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(Rising sophomore Jarron Jones said Nix’s words of encouragement usually include, “You suck.”)
Sports Extra - Blogs - College football coaches by number of Twitter followers | Tulsa WorldTwitter isn’t a popularity contest, but if it were, Les Miles would be winning. Because he is as unfiltered on Twitter as in real life, he has the most followers of any BCS football coach.
Here are the head coaches in order of the number of followers each had as of Wednesday afternoon. Noticeably absent are Alabama’s Nick Saban, who isn’t on Twitter, and Oklahoma’s Bob Stoops, who has a private account used solely for recruiting. Another 33 coaches don’t use Twitter or aren’t active enough for their names to pop up in searches.
Click on the coach's name to visit his Twitter page.
1. Les Miles, LSU: 105,760
2. Brian Kelly, Notre Dame: 91,042
3. Butch Jones, Tennessee: 75,300
4. Mark Richt, Georgia: 65,240
5. Bret Bielema, Arkansas: 57,958
6. Jim Mora, UCLA: 49,239
7. Steve Sarkisian, Washington: 46,377
8. Hugh Freeze, Ole Miss: 45,098
9. Dan Mullen, Mississippi State: 44,697
10. Bo Pelini, Nebraska: 43,162
11. Mark Stoops, Kentucky: 43,068
12. Mike Leach, Washington State: 42,173
13. Will Muschamp, Florida: 39,583
14. Kevin Sumlin, Texas A&M: 32,849
15. Gus Malzahn, Auburn: 32,186
16. Gary Pinkel, Missouri: 31,664
17. Mack Brown, Texas: 29,860
18. Lane Kiffin, USC: 29,790
19. Dana Holgorsen, West Virginia: 28,503
20. Charlie Strong, Louisville: 28,152
21. Mike Gundy, Oklahoma State: 28,139
22. Al Golden, Miami: 22,980
23. Dabo Swinney, Clemson: 21,140
24. James Franklin, Vanderbilt: 20,071
25. Pat Fitzgerald, Northwestern: 19,909
26. Larry Fedora, UNC: 19,480
27. Kliff Kingsbury, Texas Tech: 18,602
28. Charlie Weis, Kansas: 17,460
29. Tommy Tuberville, Cincinnati: 17,403
30. Kevin Wilson, Indiana: 15,515
31. Mike Riley, Oregon State: 14,872
32. Randy Edsall, Maryland: 13,593
33. Bill Snyder, Kansas State: 12,179*
34. Dave Doeren, N.C. State: 11,911
35. Mike London, Virginia: 11,782
36. June Jones, SMU: 11,677
37. David Cutcliffe, Duke: 9,698
38. Tim Beckman, Illinois: 9,437
39. Mark Dantonio, Michigan State: 9,425
40. Willie Taggart, South Florida: 9,404
41. Rich Rodriguez, Arizona: 8,297
42. Jim McElwain, Colorado State: 7,992
43. Skip Holtz, Louisiana Tech: 6,482
44. David Shaw, Stanford: 6,352
45. Paul Johnson, Georgia Tech: 5,977
46. Mark Hudspeth, Louisiana: 5,730
47. Art Briles, Baylor: 5,692
48. Kyle Flood, Rutgers: 5,580
49. Bobby Petrino, Western Kentucky: 5,239
50. Tim DeRuyter, Fresno State: 5,233
51. Chris Petersen, Boise State: 5,149
52. Bryan Harsin, Arkansas State: 5,033
53. Bronco Mendenhall, BYU: 4,560
54. Rick Stockstill, Middle Tennessee: 3,586
55. Sonny Dykes, Cal: 3,514
56. Tony Levine, Houston: 3,503
57. Paul Haynes, Kent State: 3,374
58. Mark Helfrich, Oregon: 3,329
59. Gary Patterson, TCU: 3,131
60. Brian Polian, Nevada: 3,046
61. Ruffin McNeill, East Carolina: 3,003
62. Garrick McGee, UAB: 2,980
63. Todd Monken, Southern Miss: 2,753
64. Jimbo Fisher, Florida State: 2,739
65. Ron English, Eastern Michigan: 2,547
66. Matt Rhule, Temple: 2,289
67. Steve Addazio, Boston College: 2,283
68. Curtis Johnson, Tulane: 2,159
69. Pete Lembo, Ball State: 2,099
70. Matt Wells, Utah State: 1,987
71. Todd Graham, Arizona State: 1,983
72. Paul Pasqualoni, UConn: 1,930
73. P.J. Fleck, Western Michigan: 1,717
74. Bill Blankenship, Tulsa: 1,703
75. Matt Campbell, Toledo: 1,610
76. Charley Molnar, UMass: 1,548
77. Scott Shafer, Syracuse: 1,420
78. Rod Carey, Northern Illinois: 1,183
79. Dave Christensen, Wyoming: 1,094
80. Jeff Quinn, Buffalo: 1,088
81. Doc Holliday, Marshall: 1,054
82. Larry Blakeney, Troy: 1,047
83. Justin Fuente, Memphis: 912
84. Don Treadwell, Miami (Ohio): 896
85. Ken Niumatalolo, Navy: 837
86. Larry Coker, UTSA: 520
87. Joey Jones, South Alabama: 38
Lost in the embarrassing first half against Alabama was a pair of sneaky-good performances by two returning wide receivers facing a defense filled with NFL personnel. It might shock people who watched the game, but TJ Jones and Davaris Daniels had the best performance against the Alabama secondary of any receiving duo that faced the Crimson Tide.
Daniels’ six catches for 115 yards was the second best individual effort against the Tide last season. TJ Jones’ seven catches for 90 yards was a really impressive outing for a rising senior that earned many of those yards the hard way.
It’s also part of why Brian Kelly feels pretty optimistic about the future of the offense. Here’s what Kelly said about Jones, who is poised to have a really impressive senior season and is likely emerging as one of the team’s true leaders.
“TJ Jones. Here’s a young man that has continuously gotten better year in and year out,” Kelly told Tim Brown a few weeks ago during the SiriusXM Town Hall meeting. “I just think he’s going to have a great year. I think he’s an elite player.”
(Emphasis added.)
Yep! Glad someone is recognizing how good our two returning starters are. I cringe everytime that I read how blah mediocre our receiving corps is --- JUST NOT SO!
TJ plus Davaris plus "big boy receivers" at TE and TE/slot are going to give us one of the more non-defendable receiver arrays around. We need Everett to make the throws and the OLine rightside to give him time to do it.
There are so many ways that different things could gel this season to turn this team into a marauding monster.
BREAKING: Maryland turtle giving birth to ND leprechaun while standing on head.
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“@NDsidBertschy: Bennett Jackson, Louis Nix III, Prince Shembo, Stephon Tuitt on @BednarikAward watch list .. Irish with most selections of all FBS schools”
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Are there any sources of info. on how the team's summer practices are going?
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23NotreDame&src=hash">#NotreDame</a> places 3 on 2013 Butkus Award Watch List - Carlo Calabese, Dan Fox, Prince Shembo .. <a href="https://twitter.com/NDFootball">@NDFootball</a> tied for most selections in FBS</p>— Michael Bertsch (@NDsidBertschy) <a href="https://twitter.com/NDsidBertschy/statuses/356786780973969411">July 15, 2013</a></blockquote>
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This is all opinion below so feel free to not listen to a word of it since I'm apparently the only one who feels this way:
no offense intended to anyone who did this or any highlight videos because I don't do them because I don't have talent and am lazy, BUT...
Am I the only one who doesn't like movies quotes/weird visual filters/distracting effects during my highlight videos?
I like rock/rap/maybe a movie soundtrack if appropriate in the background. If audio is needed besides background music make it one of three things: 1) press box commentating on the play 2) press talking bad about us before the game 3) a pump up speech that is related to Notre Dame ("We are ND" or Holtz's "respect" speech being wonderful examples.)
As an example here is my favorite Notre Dame highlight video ever. Simply showing the game (with some scene setting) and good editing is better IMO than flashy filters and movie callbacks. I mean sh*t this even made Charlie Weis look bad*ss.
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