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junker-town · 6 years ago

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Mike Stoops finally out as Oklahoma DC, per multiple reports

It’s been a long time coming.

Oklahoma defensive coordinator Mike Stoops is out of his job, per two reports Sunday:

TFB contributor, James Hale (@jhale24) has learned via a source that #Sooners coach, Mike Stoops is out as defensive coordinator. Please be respectful.https://t.co/slsOb8kPki

— TFB Sooners (@TFB_Sooners) October 8, 2018

Confirmed: Mike Stoops out as #Sooners DC. (VIP) https://t.co/FE7Yw7Qjzf

— Brandon Drumm (@BrandonDrumm247) October 8, 2018

Source confirmed to The Oklahoman: Mike Stoops out as #Sooners DC (first reported by @jhale24)

— Ryan Aber (@ryaber) October 8, 2018

On Saturday, the Sooners gave up 48 points to Texas in a Red River Rivalry loss. That was far from the first evidence in recent years that Oklahoma’s defense is not good. But while the Sooners have an all-world offense and a still-breathing shot at the Playoff during their likely last year with Major League Baseball signee and five-star QB Kyler Murray, it might have created some extra urgency for the Sooners to get things fixed quickly.

The Sooners are 69th in FBS in Defensive S&P+. (They’re first in Offensive S&P+.) OU has a couple of former FBS head coaches with defensive experience on its staff. Ex-ECU coach Ruffin McNeill and ex-UConn coach Bob Diaco could both help fill the role Stoops leaves.

Stoops, the 56-year-old brother of former OU head coach Mark and current Kentucky coach Mike, has been Oklahoma’s coordinator since Bob hired him to that job for the 2012 season. Before that, he spent 1999 to 2003 as a Sooners co-defensive coordinator and assistant head coach. He was on staff for the program’s 2000 national title, though that team won because of its historically good offense. He spent 2004 to ‘11 as Arizona’s head coach.

In his return to Oklahoma, Stoops has been frequently maligned as the leader of by far the Sooners’ worst side of the ball. Oklahoma has regularly fielded elite offenses; in the last half-decade, nobody’s been consistently better at moving the ball and scoring points than OU.

But the defense has often been mediocre or worse under Stoops’ leadership. His Sooners were a top-15 defense by yards per play in 2015, but since then, they’ve twice finished in the 80s and were in the 50s through six weeks of 2018.

Reasonable people can disagree about how much of OU’s defensive struggles over the years have been Stoops’ fault.

The Big 12 is not particularly known for defense anywhere. The league’s traditional recruiting footprint has produced more good offensive players than defensive players, and it’s also been home to a lot of the country’s most innovative offensive schemers. It’s a hard conference to stop people in, and Oklahoma’s been as much a driving factor as anyone.

The Sooners have recruited a lot better on offense than defense. Stoops hasn’t had a ton of blue-chip talent to work with. But as one of the program’s busiest recruiters, he’s largely responsible for the players that have taken the field for OU in the first place. Those players haven’t succeeded often under his leadership.

Oklahoma fans are going to be elated that Stoops is gone.

For years, an apparently large camp of Sooner fans has felt that Stoops got his job because of nepotism and was a drag on his brother’s (and then Riley’s) program.

There are “Fire Mike Stoops” Facebook groups, “Fire Mike Stoops” Twitter accounts, and more “Fire Mike Stoops” message board threads than anyone could count.

For what seems like most OU fans, this move’s well overdue.

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thedoubleextrapoint · 7 years ago

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Nebraska Football: What the Cornhuskers Must Do for a Successful Season

Nebraska’s 2017 campaign is about to start in earnest, but we still have time to take a step back and consider what has to happen for the season to be a success. Obviously, wins and losses will define how Nebraska fans look back on the season. But it’s more helpful to think about specifically what needs to happen on the field for that success to arrive. Head coach Mike Riley is entering year…

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bigmacdaddio · 5 years ago

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IOWA Legendary Coach

‘He’s the king’: Remembering the unmistakable charisma and enduring legacy of Hayden Fry

By Scott Dochterman

Dec 17, 2019

IOWA CITY, Iowa — An icon. An innovator. A motivator. A legend.

College Football Hall of Fame coach Hayden Fry was all of these. Now, after losing a final battle with cancer at age 90, he belongs to the ages.

No single person wielded more influence at the University of Iowa or was more important to its history than Fry. From inventing the logo that still represents the Hawkeyes to breaking the Michigan-Ohio State 13-year Rose Bowl stranglehold to building one of the sport’s greatest coaching trees to shattering the Southwest Conference racial barrier at SMU, Fry’s influence on college football ranks among the most impactful in the sport’s history.

“Hayden Fry is a college football icon and an Iowa legend,” Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz said in a statement. “His Hall of Fame career is well known, but personally, he will always be the man who took a chance on me at the start of my coaching career. I was proud to coach with him and honored to succeed him when he retired. He’s been a great mentor and a true friend. I am forever grateful to him.”

Fry was born in Eastland, Texas, and grew up in Odessa. His homespun, colloquial clichés were formed in his days as a West Texas youth. His common phrase “scratch where it itches” became his trademark Haydenism. Few, if any, coaches had a better psychological read on a team or a situation. Fry was folksy and funny but could be tough and stern. His military background as a captain in the Marines demanded discipline. He finished his 37-year coaching career with a 232-178-10 coaching record. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2003.

With unmistakable charisma, Fry developed friendships as a youngster with Roy Orbison and President George H.W. Bush and later with John Wayne and Lee Iacocca, the Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler Corp. CEO. Fry once said that Iacocca was so impressed with SMU’s hard-fought loss to Michigan that he named Ford’s muscle vehicle “the Mustang.”

Fry became Iowa’s coach in 1979 and ended a 19-year streak of non-winning seasons with a Rose Bowl appearance in 1981. It was the first time since 1967 that a team other than Michigan or Ohio State represented the league in Pasadena. Fry won Big Ten titles in 1981, 1985 and 1990 and guided the Hawkeyes to 14 bowl games over a 17-year period. His 96 wins in Big Ten play sit fifth in league annals.

Fry’s coaching tree ranks among the elite in college football history. His 1983 staff included Bill Snyder, Barry Alvarez, Kirk Ferentz, Dan McCarney and Bob Stoops, all of whom became the winningest head coaches at their respective schools. Others like Bret Bielema, Mike Stoops, Mark Stoops, Bo Pelini, Jim Leavitt, Jay Norvell and Bob Diaco started their coaching careers under Fry.

But of all his many accomplishments, Fry was most proud of giving Jerry LeVias a scholarship at SMU to integrate the Southwest Conference in 1965.

“That is the greatest thing I did in 47 years of coaching, from high school to the Marine Corps to college, is to give the first black player a scholarship in that part of the world because it opened up the door for all the other fine black players to at least have a choice of where they wanted to go to school,” Fry said. “Because at that time they had to go to the Big Ten or the Pac-10 or whatever.

“That was a very difficult thing to do. I’ve been told repeatedly by law enforcement, specifically by the FBI and CIA and other people I had to deal with, not to discuss it publicly because what it does is it triggers all the other people in the world that are sick or as I call the rednecks who are still fighting the Civil War and they do bad things. So you don’t discuss some of those things. But I can just tell you briefly I would say 95 percent of you present would not believe what Jerry LeVias went through, what I went through, what my coaching staff went through from examining our locker room on out-of-town trips, to checking the airplane that we flew on to see if there was a bomb on it, whatever. We even had a sniper in the stands at one of the games that was going to kill Jerry.

(Bettmann / Getty Images)

“We screened all of his mail, all of his telephone calls. But he had real problems on campus, from his own teammates, some of the faculty members. They just weren’t used to dealing with African-Americans and it was bad and to this day it was bad. A lot of it is not publicized. And I would never tell Jerry all of the things that were bad because it would have scared him to death. He was scared enough as it was.”

In a statement Tuesday night, LeVias said, “Coach Fry caught a lot of hell for doing what he did.”

Fry led SMU for 11 seasons. In 1966, he took the Mustangs to the Southwest Conference title and a Cotton Bowl berth. In his final season, SMU finished 7-4 but Fry was fired after a 49-66-1 overall record.

“I remember as a kid watching the Hayden Fry Show in Texas at SMU,” said longtime Iowa assistant Don Patterson, who was Fry’s offensive coordinator from 1989-98. “Anybody who knows anything about Texas football understands he’s a living legend in Texas. To this day he is. He can’t go anywhere in Texas without being noticed.”

After leaving SMU, Fry spent six years at North Texas and posted 10-1 and 9-2 records in his final two years, respectively. His Mean Green squad, however, was not invited to a bowl game either year and it frustrated him. In late 1978, he met with Iowa athletics director Bump Elliott to discuss the vacant Hawkeyes job. That meeting changed the course of Iowa and the Big Ten forever.

Picking Iowa

The Hawkeyes had become a college football wasteland. Iowa hadn’t posted a winning season since 1961, and from 1970-78, the Hawkeyes were 25-71-2. Yet with a strong fan base continuing to fill Kinnick Stadium, Elliott tapped the confident, loquacious Texan to reverse the generational decline.

Fry held a news conference on Dec. 10, 1978, and vowed to change the culture.

“We will be colorful, tough, and we will have exciting football,” Fry said that day, as reported by the Cedar Rapids Gazette. “I’ve always been a passing coach. We throw the football to open up the defense so we can do what we want to do — run the football.

“We may run the Statue of Liberty play out of the end zone; that’s my style of football. We are exciting, but we do this in order to win.”

In the Hawkeyes’ home opener, the Hawkeyes faithful gave Fry and his team a standing ovation as they shifted into multiple formations. Iowa blew a 26-3 lead in a 30-26 loss to Indiana, which was coached by Lee Corso. The following week, Iowa traveled to Oklahoma and competed against the mighty Sooners and Heisman Trophy-winning running back Billy Sims, but still lost 21-6.

In what initially seemed like a moral victory, Fry, a psychology major at Baylor, saw it differently.

“I just told my football team that’s what’s wrong with our ball club,” Fry said, as reported by the Cedar Rapids Gazette. “We get our asses kicked and we get complimented. If I see one guy with a smile on his face, I’m gonna bust him right in the mouth.”

Iowa finished 5-6 in his first year and 4-7 in 1980. Still, the vibe had changed around the program entering his third season.

“I think people sensed that Hayden was different, that the program he brought was different than what they had seen before,” said Alvarez, then the Iowa linebackers coach. “We were very competitive.”

Fry wanted to change the image of Iowa football as much as the on-field product. He gained permission from the Pittsburgh Steelers to pattern the Hawkeyes’ black-and-gold uniforms in a similar fashion. He opted for a different logo on the helmet, so he solicited ideas from fans and partnered with an advertising firm. After a weekend of sketches, Bill Colbert of Three Arts Advertising in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, designed the TigerHawk.

“From where I come from, it’s called selling the sizzle before the steak,” Fry said.

The players were instructed to enter and leave the playing field in a “Swarm” formation, which signifies both the team aspect and also was designed to prevent energy burnout.

Fry also had the Kinnick Stadium visiting locker room walls painted pink because he considered it a passive color. For 40 years, different teams have papered every inch of the locker room to try to alter its effects on their players. When Iowa faced a tough opponent, Fry was loose with his players and quarreled with media over trivial matters to deflect attention. When the Hawkeyes played an inferior opponent, Fry drilled his players like a taskmaster.

“He was a wonderful head coach,” said Phil Haddy, a member of Iowa’s sports information department from 1971-2011. “He was a wonderful administrator. At the same time, a huckster. He could sell tickets. He was good. Whenever he went to a press conference, I’d go up and visit with him first. He’d always be sour. ‘It’s not in my contract. I don’t have to do these things.’ When he’d walk into the room, every week, ‘How y’all doing?’ He’d be smiling. He’d be 110 percent professional.

“He was a dying breed. He did everything. He sold tickets. He coached. He got everybody interested in things. He did it all. Today, the coaches want to coach. Hayden would go to I-Clubs and he’d get there early and he’d stay late and shook every hand. Hayden was a one-of-a-kind. He’s the king.”

During the farming crisis in 1985, Fry had a sticker with the initials “ANF — America Needs Farmers” placed on Iowa’s helmets. He also sang and danced “The Hokey Pokey” in the locker room after victories and wore white pants and sunglasses on the sidelines.

(Iowa Athletics)

“I’m not sure there’s another person alive who could come in and accomplish what he did in terms of turning things around, changing attitudes,” Ferentz said in a previous interview. “The impact he had, not just on the program, but the entire state was just unbelievable.”

Magical year

In 1981, Fry finally had a team that could match his marketing. With a defense that still sits among the best in school history, the Hawkeyes stopped No. 6 Nebraska 10-7 in the opener. Two weeks later, Iowa beat No. 6 UCLA 20-7.

“Gee whiz, how about that!” Fry said afterward. “We got two of the top 10. How sweet it is!”

With a 9-7 upset over defending Big Ten champion and No. 5-ranked Michigan and a 33-7 win against Purdue to stop a 20-game losing streak to the Boilermakers, Fry finally pushed Iowa to its elusive winning season.

“Waaa-hooo,” Fry yelled when he met with reporters. “Twenty cotton-picking years, and we finally did it. We had a great opportunity to fold our tent for the season after last week (a loss to Illinois) and we didn’t do it.”

Entering the regular-season finale, Iowa needed Ohio State to beat Michigan and then topple Michigan State to reach the Rose Bowl. By the third quarter, word of Ohio State’s victory reached Kinnick Stadium. The Hawkeyes crushed the Spartans 36-7 to claim a share of its first Big Ten title since 1958 and earn a trip to Pasadena.

“It was a group of young men that were very hungry, been kicked around, had a hard time,” Fry said on one of his final trips to Iowa City. “To see them win the Big Ten championship was one of the highlights of my career.

“They hadn’t had a winning season in 19 seasons and psychologically, I had a great advantage because they were easy to motivate. They were told they couldn’t win, and they were determined to show people that they could.”

Starting safety Bob Stoops, who later became a national championship-winning head coach at Oklahoma, said Fry’s motivation was what propelled the Hawkeyes to the Rose Bowl.

“He had swagger. He projected confidence,” Stoops said during an Iowa City appearance. “That’s what we needed at the time at Iowa. We’re like, ‘You know what, we can beat anyone.’ Hayden gave us that swagger and that attitude, and I’ve always remembered it.”

The Hawkeyes became a formidable Big Ten program for the rest of the decade. In 1985, Iowa was ranked No. 1 nationally for five consecutive weeks. In the first No. 1 vs. No. 2 game in Big Ten history, the Hawkeyes beat Michigan on a game-winning field goal on the game’s final play. The Hawkeyes won the Big Ten title outright and earned another trip to Pasadena. His quarterback, Chuck Long, was a two-time consensus All-American quarterback and finished second in Heisman Trophy voting that year.

“Hayden was disciplined, but he made it fun,” Long said. “There’s times you don’t want to even go to practice because it’s drudgery and it’s mundane. It was never mundane under Hayden Fry. Every day you’re like, ‘What he’s going to say next?’ You couldn’t wait to get to practice because it was so much fun. Now we worked hard. We worked extremely hard, but we always had fun. I think that’s a special trait.

“We ended with what we called a cheer. It was on the script. Cheer. C-h-e-e-r. So he gathered up the team, whether it was a good practice or a bad practice and said cheer. Led us with a story or a joke. Something funny and end on a good note every day. Regardless of how the practice went.”

In 1990, Fry took the Hawkeyes to the Rose Bowl for the final time. A year later, Iowa finished 10-1-1, the school’s best single-season record under the coach. Twice, Fry’s teams finished in the top 10 and placed in the top 25 eight other times. From 1981-91, only Michigan won more league and bowl games among Big Ten teams than Iowa.

(Wally Fong / AP)

Fry’s 143 wins were the most in school history until Ferentz passed him in 2018 and rank sixth all time among Big Ten coaches. Fry’s 96 league victories are fifth, one shy of Ferentz.

“Coach Fry probably doesn’t get enough credit for just the impact he had on this entire conference, let alone our program,” Ferentz said.

Legacy

Fry’s coaching tree is what defines him outside of Iowa. His first offensive coordinator was Snyder, the architect of the sport’s greatest turnaround at Kansas State. Alvarez, who achieved similar success at Wisconsin, coached the linebackers until 1986. Both are in the College Football Hall of Fame.

Joining them in the hall of fame one day will be Stoops, who was 190-48 in 18 seasons at Oklahoma with 10 Big 12 titles and a national championship in 2000. Ferentz coached Iowa’s offensive line and has 161 wins at Iowa. Defensive line coach Dan McCarney has the most victories in Iowa State history.

“Coach Fry would say, ‘If I had one particular skill, it was probably my ability to judge who to hire,’” said Patterson, who is one victory shy of becoming Western Illinois’ all-time wins leader. “He always famously said, ‘I won’t hire coaches who don’t have an interest in being head coaches.’ That wasn’t always true. (Defensive coordinator) Bill Brashier had opportunities to be a head coach and passed them up to stay at Iowa. I think it generally was true.”

In 2018, Mark Stoops guided Kentucky to a 10-win season for only the third time in school history. Bielema took Wisconsin to three consecutive Big Ten titles from 2010 through 2012.

“The day he retired, he came into my office and he sat and he said some really cool things,” Bielema said. “He wrote me a letter that I carry in my planner to this day and said ‘You’re a good coach, you’re going to be a head coach someday, make sure you’re prepared when you get there.’ I was crying my eyes out because the biggest mentor in my life was retiring.”

Fry’s legacy within Iowa encompasses all of his accomplishments. The football complex around Kinnick Stadium is named for Fry. In Coralville, First Avenue was renamed Hayden Fry Way. In 2009, FryFest debuted, which celebrates everything associated with Iowa athletics. In 2016, Fry’s bronze likeness was unveiled with a 6-foot statue. Fry, then 87, made his final public appearance and smiled, waved and spoke before a crowd of about 800. In typical Fry fashion, Fry offered up a quip before the statue was unveiled.

(Scott Dochterman / The Athletic)

“The main thing is, be sure you put me high enough on the foundation that the dogs can’t urinate on my shoes,” Fry said to laughs.

There never will be another Hayden Fry. Not in Iowa. Not in college football. Not anywhere.

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goalhofer · 5 years ago

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Hartford Sports Takes Another Hit With Loss Of Joe D And Gresh

The show ended at 6:30 p.M. Friday.

“Purple Sox baseball is next,” Joe D’Ambrosio stated. “Thank you for taking note of Joe D and Gresh for the very last time on WTIC NewsTalk 1080.”

And with that, after two years, the display become long gone.

On per week while we marked the rebirth of stripling-league baseball and the twentieth anniversary of the demise of main league sports in Hartford, the stop of the afternoon pressure-time sports talk show at the 50,000-watt staple of Connecticut existence hit with a further historical punch.

Part of me is familiar with it.

A part of me hates it.

D’Ambrosio stated he were given word on a Monday in March when a wintry weather typhoon hit.

“They let me recognize [Andy] Gresh turned into leaving and they have been going to take some time slot into every other course,” he said. “It took me completely via surprise. I didn’t see it coming.”

There’s Sirius. There are podcasts. There is stay streaming. There is what quantities to speak radio on ESPN and Fox television. There are limitless reviews on myriad structures. A few is exciting and idea-upsetting, and Some are one step under garbage. On the pinnacle of all that, radio is an enterprise. I get it.

Nevertheless, this one sticks with me, because it strikes at what we’re as a sports marketplace, what we’re because of the collective us.

“I am heavily biased, but I concept we had a notable display,” D’Ambrosio stated. “Gresh turned into incredible.”

“I concept we handled the massive topics extremely nicely, like Dunkin’ Donuts Park, Deflategate, big 12 expansion. We gave time to Boston and New york groups. I notion we was extremely honest to UConn whilst soccer went downhill, which in the end got me in trouble with the pinnacle coach [Bob Diaco].

Hartford CT Historic Homes: Day-Taylor House

The Day-Taylor Residence turned into constructed in 1857 in a beautiful Italian Villa style architecture on the same time that Samuel Colt, the author of the Colt Revolver built his Armsmear property at once across the street. Placed in the center of the Colt Architectural legacy at 81 Wethersfield Avenue, it has been a house of numerous prominent Hartford, Connecticut households.

The Day-Taylor Residence became constructed by Hiram Bill, the distinctly esteemed Hartford builder who additionally built Connecticut’s Country Capitol and the Memorial Arch in Bushnell Park. It became encouraged via the ideas of Andrew Jackson Downing who wrote treatises on panorama layout and structure that were broadly famous on the time. It’s miles an instance of a fashion that Downing knew as “Italianate” based totally on Italian farmhouses that have been also being depicted in popular landscape artwork of the period.

The 3 tall pink brick masonry and the white trimmed building have an asymmetrical facade dominated with the aid of floor-to-ceiling arched home windows at every degree, balconies lintels and a flat-roofed cupola. The brackets lining the low-pitched roof and cupola are specially specified and ornate. The 3-element veranda of the front facade is supported by using elaborate Corinthian columns. The front facade has remained unchanged due to the fact that its authentic creation.

The first owner and resident changed into Albert F. Day

A descendant of Robert Day who became one of the original colonial settlers of Hartford. The Residence turned into later occupied with the aid of his father, a Connecticut Legal professional Trendy. Later proprietors covered Mary Borden Munsill of the Borden Milk company and Edwin Taylor. In 1928 the House changed into sold by means of the Fraternal Order of Eagles who used it as an assembly House, and headquarters. In 1974 it becomes bought through the Hartford Redevelopment Corporation.

The Day-Taylor Residence is likewise extensive Located in Hartford’s Colt architectural legacy which stretches along each aspect of Wethersfield Street for 2 blocks. The area has ended up precise as the Coltsville Ancient District.

The Day-Taylor House turned into indexed on the National Sign in of Historic Locations in 1975. It had a vast restoration in 1979 and the constructing now serves as places of work. The aggregate of it being constructed by means of one in every of Hartford’s most distinguished developers Hiram Bill, that it become constructed the equal year and directly across the street from the Samuel Colt Domestic and the Armsmear estate Park, and that it’s been owned and occupied by such a lot of extraordinary Hartford citizens makes it one of Hartford, Connecticut’s maximum essential Historical houses.

The Inspiration Of Youth Sports Stars

As a younger guy, I used to be in teenagers music and move-united states and changed into able to rank nationally, and put up 4-consecutive years and not using a loss and all first region, and I was fortunate to locate something I was exact at early on in my life. I didn’t realize it again then while human beings use to return up and want to meet me and tell me how lots they enjoyed looking me run and win. Nowadays, I do understand, as it’s far an innate experience we ought to watch others, especially underdogs, conquer and win. Possibly why the Rocky collection movies had been so popular and why human beings like movies just like the Karate Kid.

Lately, I watched a completely inspirational YouTube video approximately a younger athlete

Made go-us of a runner who beat all of the high women on the Country Championships, her name is Grace Ping. You would possibly need to observe the following films yourself:

1). “Grace Ping [GP], a seventh grader, takes down the Whole 2015 Roy Griak high school field” at the FloTrack Channel. 2). “GP Not Allowed to Race NXN” on the MileSplit Channel 3). “GP After Racing Pro 3K At UW Indoor” on the MileSplit Channel 4). “GP Story” Sean Tehan Channel five ). “GP – Athlete Of The Week” Chris Barriere Channel

One commenter wrote: “why am I watching this video, I am Now not even in the song not to mention athletic.”

My respond became simple: “Because you love an individual with that degree of spirit and will to win. All of us do.”

You see, it makes us experience alive, it makes us smile and notice someone pass beyond, cross the gap, defy the chances and win. Individuals will constantly preserve such values and hold a unique location in our hearts for folks who remind us what we are able to. It seems the great move-united states of america runner Grace isn’t simply an anomaly – she is likewise a go united states skier – and people long snowboarding schooling endeavors helped her expand robust aerobic, will, determination, high pain threshold, and legs of thieve, even for a 13 yr old.

it is tremendous what the human body is capable of, and yes, she manifestly has desirable genetics for jogging, however it is extra than that, it’s her intense training, schooling this is transferable from snowboarding to strolling. Interestingly sufficient most talents are transferable, particularly the human trait of perseverance. She’s got that, and nicely, so do you. She’s discovered her “inner winner” and perhaps it is time that you located yours too. Please remember all this and assume on it.

When Another Person Does Not Even Bother to Try, How Should You Respond

A relationship involves or more human beings. We often talk over with a relationship as deliver and take, clean as it might sound, it’s also hard to debate in this statement. There want could be met for as long as they may be getting collectively.

There are different things that may be exceptional to both of them, for this means that each parties can have distinct desires consistent with time. Despite the fact that they might be some sure desires so as to be common between the 2 of them.

The Necessities

There are some commonplace desires that may be seen among them, which can be the want for attention, to be respected, liked, for instance. Physical and sexual wishes can also be part of it.

There may not be any trouble for them to get them met, while both of them is familiar with the these desires. To make certain there’s no challenge between them, considered one of them desires to be there for the opposite individual.

Factor to be Watchful

Once they glance through themselves, could ensure that most of their needs could be met. This may produce awesome outcomes at the floor that their companion isn’t always self-centered character, who should type sufficient to go past miles to acquire fulfillment of their courting.

A Point in time may want to come whilst one offers or even moments After they acquire together, with the aid of and massive, each of them have to be authorized to get what they may need. Even when one offers more than they obtain, we have to take into account that it’s miles nevertheless a part of lifestyles.

The beginning

Commitment could be very important in the dating as it should be the responsibility of the both of them, permitting them to stand for each other. it’s far possible that one won’t get their needs met, but must be unhappy, as a substitute they have to communicate about it with their companion.

Getting annoyed happens without problems while the opposite experience as although they had been disregarded and left their desires unmet. Yet other character won’t also be aware of the hurt they’re inflicting to the alternative

Thoughts Analyzing

Some thing like this would not have been necessary if people may want to neatly experiment thru the minds of each different. human beings could immediately read the human beings ought to smartly test through the minds of every other. They would right away study through each other minds, see their needs and right away met them.

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NFL draft profile: No. 41 — Connecticut DB Obi Melifonwu, freakishly big and athletic

Connecticut DB Obi Melifonwu 6-foot-4, 224 pounds

Key stat: Melifonwu measured in the 95th percentile, per mockdraftable.com, in the following categories at the NFL scouting combine — measured against defensive back results dating back to 1999: height, weight, 40-yard dash (4.40 seconds), vertical jump (44 inches) and broad jump (141 inches).

Connecticut DB Obi Melifonwu turned in an eye-opening NFL combine performance. (AP)

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The skinny: Prep running back (17 TDs, 10 two-point conversions as a senior) and DB redshirted as freshman at UConn in 2012 before stepping into starting lineup for next four seasons at free safety. Melifonwu collected 224 tackles, eight interceptions, 16 pass breakups, 11 tackles for loss and two forced fumbles in 48 career games. Was one of the standouts at the Senior Bowl at safety and even lined up at cornerback. Backed that up with a combine performance for the ages, and his stock has been on fire since.

Turns 23 in April.

Best-suited destination: A team such as the Seattle Seahawks, who covet big and highly athletic defensive backs perhaps even more so than other NFL teams, would make too much sense. Other teams that could place a higher value on Melifonwu’s unique traits include the Miami Dolphins, Kansas City Chiefs, Minnesota Vikings, Arizona Cardinals, Dallas Cowboys, Houston Texans, Philadelphia Eagles, New York Giants, Carolina Panthers, New Orleans Saints and Cleveland Browns. Melifonwu also spent a week with the coaching staff of the Chicago Bears, who appeared to be impressed with his work down in Mobile.

Upside: With almost a unique combination of dimensions and athleticism, the sky is the limited. Experienced four-year starter at school that has produced five defensive backs draft picks since 2008 and coached by Bob Diaco, who had Harrison Smith at Notre Dame and put Melifonwu right up with any DB talent he ever has had. Excellent body control for how long and leggy he is. Moves gracefully but also isn’t afraid to get dirty in traffic. Has played deep safety, in the box, lined up on tight ends and at the combine did not look out of place at all in press coverage as a corner. Had 24-tackle (Tulane) and two-INT games (Temple) last season. Melifonwu’s character is considered impeccable, with one coach calling him “a dream” after talking with him in Mobile.

Downside: Despite athletic gifts and extensive starting experience, Melifonwu’s production was limited. He occasionally looked hesitant against “smash” and “dagger” concepts where safeties have to make a decisive choice and read their keys. He can take poor angles and overrun plays. Instincts still sharpening. Has requisite intelligence to absorb NFL playbook but could be challenged to apply it on the field immediately; one observer said he felt Melifonwu didn’t “trust his eyes” enough based on what he had seen of him. Is very raw as a press corner and would need to be worked in slowly there. Might be better closer to line of scrimmage than in half-field zone most of the time. First instinct is to lean downhill and can be trapped by play action.

Scouting hot take: “I though Obi was average. We threw for [a lot of yards] on them, never once thought to go away from him or anything. But I heard he had a solid year.” — opposing offensive coordinator

Player comp: It’s nearly impossible to find many apt physical comps, as few defensive backs match his height, weight, movement skills and explosion athletically. The closest we could find in recent years was former Vikings corner Chris Cook, who was the 34th pick in the 2010 draft, and former San Francisco 49ers safety Taylor Mays, who was taken 15 picks later the same year.

But Melifonwu is bigger and more explosive than Cook and a better football player than Mays. But like both, Melifonwu will have an adjustment period coming into the league, depending on which system he’s in and what position he’s asked to play. However, unlike either Cook or Mays, there are zero known character issues with Melifonwu, who is said he be a quick and willing study and a strong worker.

Frankly, this is a very difficult task, as Melifonwu doesn’t have a playing style that matches other defensive backs in 220-pound range (Brandon Browner, Kam Chancellor, Mark Barron, Deone Bucannon) who have come out in recent years. One safety comp we are on board with is the Chiefs’ heady and valuable No. 3 safety, Daniel Sorensen, although Melifonwu has a bigger frame and higher upside.

Addendum: Boston Globe writer Chad Finn responded to my Twitter post and came up with a great one: former New England Patriots DB Tebucky Jones — remember him? The Patriots tried to make him a corner and he eventually was moved to safety when Bill Belichick arrived. Jones’ coach before that? Pete Carroll. Now reconsider this tweet I sent after talking to people at the combine:

Team that has shown most interest/done most work on UConn S Obi Melinfonwu are #Seahawks. Met with him several times, senior Bowl, combine..

— Eric Edholm (@Eric_Edholm) March 5, 2017

Expected draft range: First round, perhaps trickling into the early second.

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The 14 steps along the path to a college football coach getting fired

Barring a sudden surprise firing, it goes something like this every time. Where’s your coach right now?

Think back to the day your college football coach was hired. He was the right guy. He was excited to be there, and you were excited to have him. His intro press conference filled you with optimism.

But that was then. Your team’s falling on hard times again, and it’s time to make a change.

There is a rhythm to the head coach exit. The ebbs and flows that beget the pink slip are largely the same at each school. While there are always going to be unpredictable, overnight breakups, programs tend to progress through the same stages, and it usually plays out over a two-season stretch.

So, where is your program on the progression?

1. The first bad loss.

Maybe the coach has had some time to tear the program down to the studs and rebuild. Maybe he’s an institution, and things are just starting to stale. Either way, the fanbase needs some proof this thing is going to work long-term.

This isn’t the loss that signals the end. This is just planting the seed. You shouldn’t lose to this team, but here we are.

Like when Texas lost, 24-0, to Iowa State in Charlie Strong’s second year.

All the good feelings, all the talk about the potential for bowl eligibility and progress? Out the window. This team won't have a postseason and Strong has major questions to answer. Saying that the team is better than it showed will no longer suffice. If there's one positive, it's that he didn't try to do so in the post-game press conference.

Strong would get one more season.

2. The buck-stops-here press conference.

Everyone’s upset, and it’s time for the coach to take responsibility, like Will Muschamp after Florida lost to then-FCS Georgia Southern:

“You got to change the scoreboard offensively. You got to be able to change the scoreboard. We’ve just struggled scoring points offensively. It’s been a week-in, week-out occurrence. My job to get it fixed and it will get fixed.”

Oh, that did not get fixed. Muschamp would exit stage left the next season.

3. The vote of confidence.

There’s blood in the water, but your AD or school president isn’t punting yet. They just need a little bit more time. Like Kyle Flood at Rutgers, when then-AD Julie Hermann pledged support.

Flood is 15-10 in his two seasons.

“Our football program continues to evolve and grow, as evidenced by the changes Coach Flood just announced," Hermann said in a statement. "I support these moves and Kyle’s leadership as we transition into the Big Ten.

Flood would be gone after two more flailing seasons.

4. Firing assistant coaches.

One side of the ball just isn’t working like it’s supposed to. It’s time to axe a coordinator to placate the masses. The new guy can promise the offense/defense will be more multiple and physical.

Finish 97th nationally in total defense like Maryland did in 2014? It’s time for a change.

The Terrapins' defense had declined statistically over each of the past two seasons, culminating in disappointing performances for the senior-heavy unit against Rutgers and Stanford to end the season. Randy Edsall has decided to overhaul the defense[.]

Edsall would get the boot at the end of the 2015 season.

5. “How many wins does he need?”

Is it a magic number, or is it the “right” wins on the schedule? Either way, if media days are dominated by trying to figure out the right combination of wins and losses, the goose is likely cooked.

How good is good enough for Michigan, and Brady Hoke, in 2014?

Not only in regaining the respect the Wolverines have lost since the shocking upset loss to Appalachian State to open the 2007 season, but to justify Hoke remaining as the Wolverines’ head football coach.

Hoke was gone by the end of 2014.

And the jig is close to up if one particular game is make-or-break.

There is a dwindling number of scenarios wherein [Al] Golden keeps his job, but all of them include Miami winning in Tallahassee (and then doing quite a few other things).

Golden couldn’t beat FSU, among other teams, and was out.

6. Benching the QB for a younger guy.

Your QB might be a veteran junior starter, but the offense just doesn’t look like it’s clicking. It’s high time for that backup to play and show the administration how great the future looks under you.

The bye week is a perfect time for this. He’s got the first week to get adjusted to the first-team offense, and the second week to get the game plan.

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Helfrich became the first coach Oregon had fired since the 1970s.

7. Young alum coordinator or head coach is getting it together, wherever he is now.

Y’all see that grass over there? It’s green as hell.

You think it’s time for your AD to make a phone call to that former player coaching somewhere else, damnit. Certainly he’ll come home.

"I left Texas A&M because my school called me," Bear Bryant said when he took the Alabama job 60 years ago. "Mama called, and when Mama calls, then you just have to come running."

You might not have even fired your actual head coach yet, but it’s time for some public flirtation by the fanbase (Lookin’ at you, Nebraska).

This is the type of ENERGY and PASSION we need from a head coach! https://t.co/y5kGvSOpZc

— Scott Frost to NU (@frost_to_NU) October 18, 2017

8. Social media is fed the hell up, way beyond the usual. Your entire timeline is unified.

This one can take a ton of different forms. It could be calling for a Lane Kiffin tarmac firing this instant:

4 years ago, USC fired Lane Kiffin. If Helton doesn’t want a similar fate at the end of the year, he needs to fix his ship.

— Victor The Great ✌ (@vicorly) October 27, 2017

Leave him on the tarmac like Lane Kiffin when he was fired at USC

— #DutchDestroyer (@_Philly_Talk) October 24, 2017

Perhaps the former players start weighing in:

#WAREAGLE http://pic.twitter.com/2Qp0Dm3Zt5

— Heath Evans (@HeathEvans44) October 14, 2017

I think it's time for the UT leaders to have a come to Jesus meeting with Butch!!! #changeisamust #VFL

— Albert Haynesworth (@haynesworthiii) September 23, 2017

Your area’s entire Twitter presence turns entirely to the cause:

And once that crosses over into the real world, you’re REALLY in trouble:

FIRE BUTCH JONES signs have appeared at every pro venue in the state, random colleges elsewhere, a grocery bakery, https://t.co/0jZGVcISfk

— SB Nation CFB (@SBNationCFB) October 21, 2017

9. Plane banners.

The effort here, just to get rid of guys who already seem like dead men walking, is truly stunning.

Annnnnd here's the banner. Says "I Flew 1124 Miles Just To Say #FireAlGolden" http://pic.twitter.com/KKNlsst6uc

— Matt Porter (@mattyports) October 1, 2015

http://pic.twitter.com/1Fes8eMLov

— Matt Scalici (@MattScalici) October 21, 2017

10. Booster shade.

The highest-ranking rich guy has had enough. He’s called the folks he drinks with at suite level and started to pass the hat. Your coach has a buyout number to hit.

Beat writers are getting wind that the people who control the pocketbooks have had it up to here.

But when Ed Hansen — lawyer, multimillionaire, University of Washington alumnus and former three-term Everett mayor — wrote UW President Mark Emmert six weeks ago, he abandoned all sense of delicacy.

Hansen, unhappy with the state of Huskies football, placed a price upon the head of the football coach and the school’s athletic director. His e-mail said:

“By this letter I hereby pledge to contribute a minimum of $100,000 towards a law school scholarship within 90 days, conditioned upon the termination of Ty Willingham as football coach.

Willingham would be gone by the end of that season.

11. Coach is saying some really weird stuff now!

The message board chatter is at a fever pitch, and the season isn’t going well at all. But the head coach is trying to stay positive and wants you to be too, like Gene Chizik in 2011.

“They’re going to say what they’re going to say and discuss what they’re going to discuss, and you have absolutely no control over that. I call those energy vampires. They’re not going to suck my energy out worrying about that. That’s how we work.”

Chizik would last through 2011, but be gone after 2012.

12. The local columnist is finally done.

As media members, we often want to give coaches a bit more benefit of doubt than fans. Particularly if the coach seems like a good guy. Mid-season firings sometimes seem impulsive, after all.

But when the local columnist does drop the guillotine, it’s another indicator that the situation is untenable.

Has Bob Diaco coached his final football game at UConn? He’s done little to earn himself another season. The Huskies lost to Tulane Saturday to finish 1-7 in the American, a game almost nobody attended, and went an entire month — 16 quarters over parts of five games — without a touchdown.

A month after that story got published, Diaco was shown the door.

13. The death-knell loss.

It could be a blowout, or it could be a close shave, but there’s always one loss that signals that the end is truly nigh. An example? Losing to Kansas, if you’re Texas.

The Texas Longhorns, a titan of college football, just lost to Kansas in overtime, 24-21. This is the first time the Horns have lost to the Jayhawks since the Great Depression.

Strong would get canned the next week.

14. The actual end.

It’s probably a Sunday morning, and your coach is about to have a closed-door meeting with the AD. The loss last night was rough. It’ll all be over soon. Players start finding out on Twitter or via their news apps, just like the rest of us, and begin to voice their displeasure. The news is leaking, but they are yet to have their team meeting to make things official.

Gotta love finding these things out through twitter.... a heads up would’ve been nice

— Luke Del Rio (@Ldelrio12) October 29, 2017

Whatever happens today just know that @CoachMcElwain has been a father figure and a great mentor in my life and family’s life. #GotyourBack

— Eddy Piñeiro (@eddypineiro1) October 29, 2017

— Drè Massey (@D1Masseyy) October 29, 2017

Recruits who are experiencing the business end of college football for the first time start chiming in.

Im not answering any interview questions about whats going on, that isnt my place to speak about. Nothing is changing this class.#AllBite18

— M A T T Y (@corral_matt) October 29, 2017

I will not do any interviews about the situation with Coach Jim. #GoGators

— Ja'Marr Chase (@10jayy__) October 29, 2017

#Gators WR commit Corey Gammage posted this, deleted it a minute later. http://pic.twitter.com/FBTID9pW3P

— Graham Hall (@GrahamHall_) October 29, 2017

The team meeting is announced.

#Gators players meeting now expected to be at 5:30 p.m.

— Graham Hall (@GrahamHall_) October 29, 2017

And around the time the meeting goes down, the end comes.

McElwain, UAA Mutually Agree to Part Ways Details: https://t.co/QsGUA7spfI

— Gators Football (@GatorsFB) October 29, 2017

The official statement brings an end to the often long (but sometimes short) march through the hot seat stages. It could termed be a “mutual parting of the ways,” could be a firing, or a forced resignation.

Either way, your team’s coach is gone, and it’s time to reset the program to try all over again.

Certainly the next hire won’t end like this one did, right?

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