The interim Temple coach is the brother of former BC QB Glenn Foley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Foley
The interim Temple coach is the brother of former BC QB Glenn Foley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Foley
...the main thing I begrudge is his helping Barry Wilson get the job. Wilson was terrible, immediately went about dismantling the air ball passing attack...even as he inherited many of the players. I am ticked at Wilson for that...
Meanwhile, I think this is two coaching losses at Temple in the last 3 seasons. I think Ruhle left for Baylor after the 16 season....
One of the great mistakes a lot of athletic directors make is belief in the Osmosis Theory of Coaching, i.e. by sitting near or next to a great coach, an assistant somehow becomes imbued with the magic of the master.
Works sometimes, but not that often. (I'm looking at you, Bill Guthridge, though that decision was cleverly made by Dean himself).
Spurrier also recommended Carl Franks.
"This is the best of all possible worlds."
Dr. Pangloss - Candide
This is true, and Frank's tenure was a disaster, but Franks wasn't taking over a rolling train with two more years of Dave Brown and Randy Cuthbert and so on....Wilson's big crime to me was not only losing, but doing so while changing the very offensive mindset that had lifted Duke up under Spurrier. There is a failure to create a winning team...but a worse crime to ruin one.
Duke practiced today and Coach Cutcliffe spoke to the media afterwards:
http://www.goduke.com/mediaPortal/pl...200&id=6302839
Bob Green
Football banquet cancelled: http://www.goduke.com/ViewArticle.db...CLID=211783199
In the future, could you please consider adding a little context to a post like this? For instance, simply adding the words "due to weather" at the end of your statement about the banquet being cancelled would have provided some clarity as to the reason why. After reading what you wrote and before clicking on the linked story, I feared the event had been cancelled due to some unrest or something in the football program. Maybe it's just me, but after that awful beat down by a so-so Wake team to end the season, I'm concerned about the state of football team and seeing stuff like this on the board without proper context just plays into that.
Wilson had the nerve to show up in Indy for the ‘91 Final Four. I was tempted to relay the above message to him personally as he was exiting a restaurant, but decided discretion was the better part of valor. Though truth be told, I’d be lying if I said I haven’t regretted my constraint from time to time over the years.
Thank you for the correction, and apologies to "young Patrick" as Spurrier would call him. Gus head-butted wall; Patrick was from Bert Jones's hometown.
I don't know how I could confuse the two:
Gus - 1994-98 Redskins - 19-26-1 w/ Skins - 6-3/237 white guy - Tulsa - #12
Pat - 2002-05 Redskins - 10-14 w/ Skins - 6-2/225 white guy - Tulane - #11
They both seemed earnest and likable and hard-working, and their lack of success with the Redskins perhaps due more to what was not around them.