Multiple reports state that UCF has hired Oregon OC, Scott Frost as Head Coach, not Dino...

Interesting...



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Maybe because Babers did not want to go before the MACG and UCF wanted to move now? Just a thought - no facts to back it up

(12-01-2015 09:13 AM)Mark26pt2 Wrote:  Maybe because Babers did not want to go before the MACG and UCF wanted to move now? Just a thought - no facts to back it up

I highly doubt it. I'm guessing Syracuse is on the radar.

Just enough doubt as to whether or not Babers IS looking elsewhere or possibly getting an offer - to create a distraction for the team. Rumors swirling around cannot be a good thing for their heads.

(12-01-2015 10:44 AM)HuskieFootball Addict Wrote:  Just enough doubt as to whether or not Babers IS looking elsewhere or possibly getting an offer - to create a distraction for the team. Rumors swirling around cannot be a good thing for their heads.

If you've seen Babers comments on the matter...this is only going to fire up the team and not the opposite.

(12-01-2015 11:22 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(12-01-2015 10:44 AM)HuskieFootball Addict Wrote:  Just enough doubt as to whether or not Babers IS looking elsewhere or possibly getting an offer - to create a distraction for the team. Rumors swirling around cannot be a good thing for their heads.

If you've seen Babers comments on the matter...this is only going to fire up the team and not the opposite.

Keep right on believing that.

(12-01-2015 11:26 AM)huskiebob Wrote:  

(12-01-2015 11:22 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(12-01-2015 10:44 AM)HuskieFootball Addict Wrote:  Just enough doubt as to whether or not Babers IS looking elsewhere or possibly getting an offer - to create a distraction for the team. Rumors swirling around cannot be a good thing for their heads.

If you've seen Babers comments on the matter...this is only going to fire up the team and not the opposite.

Keep right on believing that.

I will. I don't believe that these guys have that fragile of an ego that they will cower at the thought that there coach might leave after the game for another job. It's 99.9% certain now that he'll be coaching the game. And most indications are that he basically told UCF that he didn't want the job if he had to take it before the MACC. If that's the case, that will only fire up the players.

Also, the seniors and juniors have already gone through this when Clawson left just 2 years ago before our bowl game...so they know the drill.

(12-01-2015 11:31 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(12-01-2015 11:26 AM)huskiebob Wrote:  

(12-01-2015 11:22 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(12-01-2015 10:44 AM)HuskieFootball Addict Wrote:  Just enough doubt as to whether or not Babers IS looking elsewhere or possibly getting an offer - to create a distraction for the team. Rumors swirling around cannot be a good thing for their heads.

If you've seen Babers comments on the matter...this is only going to fire up the team and not the opposite.

Keep right on believing that.

I will. I don't believe that these guys have that fragile of an ego that they will cower at the thought that there coach might leave after the game for another job. It's 99.9% certain now that he'll be coaching the game. And most indications are that he basically told UCF that he didn't want the job if he had to take it before the MACC. If that's the case, that will only fire up the players.

Also, the seniors and juniors have already gone through this when Clawson left just 2 years ago before our bowl game...so they know the drill.

I give Babers credit if he turned down the job because he did not want to leave before the MACG - I think that is outstanding. I have no inside knowledge but when I read the news reports that is the conclusion that I reached. He wanted the job and they wanted him. However, they wanted him immediately and he asked them to wait a week. Based on that, they pursued other options. If that is how it played out - good for Babers.

I understand a coach leaving after the MACG but not before.

I think Babers will get a better job (Maryland, Mizzou, etc)

If NIU is hoping for some weird coaching drama to help us win on Friday, we don't deserve it anyways. There are just as many examples of teams that rally around an interim or lame duck coach.

As for UCF, if they really wanted Babers and he wanted them, but it broke off over a week, then that's really stupid on UCF's part. They'd want him to do the same thing if he went there and was leaving 3 years later for a bigger job.

(12-01-2015 11:22 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(12-01-2015 10:44 AM)HuskieFootball Addict Wrote:  Just enough doubt as to whether or not Babers IS looking elsewhere or possibly getting an offer - to create a distraction for the team. Rumors swirling around cannot be a good thing for their heads.

If you've seen Babers comments on the matter...this is only going to fire up the team and not the opposite.

Bowling Green is going to be fired up? Why didn't you say so sooner? We could just forfeit

No one is winning or losing anything because someone is fired up.

If you guys think Babers turned down UCF because he wanted to coach the MACCG, you are out of your minds. I would assume Babers was on their radar and had a coach higher up on the list interested in the job. No way he's turning down a job for one football game. No damn way.

(12-01-2015 01:52 PM)Who You Crappin? Wrote:  If you guys think Babers turned down UCF because he wanted to coach the MACCG, you are out of your minds. I would assume Babers was on their radar and had a coach higher up on the list interested in the job. No way he's turning down a job for one football game. No damn way.

It's more likely he turned it down / didn't show interest because there are better jobs out there for him. UCF is a dumpster fire, was a wise choice on his part to see what else he can get.

(12-01-2015 01:55 PM)Huskies2006 Wrote:  

(12-01-2015 01:52 PM)Who You Crappin? Wrote:  If you guys think Babers turned down UCF because he wanted to coach the MACCG, you are out of your minds. I would assume Babers was on their radar and had a coach higher up on the list interested in the job. No way he's turning down a job for one football game. No damn way.

It's more likely he turned it down / didn't show interest because there are better jobs out there for him. UCF is a dumpster fire, was a wise choice on his part to see what else he can get.

Fair enough, but there's no way that he did it for one football game. Nice way to twist it to fire his players up though.

(12-01-2015 01:55 PM)Huskies2006 Wrote:  

(12-01-2015 01:52 PM)Who You Crappin? Wrote:  If you guys think Babers turned down UCF because he wanted to coach the MACCG, you are out of your minds. I would assume Babers was on their radar and had a coach higher up on the list interested in the job. No way he's turning down a job for one football game. No damn way.

It's more likely he turned it down / didn't show interest because there are better jobs out there for him. UCF is a dumpster fire, was a wise choice on his part to see what else he can get.

How? They have a new AD and the new coach has an opportunity to build the program as they want.

If not UCF this week, it'll be somewhere else next week.

(12-01-2015 02:03 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  

(12-01-2015 01:55 PM)Huskies2006 Wrote:  

(12-01-2015 01:52 PM)Who You Crappin? Wrote:  If you guys think Babers turned down UCF because he wanted to coach the MACCG, you are out of your minds. I would assume Babers was on their radar and had a coach higher up on the list interested in the job. No way he's turning down a job for one football game. No damn way.

It's more likely he turned it down / didn't show interest because there are better jobs out there for him. UCF is a dumpster fire, was a wise choice on his part to see what else he can get.

How? They have a new AD and the new coach has an opportunity to build the program as they want.

Yeah, I'd say UCF is just a nice new garbage can. Illinois is a dumpster fire.

(12-01-2015 02:05 PM)Who You Crappin? Wrote:  

(12-01-2015 02:03 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  

(12-01-2015 01:55 PM)Huskies2006 Wrote:  

(12-01-2015 01:52 PM)Who You Crappin? Wrote:  If you guys think Babers turned down UCF because he wanted to coach the MACCG, you are out of your minds. I would assume Babers was on their radar and had a coach higher up on the list interested in the job. No way he's turning down a job for one football game. No damn way.

It's more likely he turned it down / didn't show interest because there are better jobs out there for him. UCF is a dumpster fire, was a wise choice on his part to see what else he can get.

How? They have a new AD and the new coach has an opportunity to build the program as they want.

Yeah, I'd say UCF is just a nice new garbage can. Illinois is a dumpster fire.

Is there something else going on at UCF other then that old coach/AD who seemed to have just given up?

(12-01-2015 02:09 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  

(12-01-2015 02:05 PM)Who You Crappin? Wrote:  

(12-01-2015 02:03 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  

(12-01-2015 01:55 PM)Huskies2006 Wrote:  

(12-01-2015 01:52 PM)Who You Crappin? Wrote:  If you guys think Babers turned down UCF because he wanted to coach the MACCG, you are out of your minds. I would assume Babers was on their radar and had a coach higher up on the list interested in the job. No way he's turning down a job for one football game. No damn way.

It's more likely he turned it down / didn't show interest because there are better jobs out there for him. UCF is a dumpster fire, was a wise choice on his part to see what else he can get.

How? They have a new AD and the new coach has an opportunity to build the program as they want.

Yeah, I'd say UCF is just a nice new garbage can. Illinois is a dumpster fire.

Is there something else going on at UCF other then that old coach/AD who seemed to have just given up?

No. It was just my attempt at being funny. Talk about your all-time backfire.

(12-01-2015 02:36 PM)Who You Crappin? Wrote:  

(12-01-2015 02:09 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  

(12-01-2015 02:05 PM)Who You Crappin? Wrote:  

(12-01-2015 02:03 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  

(12-01-2015 01:55 PM)Huskies2006 Wrote:  It's more likely he turned it down / didn't show interest because there are better jobs out there for him. UCF is a dumpster fire, was a wise choice on his part to see what else he can get.

How? They have a new AD and the new coach has an opportunity to build the program as they want.

Yeah, I'd say UCF is just a nice new garbage can. Illinois is a dumpster fire.

Is there something else going on at UCF other then that old coach/AD who seemed to have just given up?

No. It was just my attempt at being funny. Talk about your all-time backfire.

Nice!