GREG ROBINSON CAN COACH, JUST ASK GREG ROBINSON

If Robinson is a good coach, what does that make Steve Kragthorpe at Louisville?

I’m glad I asked. It makes him a candidate for the Coaching Hall of Fame.

You stat nerds and your “numbers”. Coaching is about passion. It’s about fire. That’s why I’m pounding this lectern. I’m passionate and firey. Do I win football games or even compete with teams who have similar or superior talent? I don’t know. I’ll leave that to you geeks. Now I’m going to go home and make love to my wife. Passion and fire people, she loves it. And so should you.

/Greg Robinson

I like Robinson. He’s turned Syracuse into such a shithole that there’s no way Edsall is taking the job.

I like Kragthorpe too. If Louisville didn’t call 33 screen passes against UConn, they might have won. I mean, geez, why would you have your NFL QB throw the ball past the line of scrimmage? That’s just crazy silly talk.

jon,

you bring up a good point. if robinson is a good coach, then what is ty willingham? a great coach? hell no, ty is a shitty coach who cant win (except at stanford at a down PX year, while getting rolled by texas and in the RB). on top of that ty gets $1.5 mil a year to coach uw to a shitty 3-7 record.

isnt america great? you can have no talent whatsoever, and get paid tons of money to do it. just ask william hung.

uw football is dead

…which is why I’m announcing my candidacy for all major available jobs. Head Coach only, BCS conference only. I last played organized football in sixth grade for the 2-7 St Pius X Lions, so I’m pretty sure I could get the job done like Robinson, Kragthorpe, or Charlie Weis. I expect a generous salary, full dental coverage, and a Buick. Or anything recommended by Ara Parseghian or the Orgeron.

if we can get Greg Robinson and Syracuse to play Charlie Weis and ND we’d have the Arrogance Bowl – winner gets to fire their coach and hire someone who knows what they’re doing!

So the question begs:
who wins if Syracuse and Notre Dame hook up in the “Let me tell you how great we were before facemasks and two platoon football Bowl”, brought to you in living color on NBC by the good folks at Studebaker Automobile Company.

6 & 7 – Coach Fatass took his team to the Sugar & Fiesta Bowls in his first two years. Dubious? Maybe, but they did win a few games. Syracuse has flat-out sucked for three years. A little difference.

this guy should apply for the vacant information minister position in iraq.

After what he did with the Chiefs’ defense, and after he basically was only allowed 50% control of Texas’ D, I remember thinking “Dumb Hire”.

I am grateful that Coach Robinson has corrected me on this thought.

I’ve already faxed my resume based on solid three years coaching youth football to Nebraska, Syracuse, ND, and UW.

Why? Because I have free time at work and no one has noticed yet.

Certainly not because I think I’m qualified, far from it. Just bored.

Notice, though, that when asked whether he thought the team would be better in 2007 than 2-8, he said “Hell yes.” Not yes but hell yes. That is the kind of enthusiasm that bespeaks eventual improvement. You think Callahan is dropping any hells these days in Lincoln? Or that milquetoast Franchione? 7-26 only looks bad until you spice it up with some mild profanity.

Hey 8, what was the final score in those BCS games?

Weis was feasting on cupcakes (literally and figuratively) with leftover talent rather than recruiting and coaching. Now it’s biting him in his substantial and arrogant ass.

With the same schedule and the same sweetheart BCS deal, Syracuse could probably have made a BCS game and lost by the same scores as ND.

What a year. So many shittay coaches, so little time. Its like they are going for an award in how far can they take a program down. There are probably more but here are 8 off the top of my head. But they supply us with comedy gold, Jerry, gold!

Weis
Callahan
Robinson
Kragthorpe
Mike Stoops
Willingham
Wannstadt
Dorrell

OMG, I forgot Franchione! He might be a poster boy for idiocy.

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How you could leave Franchione off that list is beyond me.

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Not to mention the Orgeron.

13 – Notre Dame was down 27-20 to Ohio State with three minutes to go and lost by 14. Wow, quite the ass-kicking.

And if it was just leftover talent…why couldn’t Willingham do a GD thing with them? Please keep your Weis-bashing to this year. He still found a way to win 9 games each year without a defense.

How come Jeff Tedford is still a genius despite Cal flaking out year after year? Why is Rich Rodriguez still a hot item despite his team’s never fulfilling potential?

Weis will have his opportunity to prove he’s a coach next year. And fyi, ND has played by far the hardest schedule in the country by playing 10 straight bowl teams. Maybe they should become an SEC team and load up against Troy, La. Tech and the Citadel.

As someone who has actually drawn a paycheck from a college for coaching I can say for a fact that it is a lot harder to coach than it is to be a dickhead at a computer keyboard making snarky comments.

Not every coach with a losing record sucks (and not every coach with a winning record is a genius either).

“I think my record can show that I’m a good football coach,”

Absolutely true. His record CAN show that he is a good football coach. However, it DOES not. A record is a very effective indicator of the quality of a coach and can show whether they are “good” or not.

Nice word play, coach.

When you consider that Greg Robinson thinks he’s John Robinson, the early USC years, then yes, he’s a good coach.

I have little doubt that Troy could beat UConn.

There are 32 bowl games. 64 teams, or over half of D1-A makes a bowl game. I fail to see the accomplishment in playing (and getting your ass beat by) 10 bowl teams. The only teams not going bowling this year are Syracuse, Baylor, Vandy, and the Orgeron.

Edsall: Willingham could do something with them: beat Navy.

The tOSU/Notre Dame bowl game never felt in doubt at the time. Notre Dame was dominated, the Buckeyes just didn’t run up the score.

And Weis does deserve some mockery because of the adulation from the domers in spite of his lack of quality wins since…forever.

Other than losing close to USC in 2005, what is his best win so far? And do you really want to hang your hat on whatever one you choose?

1. - Says a guy who admittedly no longer draws a paycheck from college coaching. Interesting, eh?

edsall, you had me at “And if it was just leftover talent?why couldn?t Willingham do a GD thing with them?”

ty cant do shit with talent

but you lost me when oc phil dropped the navy comment. no matter how bad nd is, their talent will always be better than navy, let alone coaching. fucking navy, man.

Don’t worry, Domers. NBC is contractually obligated to carry the ND-Duke game, which may be a television first. The first nationally televised game between two 1-9 teams that isn’t Army vs. Navy.

I smell an Emmy.

If ND wins, does Northwestern have to drop football?

Let’s celebrate Navy and leave the f bombs for those who deserve it…..

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like who? fucking notre dame?

#30: I am on a self imposed “lay-off-beaten-up-Notre-Dame” for a while. I think they have had enough abuse from all sides, including from their own fans by now.

1. Part B Answer: Deserve f bombs? Saban, Les Miles….

You know what would be funny is if someone hired a really good CFL coach to coach NCAA. If you can learn to play CFL from NCAA/NFL, why not coach the opposite.

or arena league.

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when you have your boot on their throat you push harder.

that is a fact of life.

cue jim brown’s speech from “any given sunday”

Croom was 9-25 after 3 seasons.
So there is hope, although I don’t think Croom was sporting the hubris that Robinson and some of the others have.

I guess the trick for ADs is figuring out who can bring the program out of a tailspin and who can’t, which isn’t always the easiest thing to do.

1. - Edsall – I liked you better when you wewre a UConn fan.

1. - The correct Jeopardy response to your clue is, " Who is Charlie Weis."

Mr. Robinson, I know [NAME REDACTED] and you sir, are no [NAME REDACTED].

Do you remember the guy in Vanilla Sky, Tom Cruise’s shrink or whatever, who had to argue for his own existence, but couldn’t tell Tom the names of his own daughters?

Wow this guy sounds exactly like our soon to be fired hc Callahan. The arrogance of guys like Robinson, Weis, and mostly Callahan is amazing. Callahan talks to Nebraskan’s as if we are ignorant dumb hicks that know nothing about football. I guess he does get the last laugh when he leaves town in two weeks with the $3 M paycheck.

I’m shaking my head at the idea that someone is touting that Fiesta Bowl against OSU as evidence that Weis is a good coach. I knew that the loss to USC a couple of years ago was Weis’ best win, but now a thorough beating is being referenced as a positive. And did the same Notre Dame fan then really imply that playing in the SEC would be easier? Just when you start feeling sorry for these people….

I think it’s worth pointing out that Greg Robinson was hired to replace Paul Pasqualoni as head coach. Paul Pasqualoni was basically fired ON AIR during the 2004 Champs Sports Bowl when Georgia Tech beat them 54-14 and REGGIE BALL was named Player of the Game. By going 12/19 for 200 yards and 2/1, and rushing for another 40 and a TD.

Good to see that they hired up.

edsall – you’re a complete tool and an idiot. nd has sucked, uconn sucks, and uconn sucks. that is all.

Wasn’t that the game that PJ Daniels set the Bowl rushing record?

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Croom is also coaching at Miss St., which is not noted for being a powerhouse with high expectations.

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That was the year before, on the Smurf Turf, when P.J. Daniels, Hallowed Be His Name, Breaker of Necks, averaged 9.9 yards per carry for over 300 yards rushing against Tulsa.

Coincidentally, this was the first bowl game for Tulsa’s shiny new head coach, Steve Kragthrope.

Yeah, it’s hard to keep all those GT trips to Boise straight.
…sorry, obvious hanger.

I was a fan of SU football since the ‘59 National Championship season – - and continued supporting the program through Pasqualoni’s best years. But – - NOW – - SU football is an embarassment – - and it is seemingly obvious that the new Chancellor, the new Athletic Director and, especially, the new Coach, do not have a sufficient commitment nor sufficient knowledge, expertise and experience to develop and manage a successful football program. Time to get rid of all three!

( Is it not ironic that a native northeasterner, a former SU quarterback, and an SU bachelor’s and master’s degree-holder – - who is also married to an SU alumna – - has turned a former non-entity, going-nowhere-doing-nothing, football program into the talk of the Big East?)

Robinson and the AD must go – - and the Chancellor should at least engage someone with expertise in developing a top-tier college football program as a working consultant.