Upon Returning From the FAU-SO. Utah Tilt

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hatvol96

hatvol96

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A few thoughts:

1. Buy games are really unfair to the kids on the road team. Physically inferior athletes playing a bloodsport in front of a hostile crowd. The modern day version of Christians at Lions.
2. Every head coach should have to dress in jacket and tie on the sideline. Kudos to Howard Schnellenberger from dressing like something other than a tourist or a homeless person.
3. I don't think the FAU gig has lived up to Howard's expectations. I've attended wakes with a better atmosphere.
4. It's amazing how many D-I teams the high school talent from Florida stocks. The same can be said for Texas.
 
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Bummer night?At least it's warm where you're at (in mid-tn we have freakin freeze warnings out tonight)!
 
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The current casual sideline look is a result of a backlash against when the jacket and tie look inexplicably morphed into the god awful baseball cap, tie and tennis shoe look that Vince Dooley, Pat Dye and Terry Bowden made infamous. There was no way to not look like a dork dressed like that.
 
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At least they don't wear uniforms like baseball managers.
 
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utfantilidie said:
Bummer night?At least it's warm where you're at (in mid-tn we have freakin freeze warnings out tonight)!
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No. Actually quite pleasant. Got to see a coach I consider a genuine legend and had some great jamaican chicken at the stadium. FAU just doesn't have enough of a following to create much buzz
 
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GAVol said:
The current casual sideline look is a result of a backlash against when the jacket and tie look inexplicably morphed into the god awful baseball cap, tie and tennis shoe look that Vince Dooley, Pat Dye and Terry Bowden made infamous. There was no way to not look like a dork dressed like that.
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I think it's more the result of the physiques of guys like Mark Mangino and, ahem, others.
 
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vader said:
At least they don't wear uniforms like baseball managers.
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I'll grant you that . . . No tradition is harder to explain than why baseball compels 60 year old men with pot bellies to wear a uniform.
 
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Howard must really be interested in teaching. Why else is he coaching at FAU? Surely he isn't broke!! Enlighten us hat the great,
 
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hatvol96 said:
I think it's more the result of the physiques of guys like Mark Mangino and, ahem, others.
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I can't remember the last BCS coach that I saw wear a jacket on the sideline. Majors is the last guy I can remember doing it in the SEC.
 
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hmanvolfan said:
Howard must really be interested in teaching. Why else is he coaching at FAU? Surely he isn't broke!! Enlighten us hat the great,
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Howard invested the money he got for never coaching in the USFL very well. He isn't hurting for money. My guess is, the idea of building a D-I program completely from scratch appealed to a man with Howard's healthy self image.
 
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hatvol96 said:
Howard invested the money he got for never coaching in the USFL very well. He isn't hurting for money. My guess is, the idea of building a D-I program completely from scratch appealed to a man with Howard's healthy self image.
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I was curious since he went to Louisville (which sucked in football forever) and look at them now. I hate to say it but if he thinks he can continue this resurrection project with FAU either he truly is a genious or he is a candidate for retirement.
 
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GAVol said:
You're right. Stallings outlasted Majors by a few years.
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I was always distressed when Stallings would eschew the jacket and go with the Jehovah's Witness look. There's no greater sartorial faux pas than the short sleeve "dress shirt."
 
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hmanvolfan said:
I was curious since he went to Louisville (which sucked in football forever) and look at them now. I hate to say it but if he thinks he can continue this resurrection project with FAU either he truly is a genious or he is a candidate for retirement.
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It's not really a resurrection project. They literally didn't have a football program. Howard was hired to start it. I think 72 is a little too old to be coaching in front of 3,000 people against Southern Utah. Especially for a guy with 4 National Championship and 2 Super Bowl rings.
 
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hatvol96 said:
I was always distressed when Stallings would eschew the jacket and go with the Jehovah's Witness look. There's no greater sartorial faux pas than the short sleeve "dress shirt."
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:lol: I was just thinking the same thing. Vince Dooley and PAt Dye used to do that almost exclusively. It might just be the most horrible look known to man.
 
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For some reason I thought of Jackie Sherrill when ties and jackets worn by coaches on the sideline was brought up. did he dress that way in his last years at Mississippi State?
 
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tidwell said:
For some reason I thought of Jackie Sherrill when ties and jackets worn by coaches on the sideline was brought up. did he dress that way in his last years at Mississippi State?
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You're right, he did dress well at State. Anyone notice a pattern among the guys who wore, or in Schnellenberger's case still wear, jacket and tie on the sideline?
 
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hatvol96 said:
You're right, he did dress well at State. Anyone notice a pattern among the guys who wore, or in Schnellenberger's case still wear, jacket and tie on the sideline?
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Uhhh, they are old and irrelevant?:dunno:

:)
 
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vader said:
Uhhh, they are old and irrelevant?:dunno:

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1. Stallings and Schnellenberger have won National Titles. Sherrill had the most consistently good team in the SEC West for 5 years at State. Hardly the work of irrelevant men.
2. Your answer would be more appropriate for Joe Paterno.
 
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