Running Big Ten Media Day thread

OBrien: this is like NFL free agency without the rules. They can do what they want as long as they contact our compliance office
 
Scorpio79 said:
whar wisco?
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I don't expect Wisconsin to hang with OSU long term with Meyer recruiting like he is.

Wisconsin is just like Iowa. When they have a good/great QB they have a shot to compete for the conference. When they don't, they are a long way away for programs like OSU.
 
Xerxes said:
I don't expect Wisconsin to hang with OSU long term with Meyer recruiting like he is.

Wisconsin is just like Iowa. When they have a good/great QB they have a shot to compete for the conference. When they don't, they are a long way away for programs like OSU.
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Very rational and reasonable. Tks. :)
 
SpiderRico said:
He'll be successful at cheating (or walking as close to the cheating line as possible without going over), he'll be successful at being the biggest d0uchnozzle coach in the conference, he'll be successful at making Beilema look like a saint. And yes, I expect he'll ultimately be successful at W's and L's as well.....but I won't get all giddy about it like "Hawkfan"33 does! ;)
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I'm not giddy, I just realize how well Tressell did at OSU with his conservative style. Now Urban is going to come in, take recruiting to another level, be more aggressive and it's hard to imagine him not rolling through the league. He turned Bowling Green into a top 25 team, he went undefeated at Utah, won two national titles at Florida. This isn't some unproven commodity here. It's an established, elite coach going to one of the premier programs in the country. I'm not really going out on a limb here.
 
OBrien saying a lot of discussions on team...some changes at PSU last six months reflected already in new era of PSU football, and some other changes wait and see on ept 1st

that was in response to question on if there will be a uniform change
 
JonDMiller said:
OBrien saying a lot of discussions on team...some changes at PSU last six months reflected already in new era of PSU football, and some other changes wait and see on ept 1stthat was in response to question on if there will be a uniform change
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I like that, every personal stamp he put on the policy the dimminish is the previous regime
 
I like O"Brien, sounds like a tough, no-nonsense kinda guy. I can't help but think had he been coach at Penn St...none of this crap would have happened.

Beckman is an absolute tool. Are you sure Zooker didn't just get a major makeover?
 
hawkdrummer1 said:
I like O"Brien, sounds like a tough, no-nonsense kinda guy. I can't help but think had he been coach at Penn St...none of this crap would have happened.
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He seems like a good guy, and he's going to make a lot of money from this, but unfortunately for him, he's probably going to get fired in 3-4 years right as they start to come out of the sanctions. Also, judging from his previous coaching stops, he's a pretty bad college coach.
 
Fans are going to poop themselves if (when ) they change those unis. I will give O'Brien credit though, I have been fairly impressed with the guy. One would hardly know he just got there. That said, they guy has not coached a single game yet and the cards are stacked against him to say the least. Even so, he is in the catbird seat with that new contract through 2020. He is set for life.
 
hawkfan33 said:
He seems like a good guy, and he's going to make a lot of money from this, but unfortunately for him, he's probably going to get fired in 3-4 years right as they start to come out of the sanctions. Also, judging from his previous coaching stops, he's a pretty bad college coach.
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If they fire him after 4 years, they will owe him $9.2M. His contract had a clause that said that if PSU received sanctions, he gets an automatic 4 year extension to 2020. Not that PSU couldn't pay that, but that's a heckuva lot of money to pay.
 
SpiderRico said:
If they fire him after 4 years, they will owe him $9.2M. His contract had a clause that said that if PSU received sanctions, he gets an automatic 4 year extension to 2020. Not that PSU couldn't pay that, but that's a heckuva lot of money to pay.
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$10M will be just another drop in the bucket to the total cost of this scandal. Penn St will go hard after an elite coach to follow O'Brien. The program has underachieved since the late 90's but this is a top 10 job and if there weren't sanctions coming Penn St could have done a hell of a lot better than him.
 
hawkfan33 said:
$10M will be just another drop in the bucket to the total cost of this scandal. Penn St will go hard after an elite coach to follow O'Brien. The program has underachieved since the late 90's but this is a top 10 job and if there weren't sanctions coming Penn St could have done a hell of a lot better than him.
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Even after 4 years, it will be an additional 2 years before they can get up from 65 scholarship players to 85 scholarship players. I doubt any coach worth his salt is going to come into a situation where the team is still trying to get back to 85 scholarship players. But I could be wrong.
 
SpiderRico said:
Even after 4 years, it will be an additional 2 years before they can get up from 65 scholarship players to 85 scholarship players. I doubt any coach worth his salt is going to come into a situation where the team is still trying to get back to 85 scholarship players. But I could be wrong.
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That's true, so maybe push it out to 5-6 years instead of 3-4 years. I can't see O'Brien being anything more than a stopgap coach for the program.
 
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