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Looking for the next "dream job"...

It needed to happen. A complete crash and burn.

(01-15-2022 11:17 AM)Ourland Wrote:  It needed to happen. A complete crash and burn.

It took a while, but as they say: Time wounds all heels.

My heart bleeds for him, this fallen legend of Rice coaching.

So which of Dante's 7 levels of Purgatory is Toad in now?

(01-15-2022 03:47 PM)Tomball Owl Wrote:  So which of Dante's 7 levels of Purgatory is Toad in now?

Whichever one feels like home.

(01-15-2022 11:14 AM)georgewebb Wrote:  Looking for the next "dream job"...

Todd Graham hired by Dallas-area private school, per report Graham has reportedly joined the athletic staff at Prestonwood Christian Academy

Quote:Former college football coach Todd Graham has a new job in athletics. Prestonwood Christian Academy confirmed to The Dallas Morning News Friday that it hired Graham as senior director of PCA System development and athletics. PCA has multiple campuses in the Dallas area, including its main campus in Plano, Texas.

It is Graham's first known position in the field of athletics since he resigned as Hawaii coach in early 2022.

Graham, prior to Hawaii, also served as coach at Rice (2006), Tulsa (2007-10), Pittsburgh (2011) and Arizona State (2012-17). He is 106-72 all-time as a college coach, including an 11-11 mark in his two seasons guiding Hawaii.

Graham, 58, has Texas roots, as he was born outside of Dallas in Mesquite. He started his coaching career at the high school level in the Lone Star State, serving as an assistant at Poteet High School from 1988-90. Graham was notably the coach at Allen High School from 1995-2000, guiding the Eagles to the playoffs five times in six years leading the program. Allen was his most recent high school stop before he entered the collegiate ranks as an assistant at West Virginia in 2001.

(08-05-2023 01:18 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  

(01-15-2022 11:14 AM)georgewebb Wrote:  Looking for the next "dream job"...

Todd Graham hired by Dallas-area private school, per report Graham has reportedly joined the athletic staff at Prestonwood Christian Academy

Quote:Former college football coach Todd Graham has a new job in athletics. Prestonwood Christian Academy confirmed to The Dallas Morning News Friday that it hired Graham as senior director of PCA System development and athletics. PCA has multiple campuses in the Dallas area, including its main campus in Plano, Texas.

It is Graham's first known position in the field of athletics since he resigned as Hawaii coach in early 2022.

Graham, prior to Hawaii, also served as coach at Rice (2006), Tulsa (2007-10), Pittsburgh (2011) and Arizona State (2012-17). He is 106-72 all-time as a college coach, including an 11-11 mark in his two seasons guiding Hawaii.

Graham, 58, has Texas roots, as he was born outside of Dallas in Mesquite. He started his coaching career at the high school level in the Lone Star State, serving as an assistant at Poteet High School from 1988-90. Graham was notably the coach at Allen High School from 1995-2000, guiding the Eagles to the playoffs five times in six years leading the program. Allen was his most recent high school stop before he entered the collegiate ranks as an assistant at West Virginia in 2001.

Looks like a great fit for him.

Maybe they can play Art Brides’ team.

Given this trend, his true "dream" job may be coaching a pee wee football team in Abilene.

(08-05-2023 04:22 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  Given this trend, his true "dream" job may be coaching a pee wee football team in Abilene.

Before he jumps ship to the neighboring pee wee football team in the next neighborhood in Abilene that is his *true* dream job.

He must have some mental problems.

(08-05-2023 09:00 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(08-05-2023 04:22 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  Given this trend, his true "dream" job may be coaching a pee wee football team in Abilene.

Before he jumps ship to the neighboring pee wee football team in the next neighborhood in Abilene that is his *true* dream job.

(08-06-2023 02:55 AM)Texasowl Wrote:  He must have some mental problems.

(08-05-2023 09:00 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(08-05-2023 04:22 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  Given this trend, his true "dream" job may be coaching a pee wee football team in Abilene.

Before he jumps ship to the neighboring pee wee football team in the next neighborhood in Abilene that is his *true* dream job.

The one sad thing is that his short tenure at Rice was on the whole successful.

It would have been an enormously more satisfying long set of events of the dbag had just been mediocre enough to bolt -- matching the rest of his stints.

(08-06-2023 08:43 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(08-06-2023 02:55 AM)Texasowl Wrote:  He must have some mental problems.

(08-05-2023 09:00 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(08-05-2023 04:22 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  Given this trend, his true "dream" job may be coaching a pee wee football team in Abilene.

Before he jumps ship to the neighboring pee wee football team in the next neighborhood in Abilene that is his *true* dream job.

The one sad thing is that his short tenure at Rice was successful.

It would have been an enormously more satisfying long set of events of the dbag had just been mediocre enough to bolt -- matching the rest of his stints.

I would not call a lucky 7-6 campaign successful. I would call it mediocre. It was thrilling, in the second half of the season. Not so much at the start or finish.

And he did bolt.

(08-06-2023 09:26 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(08-06-2023 08:43 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(08-06-2023 02:55 AM)Texasowl Wrote:  He must have some mental problems.

(08-05-2023 09:00 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(08-05-2023 04:22 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  Given this trend, his true "dream" job may be coaching a pee wee football team in Abilene.

Before he jumps ship to the neighboring pee wee football team in the next neighborhood in Abilene that is his *true* dream job.

The one sad thing is that his short tenure at Rice was successful.

It would have been an enormously more satisfying long set of events of the dbag had just been mediocre enough to bolt -- matching the rest of his stints.

I would not call a lucky 7-6 campaign successful. I would call it mediocre. It was thrilling, in the second half of the season. Not so much at the start or finish.

And he did bolt.

7-6 looks like Nirvana to me at this point. And for someone who Riced in the early to mid 80's that 7-6 is *highly* successful.

(08-06-2023 09:31 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(08-06-2023 09:26 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(08-06-2023 08:43 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(08-06-2023 02:55 AM)Texasowl Wrote:  He must have some mental problems.

(08-05-2023 09:00 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  Before he jumps ship to the neighboring pee wee football team in the next neighborhood in Abilene that is his *true* dream job.

The one sad thing is that his short tenure at Rice was successful.

It would have been an enormously more satisfying long set of events of the dbag had just been mediocre enough to bolt -- matching the rest of his stints.

I would not call a lucky 7-6 campaign successful. I would call it mediocre. It was thrilling, in the second half of the season. Not so much at the start or finish.

And he did bolt.

7-6 looks like Nirvana to me at this point. And for someone who Riced in the early to mid 80's that 7-6 is *highly* successful.

I went through the 40+ years of bowl futility that your mid-80's were the nadir of. but I will never accept barely .500 as highly successful. If we go 7-6 this year will you consider that "highly successful"?

Of course, I was never part of the Toad bandwagon. I didn't like him from the git-go. I enjoyed the stretch drive, even the lucky UAB win, and OTOH, I was in NOLa to see the ending debacle. Then he bolted. The only way to call that highly successful is to compare it to Hat's last year.

But, for 2023, I hope we are highly successful by somebody's standards. Yours at least, or better yet, mine.

Go Owls! Beat (whoever).

7-6?

This is the city of Houston, where, along with famously UH, we fire coaches who go 8-5

Also, 7-6 makes for iirc the 2nd all time best career win pct at Rice. :/

(08-06-2023 09:26 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(08-06-2023 08:43 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(08-06-2023 02:55 AM)Texasowl Wrote:  He must have some mental problems.

(08-05-2023 09:00 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(08-05-2023 04:22 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  Given this trend, his true "dream" job may be coaching a pee wee football team in Abilene.

Before he jumps ship to the neighboring pee wee football team in the next neighborhood in Abilene that is his *true* dream job.

The one sad thing is that his short tenure at Rice was successful.

It would have been an enormously more satisfying long set of events of the dbag had just been mediocre enough to bolt -- matching the rest of his stints.

I would not call a lucky 7-6 campaign successful. I would call it mediocre. It was thrilling, in the second half of the season. Not so much at the start or finish.

And he did bolt.

Inherited a 1-11 program and longtime triple-option scheme, changing it to a spread passing attack despite the wishbone personnel, QB got hurt in the first game. Made first bowl in several decades. Wildly successful at the time. Don't think he could've sustained it had he stayed but for one year it was big.

(08-06-2023 11:14 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(08-06-2023 09:31 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(08-06-2023 09:26 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(08-06-2023 08:43 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(08-06-2023 02:55 AM)Texasowl Wrote:  He must have some mental problems.

The one sad thing is that his short tenure at Rice was successful.

It would have been an enormously more satisfying long set of events of the dbag had just been mediocre enough to bolt -- matching the rest of his stints.

I would not call a lucky 7-6 campaign successful. I would call it mediocre. It was thrilling, in the second half of the season. Not so much at the start or finish.

And he did bolt.

7-6 looks like Nirvana to me at this point. And for someone who Riced in the early to mid 80's that 7-6 is *highly* successful.

I went through the 40+ years of bowl futility that your mid-80's were the nadir of. but I will never accept barely .500 as highly successful. If we go 7-6 this year will you consider that "highly successful"?

Of course, I was never part of the Toad bandwagon. I didn't like him from the git-go. I enjoyed the stretch drive, even the lucky UAB win, and OTOH, I was in NOLa to see the ending debacle. Then he bolted. The only way to call that highly successful is to compare it to Hat's last year.

But, for 2023, I hope we are highly successful by somebody's standards. Yours at least, or better yet, mine.

Go Owls! Beat (whoever).

I dont believe I said 'highly' successful....

Quite a bit more successful than most seasons I have seen coming out of Rice. That seemingly is, in the relative sense, 'successful'.

I too hope for absolute 'successful', and maybe one day will dawn on the shrubs and oaks of S. Main where 7-6 as not even 'relatively successful', and there will be no word whatsoever in the term 'successful' in either sense with 7-6.

As it is, I think most in the last 8 years would give a left nut (metaphorically of course, as we are seeming arguing about relative and absolute success when the term 'success' is bandied about....just to be absolutely crystal clear.....) for that not so absolute successful campaign. But -- wow, I hope to be that picky some day.