(12-04-2018 07:19 PM)usffan Wrote:  

(12-04-2018 07:02 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(12-04-2018 06:59 PM)usffan Wrote:  Bumping this back up to the top because not only is it hilariously awful, but some of the subsequent commentary is pretty funny as well...

(06-06-2018 04:16 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  I didn't see this anywhere else, so...

From CBS Sports: 2018 AAC FOOTBALL COACH RANKINGS
1. NAVY - Ken Niumatalolo
2. MEMPHIS - Mike Norvell
3. SOUTH FLORIDA - Charlie Strong
4. TULANE - Willie Fritz
5. SMU - Sonny Dykes
6. TULSA - Philip Montgomery
7. TEMPLE - Geoff Collins
8. HOUSTON - Major Applewhite
9. CONNECTICUT - Randy Edsall
10. CINCINNATI - Luke Fickell
11. UCF - Josh Heupel
12. EAST CAROLINA - Scottie Montgomery
source: Ranking every football coach in the AAC from 1-12 ahead of the 2018 season
https://www.cbssports.com/college-footba...18-season/

http://americanrx.blogspot.com/2018/06/c...-2018.html

...sorry if this was already posted.

That was before the season started, which makes it more reasonable, since Fickell and Huepel were untested. Now it looks stupid, of course.

Agree that Heupel was a big unknown, but Fickell had already started to turn things around at Cincinnati. I got a bigger chuckle from all of the UConn fans who were telling all of us that Edsall was being ranked way too low (before he oversaw a record setting performance by the Huskies defense).

I think if I were going to rank them now, I'd have...

1 - Fickell
2 - Niumatalolo
3 - Norvell
5 - Heupel (was this a Heupel coaching job or remnants of what Frost did?)
4 - Applewhite
6 - Collins
7 - Strong
8 - Dykes
9 - Fritz
10 - Edsall
11 - P. Montgomery
12 - S. Montgomery

USFFan

Come on, talk about pissing on a grave. Not sure about Phil Montgomery, but Scotty was clearly better than Edsall.

I'd say top five are:

Fickell
Norvell
Niumatalolo
Pesik
Heupel

(12-05-2018 08:49 AM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  I'd say top five are:

Fickell
Norvell
Niumatalolo
Pesik
Heupel

Also top five in basketball.

What's more comical about Fickell being ranked so low preseason was the fact there was a national article on 247 that included CLF on the "Hot Seat List".

(12-05-2018 08:37 AM)CoastalJuan Wrote:  

(12-04-2018 07:19 PM)usffan Wrote:  

(12-04-2018 07:02 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(12-04-2018 06:59 PM)usffan Wrote:  Bumping this back up to the top because not only is it hilariously awful, but some of the subsequent commentary is pretty funny as well...

(06-06-2018 04:16 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  I didn't see this anywhere else, so...

From CBS Sports: 2018 AAC FOOTBALL COACH RANKINGS
1. NAVY - Ken Niumatalolo
2. MEMPHIS - Mike Norvell
3. SOUTH FLORIDA - Charlie Strong
4. TULANE - Willie Fritz
5. SMU - Sonny Dykes
6. TULSA - Philip Montgomery
7. TEMPLE - Geoff Collins
8. HOUSTON - Major Applewhite
9. CONNECTICUT - Randy Edsall
10. CINCINNATI - Luke Fickell
11. UCF - Josh Heupel
12. EAST CAROLINA - Scottie Montgomery
source: Ranking every football coach in the AAC from 1-12 ahead of the 2018 season
https://www.cbssports.com/college-footba...18-season/

http://americanrx.blogspot.com/2018/06/c...-2018.html

...sorry if this was already posted.

That was before the season started, which makes it more reasonable, since Fickell and Huepel were untested. Now it looks stupid, of course.

Agree that Heupel was a big unknown, but Fickell had already started to turn things around at Cincinnati. I got a bigger chuckle from all of the UConn fans who were telling all of us that Edsall was being ranked way too low (before he oversaw a record setting performance by the Huskies defense).

I think if I were going to rank them now, I'd have...

1 - Fickell
2 - Niumatalolo
3 - Norvell
5 - Heupel (was this a Heupel coaching job or remnants of what Frost did?)
4 - Applewhite
6 - Collins
7 - Strong
8 - Dykes
9 - Fritz
10 - Edsall
11 - P. Montgomery
12 - S. Montgomery

USFFan

Come on, talk about pissing on a grave. Not sure about Phil Montgomery, but Scotty was clearly better than Edsall.

To be fair to Edsall, a chef is only as good as his ingredients, and Diaco left him a cupboard full of quinoa and stale potato chips. For the same reason I can't say Heupel is assured of being a top coach, I can't condemn Edsall for being the worst given what he had to work with. And the man did coach them to a Fiesta Bowl in the past.

USFFan

(12-04-2018 08:47 PM)sfink16 Wrote:  

(12-04-2018 07:19 PM)usffan Wrote:  Agree that Heupel was a big unknown, but Fickell had already started to turn things around at Cincinnati. I got a bigger chuckle from all of the UConn fans who were telling all of us that Edsall was being ranked way too low (before he oversaw a record setting performance by the Huskies defense).

I think if I were going to rank them now, I'd have...

1 - Fickell
2 - Niumatalolo
3 - Norvell
5 - Heupel (was this a Heupel coaching job or remnants of what Frost did?)
4 - Applewhite
6 - Collins
7 - Strong
8 - Dykes
9 - Fritz
10 - Edsall
11 - P. Montgomery
12 - S. Montgomery

USFFan

West and some other Houston fans will be complaining loudly for first putting Applewhite 4th, than sliding him down the 5th. I'd think they have him much lower. Houston had too much talent to not be better by at least 1 or 2 more wins. You mention Heupel benefiting from Frost but I suspect that Applewhite benefited by Herman's recruiting. Was Herman the coach who recruited Oliver?

If I'm giving Applewhite too much credit for D'Eriq King's rise (I don't think anybody heard of him prior to the 2017 USF game), then he deserves to be a few spots lower on my list. But otherwise, I have no problem with him at #5 (despite my poor math/list skills as evidenced above).

On a tangent, Herman's kind of proving to be a dick (at least the second ex-Cougar head coach to go be one after Art Briles). Not exactly sure why recruits seem to flock to him. After the last year, I'm really hoping karma bites that guy in the ass...

USFFan

(12-05-2018 09:05 AM)HuskyU Wrote:  

(12-05-2018 08:49 AM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  I'd say top five are:

Fickell
Norvell
Niumatalolo
Pesik
Heupel

Also top five in basketball.

#3 in hoops

Fritz turned Tulane into a midlevel AAC team. Think about that. He's probably top half in the AAC considering that he's almost broken the cycle of uncompetitive conference play.

He needs a few nonconference wins next season, and if he gets them people will start paying attention to what he's done.

(12-05-2018 09:43 AM)usffan Wrote:  

(12-05-2018 08:37 AM)CoastalJuan Wrote:  

(12-04-2018 07:19 PM)usffan Wrote:  

(12-04-2018 07:02 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(12-04-2018 06:59 PM)usffan Wrote:  Bumping this back up to the top because not only is it hilariously awful, but some of the subsequent commentary is pretty funny as well...

That was before the season started, which makes it more reasonable, since Fickell and Huepel were untested. Now it looks stupid, of course.

Agree that Heupel was a big unknown, but Fickell had already started to turn things around at Cincinnati. I got a bigger chuckle from all of the UConn fans who were telling all of us that Edsall was being ranked way too low (before he oversaw a record setting performance by the Huskies defense).

I think if I were going to rank them now, I'd have...

1 - Fickell
2 - Niumatalolo
3 - Norvell
5 - Heupel (was this a Heupel coaching job or remnants of what Frost did?)
4 - Applewhite
6 - Collins
7 - Strong
8 - Dykes
9 - Fritz
10 - Edsall
11 - P. Montgomery
12 - S. Montgomery

USFFan

Come on, talk about pissing on a grave. Not sure about Phil Montgomery, but Scotty was clearly better than Edsall.

To be fair to Edsall, a chef is only as good as his ingredients, and Diaco left him a cupboard full of quinoa and stale potato chips. For the same reason I can't say Heupel is assured of being a top coach, I can't condemn Edsall for being the worst given what he had to work with. And the man did coach them to a Fiesta Bowl in the past.

USFFan

Edsall is a bum and should've been canned after the season. They have 5 total commits right now and probably have 60 or 70 offers out there. I'm not even really sure how that's possible if your coaching staff has a pulse.

They may possibly get worse than they were this year. UConn needs to go out and find a young NE guys who's hungry like the Maine HC.