired Mariuchi.

Probably ND will react to what we did wrong last time... Fired coach without replacement set up and then hired someone who had never been HC before... and do the opposite.

After the 5 year chorus of "NFL guy not understanding the college game" they are more likely to take a cfb coach, unless they recall Pete Carrol was an NFL guy.

I am not keen on Stoops. He's most famous for his losses, especially the hilarious ones in the BCS. We've had more than our share of quality-losses under Weis.

Stoops would probably be an upgrade all the same. Kelly is my first choice obviously, but anyone with a track record of consistent success (which Stoops has like it or lump it) in terms of getting teams in the BCS mix is an upgrade from where we are now.

Kelly is in a much stronger position than people think tbh. He's likely going to the BCS again this year, and can expect to be really competitive around Collaros going forward. He signed a big contract recently, and is getting well paid at present. If he doesn't like anything about the ND hiring process or the school's football prospects long term he can pass. Likely, he will be in the mixer for any major program jobs that open up over the next three years (and some will). The assumption that he will automatically jump on our bus is pretty arrogant imo. There is plenty that is unattractive about coaching here, and in some respects it might be the worst next step up for a coach like Kelly.

No doubt. My memories of the attempt to woo UM 5 years ago looms heavy in my mind, that sort of brash arrogance of just assuming BK will come. The reality is that we haven't been a power since '93, and our approach is almost like the worn-out 45 year old quasi-cougar who thinks she can have any man she wants since she was once the head-cheerleader or something. By all means put the token feelers out to the Stoops and Meyers of the world, but Kelly should be our top choice and we need to treat him as such.

Too good for BCS title game losses? Wow.

Bob Stoops has 109 wins at Oklahoma between 1999-2008 (that's 10.9 wins/season), 1 national title, seven top 10 finishes in the AP poll (and another at #11), seven trips to BCS games. That's a pretty rough ten seasons. Not up to ND's standards ldo. Nothing to be "keen on" with that guy. He sucks in the national title game!

Only idiot sports pundits think of "embarrassing national title game losses" when they think of Bob Stoops. Everyone else thinks of a guy who built one of the top 5 programs in college football and a consistent presence in the top 10.

Besides, isn't 1-3 in national titles games a better batting average than Notre Dame's 1 bowl win in their last 11 trips, usually to far less prestigious bowl games? Baby steps guys.

+100000000000

Seriously, anyone upset at the ND hiring Stoops is the equivalent of the Internet tard (see OOT) of expressing underwhelmment at the Victoria's Secret Catalog.

Heard a rumor that Weis is out and there will be a press conference today. No clue how legit it is.

There was, it was the standard Sunday PC moved up a day. Very standard "review what happened at Pitt, look forward to UConn" stuff.

Here we go again. Are you aiming for Notre Dame's standards or those layed down by those who don't like us?

Get a reality check. Charlie Weis was your 5th choice. In 2004, a dude named after a Pope who was an assistant at ND turned you down.

Hopson never coached with Rich Rod before Michigan.

/nit

The defense isn't going to magically get better with a new coach. Michigan ranked 7th in the Big Ten last year in terms of players drafted to the NFL. This year we have Brandon Graham and ???? Next year Donovan Warren and ??? That's not just defense, but the entire team. We have one safety on scholarship who is not a freshman, starting two walk-ons, using 70 of 85 scholarships, etc. Also, the numbers do not show that Rod is neglecting defensive recruiting and the charge that he is somehow an offensive coach who cares nothing about defense is unfounded. He had several excellent defenses at WVU. They ranked 8th and 6th nationally in yards allowed and points allowed, respectively, at the end of his final season there.

That's the POV in a nutshell of rational fans who understand why this is taking some time.



I don't remember how ND handled the Davie and Willingham firings? If this is going to happen will it happen soon or what?

Hey guys, theres no chance Fitzgerald goes to ND

Hes only being mentioned because hes white and irish ldo, but not a chance in hell he goes

Getting a reality check from you is like hearing a post-season exhortation from Stoops.

George O'Leary imo

Just wondering, what's wrong with Ferentz? Besides the fact that his name is not Kelly, why would this be a disappointing hire for ND?