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Plan for Pac-12 becoming a real conference again

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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855

    PurpleJ said:

    Bring back Chip and Harbaugh. Get a real coach at USC.

    It's a good start.

    The coaching drain is speaking volumes.
    Every conference loses coaches.

    But the Pac has made some of the best hires in the nation the last few years. Overall the level of coaching is much improved from 3-6 years ago.

    2009/2014 comparison
    UW: Sark/Pete: huge improvement
    WSU: Wulff/Leach: huge improvement
    OSU: Riley/Riley: same
    UO: Chip/Helfrich: big decline
    Cal: Tedford/Dykes: small decline
    Stanford: Harbaugh/Shaw: big decline
    UCLA: Neuheisel/Mora: small improvement
    USC: Kiffin/Sark: wash
    Arizona: Stoops/RichRod: huge improvement
    ASU: Erickson/Graham: small improvement

    So yes the two programs that have carried the flag recently lost their elite coaches and attempted to go back to the same mold but couldn't replicate whatever element made Harbaugh and Chip winners.

    But five other schools made very good hires. And after a disastrous first season Dykes has Cal playing much better in year two.

    Finally- LOL USC ever and always.
    The net total of an upgrade using your scoring is +1.5.

    Considering the fucking dreck the conference added in Colorado and Utah, it's not better off overall than it was five years ago.
    No.

    But the rest of CFB is worse.
  • TierbsHsotBoobs
    TierbsHsotBoobs Member Posts: 39,680
    dnc said:

    PurpleJ said:

    Bring back Chip and Harbaugh. Get a real coach at USC.

    It's a good start.

    The coaching drain is speaking volumes.
    Every conference loses coaches.

    But the Pac has made some of the best hires in the nation the last few years. Overall the level of coaching is much improved from 3-6 years ago.

    2009/2014 comparison
    UW: Sark/Pete: huge improvement
    WSU: Wulff/Leach: huge improvement
    OSU: Riley/Riley: same
    UO: Chip/Helfrich: big decline
    Cal: Tedford/Dykes: small decline
    Stanford: Harbaugh/Shaw: big decline
    UCLA: Neuheisel/Mora: small improvement
    USC: Kiffin/Sark: wash
    Arizona: Stoops/RichRod: huge improvement
    ASU: Erickson/Graham: small improvement

    So yes the two programs that have carried the flag recently lost their elite coaches and attempted to go back to the same mold but couldn't replicate whatever element made Harbaugh and Chip winners.

    But five other schools made very good hires. And after a disastrous first season Dykes has Cal playing much better in year two.

    Finally- LOL USC ever and always.
    The net total of an upgrade using your scoring is +1.5.

    Considering the fucking dreck the conference added in Colorado and Utah, it's not better off overall than it was five years ago.
    No.

    But the rest of CFB is worse.
    Then why is the Pac-12's playoff hope fading in the first week of October?
  • H_D
    H_D Member Posts: 6,098
    dnc said:

    PurpleJ said:

    Bring back Chip and Harbaugh. Get a real coach at USC.

    It's a good start.

    The coaching drain is speaking volumes.
    Every conference loses coaches.

    But the Pac has made some of the best hires in the nation the last few years. Overall the level of coaching is much improved from 3-6 years ago.

    2009/2014 comparison
    UW: Sark/Pete: huge improvement
    WSU: Wulff/Leach: huge improvement
    OSU: Riley/Riley: same
    UO: Chip/Helfrich: big decline
    Cal: Tedford/Dykes: small decline
    Stanford: Harbaugh/Shaw: big decline
    UCLA: Neuheisel/Mora: small improvement
    USC: Kiffin/Sark: wash
    Arizona: Stoops/RichRod: huge improvement
    ASU: Erickson/Graham: small improvement

    So yes the two programs that have carried the flag recently lost their elite coaches and attempted to go back to the same mold but couldn't replicate whatever element made Harbaugh and Chip winners.

    But five other schools made very good hires. And after a disastrous first season Dykes has Cal playing much better in year two.

    Finally- LOL USC ever and always.
    The net total of an upgrade using your scoring is +1.5.

    Considering the fucking dreck the conference added in Colorado and Utah, it's not better off overall than it was five years ago.
    No.

    But the rest of CFB is worse.
    Cal vs. Wazzu - Battle for Pac 12 supremacy.
  • FremontTroll
    FremontTroll Member Posts: 4,744

    PurpleJ said:

    Bring back Chip and Harbaugh. Get a real coach at USC.

    It's a good start.

    The coaching drain is speaking volumes.
    Every conference loses coaches.

    But the Pac has made some of the best hires in the nation the last few years. Overall the level of coaching is much improved from 3-6 years ago.

    2009/2014 comparison
    UW: Sark/Pete: huge improvement
    WSU: Wulff/Leach: huge improvement
    OSU: Riley/Riley: same
    UO: Chip/Helfrich: big decline
    Cal: Tedford/Dykes: small decline
    Stanford: Harbaugh/Shaw: big decline
    UCLA: Neuheisel/Mora: small improvement
    USC: Kiffin/Sark: wash
    Arizona: Stoops/RichRod: huge improvement
    ASU: Erickson/Graham: small improvement

    So yes the two programs that have carried the flag recently lost their elite coaches and attempted to go back to the same mold but couldn't replicate whatever element made Harbaugh and Chip winners.

    But five other schools made very good hires. And after a disastrous first season Dykes has Cal playing much better in year two.

    Finally- LOL USC ever and always.
    The net total of an upgrade using your scoring is +1.5.

    Considering the fucking dreck the conference added in Colorado and Utah, it's not better off overall than it was five years ago.

    I purposely didn't quantify anything but instead kept it very general. And I was very conservative in my assessments. CP, Leach and RichRod are the biggest changes so if I was going to quantify it I would create a larger scale.

    The general idea is that far more schools have improved their coaching staffs than have regressed.

    But Helfrich and Shaw, flawed though they are, still aren't awful. The conference doesn't have a Wulff or a Stoops or Erickson in their later years who you could just count on to be completely incompetent. Sark comes closest but his inadequacies will be masked by the talent he has to play with at USC.
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855
    edited October 2014

    dnc said:

    PurpleJ said:

    Bring back Chip and Harbaugh. Get a real coach at USC.

    It's a good start.

    The coaching drain is speaking volumes.
    Every conference loses coaches.

    But the Pac has made some of the best hires in the nation the last few years. Overall the level of coaching is much improved from 3-6 years ago.

    2009/2014 comparison
    UW: Sark/Pete: huge improvement
    WSU: Wulff/Leach: huge improvement
    OSU: Riley/Riley: same
    UO: Chip/Helfrich: big decline
    Cal: Tedford/Dykes: small decline
    Stanford: Harbaugh/Shaw: big decline
    UCLA: Neuheisel/Mora: small improvement
    USC: Kiffin/Sark: wash
    Arizona: Stoops/RichRod: huge improvement
    ASU: Erickson/Graham: small improvement

    So yes the two programs that have carried the flag recently lost their elite coaches and attempted to go back to the same mold but couldn't replicate whatever element made Harbaugh and Chip winners.

    But five other schools made very good hires. And after a disastrous first season Dykes has Cal playing much better in year two.

    Finally- LOL USC ever and always.
    The net total of an upgrade using your scoring is +1.5.

    Considering the fucking dreck the conference added in Colorado and Utah, it's not better off overall than it was five years ago.
    No.

    But the rest of CFB is worse.
    Then why is the Pac-12's playoff hope fading in the first week of October?
    The conference as a whole is better relative to cfb but with no Kelly or Harbaugh it's worse at the top. Topheavy gets the edge for a playoff.

    Fuck the whole CFB nation is a dreckfest this year.
  • TierbsHsotBoobs
    TierbsHsotBoobs Member Posts: 39,680

    I'm now rooting for UW to go 12-1 just so Pool Boy can cost them a play off berth with his schedule

    Also imagine the epic Doogman butthurt.
  • KenND
    KenND Member Posts: 272

    De-vagitzing the state of California would help too.

    I think that he's sticking to realistic scenarios.
  • FremontTroll
    FremontTroll Member Posts: 4,744

    dnc said:

    PurpleJ said:

    Bring back Chip and Harbaugh. Get a real coach at USC.

    It's a good start.

    The coaching drain is speaking volumes.
    Every conference loses coaches.

    But the Pac has made some of the best hires in the nation the last few years. Overall the level of coaching is much improved from 3-6 years ago.

    2009/2014 comparison
    UW: Sark/Pete: huge improvement
    WSU: Wulff/Leach: huge improvement
    OSU: Riley/Riley: same
    UO: Chip/Helfrich: big decline
    Cal: Tedford/Dykes: small decline
    Stanford: Harbaugh/Shaw: big decline
    UCLA: Neuheisel/Mora: small improvement
    USC: Kiffin/Sark: wash
    Arizona: Stoops/RichRod: huge improvement
    ASU: Erickson/Graham: small improvement

    So yes the two programs that have carried the flag recently lost their elite coaches and attempted to go back to the same mold but couldn't replicate whatever element made Harbaugh and Chip winners.

    But five other schools made very good hires. And after a disastrous first season Dykes has Cal playing much better in year two.

    Finally- LOL USC ever and always.
    The net total of an upgrade using your scoring is +1.5.

    Considering the fucking dreck the conference added in Colorado and Utah, it's not better off overall than it was five years ago.
    No.

    But the rest of CFB is worse.
    Then why is the Pac-12's playoff hope fading in the first week of October?

    I don't think the Pac's playoff hopes are fading. Whoever wins the conference is a near lock to make the playoffs if they have 2 or fewer losses.

    It is true that the conference is weaker at the top but I think its deeper. Only Stanford and USC could challenge Oregon 3-4 years ago.

    If the conference has regressed its not due to coaching. I would look at recruiting first. Too many top Cali recruits committing to Oklahoma or SEC schools.