Ranked #2 overall...congrats Tulane

http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/159...l-rankings

We have a real President and AD now.

In 15-20 years, I'll be talking to my teenagers about how far Tulane has come. With that said, it's going to be a while until Tulane does anything of note. This is going to be a long rebuild - but the healing process has begun...

If McNeill was trying to negotiate assistant coach pay raises to make his job more conducive to success, ECU fans should really get off his back. He was not your problem. The same thing that took him down will keep biting Scottie Mo. It sounds like Ruff was trying to fix the program.

19. East Carolina

Out: Ruffin McNeill (fired)
In: Scottie Montgomery (Duke offensive coordinator)

This ranking has more to do with the exit of McNeill than the hiring of Montgomery. By all accounts, Montgomery is a rising star, who has worked under a master in the respected David Cutcliffe. The 37-year-old Montgomery played at Duke and is from North Carolina, and he should make a fairly smooth transition as a first-time head coach in Greenville. He brings both college and NFL experience to the table, making him appear to be a strong choice for East Carolina. The problem is that firing McNeill remains perhaps the strangest part of the coaching carousel. McNeill went 5-7 this year, but that was with much of the offense going, in addition to a season-ending injury to new QB Kurt Benkert before the season began. McNeill was 42-34 in six seasons, and he reportedly turned down a contract extension during the season over issues with assistant coach pay.

LOL at Missouri ranked 9th best hire out of 22. What a crock.

(12-17-2015 09:09 PM)BigEastHomer Wrote:  If McNeill was trying to negotiate assistant coach pay raises to make his job more conducive to success, ECU fans should really get off his back. He was not your problem. The same thing that took him down will keep biting Scottie Mo. It sounds like Ruff was trying to fix the program.

19. East Carolina

Out: Ruffin McNeill (fired)
In: Scottie Montgomery (Duke offensive coordinator)

This ranking has more to do with the exit of McNeill than the hiring of Montgomery. By all accounts, Montgomery is a rising star, who has worked under a master in the respected David Cutcliffe. The 37-year-old Montgomery played at Duke and is from North Carolina, and he should make a fairly smooth transition as a first-time head coach in Greenville. He brings both college and NFL experience to the table, making him appear to be a strong choice for East Carolina. The problem is that firing McNeill remains perhaps the strangest part of the coaching carousel. McNeill went 5-7 this year, but that was with much of the offense going, in addition to a season-ending injury to new QB Kurt Benkert before the season began. McNeill was 42-34 in six seasons, and he reportedly turned down a contract extension during the season over issues with assistant coach pay.

Ruff overplayed his hand. Compher was not going to pay more for this staff that underachieved last year and when this season started going South it became more and more apparent that a change was needed. There is now plenty of stuff coming out about other problems that Compher was privy to that the rest of us were not that also lead to this decision. In other words....These experts dont know WTF they are talking about. Despite being a terrific person... Ruff need to go and we should applaud Compher for having balls enough to do his job. I will though say that I am not happy with the manner in which Compher handled the termination. The use of social media was not an acceptable way to communicate this.

my neighbor, an ex tulane player, is very happy with the hire. He's looking forward to him cleaning house.

UCF hire below Syracuse, Iowa State, and...

wait for it

North Texas?


ok.

(12-17-2015 10:00 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  

(12-17-2015 09:09 PM)BigEastHomer Wrote:  If McNeill was trying to negotiate assistant coach pay raises to make his job more conducive to success, ECU fans should really get off his back. He was not your problem. The same thing that took him down will keep biting Scottie Mo. It sounds like Ruff was trying to fix the program.

19. East Carolina

Out: Ruffin McNeill (fired)
In: Scottie Montgomery (Duke offensive coordinator)

This ranking has more to do with the exit of McNeill than the hiring of Montgomery. By all accounts, Montgomery is a rising star, who has worked under a master in the respected David Cutcliffe. The 37-year-old Montgomery played at Duke and is from North Carolina, and he should make a fairly smooth transition as a first-time head coach in Greenville. He brings both college and NFL experience to the table, making him appear to be a strong choice for East Carolina. The problem is that firing McNeill remains perhaps the strangest part of the coaching carousel. McNeill went 5-7 this year, but that was with much of the offense going, in addition to a season-ending injury to new QB Kurt Benkert before the season began. McNeill was 42-34 in six seasons, and he reportedly turned down a contract extension during the season over issues with assistant coach pay.

Ruff overplayed his hand. Compher was not going to pay more for this staff that underachieved last year and when this season started going South it became more and more apparent that a change was needed. There is now plenty of stuff coming out about other problems that Compher was privy to that the rest of us were not that also lead to this decision. In other words....These experts dont know WTF they are talking about. Despite being a terrific person... Ruff need to go and we should applaud Compher for having balls enough to do his job. I will though say that I am not happy with the manner in which Compher handled the termination. The use of social media was not an acceptable way to communicate this.

The funny thing is they actually are impressed with our hiring of Montgomery but don't rate us well because we got rid of McNeill. The truth is the national media just looks at his overall record and sees that he has a winning record. They don't look at his records against winning programs, or his record since coming into the AAC.

(12-17-2015 09:09 PM)BigEastHomer Wrote:  If McNeill was trying to negotiate assistant coach pay raises to make his job more conducive to success, ECU fans should really get off his back. He was not your problem. The same thing that took him down will keep biting Scottie Mo. It sounds like Ruff was trying to fix the program.

19. East Carolina

Out: Ruffin McNeill (fired)
In: Scottie Montgomery (Duke offensive coordinator)

This ranking has more to do with the exit of McNeill than the hiring of Montgomery. By all accounts, Montgomery is a rising star, who has worked under a master in the respected David Cutcliffe. The 37-year-old Montgomery played at Duke and is from North Carolina, and he should make a fairly smooth transition as a first-time head coach in Greenville. He brings both college and NFL experience to the table, making him appear to be a strong choice for East Carolina. The problem is that firing McNeill remains perhaps the strangest part of the coaching carousel. McNeill went 5-7 this year, but that was with much of the offense going, in addition to a season-ending injury to new QB Kurt Benkert before the season began. McNeill was 42-34 in six seasons, and he reportedly turned down a contract extension during the season over issues with assistant coach pay.

@ this ******* troll bringing ECU / McNeill into this thread.

I think Cuse and UCF should be swapped but top 10 is not bad.

(12-18-2015 08:29 AM)blunderbuss Wrote:   @ this ******* troll bringing ECU / McNeill into this thread.

(12-17-2015 10:00 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  

(12-17-2015 09:09 PM)BigEastHomer Wrote:  If McNeill was trying to negotiate assistant coach pay raises to make his job more conducive to success, ECU fans should really get off his back. He was not your problem. The same thing that took him down will keep biting Scottie Mo. It sounds like Ruff was trying to fix the program.

19. East Carolina

Out: Ruffin McNeill (fired)
In: Scottie Montgomery (Duke offensive coordinator)

This ranking has more to do with the exit of McNeill than the hiring of Montgomery. By all accounts, Montgomery is a rising star, who has worked under a master in the respected David Cutcliffe. The 37-year-old Montgomery played at Duke and is from North Carolina, and he should make a fairly smooth transition as a first-time head coach in Greenville. He brings both college and NFL experience to the table, making him appear to be a strong choice for East Carolina. The problem is that firing McNeill remains perhaps the strangest part of the coaching carousel. McNeill went 5-7 this year, but that was with much of the offense going, in addition to a season-ending injury to new QB Kurt Benkert before the season began. McNeill was 42-34 in six seasons, and he reportedly turned down a contract extension during the season over issues with assistant coach pay.

Ruff overplayed his hand. Compher was not going to pay more for this staff that underachieved last year and when this season started going South it became more and more apparent that a change was needed. There is now plenty of stuff coming out about other problems that Compher was privy to that the rest of us were not that also lead to this decision. In other words....These experts dont know WTF they are talking about. Despite being a terrific person... Ruff need to go and we should applaud Compher for having balls enough to do his job. I will though say that I am not happy with the manner in which Compher handled the termination. The use of social media was not an acceptable way to communicate this.

Yeah, gotta love homer's ignorance of all the details. This whole McNeill thing is big to him yet he acts like he's just now hearing certain things...all from early on when no one knew what was going on and still defensive of Ruff. So much has come out that it is easy to see there was WAY more to the story than an unjustified firing. But for some reason, homer just ignores all of those details. Helps him maintain his stance in bad mouthing ECU.

(12-18-2015 08:45 AM)Sideshow2313 Wrote:  I think Cuse and UCF should be swapped but top 10 is not bad.

Why? One has won at two colleges as a head coach the other one hasn't proven he can manage a program yet...I think it is fair.

I do think both were two of the better hires out there.

Fritz is great hire! Could have accepted or waited for bigger job....but he didn't. That says something about the American and how it is perceived by other coach candidates. It's a great conference to be a HC in and compete against the best in CFB and have chance of winning and establishing a legacy.