Something for Nothing » Sports http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing TV and in Particular Reality TV and in More Particular Dance Reality TV Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:45:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 en NBA All Star Game in Las Vegas http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2007/02/17/nba-all-star-game-in-las-vegas/ http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2007/02/17/nba-all-star-game-in-las-vegas/#comments Sun, 18 Feb 2007 03:46:56 +0000 John http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2007/02/17/nba-all-star-game-in-las-vegas/ It was absolute mayhem at my work on Friday. The NBA all star game is here in Las Vegas and I work at UNLV where they are holding the game. I was completely amazed how they dressed up the Thomas and Mack. However, more interesting was all the space in the parking lot that they reserved for the game. It’s being reserved for all the VIPs. What a production!!

It’s interesting because the All Star game in Las Vegas is really secondary to all the various parties that the players are holding before, during and after the game. Las Vegas is taking these parties to the next level. It’s been pretty incredible.

Of course there’s talk about having an NBA team here in Las Vegas. I think that it will happen eventually. The mayor, Oscar Goodman, is all about it and so it’s really just a matter of time. I think Las Vegas would really embrace it, but even more significant is fans from other teams that come to Las Vegas to see their team and enjoy the town.

For the record, I still don’t completely understand what everyone loves about Las Vegas. To each their own.

]]> http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2007/02/17/nba-all-star-game-in-las-vegas/feed/ Bill Cower and Football http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2007/01/28/bill-cower-and-football/ http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2007/01/28/bill-cower-and-football/#comments Mon, 29 Jan 2007 05:50:29 +0000 John http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2007/01/28/bill-cower-and-football/ I was listening to ESPN Radio 920 here in Las Vegas and they aired an interview with Bill Cower the former coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers. During the interview, he talked about him coming back to football. He said that he loved football and would only come back in a way that could keep his priorities straight. He then went on to say that his Family was the most important thing in his life. He wanted to spend more time getting to know his family and seeing them.

Bill, you have to make a choice. You can’t be an NFL football coach and make your family the first priority. It’s impossible. You can take care of your family yes, but you can not put your family first and be a coach in the NFL. The two are mutually exclusive. I’m not saying you shouldn’t be an NFL coach. You can still be a great person and an NFL coach. I am saying that if you really want to put your family #1 in your life then you can’t go back to being a head football coach in the NFL.

]]> http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2007/01/28/bill-cower-and-football/feed/ The PBR in Las Vegas - And the After Party http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2007/01/03/the-pbr-in-las-vegas-and-the-after-party/ http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2007/01/03/the-pbr-in-las-vegas-and-the-after-party/#comments Thu, 04 Jan 2007 05:06:40 +0000 John http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2007/01/03/the-pbr-in-las-vegas-and-the-after-party/ I moved to Las Vegas about two years ago. When I moved here the first thing my sister told me is that they hold the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas. I told her that I didn’t give a flip about the NFR. I wanted to get Professional Bull Riders Finals tickets. The PBR is so much cooler than the NFR. I’ve since learned that they are both huge and amazingly entertaining.

It really is an amazing event. I work on the campus of UNLV and so my whole life is affected when the cowboys come to Las Vegas. The PBR and NFR use up all of the Thomas and Mack, the Cox Pavillion, the intramural fields, they close down a street, the turn a parking lot into dirt to store animals. Not to mention almost half of the Thomas and Mack parking lot is some sort of reserved VIP parking for the rodeo.

I’m not bitter though. It’s really quite exciting with all those people coming to UNLV. Plus, the Thomas and Mack is a great place to hold the event. There really isn’t a horrible seat in the entire arena. Plus, half of the parking lot is turned into a few stages, some climbing poles, a mechanical bull, a bunch of sweet trucks and much more.

I had a late night class this year that kept me at UNLV until about 10pm. After my class I was walking to my car and the PBR had just recently let out. I decided to just walk through all the entertainment that was going on. Boy was I surprised. They were these tall beautiful girls on top of what looked like bars dancing around and singing much like the movie Coyote Ugly. Then, I kept walking and saw an over 18 tent. Don’t ask me what was going on there. Then, there were 2 girls on top of a truck and some other girls dancing on this container. I really hadn’t seen anything like it. Anyone want to go with me to the PBR?

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]]> http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2007/01/03/the-pbr-in-las-vegas-and-the-after-party/feed/ Dennis Green Blows Up After Bears Game http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2006/10/21/dennis-green-blows-up-after-bears-game/ http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2006/10/21/dennis-green-blows-up-after-bears-game/#comments Sun, 22 Oct 2006 06:30:56 +0000 John http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2006/10/21/dennis-green-blows-up-after-bears-game/ I don’t know how many of you saw this, but I’m sure a lot of you already have. Well, I think it’s worth another take. Plus, I think people should see what an idiot Dennis Green looks like in this rant after the Chicago game.

I understand that you should have emotion. I also understand how you could be extremely disappointed that your players couldn’t execute the game plan you created. However, that’s no excuse for looking like an idiot on camera. What was he thinking? Oh wait, that’s the problem he wasn’t thinking. I think Dennis Green was a player if I’m not mistaken. Maybe he got hit in the head a few to many times during his playing days. That kind of reaction is inexcusable.

What happened after? Nothing to Dennis Green. At least nothing I could find. Oh yeah, he did demote his offensive coordinator though. That makes a lot of sense.

]]> http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2006/10/21/dennis-green-blows-up-after-bears-game/feed/ Bye Weeks Suck in Fantasy Football http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2006/10/13/bye-weeks-suck-in-fantasy-football/ http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2006/10/13/bye-weeks-suck-in-fantasy-football/#comments Sat, 14 Oct 2006 04:10:14 +0000 John http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2006/10/13/bye-weeks-suck-in-fantasy-football/ A bunch of my friends from my previous job have put together a Fantasy Football league for us all to stay in touch. It’s interesting to see how we’ve spread throughout the country after graduating from college.

Well, I’ve been hating life this week and last week in Fantasy Football. I have so many people on their bye weeks that I barely have enough people playing. To add to my Fantasy Sports nightmare week, I’m stuck with 3 starting quarterbacks and I only need to start one quarterback.

Oh well, if you don’t know already, I’m very interested in Fantasy Sports since I’m working on a Fantasy Sports Fundraiser. Fantasy Sports is so addicting. My favorite part of fantasy sports is that I actually love watching almost every NFL football game now because almost every game has either one of my or my opponents players. What’s my wife going to do with me?

]]> http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2006/10/13/bye-weeks-suck-in-fantasy-football/feed/ BYU Football’s Bye Week - My Take on Other Sports http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2006/10/13/byu-footballs-bye-week-my-take-on-other-sports/ http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2006/10/13/byu-footballs-bye-week-my-take-on-other-sports/#comments Sat, 14 Oct 2006 03:26:37 +0000 John http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2006/10/13/byu-footballs-bye-week-my-take-on-other-sports/ I’m an incredible BYU football fanatic. I absolutely love watching the games and reading all about the team. This year is looking pretty promising after we knocked off TCU at TCU. It would have been really nice if we could have taken down either Arizona or Boston College. We were close in both games, but couldn’t quite pull it out.

Well, this week BYU football has a bye week and so I have to find other sports to entertain me. Thankfully, this is a great time of year. The playoffs are the only part of baseball that are really worth watching other than watching the rankings of my Texas Rangers. I am excited to see that Detroit is up 3 games on Oakland. I don’t know why, but I’ve never liked Oakland and I like the makeup of this Detroit Tigers team.

Of course this weekend will have plenty of football. Plenty of drama last weekend with TO’s return to Philadelphia. I arrived in Dallas with about 5 minutes left in the game. I think all these Texas cowboys were going to beat me up when I cheered when Philly intercepted Drew Bledsoe. Too bad ESPN radio was junk the rest of my time in Texas as they talked about the Cowboys the whole time.

Basketball preseason is even starting up. Before long we’ll have both football and basketball to enjoy. That’s what I’m talking about!! My wife just loves this time of year. It’s like it makes ESPN’s sportscenter interesting again.

Also, what’s up with all this problems with planes in New York by sports professionals? Have you read these 2 stories?

A-Rod unhurt after private jet overruns runway
Lidle’s final maneuver is focus in crash investigation

]]> http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2006/10/13/byu-footballs-bye-week-my-take-on-other-sports/feed/ The ACC Sports Rocks http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2006/10/06/the-acc-sports-rocks/ http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2006/10/06/the-acc-sports-rocks/#comments Sat, 07 Oct 2006 03:54:27 +0000 John http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2006/10/06/the-acc-sports-rocks/ ACC Sports has to be one of the best college conferences that exists. Take a look at the list of ACC schools:
Boston College
Clemson University
Duke University
Florida State University
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Maryland
University of Miami
University of North Carolina
North Carolina State University
University of Virginia
Virginia Tech
Wake Forest University
Wake Forest
My favorite college is Wake Forest University. I visited the campus and their sports programs rock!! You can check them out On ACCSelect.com.

]]> http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2006/10/06/the-acc-sports-rocks/feed/ College Coaches from 2001 Football Coaching Class http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2006/10/06/college-coaches-from-2001-football-coaching-class/ http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2006/10/06/college-coaches-from-2001-football-coaching-class/#comments Sat, 07 Oct 2006 03:49:27 +0000 John http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2006/10/06/college-coaches-from-2001-football-coaching-class/ I found a really interesting list of college football coaches from the class of 2001 and what has happened to them since that time. It is a really interesting list. It definitely shows how volatile the college football coaching lifestyle is.

1. North Carolina, John Bunting

3 Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 16-18 (.470)

Cumulative Record (5 seasons): 24-36 (.400)

Current status: Bunting is in his sixth season as head coach of UNC with a 1-3 record.

2. Alabama, Dennis Franchione

3 Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 20-16 (.555)

Cumulative Record (2 seasons): 17-8 (.680)

Current status: Francione left after the 2002 season to take the head job at Texas A&M where he has had mixed success. Mike Shula replaced him at Alabama and is the Tide’s current coach.

3. Arizona, John Mackovic

3 Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 23-13 (.63 8)

Cumulative Record, (2+ seasons): 10-18 (.357)

Current status: Mackovic was fired five games into his third season at Arizona after a tumultuous tenure, including a player mutiny. Mike Stoops, former hot coaching prospect, is their current coach and has struggled to turn the program around.

4. Arizona State, Dirk Koetter

3 Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 17-18 (.485)

Cumulative Record (5 seasons): 33-28 (.540)

Current status: Still the head man at ASU; granted a contract extension through 2009.

5. Boise State, Dan Hawkins

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 26-10 (.722)

Cumulative Record (5 seasons): 53-11 (.82 8)

Current status: Now in his first season as head coach at Colorado.

6. Bowling Green, Urban Meyer

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 12-21 (.363)

Cumulative Record (2 seasons): 17-6 (.739)

Current status: Meyer left Bowling Green for Utah, where he had unprecedented success. He is now the head man at Florida. The Falcons went 11-3 and 9-3 after Meyer left but fell to 6-5 in 2005 and after losing 38-3 at home to Kent State are now 2-2.

7. BYU, Gary Crowton

3 Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 23-15 (.605)

Cumulative Record (4 seasons): 26-23 (.530)

Current status: Crowton resigned under pressure after four seasons and is now offensive coordinator at Oregon.

8. Buffalo, Jim Hofher

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 6-27 (.181)

Cumulative Record (5 seasons): 8-49 (.140)

Current status: Buffalo has never had a winning record in D-I. Honestly, I have no idea where Jim Hofher is today.

9. Georgia, Mark Richt

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 25-11 (.694)

Cumulative Record (5 seasons): 52-13 (.800)

Current status: Your average Tar Heel football fan is pretty clear at this point on Richt and how his career is going (and what might have been).

10. Kentucky, Guy Morriss

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 15-20 (.42 8)

Cumulative Record (2 seasons): 9-14 (.391)

Current status: Morriss was the offensive line coach for Hal Mumme before getting the head job when Mumme resigned after getting the program placed on probation by the NCAA. He took the team to a 7-5 record his second year (no bowl allowed, however) and then jumped to Baylor rather than continue with the mess created in Lexington.

11. Maryland, Ralph Friedgen

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 13-20 (.393)

Cumulative Record (5 seasons): 41-20 (.672)

Current status: “Fridge” is another coach Tar Heel fans are all too familar with as his Maryland teams have frequently pasted the Heels and last season broke their hearts in OT at Kenan, leading to the Heels missing a bowl when they couldn’t beat the Hokies in Blacksburg. There is plenty of evidence, however, that Friedgen is faltering with his own players, going 5-6 each of the past two seasons and enjoying cupcakes this year to get to 3-1. (A 14-10 home win over Florida International this weekend probably hurts more than helps.) Still, many Tar Heel fans agree Friedgen is just too plain fat and untelegenic to ever have gotten the job at UNC.

12. Memphis, Tommy West

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 11-22 (.333)

Cumulative Record (5 seasons): 32-28 (.533)

Current status: West inherited a program that hadn’t had a winning record since 1994 and continued that trend his first two seasons but now has posted three straight winning records.

13. Miami, Larry Coker

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 29-8 (.783)

Cumulative Record (5 seasons): 53-9 (.854)

Current status: Coker won a national title his first season at the U and has a staggering winning percentage but at this point any loss or even a bad win could cost him his job. Four relatively easy games coming up (including UNC) before going to Atlanta for Georgia Tech and a home tilt with Virginia Tech.

14. Missouri, Gary Pinkel

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 15-19 (.441)

Cumulative Record: 29-30 (.491)

Current status: Pinkel’s five seasons have fluctuated between 4-7 (2001) and 8-5 (2003). This season may be his best however as the Tigers are 4-0.

15. Ohio, Brian Knorr

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 17-16 (.515)

Cumulative Record (4 seasons): 11-35 (.239)

Current status: Knorr replaced Jim Grobe, current coach at Wake Forest. Fired after four miserable seasons, he was succeeded by Frank Solich.

16. Ohio State, Jim Tressel

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 25-11 (.694)

Cumulative Record (5 seasons): 50-13 (.793)

Current status: Ranked #1 in the country.

17. Oklahoma State, Les Miles

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 13-20 (.393)

Cumulative Record (4 seasons): 28-21 (.571)

Current status: Miles turned OK State around with three straight winning seasons which he then used to catapult himself into the prestigious head job at LSU.

18. Rutgers, Greg Schiano

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 9-24 (.272)

Cumulative Record (5 seasons): 19-39 (.327)

Current status: Rutgers was Rutgers for the first four seasons under Schiano, but what has transpired since is well-documented. The Scarlet Knights went to a bowl last season for the first time since 1978 and are off to a 4-0 start this season, including a win in Kenan over Bunting and the Heels. Schiano received an extension last season through 2012.

19. San Jose State, Fitz Hill

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 14-20 (.411)

Cumulative Record (4 seasons): 14-33 (.297)

Current Status: The Spartans had been pretty miserable throughout the 1990s. Hill resigned and took an academic post after being unable to dent the apathy shown by the univeristy and community. The Spartans are now led by Dick Tomey.

20. Southern California, Pete Carroll

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 19-18 (.513)

Cumulative Record (5 seasons): 54-10 (.843)

Current status: Let’s just move along.

21. Texas Christian, Gary Patterson

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 25-10 (.714)

Cumulative Record (5 seasons): 43-18 (.704)

Current status: Patterson took over at TCU before the Horned Frogs’ bowl game in 2000 because then coach Dennis Francione left for the Alabama job. TCU is ranked and undefeated thus far in 2006.

22. Toledo, Tom Anstutz

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 23-11 (.676)

Cumulative Record (5 seasons): 45-18 (.714)

Current status: Never worse than 8-4 since taking over for Gary Pinkel, Anstutz is off to a 2-2 start this season.

23. Virginia, Al Groh

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 22-14 (.611)

Cumulative Record (5 seasons): 37-26 (.587)

Current status: Another name Tar Heel fans know very well, Groh replaced the (legendary?) George Welsh at UVA and has four straight seasons of 7-5 or better. The Wahoos are struggling in 2006 however and Groh’s support amongst the fanbase is less than enthusiastic.

24. Wake Forest, Jim Grobe

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 12-22 (.352)

Cumulative Record (5 seasons): 26-32 (.44 8)

Current status: Outside the ACC, or maybe even just North Carolina, I doubt many people know or care much about Demon Deacon football. Tar Heel fans however look on at amazement at what Grobe has done at WFU, a school where it is impossible to have much sustained success. Grobe is 2-2 against John Bunting and 4-0 to start the 2006 campaign.

25. West Virginia, Rich Rodriguez

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 19-16 (.542)

Cumulative Record (5 seasons): 39-22 (.639)

Current status: No team looks to benefit from the “new Big East” more than the Mountaineers. Without Miami, Virginia Tech, or Boston College in the way WVU looks poised to at least make a run at the national title this season.

Sources:

http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/index.php

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/college/stats/2000/news.newc

]]> http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2006/10/06/college-coaches-from-2001-football-coaching-class/feed/ Hold’em Poker Website http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2006/10/04/holdem-poker-website/ http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2006/10/04/holdem-poker-website/#comments Wed, 04 Oct 2006 20:09:28 +0000 John http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2006/10/04/holdem-poker-website/ If you watch ESPN like I do then you have learned all about poker. What you may not know is how far Online Poker has come in that same time period. It’s going crazy. Here’s just one example of what an online poker website is like.

PokerSavvy has information on playing poker (particularly Hold’em) online, reviews of online casinos, as well as links that allow you to get discounts on your new account at those casinos.

]]> http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2006/10/04/holdem-poker-website/feed/ College Football Coaching Class of 2001 http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2006/09/28/college-football-coaching-class-of-2001/ http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2006/09/28/college-football-coaching-class-of-2001/#comments Thu, 28 Sep 2006 07:16:54 +0000 John http://www.crashutah.com/somethingfornothing/2006/09/28/college-football-coaching-class-of-2001/ I found a really interesting list of the coaches from the class of 2001. That’s an amazing list of coaches. It’s also quite amazing to see how many things have changed over time. I loved to see Pete Carroll on that list. Lots of good information on this list for all those college football stats whores out there.

1. North Carolina, John Bunting

3 Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 16-18 (.470)

Cumulative Record (5 seasons): 24-36 (.400)

Current status: Bunting is in his sixth season as head coach of UNC with a 1-3 record.

2. Alabama, Dennis Franchione

3 Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 20-16 (.555)

Cumulative Record (2 seasons): 17-8 (.680)

Current status: Francione left after the 2002 season to take the head job at Texas A&M where he has had mixed success. Mike Shula replaced him at Alabama and is the Tide’s current coach.

3. Arizona, John Mackovic

3 Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 23-13 (.638)

Cumulative Record, (2+ seasons): 10-18 (.357)

Current status: Mackovic was fired five games into his third season at Arizona after a tumultuous tenure, including a player mutiny. Mike Stoops, former hot coaching prospect, is their current coach and has struggled to turn the program around.

4. Arizona State, Dirk Koetter

3 Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 17-18 (.485)

Cumulative Record (5 seasons): 33-28 (.540)

Current status: Still the head man at ASU; granted a contract extension through 2009.

5. Boise State, Dan Hawkins

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 26-10 (.722)

Cumulative Record (5 seasons): 53-11 (.828)

Current status: Now in his first season as head coach at Colorado.

6. Bowling Green, Urban Meyer

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 12-21 (.363)

Cumulative Record (2 seasons): 17-6 (.739)

Current status: Meyer left Bowling Green for Utah, where he had unprecedented success. He is now the head man at Florida. The Falcons went 11-3 and 9-3 after Meyer left but fell to 6-5 in 2005 and after losing 38-3 at home to Kent State are now 2-2.

7. BYU, Gary Crowton

3 Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 23-15 (.605)

Cumulative Record (4 seasons): 26-23 (.530)

Current status: Crowton resigned under pressure after four seasons and is now offensive coordinator at Oregon.

8. Buffalo, Jim Hofher

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 6-27 (.181)

Cumulative Record (5 seasons): 8-49 (.140)

Current status: Buffalo has never had a winning record in D-I. Honestly, I have no idea where Jim Hofher is today.

9. Georgia, Mark Richt

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 25-11 (.694)

Cumulative Record (5 seasons): 52-13 (.800)

Current status: Your average Tar Heel football fan is pretty clear at this point on Richt and how his career is going (and what might have been).

10. Kentucky, Guy Morriss

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 15-20 (.428)

Cumulative Record (2 seasons): 9-14 (.391)

Current status: Morriss was the offensive line coach for Hal Mumme before getting the head job when Mumme resigned after getting the program placed on probation by the NCAA. He took the team to a 7-5 record his second year (no bowl allowed, however) and then jumped to Baylor rather than continue with the mess created in Lexington.

11. Maryland, Ralph Friedgen

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 13-20 (.393)

Cumulative Record (5 seasons): 41-20 (.672)

Current status: “Fridge” is another coach Tar Heel fans are all too familar with as his Maryland teams have frequently pasted the Heels and last season broke their hearts in OT at Kenan, leading to the Heels missing a bowl when they couldn’t beat the Hokies in Blacksburg. There is plenty of evidence, however, that Friedgen is faltering with his own players, going 5-6 each of the past two seasons and enjoying cupcakes this year to get to 3-1. (A 14-10 home win over Florida International this weekend probably hurts more than helps.) Still, many Tar Heel fans agree Friedgen is just too plain fat and untelegenic to ever have gotten the job at UNC.

12. Memphis, Tommy West

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 11-22 (.333)

Cumulative Record (5 seasons): 32-28 (.533)

Current status: West inherited a program that hadn’t had a winning record since 1994 and continued that trend his first two seasons but now has posted three straight winning records.

13. Miami, Larry Coker

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 29-8 (.783)

Cumulative Record (5 seasons): 53-9 (.854)

Current status: Coker won a national title his first season at the U and has a staggering winning percentage but at this point any loss or even a bad win could cost him his job. Four relatively easy games coming up (including UNC) before going to Atlanta for Georgia Tech and a home tilt with Virginia Tech.

14. Missouri, Gary Pinkel

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 15-19 (.441)

Cumulative Record: 29-30 (.491)

Current status: Pinkel’s five seasons have fluctuated between 4-7 (2001) and 8-5 (2003). This season may be his best however as the Tigers are 4-0.

15. Ohio, Brian Knorr

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 17-16 (.515)

Cumulative Record (4 seasons): 11-35 (.239)

Current status: Knorr replaced Jim Grobe, current coach at Wake Forest. Fired after four miserable seasons, he was succeeded by Frank Solich.

16. Ohio State, Jim Tressel

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 25-11 (.694)

Cumulative Record (5 seasons): 50-13 (.793)

Current status: Ranked #1 in the country.

17. Oklahoma State, Les Miles

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 13-20 (.393)

Cumulative Record (4 seasons): 28-21 (.571)

Current status: Miles turned OK State around with three straight winning seasons which he then used to catapult himself into the prestigious head job at LSU.

18. Rutgers, Greg Schiano

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 9-24 (.272)

Cumulative Record (5 seasons): 19-39 (.327)

Current status: Rutgers was Rutgers for the first four seasons under Schiano, but what has transpired since is well-documented. The Scarlet Knights went to a bowl last season for the first time since 1978 and are off to a 4-0 start this season, including a win in Kenan over Bunting and the Heels. Schiano received an extension last season through 2012.

19. San Jose State, Fitz Hill

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 14-20 (.411)

Cumulative Record (4 seasons): 14-33 (.297)

Current Status: The Spartans had been pretty miserable throughout the 1990s. Hill resigned and took an academic post after being unable to dent the apathy shown by the univeristy and community. The Spartans are now led by Dick Tomey.

20. Southern California, Pete Carroll

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 19-18 (.513)

Cumulative Record (5 seasons): 54-10 (.843)

Current status: Let’s just move along.

21. Texas Christian, Gary Patterson

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 25-10 (.714)

Cumulative Record (5 seasons): 43-18 (.704)

Current status: Patterson took over at TCU before the Horned Frogs’ bowl game in 2000 because then coach Dennis Francione left for the Alabama job. TCU is ranked and undefeated thus far in 2006.

22. Toledo, Tom Anstutz

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 23-11 (.676)

Cumulative Record (5 seasons): 45-18 (.714)

Current status: Never worse than 8-4 since taking over for Gary Pinkel, Anstutz is off to a 2-2 start this season.

23. Virginia, Al Groh

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 22-14 (.611)

Cumulative Record (5 seasons): 37-26 (.587)

Current status: Another name Tar Heel fans know very well, Groh replaced the (legendary?) George Welsh at UVA and has four straight seasons of 7-5 or better. The Wahoos are struggling in 2006 however and Groh’s support amongst the fanbase is less than enthusiastic.

24. Wake Forest, Jim Grobe

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 12-22 (.352)

Cumulative Record (5 seasons): 26-32 (.448)

Current status: Outside the ACC, or maybe even just North Carolina, I doubt many people know or care much about Demon Deacon football. Tar Heel fans however look on at amazement at what Grobe has done at WFU, a school where it is impossible to have much sustained success. Grobe is 2-2 against John Bunting and 4-0 to start the 2006 campaign.

25. West Virginia, Rich Rodriguez

3-Year Pre-Hire Cumulative Record: 19-16 (.542)

Cumulative Record (5 seasons): 39-22 (.639)

Current status: No team looks to benefit from the “new Big East” more than the Mountaineers. Without Miami, Virginia Tech, or Boston College in the way WVU looks poised to at least make a run at the national title this season.

Sources:

http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/index.php

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/college/stats/2000/news.newcoaches.html

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