I sort of wish Bill had ended up there. Yes, McDaniels means it wouldn’t have happened. And it’s the AFC meaning we’d have to compete with him. But the Raiders are a storied franchise that has often gone against the grain and I kind of love the idea of Bill’s attitude with the silver and black.
Is Carroll interviewing? I thought he announced that he was remaining with Seattle in some advisor capacity, and was pumped and jacked about it.
Lombardi said something to the effect of knowing Carroll still wanted to coach even though he'd been "kicked upstairs."
His son is now coaching across town at UW. Might keep him from leaving.
That's been Blank's M.O. when he hires basically any position, he does a million interviews, casts a huge net.
That's been Blank's M.O. when he hires basically any position, he does a million interviews, casts a huge net.
Curious to see if Pierce winds up being Mike Singletary (inspiring ex-player who just couldn't handle the xs and os) or Dan Campbell (inspiring ex-player who seems like he can handle the xs and os).
To me Pierce taking over and being what I consider successful is a point in his favor over noobs like DeMeco and Mayo. Half a season of HC work shows me more than being a coordinator because of what I view as the point of the job. DeMeco worked out, I’m talking about pre-hire.
Very good hire if it happens. Rivera has shortcomings as an HC, but he's an excellent coach (and citizen). I think he'll end up there or in Baltimore when McDonald gets an HC opportunity.
I was doing a masters degree in history at the U during Morgan’s era. The football team was insane - they ran that campus. I probably only know .1% of it, but I had some wild experiences just with the players in courses where I TA’d.
That's a really cool tale. At BC I was a history major and had some of the hockey guys in my classes and I was very pleasantly surprised to see how hard they worked at their academics. There's a ton of writing in the history department, to do all that plus be a college varsity athlete is extremely impressive.
A friend of mine went to BC with Craig Janney and still, 40 years later, talks about what a great player and great student Janney was. And great looking. I think my friend never really got over it.
Wait, the Eagle changed coordinators last offseason too right?
Yes, that was apparently the directive from management after their season went down the drain: show us who you'd bring in to replace your staff and if we like it, you get to stay. Apparently the feeling is he needs great coordinators in order to be a successful head coach. I mean, who wouldn't right? Feels stupid to me, especially watching that video where he was flipping off the Chiefs and Hurts made him lower his arm while looking at him like he was a total clown. Which he is.
100% agreed.
Love these stories. My wife was getting her Masters in History at BC in 1997 and 1998 and TA'd in 1998 for a European History class. Three hockey players were in the class but only one of them (Bobby Allen 2nd round draft pick of YOUR Boston Bruins) was singled out to her and the professor as a "very special boy" and that any issues they had should be brought directly to the academic administrator for the team so that they could be cleared up quickly. The other two were great, showed up and contributed. Bobby wasn't the best student but managed to get through his sophomore spring which was pretty much what the team seemed to care about. Then we went to Michigan for her PhD and she taught a bunch of football players. Most again were great and interestingly she never got spoken to about any of the players. She had a center who was a western Ohio farm kid who played for three years, never missed a classand graduated with honors. She also had David Terrell who when he had questions would call her and leave her messages where he referred to himself in the third person. We still laugh about those messages. "David Terrell has a question about the reading and David hopes my wife can extend her office hours tomorrow so he can come by after practice." Hell of a college receiver but he needed to leave that stuff to Rickey.
Were the kids at BC kids that played juniors or right out of High School? I have taught some excellent students that were hockey players but I chalked some of it up to maturity as they were slightly older on average.
Off the top of my head, most of the ones I had in my history classes were out of high school.
That David Terrell story is funny. He was living in Chicago after his playing days, got charged with in some murky marijuana distribution & police assault case. Terrell was acquitted and may well have been a wrong place, wrong time thing. A local article quoting Terrell about racism in the NFL mentioned that his son was at Howard Law last year.
He wants to coach, the Chargers job is arguably the best available. I can't see Pete hanging around Seattle much longer. He does usually like to keep his movements quiet until the last minute. It's Florio, who knows if it's true or not, but it does make a modicum of sense.
A friend of mine - also a historian - did his grad work at Georgetown, and tutored Dikembe Mutombo, who he found to be really bright (he noted that Dikembe spoke a bunch of languages).
My first thought was great landing spot for Steve B., if he's not back with NE.
Just as background on the Carroll to Charger thing....
The rumor before we hired Fangio is he wanted the Eagles job, but because of their postseason run and Jonathan Gannon’s uncertainty, he basically went with Miami because they threw him a shitload of money.
yes, which is why he is a "top target" they'll do an external pro forma interview then hire him
