Michigan fires Moore

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MNVCGUY said:
Not sure I would want to be the next coach at Michigan......whoever comes in next will be under a microscope with all the things that have happened over the past few seasons.

Let someone else come in to be the pallet cleanser and then take over for that person. Kind of like what happened at Ohio State when Fickell got his one year stint in charge and managed to find a way to finish under .500 at Ohio State which takes some real skill.
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They will have a clear upgrade from Moore at coach. Did anyone think he was the solution long term? I think Moore being extremly horny expedited this process.
 


MNVCGUY said:
Not sure I would want to be the next coach at Michigan......whoever comes in next will be under a microscope with all the things that have happened over the past few seasons.

Let someone else come in to be the pallet cleanser and then take over for that person. Kind of like what happened at Ohio State when Fickell got his one year stint in charge and managed to find a way to finish under .500 at Ohio State which takes some real skill.
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I think the primary reasons Moore got the head coaching gig at Michigan was that he was acting coach when Harbaugh was suspended and Harbaugh's recommendation after he left to coach the Chargers. I think the Fickell reference is a good one, but he never shook the interim tag while Moore never really had that attached to him after he took Harbaugh's place.

From the outside, I always thought Moore was going to be under the microscope and the seat was always going to be a bit warm. Wolverine fans' expectations are high and they probably view 16-8 as a massive step backwards. Most of that was probably a bit unfair to Moore, but then he went and took a shotgun to his career.
 



A_Slab_of_Bacon said:
I mean ... when was the last time someone left Alabama to go somewhere else by their own choice?
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In 1987 Ray Perkins left Alabama to coach in the NFL, Tampa Bay. I'm not sure if there has been anyone since, unless you count Saban going to ESPN.
 

50PoundHead said:
I think the primary reasons Moore got the head coaching gig at Michigan was that he was acting coach when Harbaugh was suspended and Harbaugh's recommendation after he left to coach the Chargers. I think the Fickell reference is a good one, but he never shook the interim tag while Moore never really had that attached to him after he took Harbaugh's place.

From the outside, I always thought Moore was going to be under the microscope and the seat was always going to be a bit warm. Wolverine fans' expectations are high and they probably view 16-8 as a massive step backwards. Most of that was probably a bit unfair to Moore, but then he went and took a shotgun to his career.
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This is 100% true.

It is difficult for these types of coaches (interim types that are elevated) to really have a ton of support. By definition, they almost always only get the job if they are following someone super successful. Why would you hire the OC of a bad team? In 2010, Jeff Horton had no shot at the Gopher job.

When you couple the fact that they usually follow someone had great success and the "powers that be" don't really feel like they got to pick their person, people often feel a bit luke warm on ya. I think it's why Ohio State, for years, was luke warm on Day.
 

50PoundHead said:
You got it right. It's Physical Education! The last semester of my senior year at the Harvard of Minneapolis located just south of Riverside Avenue, my primary goal was keeping my blood alcohol level at or above the legal limit. I had finished all the requirements of the major I never really used and so I just filled out my dance card with some odd classes (a strategy that backfired to some extent when I applied to several graduate programs, but somehow I got into a solid Master's degree program that worked out well for me).

With that in mind, I took The History and Principles of Physical Education that was taught by the football coach. The class was largely composed of Health and Physical Education majors and a few students working toward a coaching certificate to go along with their teaching degree. The football coach was adamant that the term "Physical Education" was the only term to describe the effort. He would remind the class "It's not PE. It's not Phys. Ed. It's not gym. It's not recess. It's PHYSICAL EDUCAITON!"
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I can’t help but hear this in a certain Secretary of Defense’s voice (more a reflection of my afflictions than anything else). What happened if someone tested the waters, mentioned…gym class
 

swede2 said:
Alabama has positive net domestic migration. Minnesota, meanwhile, does not. But I digress....
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Yeah, I was just making a cheap joke, have some family in Georgia.

Still not sure if I could do Christmas without snow though. All these decades of having it....
 



Bob_Loblaw said:
This is 100% true.

It is difficult for these types of coaches (interim types that are elevated) to really have a ton of support. By definition, they almost always only get the job if they are following someone super successful. Why would you hire the OC of a bad team? In 2010, Jeff Horton had no shot at the Gopher job.

When you couple the fact that they usually follow someone had great success and the "powers that be" don't really feel like they got to pick their person, people often feel a bit luke warm on ya. I think it's why Ohio State, for years, was luke warm on Day.
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Add to that Day looks like Bluto, the villain from the Popeye cartoons.

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Bob_Loblaw said:
Is Bluto the same person as Brutus? Or did they just look alike?
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Being semi-retired, I am able to research important questions like the one you have posed. My digging into this unearthed the information, which is found on the Chester Public Library (Illinois) web page:

Bluto, a character created in 1932 by Elzie Crisler Segar as a one-time villain, named “Bluto the Terrible,” in his Thimble Theatre comic strip, was erected here on the corner of West Holmes and Swanwick Streets in 2008. Bluto made his first comic appearance on September 12, 1932. Fleischer Studios adopted him the following year (1933) to be the recurring villain in their theatrical Popeye animated cartoons derived from the Segar strip.

Bluto is a large, bearded, muscle-bound fellow who serves as Popeye’s nemesis and arch-rival for the love of Olive Oyl. He generally uses his physical brawn to accomplish what he desires, but does at times display some ability for tactical planning. His voice is a very loud, harsh and deep one, with a bear-like growl between sentences or between words. The growling contains words that often cannot be comprehended.

After the theatrical Popeye cartoon series ceased production in 1957, Bluto’s name was changed to Brutus because it was incorrectly believed that Paramount Pictures, distributors of the Fleischer Studios cartoons, owned the rights to the name “Bluto”. King Features actually owned the name all along, as Bluto had been originally created for the comic strip. Due to a lack of thorough research, they failed to realize this and reinvented him as Brutus to avoid potential copyright problems.

Bob_Loblaw, as an attorney you can use this instance as an example to your clients to read the entire contract.
 

50PoundHead said:
Being semi-retired, I am able to research important questions like the one you have posed. My digging into this unearthed the information, which is found on the Chester Public Library (Illinois) web page:

Bluto, a character created in 1932 by Elzie Crisler Segar as a one-time villain, named “Bluto the Terrible,” in his Thimble Theatre comic strip, was erected here on the corner of West Holmes and Swanwick Streets in 2008. Bluto made his first comic appearance on September 12, 1932. Fleischer Studios adopted him the following year (1933) to be the recurring villain in their theatrical Popeye animated cartoons derived from the Segar strip.

Bluto is a large, bearded, muscle-bound fellow who serves as Popeye’s nemesis and arch-rival for the love of Olive Oyl. He generally uses his physical brawn to accomplish what he desires, but does at times display some ability for tactical planning. His voice is a very loud, harsh and deep one, with a bear-like growl between sentences or between words. The growling contains words that often cannot be comprehended.

After the theatrical Popeye cartoon series ceased production in 1957, Bluto’s name was changed to Brutus because it was incorrectly believed that Paramount Pictures, distributors of the Fleischer Studios cartoons, owned the rights to the name “Bluto”. King Features actually owned the name all along, as Bluto had been originally created for the comic strip. Due to a lack of thorough research, they failed to realize this and reinvented him as Brutus to avoid potential copyright problems.

Bob_Loblaw, as an attorney you can use this instance as an example to your clients to read the entire contract.
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Thanks!
 


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