(12-12-2015 02:50 PM)SBEagle Wrote:  I'm confused, did USM pass on hiring Anderson at some point?

I inferred from that interviewer, Brad Bobo, that it happened twice. Maybe a USM fan can correct, but I'd guess it happened when Ellis Johnson was hired and again when his replacement, Monken, was hired. Anderson was at Southern Miss with Fedora when they were top 25 that year.

I did a quick search and found this:
26 Nov 2012 00:12
Sources tell me Southern Miss is prepared to contact UNC assistant Blake Anderson if Ellis Johnson is dismissed.

http://newsok.com/article/3795949

Oklahoma State offensive coordinator Todd Monken has, once again, emerged as a legitimate candidate for the head coaching job at Southern Miss.

A source close to the USM program told The Oklahoman Monday that Monken is believed to be one of three top contenders for the job. The others are North Carolina offensive coordinator Blake Anderson and Sam Houston State head coach Willie Fritz. Interviews for the position were set to begin over the weekend.

Monken interviewed last year for the head job at USM. Ellis Johnson was eventually hired, then fired after going 0-12 this season.

(12-12-2015 03:59 PM)WinstonTheWolf Wrote:  

(12-12-2015 02:50 PM)SBEagle Wrote:  I'm confused, did USM pass on hiring Anderson at some point?

I inferred from that interviewer, Brad Bobo, that it happened twice. Maybe a USM fan can correct, but I'd guess it happened when Ellis Johnson was hired and again when his replacement, Monken, was hired. Anderson was at Southern Miss with Fedora when they were top 25 that year.

I did a quick search and found this:
26 Nov 2012 00:12
Sources tell me Southern Miss is prepared to contact UNC assistant Blake Anderson if Ellis Johnson is dismissed.

http://newsok.com/article/3795949

Oklahoma State offensive coordinator Todd Monken has, once again, emerged as a legitimate candidate for the head coaching job at Southern Miss.

A source close to the USM program told The Oklahoman Monday that Monken is believed to be one of three top contenders for the job. The others are North Carolina offensive coordinator Blake Anderson and Sam Houston State head coach Willie Fritz. Interviews for the position were set to begin over the weekend.

Monken interviewed last year for the head job at USM. Ellis Johnson was eventually hired, then fired after going 0-12 this season.

It was the first time that they really regret. Anderson was the OC there when Fedora left for UNC. My understanding is the President at the time was dead certain she was going to handle the entire search, and never really gave Anderson the time of day. Hired Ellis Johnson instead and the program went into the gutter.

(12-12-2015 03:59 PM)WinstonTheWolf Wrote:  

(12-12-2015 02:50 PM)SBEagle Wrote:  I'm confused, did USM pass on hiring Anderson at some point?

I inferred from that interviewer, Brad Bobo, that it happened twice. Maybe a USM fan can correct, but I'd guess it happened when Ellis Johnson was hired and again when his replacement, Monken, was hired. Anderson was at Southern Miss with Fedora when they were top 25 that year.

I did a quick search and found this:
26 Nov 2012 00:12
Sources tell me Southern Miss is prepared to contact UNC assistant Blake Anderson if Ellis Johnson is dismissed.

http://newsok.com/article/3795949

Oklahoma State offensive coordinator Todd Monken has, once again, emerged as a legitimate candidate for the head coaching job at Southern Miss.

A source close to the USM program told The Oklahoman Monday that Monken is believed to be one of three top contenders for the job. The others are North Carolina offensive coordinator Blake Anderson and Sam Houston State head coach Willie Fritz. Interviews for the position were set to begin over the weekend.

Monken interviewed last year for the head job at USM. Ellis Johnson was eventually hired, then fired after going 0-12 this season.

Considering what each of those coaches have done on the FBS level there were no wrong choices. Even with S. Miss history I think the coach that got that job had a lot harder job getting them to where they are today than ASU or even GASO.

(12-12-2015 04:37 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  

(12-12-2015 03:59 PM)WinstonTheWolf Wrote:  

(12-12-2015 02:50 PM)SBEagle Wrote:  I'm confused, did USM pass on hiring Anderson at some point?

I inferred from that interviewer, Brad Bobo, that it happened twice. Maybe a USM fan can correct, but I'd guess it happened when Ellis Johnson was hired and again when his replacement, Monken, was hired. Anderson was at Southern Miss with Fedora when they were top 25 that year.

I did a quick search and found this:
26 Nov 2012 00:12
Sources tell me Southern Miss is prepared to contact UNC assistant Blake Anderson if Ellis Johnson is dismissed.

http://newsok.com/article/3795949

Oklahoma State offensive coordinator Todd Monken has, once again, emerged as a legitimate candidate for the head coaching job at Southern Miss.

A source close to the USM program told The Oklahoman Monday that Monken is believed to be one of three top contenders for the job. The others are North Carolina offensive coordinator Blake Anderson and Sam Houston State head coach Willie Fritz. Interviews for the position were set to begin over the weekend.

Monken interviewed last year for the head job at USM. Ellis Johnson was eventually hired, then fired after going 0-12 this season.

Considering what each of those coaches have done on the FBS level there were no wrong choices. Even with S. Miss history I think the coach that got that job had a lot harder job getting them to where they are today than ASU or even GASO.

The Johnson hire was bizarre.

You have a young offensive minded head coach with a young staff that took you to 12-2. He moves to greener pastures so what do they do?
They hire an older coach who is defensive minded who comes in and tells the kids he has a way better scheme than those guys who left and tosses the whole thing and assembles a staff with an average age roughly 10 years older than the staff that left.

Going another direction is what you do when the team went 2-10 not when they went 12-2.

(12-12-2015 02:12 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  

(12-10-2015 11:54 AM)Rik Flair Wrote:  Blake Anderson miss may be some of it, but the primary reason USM didn't want the NOLA was they would rather play a P5 school. So would every other CUSA and SBC team. USM, stAte, and La Tech all would get better mileage out of beating a P5 team. That's just the way it is.

Nope Western chose Miami and USF over the P5 school. No one but the fans of that school cares about beating a 6-6 P5 team. Hell I bet most people outside of CUSA couldn't name the team Tech beat last year in their bowl. And other than Tech fans and message board fans I bet 80% of other CUSA fans couldn't name the team Tech beat....6-6 Ill.

But a game with a great ending gets remembered. So in that respect Western got more mileage out of beating CM than Tech beating Ill. Some of it for giving up a huge lead...

but when you are G5 all press other than getting caught cheating or poking a Navy player in the eye is GREAT press....during bowl season

Other than the national championship game, nobody remembers any of the bowl game results. I'm sure that most fans of Big 10 schools took note of LaTech's win over Illinois last year, but it's long forgotten by now. Nobody else paid it any mind.
I have no recollection at all of who WKU beat in it's bowl game last year. That's because it was a meaninless bowl game just like 38 out of the 40 bowl games will be this year. I'm sure WKU fans enjoyed it though. I know we La Tech fans sure enjoyed beating Illinois last year.

(12-10-2015 01:57 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(12-10-2015 01:50 PM)runninjoe Wrote:  

(12-10-2015 01:30 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(12-10-2015 11:54 AM)Rik Flair Wrote:  Blake Anderson miss may be some of it, but the primary reason USM didn't want the NOLA was they would rather play a P5 school. So would every other CUSA and SBC team. USM, stAte, and La Tech all would get better mileage out of beating a P5 team. That's just the way it is.

Yeah, but we're better than Washington. Don't have their name, but we're a better football team.

I don't know about that.

I'm confident of it. They didn't look very good this year.

Neither did Missouri

(12-13-2015 08:58 AM)warhawk09 Wrote:  

(12-10-2015 01:57 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(12-10-2015 01:50 PM)runninjoe Wrote:  

(12-10-2015 01:30 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(12-10-2015 11:54 AM)Rik Flair Wrote:  Blake Anderson miss may be some of it, but the primary reason USM didn't want the NOLA was they would rather play a P5 school. So would every other CUSA and SBC team. USM, stAte, and La Tech all would get better mileage out of beating a P5 team. That's just the way it is.

Yeah, but we're better than Washington. Don't have their name, but we're a better football team.

I don't know about that.

I'm confident of it. They didn't look very good this year.

Neither did Missouri

We did play them with a Freshman QB making his first home appearance.

And lost, which is all that matters.

(12-13-2015 07:23 AM)BRtransplant Wrote:  

(12-12-2015 02:12 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  

(12-10-2015 11:54 AM)Rik Flair Wrote:  Blake Anderson miss may be some of it, but the primary reason USM didn't want the NOLA was they would rather play a P5 school. So would every other CUSA and SBC team. USM, stAte, and La Tech all would get better mileage out of beating a P5 team. That's just the way it is.

Nope Western chose Miami and USF over the P5 school. No one but the fans of that school cares about beating a 6-6 P5 team. Hell I bet most people outside of CUSA couldn't name the team Tech beat last year in their bowl. And other than Tech fans and message board fans I bet 80% of other CUSA fans couldn't name the team Tech beat....6-6 Ill.

But a game with a great ending gets remembered. So in that respect Western got more mileage out of beating CM than Tech beating Ill. Some of it for giving up a huge lead...

but when you are G5 all press other than getting caught cheating or poking a Navy player in the eye is GREAT press....during bowl season

Other than the national championship game, nobody remembers any of the bowl game results. I'm sure that most fans of Big 10 schools took note of LaTech's win over Illinois last year, but it's long forgotten by now. Nobody else paid it any mind.
I have no recollection at all of who WKU beat in it's bowl game last year. That's because it was a meaninless bowl game just like 38 out of the 40 bowl games will be this year. I'm sure WKU fans enjoyed it though. I know we La Tech fans sure enjoyed beating Illinois last year.

You are correct, nobody outside of fans really remembers the individual bowl games. FBS is more about your cumulative perception. You win 4 bowls in 4 years...doesn't matter the bowl or opponent.....you are thought of as a pretty good program. It's more about the overall impression of an era in your programs life.

(12-13-2015 01:10 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  

(12-13-2015 07:23 AM)BRtransplant Wrote:  Other than the national championship game, nobody remembers any of the bowl game results. I'm sure that most fans of Big 10 schools took note of LaTech's win over Illinois last year, but it's long forgotten by now. Nobody else paid it any mind.
I have no recollection at all of who WKU beat in it's bowl game last year. That's because it was a meaninless bowl game just like 38 out of the 40 bowl games will be this year. I'm sure WKU fans enjoyed it though. I know we La Tech fans sure enjoyed beating Illinois last year.

You are correct, nobody outside of fans really remembers the individual bowl games. FBS is more about your cumulative perception. You win 4 bowls in 4 years...doesn't matter the bowl or opponent.....you are thought of as a pretty good program. It's more about the overall impression of an era in your programs life.

That's gonna leave a mark.

(12-13-2015 01:22 PM)CajunFanatico Wrote:  

(12-13-2015 01:10 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  

(12-13-2015 07:23 AM)BRtransplant Wrote:  Other than the national championship game, nobody remembers any of the bowl game results. I'm sure that most fans of Big 10 schools took note of LaTech's win over Illinois last year, but it's long forgotten by now. Nobody else paid it any mind.
I have no recollection at all of who WKU beat in it's bowl game last year. That's because it was a meaninless bowl game just like 38 out of the 40 bowl games will be this year. I'm sure WKU fans enjoyed it though. I know we La Tech fans sure enjoyed beating Illinois last year.

You are correct, nobody outside of fans really remembers the individual bowl games. FBS is more about your cumulative perception. You win 4 bowls in 4 years...doesn't matter the bowl or opponent.....you are thought of as a pretty good program. It's more about the overall impression of an era in your programs life.

That's gonna leave a mark.

Just speaking the truth.

(12-13-2015 01:28 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  

(12-13-2015 01:22 PM)CajunFanatico Wrote:  

(12-13-2015 01:10 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  

(12-13-2015 07:23 AM)BRtransplant Wrote:  Other than the national championship game, nobody remembers any of the bowl game results. I'm sure that most fans of Big 10 schools took note of LaTech's win over Illinois last year, but it's long forgotten by now. Nobody else paid it any mind.
I have no recollection at all of who WKU beat in it's bowl game last year. That's because it was a meaninless bowl game just like 38 out of the 40 bowl games will be this year. I'm sure WKU fans enjoyed it though. I know we La Tech fans sure enjoyed beating Illinois last year.

You are correct, nobody outside of fans really remembers the individual bowl games. FBS is more about your cumulative perception. You win 4 bowls in 4 years...doesn't matter the bowl or opponent.....you are thought of as a pretty good program. It's more about the overall impression of an era in your programs life.

That's gonna leave a mark.

Just speaking the truth.

Of course you are.

But BR doesn't handle the truth well, at least not when it comes to the Cajun program.

(12-11-2015 10:18 AM)asuwon Wrote:  

(12-11-2015 10:15 AM)UofMemphis Wrote:  "The rest was basketball junk"

smdh....

You apparently haven't watched stAte basketball lately.

"Junk" is being kind.

Which may be why it is the most important topic.

(12-13-2015 01:35 PM)CajunFanatico Wrote:  

(12-13-2015 01:28 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  

(12-13-2015 01:22 PM)CajunFanatico Wrote:  

(12-13-2015 01:10 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  

(12-13-2015 07:23 AM)BRtransplant Wrote:  Other than the national championship game, nobody remembers any of the bowl game results. I'm sure that most fans of Big 10 schools took note of LaTech's win over Illinois last year, but it's long forgotten by now. Nobody else paid it any mind.
I have no recollection at all of who WKU beat in it's bowl game last year. That's because it was a meaninless bowl game just like 38 out of the 40 bowl games will be this year. I'm sure WKU fans enjoyed it though. I know we La Tech fans sure enjoyed beating Illinois last year.

You are correct, nobody outside of fans really remembers the individual bowl games. FBS is more about your cumulative perception. You win 4 bowls in 4 years...doesn't matter the bowl or opponent.....you are thought of as a pretty good program. It's more about the overall impression of an era in your programs life.

That's gonna leave a mark.

Just speaking the truth.

Of course you are.

But BR doesn't handle the truth well, at least not when it comes to the Cajun program.

There are 40 bowls now. We have teams with 5-7 records playing in bowl games this year for Pete's sake. I'm as glad to be playing in a bowl as anyone is, but making it into a bowl isn't as big of an accomplishment as it once was. I know that anytime ULL ever accomplishes something, you act as if ULL is the first university to ever accomplish such a thing. You're always a day late and a dollar short CF. Get back to me about how great ULL is when you guys manage to win an outright Sun Belt Championship the way GA Southern did in only it's first year in the conference.

(12-13-2015 09:58 PM)BRtransplant Wrote:  

(12-13-2015 01:35 PM)CajunFanatico Wrote:  

(12-13-2015 01:28 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  

(12-13-2015 01:22 PM)CajunFanatico Wrote:  

(12-13-2015 01:10 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  You are correct, nobody outside of fans really remembers the individual bowl games. FBS is more about your cumulative perception. You win 4 bowls in 4 years...doesn't matter the bowl or opponent.....you are thought of as a pretty good program. It's more about the overall impression of an era in your programs life.

That's gonna leave a mark.

Just speaking the truth.

Of course you are.

But BR doesn't handle the truth well, at least not when it comes to the Cajun program.

There are 40 bowls now. We have teams with 5-7 records playing in bowl games this year for Pete's sake. I'm as glad to be playing in a bowl as anyone is, but making it into a bowl isn't as big of an accomplishment as it once was. I know that anytime ULL ever accomplishes something, you act as if ULL is the first university to ever accomplish such a thing. You're always a day late and a dollar short CF. Get back to me about how great ULL is when you guys manage to win an outright Sun Belt Championship the way GA Southern did in only it's first year in the conference.

This thread is going to so get resuscitated when that actually happens. Fanatico has a long memory.

(12-10-2015 01:30 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(12-10-2015 11:54 AM)Rik Flair Wrote:  Blake Anderson miss may be some of it, but the primary reason USM didn't want the NOLA was they would rather play a P5 school. So would every other CUSA and SBC team. USM, stAte, and La Tech all would get better mileage out of beating a P5 team. That's just the way it is.

Yeah, but we're better than Washington. Don't have their name, but we're a better football team.

You do realize Washington beat USC in LA while Arky State got well you know skull drugged 55-6. The Huskies beat a ranked Washington State team 45-10 and beat Arizona 49-3. On top of that all of their losses were close to Oregon and Stanford. There isn't a better 6-6 team out there than Washington. Meanwhile Arky State signature win is Appy state

(12-10-2015 01:50 PM)runninjoe Wrote:  

(12-10-2015 01:30 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(12-10-2015 11:54 AM)Rik Flair Wrote:  Blake Anderson miss may be some of it, but the primary reason USM didn't want the NOLA was they would rather play a P5 school. So would every other CUSA and SBC team. USM, stAte, and La Tech all would get better mileage out of beating a P5 team. That's just the way it is.

Yeah, but we're better than Washington. Don't have their name, but we're a better football team.

I don't know about that.

Well at least some Arky State fans have common sense.

(12-13-2015 10:55 PM)Dawgxas Wrote:  

(12-10-2015 01:30 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(12-10-2015 11:54 AM)Rik Flair Wrote:  Blake Anderson miss may be some of it, but the primary reason USM didn't want the NOLA was they would rather play a P5 school. So would every other CUSA and SBC team. USM, stAte, and La Tech all would get better mileage out of beating a P5 team. That's just the way it is.

Yeah, but we're better than Washington. Don't have their name, but we're a better football team.

You do realize Washington beat USC in LA while Arky State got well you know skull drugged 55-6. The Huskies beat a ranked Washington State team 45-10 and beat Arizona 49-3. On top of that all of their losses were close to Oregon and Stanford. There isn't a better 6-6 team out there than Washington. Meanwhile Arky State signature win is Appy state

So what...we can beat them.

And best wins crap means nothing. Your best win is a 7-5 MTSU team, doesn't mean you guys couldn't beat a mediocre PAC 12 if you played them.

Bottom line, no one has any idea who can beat who until the two teams play each other.

(12-13-2015 09:58 PM)BRtransplant Wrote:  There are 40 bowls now. We have teams with 5-7 records playing in bowl games this year for Pete's sake. I'm as glad to be playing in a bowl as anyone is, but making it into a bowl isn't as big of an accomplishment as it once was. I know that anytime ULL ever accomplishes something, you act as if ULL is the first university to ever accomplish such a thing. You're always a day late and a dollar short CF. Get back to me about how great ULL is when you guys manage to win an outright Sun Belt Championship the way GA Southern did in only it's first year in the conference.

Tier 1 fails again.

(12-12-2015 02:12 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  

(12-10-2015 11:54 AM)Rik Flair Wrote:  Blake Anderson miss may be some of it, but the primary reason USM didn't want the NOLA was they would rather play a P5 school. So would every other CUSA and SBC team. USM, stAte, and La Tech all would get better mileage out of beating a P5 team. That's just the way it is.

Nope Western chose Miami and USF over the P5 school. No one but the fans of that school cares about beating a 6-6 P5 team. Hell I bet most people outside of CUSA couldn't name the team Tech beat last year in their bowl. And other than Tech fans and message board fans I bet 80% of other CUSA fans couldn't name the team Tech beat....6-6 Ill.

But a game with a great ending gets remembered. So in that respect Western got more mileage out of beating CM than Tech beating Ill. Some of it for giving up a huge lead...

but when you are G5 all press other than getting caught cheating or poking a Navy player in the eye is GREAT press....during bowl season

Please YG you're not that clueless are you?

HOD bowl- 2,340,000 million viewers 31,297

Bahamas - 1,500,000 viewers Dead last in attendance 13,000


The next day the front page of the Dallas Morning News was a pic of the Tech Crowd and story about the game. Guess what was all over the Dallas (7 million metro) TV News that night, Tech's victory over Illinois.

I'm sure WKU got a lot press in the Bahamas.

A win over a good Washington team would be the signature win for CUSA this year and heck a lot more impressive than the fourth place AAC team.