Is there any other message board of any fanbase that would react to this with scenarios of him leaving after the following season?
Happiness and misery are choices. A large portion of the ND fanbase wakes up everyday and chooses misery.
I guess I'm on a devils advocate kick. I believe Nick Saban achieved the pinnacle of the sport, not Doug Pederson.
Sorry, but this absolutely hilarious. And if the anxiety of a potential departure is predicated on THIS, it's even more hilarious. I don't even know how to process this.
Vinny is off to college next year, and I've been of the mind that MF has taken advantage of the unexpected time off to enjoy being with his family while everyone is still in the house. No guarantees on that going forward with the NCAA wrestling schedule going from early November to late March.
Why in the world would we want a 26-35 coach? I mean, I like Clark Lea....But dude has done NOTHING without Pavia. If ND hired him, I'd call it the worst hire ever.
I have a feeling the Giants job will be open again in a few years years. Or, if the next coach there is successful, in ~10 years. Parcells and Coughlin were only there for 7 and 11 years, respectively, and obviously each won two SBs.
LOL. Sure, pal. I'll probably get better oxygen than the horse shit you're all shoveling today.
So do a lot of their fans, but whatever.
BK also entertained NFL jobs in 2012 and then that went nowhere for the next decade, even with some level of success after 2016. Doesn't mean anything.
What he did with Pavia this year is incredible and good for him. But go look at his year by year record at Vandy and when he did win...who he beat. Glad he made some noise this year, but to tab him as the next guy after Freeman is hilarious.
There is some truth to this, but again, Marcus Freeman's entire coaching career has been college in Indiana and Ohio. That's it.
Omalley was at the dinner. It was writers and people who would know things about the program. Basically, people think he wants the nfl sooner rather than later. It was on a Irish illustrated podcast shortly after the Stanford game.
You think?
NFL teams definitely showed interest in 2012. All I am saying is - none of us know what next year will bring. After BK flirted with the NFL, it would have been a fair but incorrect assumption that would have happened most offseasons. But it didn't - just like this NFL interest could dry up for Coach Freeman as well. So enjoy the news that he's back to coach arguably our most talented team in 30 years next year, and stop pissing in everyone else's cornflakes. Prognosticating about next offseason is a fool's errand.
I really believe there is some truth to them hating MF because he has made their job impossible / has made them looks like fools repeatedly. No other beat in the country tries to take a supposedly "neutral" stance like they do.
He had a formal interview with the Eagles in 2013.
I'm not disagreeing with you that the "pinnacle" of the sport is SB Sunday with all it's festivities. I'm just saying that MF imo is an amazing college football coach. He doesn't need to go to an NFL franchise to etch his name in the history books, I'd rather be Nick Saban than Mike Tomlin.
Has Fortuna ever been even remotely positive about ND? I don't need the beat to be rah-rah cheerleaders, but my God what an absolute hair puller of a twat. It's not the fanbase's fault that he was put on the ND beat 20 years ago at ESPN and he got some emails from people calling him a moron who didn't know anything about ND when he wrote articles with glaring mistakes in them. Yet after being tossed out with the rest of the expendable staff at ESPN years ago because he didn't provide any meaningful value, here's Matty years later still getting a check off half-baked ND content.
It's just exhausting having a fanbase that seemingly can't even enjoy ANY good news. This was as good as this was going to get during this coaching carousel - we all know NFL flirtations aren't going anywhere, and we don't need to be reminded of that today.
