NCAA Football 2012 Season Catch-All

And now the twitter-verse says San Jose St.'s McIntyre is no longer in the running for the Cal job, and a HC announcement coming next week.

Unless AD Sandy Barbour has a Bielma-like trump card up her sleeve, Sonny Dykes is the only one that seems to be actively being talked about. Still no "No" from the land of blue turf.

karmajay wrote:
Fedaykin98 wrote:

As I've said before, the year to argue about defenders winning the Heisman is when we have a candidate who is an historically great defender. Teo, while a good player and apparently great person, has not done historically great things - other than getting a bunch of interceptions at linebacker.

Johnny Football has put up historical numbers, while being fun as hell to watch, and making some seriously amazing plays. That's a Heisman winner, imho.

Just want to check, you mean historical for A&M right?

Nope. Historical for the SEC. Johnny took Archie Manning's single-game yardage record, which has stood for a loooooong time. Then he broke his own record a few games later.

Cam Newton beat Tebow's season yardage numbers, which were good enough to win Tebow the Heisman despite having a couple losses that year. Newton won the Heisman.

Johnny beat Cam's record (formerly Tebow's) through just 12 games, where Cam had taken 14 games to put up those numbers.

Note that I'm not here saying that whoever next breaks these records (and again, Johnny took a record that had stood for decades as well as a record that has won two Heisman's recently) has to win the Heisman - just directly answering the question.

There are some cool infographics at heisman.aggieathletics.com btw.

Btw regarding his "bad game" against LSU - he put up more yards than any other quarterback did against them this year: 296. I'm not sure that's "bad", although I certainly wish we'd won.

Also: Charlie Strong to Tennessee is heating back up today!

Btw regarding his "bad game" against LSU - he put up more yards than any other quarterback did against them this year: 296. I'm not sure that's "bad", although I certainly wish we'd won.

Which is why you shouldn't go by yardage – he threw 3 INTs against 0 TDs, had a 51% completion percentage, and averaged 4.9 yards per attempted throw. He averaged 1.6 yards per carry (and no TDs) in his 16 attempts. It doesn't look like a great stat line to those who do just look at the numbers.

I would argue those stats are not the whole story, and that it's also one game of many.

Still, I'd call that a bad stat line, no matter how many yards he gained. (A critic would say it's easy to gain nearly 300 yards when you throw the ball more than 50 times!)

I think Florida's lucky they got A&M for the very first game of the year!

I thought you were the "stats don't matter" guy!

Louisville team meeting over. Backup QB is telling people Strong is Tennessee bound.

Fedaykin98 wrote:

I thought you were the "stats don't matter" guy! ;)

You used a singular stat to say Manziel's stats in that game weren't so bad. I'm just not letting you get away with it.

If you read the whole post, I also go on to say the stats, especially in one game, aren't the only measure of his season.

I won't say stats don't matter at all. But they are unevenly useful across positions. What O-line stats are really a good measure of a player's overall ability? (Don't give me pancakes...unless they come with syrup. Yum.)

At any rate, since you are a stat guy I thought I'd share this stat with you:

@Sportsbeat960 wrote:

BCS Title Game Nugget: Bama faced only one rushing offense better than #NotreDame (27th 202yds)..that was Texas AM (13th-235yds).

Not sure that's entirely fair, as the competition wasn't all the same.

Should be a fun championship game. While ND's strength is its run defense, Alabama showed that it can really push people around in the SEC championship game. Wow. Hopefully our safety Farley has the cast removed from his broken thumb by then. That really hurt ND's second-level tackling in the last few weeks of the season.

I have to say that I'm very impressed with how ND's secondary held up this year. ND's best CB went down for the season in the first few weeks, forcing a true freshman onto that side of the field as a starter. The CB on the other side is in his first year as a starter. At safety, ND lost a 5th year senior starter midway through the season, and his back-up is a redshirt freshman who broke his thumb a few weeks ago (Farley). He's played very well. Good stuff in the back end, even though it looked like a really weak link even before the starters went down.

ND's TE Tyler Eifert wins the Mackey award; Coach Kelly wins the "Home Depot Coach of the Year." Teo won the Nagurski and Butkus awards.

I'd rather they win just one trophy, the one given out on January 7...

CarlBear95, how do you feel about Sonny Dykes? Apparently he's the new coach at Cal.

Dykes is from LA Tech, right? They have a fantastic offense. Granted, they had an amazing receiver (Patton) this year.

Well, at least he isn't going to miss his old team's bowl game!

And SI reports that Charlie Strong turned down Tenn and is staying at Louisville.

CardStrong!

Good luck, Gumbie.

Fedaykin98 wrote:

Dykes is from LA Tech, right? They have a fantastic offense. Granted, they had an amazing receiver (Patton) this year.

He's got to be better than the last coach that was hired away from LA Tech...

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Looks like all signs are pointing to Sonny Dykes from LA tech.

Positives, he's obviously run a prolific offense as HC and Coordinator (at Arizona).

Negatives, his defenses are some of the worst in the country. The conference has experimented with prolific offensive coaches, most recently Leach and RichRod with little success.

I know little about his academic record at LA Tech. We really need to get that part fixed at Cal. While a Rose Bowl is the #1 priority of any Cal fan, if it came at the expense of a disastrous academic record, it wouldn't feel right.

From an outlook standpoint, our top WR Keenan Allen is hopping to the NFL as expected, but on the positive, we've recruited the heck out of the WR position, and I think we're in good shape for a Dykes offense with 3 freshman WRs who played this year (Harper, Powe, Treggs) and a TE Richard Rodgers that has a chance to break out. We'll have speed at RB with Brendan Bigelow as the feature back. We'll be starting a new QB next year, and he can't be worse than Maynard. Most think redshirt frosh and highly touted Zach Kline will get the nod, but we'll have to see in Spring.

Another local writer reported that Cal will also open the checkbook for assistants, so hopefully we can find someone above average on D so we don't just lose shootouts every week.

Should be an interesting year for Cal. LA Tech was the highest scoring offense last year, 4th in Passing per game, 18th in rushing per game. I'll definitely be paying attention to my email for various booster events this season. I've largely ignored them in the past, but definitely need to show up this year if I can.

EDIT: hah, 5:41pm pacific, no official announcement, but Wikipedia has been updated with Dykes as head coach at Cal.

Whoa.

Bret Bielema sent the Arkansas AD a letter expressing his interest in the job...in September.

Guess he really wanted it.

Carlbear95 wrote:

I know little about his academic record at LA Tech.

Twitter-verse saying OC Tony Franklin, WR coach Rob Likens and RB coach Pierre Ingram all expected to come with Dykes.

Huh.

#TurnedDownTennessee is top 5 trending on twitter in the US.

Stele wrote:

Huh.

#TurnedDownTennessee is top 5 trending on twitter in the US.

Tennessee will be the ones laughing soon enough...:)

It will be over soon.

HOLY sh*t. JOHNNY MANZIEL DECLARED INELIGIBLE FOR HEISMAN.

The reason?

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He's a dirty mutant!

*BAMF*

So Johnny Football is really Corvo from Dishonored?

firesloth wrote:

Whoa.

Bret Bielema sent the Arkansas AD a letter expressing his interest in the job...in September.

Guess he really wanted it.

Bielema blew it out of the water today at his introductory presser. The players are excited, the fans are excited, and until he coaches a down he's a walking god in Arkansas. The best hire in the SEC since Saban to LSU.

Teams that still don't have a coach. Remember, NO ONE knows anything and anyone that claims otherwise just wants attention *cough*Clay Travis*cough*. It's not Gruden, and it's probably not Petersen, but no matter what happens you will feel better after the hire.

i38warhawk wrote:
firesloth wrote:

Whoa.

Bret Bielema sent the Arkansas AD a letter expressing his interest in the job...in September.

Guess he really wanted it.

Bielema blew it out of the water today at his introductory presser. The players are excited, the fans are excited, and until he coaches a down he's a walking god in Arkansas. The best hire in the SEC since Saban to LSU.

Teams that still don't have a coach. Remember, NO ONE knows anything and anyone that claims otherwise just wants attention *cough*Clay Travis*cough*. It's not Gruden, and it's probably not Petersen, but no matter what happens you will feel better after the hire.

There are definitely people that know things and they have nothing to do with Clay Travis.

So, people here are a little freaked. Bielema was pretty much hired as a coach for life by Barry Alvarez. Barry does have a message for us though:
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Barry Alvarez to coach Wisconsin in Rose Bowl. Who knows, maybe he'll actually win.

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Charlie Strong's "I'm staying" press conference was pretty great this morning. Maybe Louisville fans can start letting go of the clingy girlfriend mentality we had going on after John L and Petrino bailed. Seriously the man said nothing but the right things about how he hadn't talked to anyone before the Rutgers game and how he wanted to talk about the Sugar Bowl not coaching rumors, and still the Louisville media and fans were just sure he was going to leave Monday.

Anyway he broke down what really happened today. Compare this to all the wild speculation and rumors than went around:

Phone call from UT on Fri.
Interview with UT Mon.
Job offer from UT Tues.
No counter-offer from UL or UT. No bidding war or anything.
He made his decision to stay at UL and finish what he started.

So next time you hear coaching rumors, don't trust a blog. Don't trust twitter and facebook. Don't trust a local TV news station. Don't even trust a local newspaper. Definitely don't trust ESPN because they just feed off all those others. Apparently SportsIllustrated is the only one that still has some journalistic integrity and gets valid sources before running with a story.

Stele wrote:

So next time you hear coaching rumors, don't trust a blog. Don't trust twitter and facebook. Don't trust a local TV news station. Don't even trust a local newspaper. Definitely don't trust ESPN because they just feed off all those others. Apparently SportsIllustrated is the only one that still has some journalistic integrity and gets valid sources before running with a story.

Agreed.

N.C. State went through multiple candidates with their basketball coaching search a while back, which is how they ended up with Sidney Lowe. (Also see, "Doherty, Matt; UNC coaching search that led to his hire.)

It's awful to watch. Best wishes to any Tennessee fans out there.