The Rest of College Football

[JRB]

If they were hiring Smith for the long term, I would consider this indefensibly dumb. But as a one-year measure, there is some logic to this move. It may not work, but I'm not sure what better options Jeff Long had at this point. It'll be interesting to see how Long handles this situation if Arkansas has the kind of season they seem to be convinced they're going to have

[Tony G]

It would be bizarre if he were to get that team to the MNC title game

[WingsFan]

[Dr. Strangelove]

Smith was hired at Weber State only four months ago. Time to move on!!

[Optimus Prime]

Hire Luke Fickell, he's used to getting fucked over.

[Jeff Buchanan]

According to Arky insider's reports, players and the rest of the football staff are fine with the hire. He was the Razorbacks ST coach before he took the Weber State job in December, 11.

Reportedly, he recruited quite a few of the current starting roster. From a players and coaches standpoint, Smith is falling in on an established system that he is not going to be allowed to dismantle and rebuild to his liking ..... or that is what he allegedly agreed to in his 8 month, $850K contract (no bonuses mentioned).

I can see the logic in the hire. I don't think AD Long has any intention of keeping JLS beyond the 2012 season, regardless of what he accomplishes. Smith has never distinguished himself as a winner or Xs and Os kind of coach. He has no personality and he's known more for his several rants and foolish blaming himself for losses sort of behavior before the press. News of his hiring on college football shows on Sirius/XM were interspersed with tapes of his dumb post game press conferences where he made an ass of himself. Not Arky material for the long term at all.

[Mackenzie]

According to Arky insider's reports, players and the rest of the football staff are fine with the hire. He was the Razorbacks ST coach before he took the Weber State job in December, 11.

Jeff, do you think that, even though the players are fine with the hire, that there is a danger that Smith may not get the "attention" of the players as much as someone else who at least has the potential for being the head coach beyond next year? Of course, I guess that is the danger of any interim hire.

[SeanB]

Jeff, do you think that, even though the players are fine with the hire, that there is a danger that Smith may not get the "attention" of the players as much as someone else who at least has the potential for being the head coach beyond next year? Of course, I guess that is the danger of any interim hire.

Ask Fickell. He knows.

[The Oracle]

Personality is about the only thing JLS DOES have as a head coach.

[entropy]

the new cam newton statue

[Optimus Prime]

.....I wish I was like you, easily amused.....

[entropy]

AUSTIN -- Texas athletics director and longtime playoff proponent DeLoss Dodds is ready for college football to stop tiptoeing around the Big Ten and Pacific-12 conferences and their fierce loyalty to the Rose Bowl.

If that's what is holding off a move to even a limited playoff -- and Dodds says he believes it is -- then he advocates a parting of ways in the postseason. Let those two leagues cling to their more than six-decade partnership with the Rose. And allow the rest of the country settle the national championship as it sees fit.


Texas athletics director DeLoss Dodds says if the Big Ten and Pacific-12 aren't interested in being part of a football playoff, it might be time to move on without those conferences.CAPTIONBy Erich Schlegel, Getty Images"The only way it's going to get fixed," Dodds says, "is for the rest of the country to have a playoff of some kind and let them do their (own) deal. And then after five years, their coaches would go berserk because they're not in the mix for a national championship. And they'd have to join it."

That, of course, is not among the strategies under consideration as the league commissioners who oversee the Bowl Championship Series meet Wednesday and Thursday in Hollywood, Fla. They're looking at several variations of a four-team playoff, including one that would give the Rose special protection, and an amended version of the current four-bowls-plus-a-single-championship-game format.

No resolution is expected in Florida. Individual conferences are expected to weigh in after annual meetings in May and June, and BCS executive director Bill Hancock points toward a decision by the first of July.

Athletics directors have input into the process through an advisory committee, but the decision-making power is vested in the commissioners and an oversight panel of university presidents -- on which Texas' William Powers sits.

Current BCS contracts with conferences, bowls and television carrier ESPN expire after the 2013 season.

Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany often has said that his league would, indeed, go its own way if the sport went to a full-blown playoff, continuing -- in concert with the Pac-12 -- to send its champion to the Rose. Dodds' suggestion would test that resolve.

Not that he ever expects it to happen. "Presidents are collegial. They aren't going to do thatm so we are where we are," he says.

"I don't see anything changing."

[entropy]

[entropy]

just saying..

[lineygoblue]

very striking similarity