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[Dr. Strangelove]

BTW, the is the second time Dantonio has own. Hasn't Ferentz won like 3 of these?

[Mike]

Yeah, Earle Bruce well-earned his award for the '79 season.

Big 10 COY has basically become the "We thought you'd suck and oops we were wrong" award.

I think you can make that argument for any sport. I don't think Scotty Bowman or Mike Babcock ever won NHL coach of the year with the Wings. There are other examples too but I don't feel like researching it. I've also noticed that a breakout year from a star player also makes the coach look like a genius. This team was predicted to go 6-6 but their star player made a few miraculous plays and they went 8-4. COY!!

[Dr. Strangelove]

I think you can make that argument for any sport. I don't think Scotty Bowman or Mike Babcock ever won NHL coach of the year with the Wings. There are other examples too but I don't feel like researching it. I've also noticed that a breakout year from a star player also makes the coach look like a genius. This team was predicted to go 6-6 but their star player made a few miraculous plays and they went 8-4. COY!!

Yeah, sort of like Terry Francona winning over John Farrell. Maybe even more to the point, Francona never won the award with the Red Sox despite winning 2 WS.

Though I did check and Torre won it twice with the Yankees

[iam416]

O'Brien winning it last year over UFM was ridiculous, IMO. That vote was based on the false assumption that the recruiting sanctions that will really hurt PSU took effect immediately.

Dantonio did a nice job this year. In particular, I like the way they were able to get the offense to come around and the development of Cook and Langford. UFM met extremely high expectations and he did with Braxton and Hyde missing a number of games and losing Bryant against Wisconsin. That's a closer call than the O'Brien bullshit.

[hack]

COY is a stupid award in any sport.

[Hannibal]

Penn State fires/dismisses two assistants: Ron Vanderlinden (LB) and Charlie Fisher (QB). Vanderlinden has a pretty good reputation and was one of the last Paterno holdovers so that one is raising some eyebrows

Vanderlinden? Really? Wow. That's a guy that I would take in a heartbeat. And why the QB coach?

[Dr. Strangelove]

Butting heads with O'Brien or the new DC maybe? Dunno. May have been a mutual decision

[WM Wolverine]

Way too many possibilities to guess (Dr says probably most likely) but it sounds like no staff changes at M. :(

[Mike]

Sparty getting the calls so far.

[Dr. Strangelove]

This...is not looking good

Defeated by Tresselball??

[WingsFan]

First 'real' team osu has faced all year and they don't look to good lol F Meyer!

[WingsFan]

17 -0 MSU !!


Miller is shaky nervous dare I say he imitated by Michigan States defense? Cook looking smooth....

[Mike]

17-7. If ohio could pull this out it would be a wonderful soul-crushing loss for Sparty.

[WingsFan]

Ohio state has only one play working on offense - Miller scrambling

[Mike]

I remember when that was our best play, too.