2. University of Cincinnati
Known in some circles as more of a basketball school, Cincinnati excelled in football in recent years and without breaking the bank. In fact, the Bearcats ascened to No. 8 in the national rankings in 2009, the third and final year of head coach Brian Kelly's tenure there. In Kelly's program-revitalizing reign, the school spent an average of more than $13 million per year on expenses. Kelly left in 2010, but his former colleagues overcame his departure: After a disappointing four-win campaign in '10, Cincinnati went 29-10 over the ensuing three years. The program stayed consistent with changing leadership: Mark Dantonio (Michigan State), Kelly (Notre Dame) and Butch Jones (Tennessee) all left for greener pastures in recent years after spending three seasons on the sideline. Will Tommy Tuberville, entering his third campaign in '15, be next to depart?

http://www.valuepenguin.com/2015/08/most...ast-decade

I always forget that we finished in the top 10 back in 08' After the sugar bowl, it feels like that whole season was a bust.

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(08-20-2015 10:31 AM)Cataclysmo Wrote:  I always forget that we finished in the top 10 back in 08' After the sugar bowl, it feels like that whole season was a bust.

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Sugar Bowl season was 2009 when we finished 3rd prior to the bowl game.

(08-20-2015 10:35 AM)JackieTreehorn Wrote:  

(08-20-2015 10:31 AM)Cataclysmo Wrote:  I always forget that we finished in the top 10 back in 08' After the sugar bowl, it feels like that whole season was a bust.

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Sugar Bowl season was 2009 when we finished 3rd prior to the bowl game.

If Texas would have lost, and they almost did, UC would have played in the title game.

(08-20-2015 10:44 AM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  

(08-20-2015 10:35 AM)JackieTreehorn Wrote:  

(08-20-2015 10:31 AM)Cataclysmo Wrote:  I always forget that we finished in the top 10 back in 08' After the sugar bowl, it feels like that whole season was a bust.

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Sugar Bowl season was 2009 when we finished 3rd prior to the bowl game.

If Texas would have lost, and they almost did, UC would have played in the title game.

I don't like to think about how different UC football would look if that damn kicker went wide right

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(08-20-2015 10:47 AM)Cataclysmo Wrote:  

(08-20-2015 10:44 AM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  

(08-20-2015 10:35 AM)JackieTreehorn Wrote:  

(08-20-2015 10:31 AM)Cataclysmo Wrote:  I always forget that we finished in the top 10 back in 08' After the sugar bowl, it feels like that whole season was a bust.

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Sugar Bowl season was 2009 when we finished 3rd prior to the bowl game.

If Texas would have lost, and they almost did, UC would have played in the title game.

I don't like to think about how different UC football would look if that damn kicker went wide right

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Or if the damn refs didn't put an extra second back on the clock after time ran out on Texas. Seriously, we were at a bar in Pittsburgh loaded down with UC fans and the place was going bazerk when time ran out. I ran around the place giving high fives to pretty much everyone there. That kick was such a brutal moment in one of the best days in Bearcat sports history.

(08-20-2015 10:55 AM)bearcatmark Wrote:  

(08-20-2015 10:47 AM)Cataclysmo Wrote:  

(08-20-2015 10:44 AM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  

(08-20-2015 10:35 AM)JackieTreehorn Wrote:  

(08-20-2015 10:31 AM)Cataclysmo Wrote:  I always forget that we finished in the top 10 back in 08' After the sugar bowl, it feels like that whole season was a bust.

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Sugar Bowl season was 2009 when we finished 3rd prior to the bowl game.

If Texas would have lost, and they almost did, UC would have played in the title game.

I don't like to think about how different UC football would look if that damn kicker went wide right

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Or if the damn refs didn't put an extra second back on the clock after time ran out on Texas. Seriously, we were at a bar in Pittsburgh loaded down with UC fans and the place was going bazerk when time ran out. I ran around the place giving high fives to pretty much everyone there. That kick was such a brutal moment in one of the best days in Bearcat sports history.

We were down at Rising Star Casino. The last minute of the game, that place was almost silent as everyone was watching the game and it went crazy when the clock went to 0. Then when they put time back on and let them kick, it went crazy pissed!

Clock hits zero ... wife and I are running around the living room. She heads to computer to check plane flights. Ref comes back and puts the sec back on clock. Wife asks ... can they do that?

Quote:Will Tommy Tuberville, entering his third campaign in '15, be next to depart?

This makes reading the whole damn thing worthwhile

(08-20-2015 10:55 AM)bearcatmark Wrote:  

(08-20-2015 10:47 AM)Cataclysmo Wrote:  

(08-20-2015 10:44 AM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  

(08-20-2015 10:35 AM)JackieTreehorn Wrote:  

(08-20-2015 10:31 AM)Cataclysmo Wrote:  I always forget that we finished in the top 10 back in 08' After the sugar bowl, it feels like that whole season was a bust.

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Sugar Bowl season was 2009 when we finished 3rd prior to the bowl game.

If Texas would have lost, and they almost did, UC would have played in the title game.

I don't like to think about how different UC football would look if that damn kicker went wide right

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Or if the damn refs didn't put an extra second back on the clock after time ran out on Texas. Seriously, we were at a bar in Pittsburgh loaded down with UC fans and the place was going bazerk when time ran out. I ran around the place giving high fives to pretty much everyone there. That kick was such a brutal moment in one of the best days in Bearcat sports history.

I may have been in the same bar, and you are right it was brutal.
Especially with Kelly having one foot out the door as we found out later.

(08-20-2015 11:27 AM)sbcat84 Wrote:  

(08-20-2015 10:55 AM)bearcatmark Wrote:  

(08-20-2015 10:47 AM)Cataclysmo Wrote:  

(08-20-2015 10:44 AM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  

(08-20-2015 10:35 AM)JackieTreehorn Wrote:  Sugar Bowl season was 2009 when we finished 3rd prior to the bowl game.

If Texas would have lost, and they almost did, UC would have played in the title game.

I don't like to think about how different UC football would look if that damn kicker went wide right

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Or if the damn refs didn't put an extra second back on the clock after time ran out on Texas. Seriously, we were at a bar in Pittsburgh loaded down with UC fans and the place was going bazerk when time ran out. I ran around the place giving high fives to pretty much everyone there. That kick was such a brutal moment in one of the best days in Bearcat sports history.

I may have been in the same bar, and you are right it was brutal.
Especially with Kelly having one foot out the door as we found out later.

If we make the NC Game, you have to figure Kelly would stay...right? Crazy how a few milliseconds changed our program as much as it did. After Texas won, a lot of people failed to realize that we jumped TCU into 3rd in the final rankings. Would've been mighty interesting...then we would've gotten absolutely massacred by bama, but still!

Ndamakuh Suh was a monster in that game. He almost single handily put us in the title game.

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(08-20-2015 11:38 AM)BearcatMan Wrote:  

(08-20-2015 11:27 AM)sbcat84 Wrote:  

(08-20-2015 10:55 AM)bearcatmark Wrote:  

(08-20-2015 10:47 AM)Cataclysmo Wrote:  

(08-20-2015 10:44 AM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  If Texas would have lost, and they almost did, UC would have played in the title game.

I don't like to think about how different UC football would look if that damn kicker went wide right

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Or if the damn refs didn't put an extra second back on the clock after time ran out on Texas. Seriously, we were at a bar in Pittsburgh loaded down with UC fans and the place was going bazerk when time ran out. I ran around the place giving high fives to pretty much everyone there. That kick was such a brutal moment in one of the best days in Bearcat sports history.

I may have been in the same bar, and you are right it was brutal.
Especially with Kelly having one foot out the door as we found out later.

If we make the NC Game, you have to figure Kelly would stay...right? Crazy how a few milliseconds changed our program as much as it did. After Texas won, a lot of people failed to realize that we jumped TCU into 3rd in the final rankings. Would've been mighty interesting...then we would've gotten absolutely massacred by bama, but still!

It's really funny this is coming up because I just was getting into a heated argument about this with some co-workers last night. They claimed that even if UC would have made the national championship game that year that Kelly would have bolted before the game and left UC to twist in the wind while playing for a national championship. My argument is that the backlash would have been so great if a coach ever did something like that their career would take a huge hit, as would the reputation of the school who was behind the coach poach.

All in all no matter what happened that year Kelly was probably heading for his dream job at ND but what a piece of trash he would have been to abandon his kids before a national championship game. Again, no way to know what would have happened.

No chance Kelly doesn't coach the National Championship game. ND would have let him (like Urban coached Utah in the BCS game before going to FLorida) and he could not have passed on it.

(08-20-2015 11:08 AM)bearcatmill Wrote:  Clock hits zero ... wife and I are running around the living room. She heads to computer to check plane flights. Ref comes back and puts the sec back on clock. Wife asks ... can they do that?

Yup...my meltdown that night was epic. You know it bad when you get banned for 24 hours from Bearcat Banter, your wife tells you to sleep in the sofa and you are sitting an looking at a blank wall at 3am...still stewing.

Not proud of that night in any way, shape, or form.

(08-20-2015 11:48 AM)Jchuges7 Wrote:  All in all no matter what happened that year Kelly was probably heading for his dream job at ND but what a piece of trash he would have been to abandon his kids before a national championship game. Again, no way to know what would have happened.

If you ask me, what difference does it make, whether it was the NC, or any other bowl?

(08-20-2015 11:48 AM)Jchuges7 Wrote:  

(08-20-2015 11:38 AM)BearcatMan Wrote:  

(08-20-2015 11:27 AM)sbcat84 Wrote:  

(08-20-2015 10:55 AM)bearcatmark Wrote:  

(08-20-2015 10:47 AM)Cataclysmo Wrote:  I don't like to think about how different UC football would look if that damn kicker went wide right

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Or if the damn refs didn't put an extra second back on the clock after time ran out on Texas. Seriously, we were at a bar in Pittsburgh loaded down with UC fans and the place was going bazerk when time ran out. I ran around the place giving high fives to pretty much everyone there. That kick was such a brutal moment in one of the best days in Bearcat sports history.

I may have been in the same bar, and you are right it was brutal.
Especially with Kelly having one foot out the door as we found out later.

If we make the NC Game, you have to figure Kelly would stay...right? Crazy how a few milliseconds changed our program as much as it did. After Texas won, a lot of people failed to realize that we jumped TCU into 3rd in the final rankings. Would've been mighty interesting...then we would've gotten absolutely massacred by bama, but still!

It's really funny this is coming up because I just was getting into a heated argument about this with some co-workers last night. They claimed that even if UC would have made the national championship game that year that Kelly would have bolted before the game and left UC to twist in the wind while playing for a national championship. My argument is that the backlash would have been so great if a coach ever did something like that their career would take a huge hit, as would the reputation of the school who was behind the coach poach.

All in all no matter what happened that year Kelly was probably heading for his dream job at ND but what a piece of trash he would have been to abandon his kids before a national championship game. Again, no way to know what would have happened.

You are 100% correct. There is no possible way Kelly leaves before coaching in the national championship, and no way ND asks him to. For anyone to say different is silly. I have often wondered if that would have changed his mind about leaving and if the university would have fast tracked all of the renovations, adding sports, etc. That we are seeing now. What if we beat BAMA? Then what?

(08-20-2015 12:12 PM)rtaylor Wrote:  

(08-20-2015 11:48 AM)Jchuges7 Wrote:  

(08-20-2015 11:38 AM)BearcatMan Wrote:  

(08-20-2015 11:27 AM)sbcat84 Wrote:  

(08-20-2015 10:55 AM)bearcatmark Wrote:  Or if the damn refs didn't put an extra second back on the clock after time ran out on Texas. Seriously, we were at a bar in Pittsburgh loaded down with UC fans and the place was going bazerk when time ran out. I ran around the place giving high fives to pretty much everyone there. That kick was such a brutal moment in one of the best days in Bearcat sports history.

I may have been in the same bar, and you are right it was brutal.
Especially with Kelly having one foot out the door as we found out later.

If we make the NC Game, you have to figure Kelly would stay...right? Crazy how a few milliseconds changed our program as much as it did. After Texas won, a lot of people failed to realize that we jumped TCU into 3rd in the final rankings. Would've been mighty interesting...then we would've gotten absolutely massacred by bama, but still!

It's really funny this is coming up because I just was getting into a heated argument about this with some co-workers last night. They claimed that even if UC would have made the national championship game that year that Kelly would have bolted before the game and left UC to twist in the wind while playing for a national championship. My argument is that the backlash would have been so great if a coach ever did something like that their career would take a huge hit, as would the reputation of the school who was behind the coach poach.

All in all no matter what happened that year Kelly was probably heading for his dream job at ND but what a piece of trash he would have been to abandon his kids before a national championship game. Again, no way to know what would have happened.

You are 100% correct. There is no possible way Kelly leaves before coaching in the national championship, and no way ND asks him to. For anyone to say different is silly. I have often wondered if that would have changed his mind about leaving and if the university would have fast tracked all of the renovations, adding sports, etc. That we are seeing now. What if we beat BAMA? Then what?

What if Pitt's holder doesn't fumble the snap on that extra point?

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(08-20-2015 11:55 AM)bearcatmark Wrote:  No chance Kelly doesn't coach the National Championship game. ND would have let him (like Urban coached Utah in the BCS game before going to FLorida) and he could not have passed on it.

Kelly had permission to stay with UC with the rest of the coaches for the Sugar Bowl and he decided not to.

Kelly was on the Dan Patrick show shortly after taking the ND job. Patrick asked him what he would have done if UC was in the title game. BK said "I'm coaching in the National Championship". I still think ND would gave hired him just after the NC game.