He who shall not be named and bailed on us bowl game week is an alum and coached UH. He who shall not be named now coaches at Baylor.....

(Art Briles)

(01-21-2014 11:15 AM)GO Coogs GO!!! Wrote:  He who shall not be named and bailed on us bowl game week is an alum and coached UH. He who shall not be named now coaches at Baylor.....

(Art Briles)

Thats really lame. That would be like Ruff leaving for Wake.

(01-21-2014 11:01 AM)ncbeta Wrote:  Bear Bryant?

Edit: larry kehres

In your original post you limited the discussion to D1.

(01-21-2014 11:30 AM)JRsec Wrote:  

(01-21-2014 11:01 AM)ncbeta Wrote:  Bear Bryant?

Edit: larry kehres

In your original post you limited the discussion to D1.

I know im.just.covering the bases incase wedge was throwing us a curveball. I cheated and used wiki anyway because my original guess was the grambling coach then BB but saw you posted it...oh well.

I also thought bobby bowden went to FSU but thats not right.

(01-21-2014 11:01 AM)ncbeta Wrote:  Bear Bryant?

Edit: larry kehres

Both are correct. It's the Bear if you limit it to whatever was/is the top division in NCAA football at the time, and it's Kehres if it's all of college football.

Frank Beamer (224 wins at Virginia Tech) might pass the Bear (232 wins at Alabama) on this list as soon as this year.

For seven seasons (1989-'95), Georgia's football HC was an alum, Ray Goff. He had been a star QB for Dooley in the '70s and was named HC (at age 33) when Dooley retired. Probably a mistake, and he hasn't coached anywhere else since he was pushed out 18 years ago.

It's not widely known, IMHO, but it was partially Goff's responsibility to clean up the mess left over from a very nasty scandal (the "Kemp Affair") involving the academic work that Georgia players were doing (or not doing) that was exposed in the media in the mid-'80s. I admire Coach Dooley and I think his legacy at UGA is overwhelmingly positive, but it's a mark of how deep in the tank the state media is for him and for UGA that he emerged from that episode basically unscathed. Here is a brief obituary (from 2008) in the NY Times of the person who forced the issue up to the surface: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/12/educat....html?_r=0

Jr wins by my rules then!

Will be interesting if Beamer can make history this year. Let's just hope one of those 9 isn't against the Pirates.

Larry Lacewell who was hired at Arkansas State upon recommendation from Bear Bryant (Bryant's best friend in high school was Lacewell's father) did post-grad work at AState but he's long since retired. Nelson Catalina the most successful AState hoops coach was at AState two year before tranferring to a lower division school.

Probably the biggest true alum we've had is our AD who played football here.

(01-21-2014 12:20 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  For seven seasons (1989-'95), Georgia's football HC was an alum, Ray Goff. He had been a star QB for Dooley in the '70s and was named HC (at age 33) when Dooley retired. Probably a mistake, and he hasn't coached anywhere else since he was pushed out 18 years ago.

It's not widely known, IMHO, but it was partially Goff's responsibility to clean up the mess left over from a very nasty scandal (the "Kemp Affair") involving the academic work that Georgia players were doing (or not doing) that was exposed in the media in the mid-'80s. I admire Coach Dooley and I think his legacy at UGA is overwhelmingly positive, but it's a mark of how deep in the tank the state media is for him and for UGA that he emerged from that episode basically unscathed. Here is a brief obituary (from 2008) in the NY Times of the person who forced the issue up to the surface: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/12/educat....html?_r=0

That was far from the worst behavior by Georgia's athletic department during the Dooley years. I ran into Ray on the recruiting roads during his time at Georgia. He was always an affable and well met guy and a great recruiter. But as I've said before during that era there were precious few schools in the SWC, SEC, and the Southern half of the ACC that were clean, including Georgia. Bill Curry was the only coach from that era that I never found any dirt on with regards to recruiting. I'm not saying the Tech program was lily white in recruiting, but there were ample opportunities for me to run across the negative and it just was never there. I think that's about as good as it gets. Curry's big problem at Alabama was not that he failed to beat Auburn, but that he wouldn't "do what it takes" to get recruits. Appointing Curry to be head coach of the Tide would be like making Mother Teresa the head of the CIA.

(01-21-2014 12:41 PM)JRsec Wrote:  That was far from the worst behavior by Georgia's athletic department during the Dooley years.

Wouldn't surprise me.

Quote:I ran into Ray on the recruiting roads during his time at Georgia. He was always an affable and well met guy and a great recruiter.

Recruiting -- that was his unquestioned great strength as a coach. Sideline decisions and personnel selections were another story.

Quote:Bill Curry was the only coach from that era that I never found any dirt on with regards to recruiting. I'm not saying the Tech program was lily white in recruiting, but there were ample opportunities for me to run across the negative and it just was never there. I think that's about as good as it gets. Curry's big problem at Alabama was not that he failed to beat Auburn, but that he wouldn't "do what it takes" to get recruits.

All of that jibes with the information I have gleaned about Curry through the years, too. I've had a chance to meet him during his Georgia State-phase the last few years (2009-12) and have always been impressed.

Quote:Appointing Curry to be head coach of the Tide would be like making Mother Teresa the head of the CIA.

Heh. The Capstone is a peculiar mix of good and bad, and quite honestly it's not to my liking. But yes Bill Curry was a bizarre choice to be the HC there. I've never understood what Steve Sloan's strategy was, with that decision. It didn't work out, but it did lead to Gene Stallings, which turned out fine.

(01-21-2014 12:50 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  

(01-21-2014 12:41 PM)JRsec Wrote:  That was far from the worst behavior by Georgia's athletic department during the Dooley years.

Wouldn't surprise me.

Quote:I ran into Ray on the recruiting roads during his time at Georgia. He was always an affable and well met guy and a great recruiter.

Recruiting -- that was his unquestioned great strength as a coach. Sideline decisions and personnel selections were another story.

Quote:Bill Curry was the only coach from that era that I never found any dirt on with regards to recruiting. I'm not saying the Tech program was lily white in recruiting, but there were ample opportunities for me to run across the negative and it just was never there. I think that's about as good as it gets. Curry's big problem at Alabama was not that he failed to beat Auburn, but that he wouldn't "do what it takes" to get recruits.

All of that jibes with the information I have gleaned about Curry through the years, too. I've had a chance to meet him during his Georgia State-phase the last few years (2009-12) and have always been impressed.

Quote:Appointing Curry to be head coach of the Tide would be like making Mother Teresa the head of the CIA.

Heh. The Capstone is a peculiar mix of good and bad, and quite honestly it's not to my liking. But yes Bill Curry was a bizarre choice to be the HC there. I've never understood what Steve Sloan's strategy was, with that decision. It didn't work out, but it did lead to Gene Stallings, which turned out fine.

C.M. Newton and Gene Stallings were two of the most honorable stand up guys that the Alabama coaching ranks ever produced (IMO). I'd put Bill Curry in there but he was never really an Alabama product.

Scott Satterfield at App State just finished his first season as head coach at his alma mater.

(01-21-2014 11:26 AM)ncbeta Wrote:  

(01-21-2014 11:15 AM)GO Coogs GO!!! Wrote:  He who shall not be named and bailed on us bowl game week is an alum and coached UH. He who shall not be named now coaches at Baylor.....

(Art Briles)

Thats really lame. That would be like Ruff leaving for Wake.

Art Briles went to uh but graduated from Texas Tech. IIRC, his parents died in a car wreck and he went back home to West Texas.

Art also coached under Leach at Texas Tech. I seriously doubt Ruff leaves ECU. Ruff is home and he seems happy.

(01-21-2014 01:43 PM)jml2010 Wrote:  

(01-21-2014 11:26 AM)ncbeta Wrote:  

(01-21-2014 11:15 AM)GO Coogs GO!!! Wrote:  He who shall not be named and bailed on us bowl game week is an alum and coached UH. He who shall not be named now coaches at Baylor.....

(Art Briles)

Thats really lame. That would be like Ruff leaving for Wake.

Art Briles went to uh but graduated from Texas Tech. IIRC, his parents died in a car wreck and he went back home to West Texas.

Art also coached under Leach at Texas Tech. I seriously doubt Ruff leaves ECU. Ruff is home and he seems happy.

Well that paints a completely different picture. Having a tragedy occur like that can cast a murky shadow over what should be some of the best years of your life.

I'm going to go take my foot out of my mouth now...

Phil Fulmer, Johnny Majors and Pat Summit are all Tennessee alums

Troy Calhoun, Air Force.

Larry Blakeney, Troy

(01-21-2014 01:43 PM)jml2010 Wrote:  

(01-21-2014 11:26 AM)ncbeta Wrote:  

(01-21-2014 11:15 AM)GO Coogs GO!!! Wrote:  He who shall not be named and bailed on us bowl game week is an alum and coached UH. He who shall not be named now coaches at Baylor.....

(Art Briles)

Thats really lame. That would be like Ruff leaving for Wake.

Art Briles went to uh but graduated from Texas Tech. IIRC, his parents died in a car wreck and he went back home to West Texas.

Art also coached under Leach at Texas Tech. I seriously doubt Ruff leaves ECU. Ruff is home and he seems happy.

This is correct but he is still an alum. He attended UH.

And just in full disclosure as much as it stung I fault him for the manner (more specifically the timing) of his departure not that he went to a B12 team.

Both he and Scumlin did a major disservice to UH on the way out. If both "men" had been professional and stayed and stayed focused for what was 7 days for Scumlin and between 7-10 days for Briles I would wish them well.

However they did not and showed what little class they both have. I will never wish them well alum (Briles) or not (Scumlin).

(01-21-2014 02:58 PM)ncbeta Wrote:  Well that paints a completely different picture. Having a tragedy occur like that can cast a murky shadow over what should be some of the best years of your life.

I'm going to go take my foot out of my mouth now...

It was a tragedy and I think the school handled it very well. They story is out there is you care to find it.

I don't fault Briles for leaving when his parents passed (died on the way to watch him play in Dallas) or that he left for Baylor.

The fact remains that he is an alum of UH and left us hanging on his way to Baylor not on his way to Tech.

(01-21-2014 03:19 PM)ODUDrunkard13 Wrote:  Larry Blakeney, Troy

Blakeney is an Auburn man.