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Welcome to I'm Not Going to Take it Anymore Day!
That's it, you've had enough, and today you are going to do something about it—you aren't going to take it anymore. This holiday is for doing something about the things that are holding you back, for taking control of your life, for standing up for yourself and fighting back, and for telling those who have been holding you back that you aren't going to take it anymore.
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Rocky Long has interest in Syracuse defensive coordinator job? (larrybrownsports.com; Brown)
Here’s an odd report to consider: Rocky Long is said to be shopping himself for defensive coordinator jobs, including the one at Syracuse.
Yahoo’s Pete Thamel shared the report on Monday and said Long is visiting Syracuse, where Dino Babers has a vacancy.
Sources: San Diego State head coach Rocky Long has been shopping himself for college defensive coordinator jobs. That includes Syracuse, where he's visiting today. Dino Babers has an open DC job.
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) January 6, 2020
The question you have to ask is: why would Long want to take a career demotion? He’s been the head coach at San Diego State since 2011, going 81-38 and winning double-digit games four times. He just led the Aztecs to a 10-3 season, including a New Mexico Bowl win.
Long may be:
– Looking for more money out of San Diego State
– A new gig because he thinks he is being pushed out for Brady Hoke
– Or the chance to reduce his workload since he’s 70 years old
Long added Hoke to his staff this season, so a situation where Hoke becomes their new head coach would make sense. Hoke was SDSU’s head coach in 2009-2010 prior to Long taking over.
It’s not very often you see a successful college head coach willingly look to drop down to a coordinator position, which is why this report is intriguing.
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Syracuse Football: Dino Babers hoping to add Rocky Long as new DC (itlh; Esden Jr)
Syracuse football head coach Dino Babers has a new target for the DC role. Here are all the details on potential candidate Rocky Long.
It’s been eerily quiet on the hill since the Syracuse football squad decided to move on from defensive coordinator Brian Ward, but finally, there’s some news to report.
Per Pete Thamel of Yahoo Sports, Dino Babers is hosting San Diego State head coach Rocky Long on Monday for a visit.
Long reportedly has “been shopping himself” for college defensive coordinator jobs per Thamel’s report.
Rocky is 69 years old (will be 70 by the start of the 2020 season) and has an incredible track record as a top defensive mind.
He’s been coaching football non-stop since 1972:
- 1972–1973: New Mexico (as a graduate assistant)
- 1974–1975: Eldorado High School (in New Mexico as an assistant)
- 1978–1980: New Mexico (OB, DB coach)
- 1981–1985: Wyoming (defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach)
- 1986–1987: BC Lions (linebackers coach)
- 1988–1990: TCU (defensive backs coach)
- 1991–1995: Oregon State (defensive coordinator)
- 1996–1997: UCLA (defensive coordinator)
- 1998–2008: New Mexico (head coach)
- 2009–2010: San Diego State (defensive coordinator)
- 2011–present: San Diego State (head coach)
Clemson Football: 5 Reasons Why the Tigers Will Beat LSU in the National Championship (athlonsports.com; Lassan)
for gbo
Here's why the Tigers will win it all on Jan. 13
Clemson brings its 29-game winning streak and quest to win back-to-back national titles to New Orleans on Jan. 13 for a showdown against LSU to decide the 2019-20 college football national champion. Coach Dabo Swinney has elevated Clemson into an annual title contender. The Tigers have won at least 10 games every year since 2011 and have earned a trip to the CFB Playoff for five consecutive seasons. Clemson has claimed two out of the last three titles, beating Alabama 35-31 in the 2016 season and won 44-16 over the Crimson Tide last year.
Clemson had a relatively easy path to an ACC title and playoff berth, as Swinney’s team was rarely tested in 2019. The Tigers won 12 out of their 13 regular-season games by 14 or more points, including a 62-17 victory over Virginia in the ACC Championship Game and a 45-10 win at Louisville in mid-October. Clemson faced its toughest test of the season in the Fiesta Bowl over Ohio State. The Tigers fell behind 16-0 but rallied thanks to timely stops in the red zone and two turnovers by the Buckeyes. A four-play, 94-yard drive delivered the winning score with just two minutes left, while the defense intercepted Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields in the end zone to secure the trip to New Orleans.
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UVa football: With key players moving on, Cavaliers look for next crop of game-changers (roanoke.com; Doughty)
Six months after the somewhat unlikely selection of Virginia as a preseason choice to win the ACC’s Coastal Division, it can be said that the Cavaliers’ football team lived up to expectations.
It wasn’t the best season in UVa history. That distinction is held by either the 1989 team that finished 10-3 or the 1990 team that won its first seven games and was ranked No. 1 in the country for three weeks.
That team was led by quarterback Shawn Moore, who finished fourth in balloting for the Heisman Trophy. UVa didn’t have another dual-threat like him until Bryce Perkins came east from Arizona Western Junior College in the winter of 2018.
At that point, Bronco Mendenhall had gone 2-10 and 6-7 in his first two seasons as Virginia’s head football coach.
“It became really clear after those two years that we needed a dynamic player and person to lead our team offensively and from the quarterback position,” Mendenhall said Monday night after a 36-28 loss to heavily favored Florida in the Orange Bowl.
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Three offseason priorities for Louisville football heading into 2020 (BRL; Lane)
Louisville football will enter a crucial offseason that could set up another eight or more win season in 2020. We take a look at the biggest priorities for the Cards this offseason.
There weren’t many outside of the Louisville football locker room who thought the Cards had any chance of winning enough games to get bowl eligible, let alone get to eight wins (including the Music City Bowl) and finish second in the ACC Atlantic Division.
Luckily for us, the opinions of what the season may look like for Louisville by others had no effect on the season. Louisville was able to outplay the “rebuilding” expectation put on them, including picking up wins against a ranked ACC team on the road for the first time, and it earned Scott Satterfield the ACC Coach of the Year and talk about him being the next “big” coach in college football.
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(medium.com; O'Leary)
As a lifelong Notre Dame fan, I never wanted them to join a conference for football. That changed on Nov. 2, 2019.
After I came home from celebrating your World Champion Washington Nationals, I caught the end of Notre Dame’s thrilling victory over Virginia Tech. There was just one problem — it meant absolutely nothing. Despite winning 10 games, Notre Dame’s fate was sealed following its loss to Michigan the week prior. It was playing in Orlando, in the Camping World or Citrus Bowl, and nothing was going to change.
Even Notre Dame’s spectacular beatdown of a very, very good Navy team changed nothing. It ended up as the most depressing 11-win season I could ever remember from any team, and it was due precisely to the fact that Notre Dame is not in a conference.
Where independence was once a huge advantage, especially when it came to bowl games, everything in the college football playoff era is predicated on conferences. Look at the Orange Bowl, for example, where an inferior Virginia team played because of its ACC membership.
Even though Notre Dame’s goal will always be to win the national championship, even that would be aided greatly by a conference championship. Currently, they have to win every games to make the playoff. That’s a high bar to clear. But a conference championship would allow Notre Dame to enter the playoff discussion with one or even two losses.
Heck, just look at this year and what could have been if Notre Dame ended its season with a win over Clemson in the ACC title game. Sure, that seems highly unlikely based on how good Clemson has looked all year, but at least it would’ve been something exciting for its fans to dream about.
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Pitt Panthers Football Lands Arizona State Quarterback Transfer Joey Yellen (cbslocal.com; KDKA)
The Panthers are going to have a new quarterback in the system via the transfer portal.
Pitt Football announced the transfer of redshirt freshman quarterback Joey Yellen, who previously played for Arizona State.
“Happy to welcome @JoeyYellen to the city! Hail to Pitt!”
Happy to welcome @JoeyYellen to the city! Hail to Pitt!
— Pat Narduzzi (@CoachDuzzPittFB) January 6, 2020
Per transfer rules, he will sit out the 2020 season, and be ready for game action in 2021 as a redshirt sophomore.
Yellen’s made one appearance for the Sun Devils in 2019. It was a start against USC on November 9th. He completed 64% of his passes for 292 yards and four touchdowns with two interceptions in a 31-26 setback to the Trojans. He posted those impressive numbers despite suffering a shoulder injury early in the contest.
As a two-year starter at Mission Viejo (Calif.) High School, Yellen achieved a 22-3 record while completing 61% of his passes for 6,131 yards and 57 touchdowns against just 14 interceptions.
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NFL Draft Underclassmen so far (as of 1/6/20) (RX; HM)
NFL Draft Underclassmen so far (as of 1/6/20)
From Tracking underclassmen intentions for 2020 NFL Draft
Below are the ACC-related underclassmen whose intentions to enter the 2020 NFL Draft have been stated, sorted by school.
Underclassmen have until Jan. 17 to file declaration papers with the league, with a 72-hour period to reconsider that commences on Jan. 20. The final list of underclassmen who have been approved for entry by the NFL will be released to the 32 teams on Jan. 21.
The NFL granted special eligibility to 103 underclassmen for the 2019 draft, one year after a record 106 underclassmen were approved for the 2018 draft. Twenty-nine percent of the underclassmen who received special eligibility went undrafted in 2019.
The 85th NFL draft will be held April 23-25, 2020 in Las Vegas.
Boston College
- A.J. Dillon, RB
Florida State
- Cam Akers, RB
- Stanford Samuels III, CB
Louisville
- Mekhi Becton, OT
Miami
- Trajan Bandy, CB
- DeeJay Dallas, RB
- Jeff Thomas, WR
Notre Dame
- Alohi Gilman, S
- Tony Jones Jr., RB
- Cole Kmet, TE
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WHY playoffs should expand (RX; HM)
WHY playoffs should expand
Why expand the playoffs? For one thing, fans overwhelmingly want it...
From a BCSNN Fan Poll: Should CFB Playoffs Go To 8 Teams?
| Absolutely and ASAP please! | 51.7% | ========================== |
| Yes, but the top G5 team gets in. | 40% | ==================== |
| No, we like 4 right now. | 8.3% | ==== |
Then there's this from Top 5 Reasons for an Expanded College Football Playoff by BR, which states in part...
1. One Loss Wouldn't Sink Playoff Hopes
It might make an at-large bid impossible, but you'd still have a shot at winning your conference championship's auto-bid (if you were in a P5 league, and depending on who you lost to).
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CAN the playoffs expand before 2025? (RX; HM)
CAN the playoffs expand before 2025?
Some say it's irrelevant whether the playoffs SHOULD expand... because they won't. But is that true?
In an article posted by ESPN, they got some good quotes from outgoing Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany [see SEC, ACC snub could spur playoff change], who said in part that he
Implicit in that statement is the suggestion that the other 3 power conferences want the playoffs to expand, but it's the ACC and SEC holding it back - an idea which I find hard to swallow, tbh. Well, the ACC at least.
Sure, I'll buy that. I'd also like to point out that nothing actually DID change until two SEC teams played each other in the BCS title game... something which has already happened once in the CFP era, but that alone wasn't enough.
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Cuomo to OK $75M Syracuse STEAM school, training center (exclusive) (PS; Weiner)
Gov. Andrew Cuomo will announce plans Wednesday to establish in Syracuse the state’s first regional high school and worker training center that focuses on science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics, or STEAM.
The governor will commit at least $71.4 million to renovate the abandoned Central High School near downtown Syracuse into a multipurpose complex that will educate and train the workforce of the future, administration officials said.
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