Adam Rittenberg: Can B1G be a coaching destination again?

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per Rittenberg:

Let's not be delusional about the Big Ten or modern-day coaches. The days of Woody Hayes, Bo Schembechler, Barry Alvarez, Hayden Fry, Joe Paterno and others who saw Big Ten programs as career endpoints likely are over. Kirk Ferentz is completing his 16th season at Iowa, while Pat Fitzgerald just finished his ninth at Northwestern and Mark Dantonio wraps up his eighth at Michigan State in the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic. None seems to be in a hurry to leave on their own accord, but they're more the exceptions in today's game.

Expecting any coach to spend 15-20 years in one place isn't realistic. But the Big Ten also can't have coaches voluntarily leaving every season. A Big Ten coach has chosen to depart in each of the past three seasons: Bielema (2012), Penn State's Bill O'Brien (2013) and now Andersen. Of the three, only O'Brien left for a definitive step up, the NFL's Houston Texans.

Look at Big Ten basketball, which boasts elite coaches -- Michigan State's Tom Izzo, Wisconsin's Bo Ryan, Ohio State's Thad Matta and Michigan's John Beilein -- who view their jobs as destinations. That's what Big Ten football needs.

http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/112845/can-b1g-be-a-coaching-destination-again

Go Gophers!!
 

These things go in phases. I can remember not that long ago when the Big 10 was one of the most powerful football conferences, and when we did bad in basketball people would say "the Big 10 is really more of a football conference than a basketball conference." Now we are down a bit in football, and we are annually knocking off the ACC in the Big 10/ACC challenge. Also, he says that they days of long term Big Ten coaches are done, but is able to immediately list three counterexamples out of 14 coaches (and most of the other schools fired their last coaches, they didn't lose them to voluntary departures).
 

His point is pretty dumb. He could have substituted Wisconsin for B1G. He admitted that O'Brien left to go to the NFL which was something that is considered a step up from ANY college program (for many coaches anyways, not all). So Wisconsin has had 2 coaches leave voluntarily, and in response he says the B1G can't have that happening. Sounds like a problem for one program, not the conference.
 


gopher7 said:
Agree. Rittenberg is pulling fire alarms for the entire campus when the smoke is only in one building.
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Except Wisconsin has the second coming of Chryst now.
 


Jeshurun said:
Except Wisconsin has the second coming of Chryst now.
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AND

Gopher 07: Agree. Rittenberg is pulling fire alarms for the entire campus when the smoke is only in one building.

;)
 

Iceland12 said:
AND

Gopher 07: Agree. Rittenberg is pulling fire alarms for the entire campus when the smoke is only in one building.

;)
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No, I meant except. As in "except for the fact that there is smoke in none of the buildings, because Wisconsin has the second coming of Chryst now."
 

The logic and structure of this headline is right up there with "Do you still beat your wife?".
 

Jeshurun said:
No, I meant except. As in "except for the fact that there is smoke in none of the buildings, because Wisconsin has the second coming of Chryst now."
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No I meant "AND" because I liked your comment AND Gopher 07's. Gees..
 





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