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[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by ARyan

I can agree with you, I guess I am just not sold on the Big East, and on Rutgers and USF. As I said, does anyone remember Maryland in 2001, Tulane in 1998, Utah in 2004?

I think we both agree that the parity in College Football has grown to the point where no game is a guaranteed win for any top 50 vs. top 50 team. I enjoy that.

The difference is that Utah and Tulane are always going to be limited because of location and in Tulane case size of the school. Maryland has no excuse though they are a better program than Vandy or either of the Mississippi schools. The fact is Rutgers should be good. They are a rich state school sitting in the middle of a gold mine worth of talent. The coach they brought in has done a great job and looks like he is staying. USF is a relatively new school who has done nothing but improve. Plus they too are located in a area where the talent level is great. Add in the fact they play in a pro stadium and have a good coach...why wouldn't they be good? West Virginia is a good program with a good coach. Louisville may have lost its most important asset when Petrino left but have a high national profile and have done a great job of both keeping homegrown talent and getting kids from all over the country. Syracuse needs to make a change on the top but they could easily go back to being a good program . UConn only has been around in Division 1 for a few years but is already pretty good. Pitt has Wandstad, enough said.

[hockey2315]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

The difference is that Utah and Tulane are always going to be limited because of location and in Tulane case size of the school. Maryland has no excuse though they are a better program than Vandy or either of the Mississippi schools. The fact is Rutgers should be good. They are a rich state school sitting in the middle of a gold mine worth of talent. The coach they brought in has done a great job and looks like he is staying. USF is a relatively new school who has done nothing but improve. Plus they too are located in a area where the talent level is great. Add in the fact they play in a pro stadium and have a good coach...why wouldn't they be good? West Virginia is a good program with a good coach. Louisville may have lost its most important asset when Petrino left but have a high national profile and have done a great job of both keeping homegrown talent and getting kids from all over the country. Syracuse needs to make a change on the top but they could easily go back to being a good program . UConn only has been around in Division 1 for a few years but is already pretty good. Pitt has Wandstad, enough said.

UConn will be like USF in a few years. . .

[ddthetide]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

The difference is that Utah and Tulane are always going to be limited because of location and in Tulane case size of the school. Maryland has no excuse though they are a better program than Vandy or either of the Mississippi schools. The fact is Rutgers should be good. They are a rich state school sitting in the middle of a gold mine worth of talent. The coach they brought in has done a great job and looks like he is staying. USF is a relatively new school who has done nothing but improve. Plus they too are located in a area where the talent level is great. Add in the fact they play in a pro stadium and have a good coach...why wouldn't they be good? West Virginia is a good program with a good coach. Louisville may have lost its most important asset when Petrino left but have a high national profile and have done a great job of both keeping homegrown talent and getting kids from all over the country. Syracuse needs to make a change on the top but they could easily go back to being a good program . UConn only has been around in Division 1 for a few years but is already pretty good. Pitt has Wandstad, enough said.

marylands problem right now, they can't keep the home grown kids. one of auburn's rb is from the eastern shore of md. sc, clemson and Alabama regularly have kids from the dc area. md was always famous for having the best del-ny-nj kids, outside of psu. those kids are not coming to md anymore. the acc needs md to get better.
wvu and a couple other schools in the big east have an advantage in entrance test scores. they can take kids with test scores that can't qualify for other schools. wvu is also more inclined to take "questionable" kids.

[horseofcourse]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

The difference is that Utah and Tulane are always going to be limited because of location and in Tulane case size of the school. Maryland has no excuse though they are a better program than Vandy or either of the Mississippi schools. The fact is Rutgers should be good. They are a rich state school sitting in the middle of a gold mine worth of talent. The coach they brought in has done a great job and looks like he is staying. USF is a relatively new school who has done nothing but improve. Plus they too are located in a area where the talent level is great. Add in the fact they play in a pro stadium and have a good coach...why wouldn't they be good? West Virginia is a good program with a good coach. Louisville may have lost its most important asset when Petrino left but have a high national profile and have done a great job of both keeping homegrown talent and getting kids from all over the country. Syracuse needs to make a change on the top but they could easily go back to being a good program . UConn only has been around in Division 1 for a few years but is already pretty good. Pitt has Wandstad, enough said.

I think Schiano will be the next Penn State coach whenever JoePa decides to step down...be it 2 years, 4 years or 19 years if he wants to try to coach into triple digits. He'll stay at Rutgers until then. I could be wrong, but I thought I heard some rumors regarding that scenario.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by horseofcourse

I think Schiano will be the next Penn State coach whenever JoePa decides to step down...be it 2 years, 4 years or 19 years if he wants to try to coach into triple digits. He'll stay at Rutgers until then. I could be wrong, but I thought I heard some rumors regarding that scenario.

I doubt Joe ever steps down. He may croak on the job but I think he will stay till they drag him out or carry him out.

[ddthetide]

Originally Posted by horseofcourse

I think Schiano will be the next Penn State coach whenever JoePa decides to step down...be it 2 years, 4 years or 19 years if he wants to try to coach into triple digits. He'll stay at Rutgers until then. I could be wrong, but I thought I heard some rumors regarding that scenario.

does schiano have psu ties? personally i think he's dumb to leave rutgers. ru and psu recruit the same players, he's winning the battle now and he's king of ru for as long as he wants to stay.

[ARyan]

Originally Posted by ddthetide

does schiano have psu ties? personally i think he's dumb to leave rutgers. ru and psu recruit the same players, he's winning the battle now and he's king of ru for as long as he wants to stay.

From what I know, he is very close to Joe. Close enough that he is a regular Thanksgiving Dinner guest. The word is that when the Penn St job opens up, Schiano wants it, and he is who Joe wants to replace him.

[ARyan]

Originally Posted by horseofcourse

I think Schiano will be the next Penn State coach whenever JoePa decides to step down...be it 2 years, 4 years or 19 years if he wants to try to coach into triple digits. He'll stay at Rutgers until then. I could be wrong, but I thought I heard some rumors regarding that scenario.

I have heard this too. Very strong possiblity that he is the replacement when JoePa chooses to step down. Schiano and JoePa are very very close.