Where Are They Now?

In light of the ongoing coaching changes across the country, and the speculation surrounding the LSU football program, I have begun thinking about previous coaches who once steered the ship that is LSU Football. This brought me to the one, the only, Gerry "Bring Back the Magic" Dinardo. After starting his LSU career off strong, Coach Dinardo hired Lou Tepper to bring his vaunted 3-4 defense that failed to stop even the most mediocre offenses. Soon after, Dinardo was off to other ventures. So where is he now?

After a brief stint in the ever so successfull XFL, where Coach Dinardo led the Birmingham Thunderbolts to a last place finish with a 2-8 record, Coach D was given the lead role at Indiana University. This did not quite work out either. The Hoosiers failed to win more than 3 games and he was let go in 2004.

BUT, all is not lost. Coach Dinardo parlayed his failures with the clip board into a job with ESPN covering college football on ESPN Radio and participated in ESPN College Gameday. Wait, this did not last long either.

Fortunately, Coach Dinardo was able to break into the restaurant business while in Baton Rouge, with Dinardo's. Actually, the restaurant was just named after the coach and was promptly renamed after he was fired. BUT WAIT. While he was in Louisiana, Gerry Dinardo became familiar with DeAngelo's, a casual Italian dining experience most known for calzones and pizza. Coach Dinardo enjoyed this dining experience so much he has decided to open up a franchise in Bloomington, Indiana.

So there you have it. Coach Dinardo has gone from the gridiron to the grill, where he is happy as a lark living life with his lovely wife Terri.


As an aside, Lou Tepper is now the head football coach at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in Indiana, PA. Ironically, this is the city where I completed an internship with a previous employer. If only I knew then what I know now, I could have interviewed Mr. 3-4 about his time at LSU. What an interview that would have been.

Wikipedia is amazing isn't it.

Applications Wanted

Just in case you think you can do better than Miles, go ahead and apply for the Michigan coaching job here.

SECCG is a lock

Tim Tebow picks LSU!
Also he pays compliment to Jacob Hester.

Tebow: Tennessee can win this game. They have gotten better as the year has gone along. They have a pretty good offense and it can get hot at times. They can hang in there. But I think if LSU is able to move the ball around on offense then they have a chance to win it. Their defense has kept them in games all year long. Jacob Hester is just a war daddy; he is a very tough guy. I have a lot of respect for him. I think LSU has a little bit of the advantage.

Sean & John: War daddy, I like that. I want someone to call me a war daddy.

Looks like LSU will get some much needed relief on the D-Line this week because Ricky Jean Francois has been re-instated.

From the article, Miles says that he will see some plays, but goes on not to say how many. This could be the much needed relief that our injured / struggling D-Line needs, the spark if you will.

Fun Wednesday Morning

Just got into my office this morning and checking the interweb and found a few gems i thought i would share.

The first come from the crazy dudes that make Aqua Teen Hunger Force. They must be college football fans (last year they were taking cracks at tOSU after they got spanked).
Watch Carl give his take on the BCS.

Next, as i am sure you have all seen the Auburn that got bit by the police dog at the Iron bowl.
If not, you definitely do not waste enough time, so here it is

In response, EDSBS found this nugget.


(now i know there are a few readers out there, so give us some comments dammit)

Fun 'N' Gum-bo

Everything that I am hearing right now says that Les Miles will announce he is accepting the Michigan job between Sunday and Tuesday, December 4th. LSU will likely hire Steve Spurrier to replace Miles. Spurrier is the candidate favored by President Lombardi and Skip Bertman. Some boosters have other ideas. This is from a strong source, but things could change.

Coach O Remembered

You gotta love this one, Classic!

Coaching News

Houston Nutt to Ole Miss. That didn't take long.

Nebraska will announce Bo Pellini as their head coach betweeen 4:00 p.m. tonight and tomorrow. More than likely the players will be told tonight, the news will leak, and then they will anoounce it tomorrow after the whole country already knows. The delay comes in trying to put together Pellini's staff, which it looks like Tom Osbourne is largely responsible for. I'm not sure how much say Bo has in putting this staff together and you know how that usually turns out. Some say the main reason for the delay is trying to convince Buffalo head coach Turner Gill to be Nebraska's offensive coordinator. If all of this is true, then Osbourne has been working on this thing since he was hired and Nebraska may have been the team that knocked LSU out of the BCS title game by distracting its defensive coordinator. F@ck you Nebraska.

Arkansas has begun their coaching search and their leading candidates are:
Chris Peterson (Boise St.), Mike Leach (Texas Tech), and Lane Kiffin (Raiders, USC) (this one is surprising to me).

The rest of the long list: Bo Pellini, Jim Grobe (Wake Forest), Tubberville, Gary Patterson (TCU), Brent Venable (DC of Oklahoma), Tommy Bowden, Jim Leavitt, Brian Kelly (Cinncinnati), Kirk Ferenz, and Paul Johnson (Navy). Some of those are laughable. The others are very good and a little scary. Hopefully they make a crappy hire because Ole Miss will be competitive again with Nutt at the helm. We need at least one crappy team in the SEC West.

Mother$#%^&@

Huge rumors out of Nebraska and everywhere else that Bo Pellini was interviewed in Atlanta by Tom Osborne and others. The weekend meeting in Baton Rouge was a follow up. Nebraska players were text messaged today telling them that there is a meeting at 4 p.m. tomorrow. At the meeting, the players may be told Bo Pellini is their new head coach.

I don't have a problem with Pellini becoming the Nebraska coach, but I have a sick feeling in my stomach that Pellini has been dealing with this for weeks and it is not a coincidence that his D also gave up 1,000 yards in the last two weeks. This may have cost LSU its title shot.

Bower out at Southern Miss

This is the time of year that makes the college football fan crazy. Trying to figure out bowl tie-ins and who has to beat who for this or that to happen. Hell, there are so many scenarios out there that LSU still has a shot at the BCS, but that is another topic for another post. However, USM's decision to fire (if that is what happened) Coach Bower is the one decision that leaves me baffled. This man has presided over the Golden Eagle program for 17 years and has completed 14 straight winning seasons and a 119-82-1 record. All of this while having to recruit against Ole Miss, Miss St, Alabama, and LSU. Coach Bower, in my humble opinion Coach Bower has done more with the talent that he was able to obtain than any coach in Div 1 Bowl Sub-division football.


update
Contrary to early reports, it is now being reported out of the Hattiesburg American that Coach Bower resigned and was not fired. Was this mutual or was he forced out we may never know. Or, we will find out in a day or two. Either way, this is a big loss for the Golden Eagle faithful

As the Coaching Carousel Turns

We've got coaching rumors, coaching rumors, and more coaching rumors. It seems appropriate here to pay homage to Fleetwood Mac's masterpiece Rumours.



There were of course many rumors circulating about Fleetwood Mac back in their heyday. And as rumors go, almost all of them were true and due to their superhuman ability to party. Likewise, these rumors are probably also true:

1.) Kirk Ferentz has been offered and may have already accepted the Michigan job.
http://mgoblog.blogspot.com

2.) Tom Osborne and Nebraska officials flew to Baton Rouge to talk to Bo Pellini. This one is not as much rumor as it is fact because it was reported in an actual newspaper. http://www.2theadvocate.com/sports/lsu/11813201.html

3.) In response, an LSU plan is rumored to have flown from Baton Rouge to just outside of Auburn, Alabama. The thinking is that they did so to talk to Will Muschamp about the defensive coordinator job, but it is also possible that rumor #1 is incorrect and that they were actually going to talk to Tubberville. They were probably going to talk to Muschamp, which leads you to believe that Miles knows he's staying. Muschamp would be a great hire and the only other defensive coordinator on his level that LSU should talk to is Georgia Tech's Jon Tenuta.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N9076S

4.) Texas A&M will hire Houston Texan's assistant Mike Sherman their head coaching job. This is a very interesting hire to say the least. I don't like colleges hiring NFL guys. See Charlie Weis, Bill Callahan, Dave Wannstedt, and others.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3127846

5.) Chan Gailey has been fired by Georgia Tech. This makes Jon Tenuta even more appealing because he needs a job. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3127998

6.) This rumor updates the above rumors. AOL sports Fan House says that Will Muschamp is the favorite for the Georgia Tech head coaching job. http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2007/11/26/is-this-it-for-chan/

7.) Duke's coach will also be fired today. I am not taking the time to look up his name or post a link. It's Duke football.

It was a fun ride

It was a fun ride while it lasted. With their second loss, LSU will not be playing in the BCS National Championship game. We still have two games left, and if all goes well, one will be the Sugar Bowl. The general disappointed feeling looming over Baton Rouge this past weeked was heavy, but hey, what are you going to do when you can't stop a two year Heisman hopeful. More questions will arise this week over the Miles to Michigan topic, only to be eclipsed by the week after the SEC Championship Game on Saturday. If LSU wins, Miles' stock rises again along with more interest. If the unfortunate happens and LSU loses (God forbid), Ole Miles may be at LSU a few more years.
I, for one, am not too upset over the loss. Sure our national title hopes are gone, sure we lost the $10,000 Golden Boot after having it for what seemed like a decade. But what are you gonna do. Our defense has been in a steady decline over the year, what with all the injuries to much of the team and changing game plans, it does not suprise me that we lost. We had a lot of trouble last week stopping Brent (old man beer) Schafer and Old Miss for crying out loud, Old Freaking Miss who went 0-8 in the SEC. Didn't take a genius to think to use the "wildhog" formation for most of the game. Now we have to get through this game, get some peeps healthy and hopefully whip some out of conference ass on new years day.

The Waiting Game Has Begun

well, now its officially official. Lloyd Carr has made it 100% that he is gone. now we wait. what will happen? will the team be able to push the doubts aside? will Miles leave us for his northern home? why, Lloyd, why did you screw with us by announcing your retirement now? i know, the team needs to know a.s.a.p. for recruiting purposes, but screw you, your season is over, we still have two games and a bowl game to go. i for one hope that michigan hires someone else, that Les stays, and the Tigers go on to win about 5 national championships in a row (come on, we can all dream).

Breaking News

This just in: Matt Flynn has been named:



(credit to PurpleGuy on TigerDroppings)

UL Monroe

hahahahahahahahahaha
you pay 4 million ($4,000,000.00) a year to lose to UL monroe
sad!

ownage!

This from rwill94 on TigerDroppings.

You gotta love the creativity on the Fark Board.

Les Miles on Sports Radio in Houston

Go to the 1560am website podcasts to listen to the weekly interview with our coach Les Miles.

This week John and Lance ask CLM about being in the #2 spot in the BCS and how it has been dangerous these past few weeks. Some comments about the upcoming Ole Piss game and how the Oregon loss affects the preparation of the team. CLM also comments on the health of Mr. Dorsey.

All i have to say is thank God for 1560 The Game here in Houston. Being out of B.R. you dont get much LSU talk, but now that void has been filled. On wednesdays, at about 2:30 you can catch Sean and John talking to Mike Scarborough from TigerBait.com, and on Friday they have Phil Steele (plus they play the Jim Hawthorne game broadcasts during the games).

Dub-C-C

Okay, first of all I have to give 1560 The Game in Houston props for uncovering one if not the greatest clubs in the NFL, The Dub-C-C. So you ask what is the Dub-C-C? This is the club created by Texans wide reciver David Anderson for all of the 5'10 and under white wide receivers currently on active rosters in the NFL. You can learn more about this club from the blog of Raheel Ramzanali here:

http://www.kingofsports.blogspot.com/

College Football Craziness

I thought it was possible that Oregon would lose at Arizona, but never in my wildest dreams did I think it would happen like this. Dennis Dixon's knee was apparently not as healthy as he let on and I hope this injury is not career threatening. He's a good kid and has a future on Sundays.

On to the crazy repercussions:

You think the season has been crazy so far? Just wait for what's about to come. Which is, of course, possibly more craziness.

For those people that love scenarios that make the BCS look bad here is my best one:

LSU wins out, including an SEC Championship victory over Tennessee.

Oklahaoma loses to Oklahoma State or Texas Tech, but defeats either Missouri or Kansas in the Big 12 Championship (or Kansas loses to Iowa State before defeating Missouri and then beats Oklahoma).

West Virginia loses to Cinncinnati or Connecticutt

Michigan beats Ohio State

USC beats Arizona State

And...

LSU plays Georgia for the BCS National Championsip.

Crazy, but all of these things could easily happen, which is why the BCS is so screwed up.

Oh, and Glenn Dorsey could win the Heismann if the voters don't want to vote for a Sophomore (Tebow).

Saban after three years in Alabama