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Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day – Thursday, December 1, 2011 – Ray Bradbury

“Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We’ve been so busy damning ourselves for years. We’ve done it all, and yet we don’t take credit for it.”

And

“Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.”

And

“Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.”

And

“I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.”

And

“I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.”

And

“I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.”

And

“If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”

And

“If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.”

And

“If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.”

And

“If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.”

And

“Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.”

And

“The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.”

And

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”

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“We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.”

And

“We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.”

And

“You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.”

And

“Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.”

And

“There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.”

Wikipedia:  Ray Bradbury

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Washington State Fires Paul Wulff and For the Love of….

One thing for sure about the goings on in Pullman, Washington on Tuesday the two people involved, WSU AD Bill Moos and WSU head coach Paul Wulff are two quality people and it had to be hard for Moos to fire Wulff but the bottom-line is that Moos had NO choice when it came to making a change with the leadership of the Cougars football program.

After AD Bill Moos spoke yesterday Paul Wulff talked about his time as the head coach at Washington State and said….

Wulff: “Innocence of Wazzu has been lost today” – Spokesman-Review

““The great thing about Washington State University, and being a Coug,” Wulff said, “is that we don’t do it like everybody else. We stick together and we don’t eat our own.

“I believe the innocence of Wazzu has been lost today.””

For the love of the Pillsbury Dough Boy and for all of his delicious breakfast items which are a staple at Coaches Hot Seat Central what the Hell is Paul Wulff talking about?

“Innocence lost at Washington State?”

You won NINE Freaking Football Games in 4 seasons at Washington State Paul Wulff!

Let’s as Joe Friday would say in this spot, check-out the FACTS about Paul Wulff’s firing at Washington State and just who Wulff was able to beat as the head coach at Wazzou in his 4 seasons on the job

Paul Wulff’s record at Washington State:

2008: 2 – 11
2009: 1 – 11
2010: 2 – 10
2011: 4 – 8

Overall: 9 – 40
Pac-10/12: 4 – 32

The NINE teams that Paul Wulff beat in his 4 years at Washington State:

2008: I-AA Portland State, Washington
2009: SMU
2010: I-AA Montana State, Oregon State
2011: I-AA Idaho State, UNLV, Colorado, Arizona State

How many non-I-AA (FBS) teams with winning records did Paul Wulff beat in his 4 seasons at Washington State?

ONE!

SMU in 2009

Washington State won NINE games in four seasons under Paul Wulff and Wulff took over a team from Bill Doba that won 30 games in the previous 5 seasons!

No, “innocence” was not lost at Washington State on Tuesday Paul….

A LOSING Football Coach was fired and if Paul Wulff was working in the REAL world instead of the Fantasyland that is working on a college campus he would have been run out of town long ago because in the REAL world even ONE bad year will get your ass fired.

Leaving Paul Wulff’s fantasyland talk behind Washington State AD Bill Moos did say something very important in his press conference announcing Wulff’s departure and that is the importance of college football teams making bowl games because of the extra 15 to 20 practices that bowl teams get that non-bowl teams do not now get which is something that needs to be addressed by the NCAA before the 2012 football season begins.

Yes, there are way too many Damn bowl games and I-A teams with 6 wins that includes a win over a I-AA school should not be rewarded for having a losing record over legitimate football teams that play in their own division, but if the NCAA and Major College Football want to promote and celebrate MEDIOCRITY then let them destroy our young people and the American Republic with their stupidity….BUT…that doesn’t change the reality that the divide between bowl teams and non-bowl teams is now very big and when Bogus BCS conference schools are going to bowl games with 6 wins that includes 1 Crapola win over a lower-division team then that is an issue that must be addressed so the playing field can be leveled out between all I-A schools.

The Coaches Hot Seat Proposal on this bowl team non-bowl team issue which is centered around the 15 to 20 practices that bowl teams get that non-bowl teams can’t take advantage of which are primarily used to practice the non-senior, junior, sophomore, freshman and red-shirt players to get them ready for the next season and….

With that in mind the NCAA should authorize what we here at Coaches Hot Seat will name the:

Post Regular Season Practice Opportunity Period for Non-Bowl Teams

The NCAA should implement a rule that authorizes non-bowl teams to hold 15 to 20 practices between the end of the regular season and the final bowl game, usually the Bogus BCS national title game in early January, and the NCAA should also authorize that the non-bowl teams could take up to 100 players and 50 support personnel to an off-site practice facility in Florida, Arizona, southern California or another warmer environment if they so choose to help facilitate these practices and make the practices moree productive.

When we says off-site facilities in Florida, Arizona, southern California and other warm environments we are imagining that non-bowl teams would after the completion of finals and either before or after the Christmas holiday period would take their team to places like Orlando, Phoenix, San Diego, Los Angeles, St. Petersburg, Miami, etc.. where there are existing practice fields and facilities that are not being used in the period between early December and early January and thus where non-bowl teams could hold their allotted 15 to 20 football practices. We are also imagining in an ideal world that teams would practice at the same facilities on adjoining fields and that they would also be authorized to hold a few scrimmages between each other much like the high schools now do “Jamboree” events in the southern United States where several teams are brought together at one site in the off-season to play games and where coaches can spend some time with each other discussing various topics and issues.

(We are thinking of facilities in Florida, Arizona and southern California that would include high schools, universities, colleges, junior colleges, Walt Disney World’s athletic facilities, the Home Depot Center in the Los Angeles area, or any other places where they are empty and quality practice fields. We are imagining that facilities and/or cities and towns would bid to host these non-bowl teams at their locations with an eye towards just like with spring training baseball that non-bowl teams would return to these same places each year between the first of December and the first of January)

There are now amazingly 35 postseason bowl games which only shows that the American Republic is doomed because we have people in positions of power that actually think 70 teams deserve to go to a postseason bowl game which is Completely Absurd…

(Take Arizona State as an example. Arizona State has 6 wins in 2011 which includes a win over I-AA UC Davis. That means that Arizona State has a record of 5 – 6 against legitimate football teams in its’ own division of football and thus they should not be going to a bowl game but then the mantra of the Candy Asses is….

“We LOVE Mediocrity!”

Yes, these are Very Stupid People that are only destroying their own children and grandchildren’s lives by celebrating Mediocrity but then that is all these people have known during their lives so in reality they know NO better. Remember though when it comes to the bowl season the mantra of the End of the American Republic: “Everyone’s A Winner!” Yes, only a REAL Candy Ass would make or support a statement like that!)

….so 70 teams going to bowl games leaves 50 teams in I-AA football that need to be able to hold 15 – 20 practices for their younger players after the regular season just as the bowl-bound teams do right now.

OK, now let’s look at what it would cost to take 100 players and 50 support personnel to an off-site facility for a period of 10 to 14 days for 150 people, 100 players and 50 coaches, support personnel:

Charter Flights: $120,000
Hotel: $100,000
Meals: $80,000
Facility Rental: $50,000
Misc: $50,000

Total:  $400,000

So for roughly $400K a I-A college football team could take 100 players and 50 support personnel to an off-site facility in Florida, Arizona or southern California between the end of the regular season and the last bowl game to conduct 15 to 20 practices and also hold a limited amount of scrimmages with other teams that are also practicing their teams at the same facilities.

The next and probably most important question is how would the non-bowl teams come up with the roughly $400K to take their team, coaches and support personnel to an off-site facility which begs the reality that if we didn’t have a small number of conference commissioners, college presidents and athletic directors that were not full-on Candy Asses and we decided the National Champion in Major College Football on the Field of Play there would be Billions of Dollars in intercollegiate athletics that would easily pay for all kinds of things far beyond how a non-bowl team would fund a $400K trip to an off-site facility for 10 to 14 days for 15 to 20 practices for non-bowl teams.

$400K multiplied by 50 non-bowl teams is only…

$20 Million Dollars

..and the Candy Asses, Greedy Bastards, Leeches, and various other Morons….like athletic directors and college presidents that will swap Millions of Dollars for their school in exchange for a few gift trinkets at a bowl game and a cruise in the Caribbean have already cost Intercollegiate Athletics…

$2 Billion Plus Dollars

…and will cost Intercollegiate Athletics just in 2011…

$500 Million Dollars Plus!

And for what?

A bunch of Meaningless Exhibition Games that Mean NOTHING AT ALL but do make a very small group of people very wealthy at the expense of the thousands of student-athletes that play NCAA sports at America’s colleges and universities.

Yes, you are either Very Stupid, Very Greedy or Beyond Help if you support the Bogus and Un-American BCS which doesn’t even crown a legitimate national champion and leads to the kind of Absolute Nonsense we have going on right now with a head football coaches imploring voters to be “fair” which may be the most embarrassing thing we have ever seen in our lives on Planet Earth.

Yes, You MORONS keep the BCS and continue to cost Intercollegiate Athletics…..

Billions of Dollars

….which people like E. Gordon Gee and his “ilk” will continue to do with an emphasis on “his ilk” for E. Gordon Gee being that in our opinion E. Gordon Gee is the perfect example of EVERYTHING that is wrong with America in 2011 because Gee is nothing more than a Pompous Arrogant Ass that has not worked a day of his life in the REAL world and he sits in his elitist ivory tower at Ohio State and makes Stupid Ass comments like I just hope that Jim Tressel “doesn’t fire me.”

Yes, there is the sure sign of the End of America….

Sorry Pieces of Crapola like E. Gordon Gee in positions of power which certainly makes our friends in China laugh out loud because when they see Gee in front of the cameras they know ONE thing for certain:

America is filed with Candy Asses that are afraid of REAL competition and REAL challenges and unfortunately as our Chinese friends laugh at what a bunch of Candy Asses that Americans are turning themselves into (“We are bowl eligible, we are bowl eligible”) we unfortunately can do nothing but bow our heads and agree with our Chinese friends because….

They are RIGHT.

Regardless of the FACT….in our opinion…that E. Gordon Gee and Harvey Perlman at Nebraska as well…are BIG Candy Asses and Pompous Arrogant Asses that haven’t worked a day of their adult lives in the REAL world and thus of course they support the Bogus and Un-American BCS because that is just what Candy Asses that on the best day of their lives would not be able to defend the American Republic if it was no under attack.

No, that these pitiful fools don’t know any better does not change the fact that non-bowl teams deserve the right to get the same amount of practices that bowl teams get especially since we are sending lots of teams to bowl games after they have put up 6 wins that include 1 one over a team from a lower-division cupcake that was often put on the schedule to bail out the coach and the school so they could proclaim they were “Bowl eligible, bowl eligible” which is the Call of the Candy Asses!

Oh, by the way.

As we just showed it would cost about $400K to send one non-bowl team to an off-site facility for 10 to 14 days for 15 to 20 practices during the early December to early January timeframe each year AND how much at a minimum would ALL I-A (FBS) schools receive if there was a 16-Team Postseason Playoff that include ALL of the conference champions and several wildcard teams as discussed yesterday in this blog?

Well, using the same kind of formula that is used for the NCAA Basketball Tournament the top conferences and top schools would receive the majority of the monies generated by a Postseason Tournament in Major College Football but at a minimum EVERY school in I-A football would receive from the monies generated by a 16-Team Postseason Tournament:

$4 Million Dollars

Yes, that’s right, NOT having a Postseason Tournament in Major College Football is costing even the non-bowl teams each year at least…

$4 Million Dollars PER YEAR!

…with the larger Bogus BCS Conference schools losing out on Tens of Millions of Dollars more than they could ever hope to receive from the….

Bogus and Un-American BCS.

So taking one of the 50 non-bowl teams to an off-site practice facility in Florida, Arizona or southern California for 10 to 14 days for 15 to 20 practices in the period between early December and early January would cost about….

$400K

….and a 16-Team Postseason Tournament in Major College Football would generate at a minimum for those same non-bowl teams…

$4 Million Dollars

…which only confirms what we have come to believe since Coaches Hot Seat was started in January 2007 and we started to really look into the finances and people involved in Intercollegiate Athletics:

There are Some Very Stupid People working in Intercollegiate Athletics that are costing OUR schools and OUR student-athletes…

Billions of Dollars

….in additional resources that they should now be receiving…and for what?

A few bowl gift trinkets, a cruise to the Caribbean and conference commissioners, college presidents and ADs getting their asses kissed by bowl executives and their minions at Meaningless Exhibition Games.

Yes, there is NO other conclusion one could possibly reach when it comes to these Fools that are beyond supporting the Bogus and Un-American BCS but are also agreeing to beyond stupid contracts with football coaches that…

There are Some Very Stupid People working in Intercollegiate Athletics

$2 Billion Dollars Plus and COUNTING that the Bogus and Un-American BCS has ALREADY COST Intercollegiate Athletics….

Which makes the ass kissing that the bowl executives do of conference commissioners, college presidents, athletic directors and anyone else that enters the bowl executives’ field of vision that they can find to place their lips on their rear-ends makes this Bogus “BCS ass kissing” the most expensive ass kissing in history of Human Being on Planet Earth which Wikipedia pegs the beginning of Human Beings at around 200,000 years ago in sub-Sahara African.

The Biggest Ass Kissers in the 200,000 years of Human Beings on Planet Earth….

Now that is something that the bowl executives and Sorry BCS Bastards can be mighty proud of and should include on their resume once they are run out of town by Americans with common sense when we kick these Sorry SOBs and their Bogus and Un-American to the curb and onto the dustbin of history with their like-minded brethren:

Communism, Socialism, Fascism, The Dark Ages, Blood-Leeching, Witchcraft, The Sun Orbits the Earth and the Earth is at the Center of the Universe, 2 + 2 = 7 and other Absolute Nonsense in Human History on Planet Earth.

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Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day – Wednesday, November 30, 2011 – John Adams

“A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.”

And

“A government of laws, and not of men.”

And

“All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.”

And

“Because power corrupts, society’s demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.”

And

“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”

And

“Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.”

And

“I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.”

And

“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”

And

“If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?”

And

“Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.”

And

“Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.”

And

“Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.”

And

“Power always thinks… that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws.”

And

“There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.”

And

“Tis impossible to judge with much Præcision of the true Motives and Qualities of human Actions, or of the Propriety of Rules contrived to govern them, without considering with like Attention, all the Passions, Appetites, Affections in Nature from which they flow. An intimate Knowledge therefore of the intellectual and moral World is the sole foundation on which a stable structure of Knowledge can be erected.”

And

“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.”

And

“Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, “that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.”

And

“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.”

And

“The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to be careful to prevent their growth in our own.”

And

“Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.”

And

“As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected from 1760–1775, in the course of fifteen years, before a drop of blood was shed at Lexington.”

And

“Power always sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon foi, believes itself right. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak.”

And

“Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.”

And

“This is the most magnificent movement of all! There is a dignity, a majesty, a sublimity, in this last effort of the patriots that I greatly admire. The people should never rise without doing something to be remembered — something notable and striking. This destruction of the tea is so bold, so daring, so firm, intrepid and inflexible, and it must have so important consequences, and so lasting, that I can’t but consider it as an epocha in history!”
On the Boston Tea Party (17 December 1773)

And

“Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.”

Wikipedia:  John Adams

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The Disaster That Is UCLA Football and What the Folks at UCLA Should Do Right Now

Rick Neuheisel is right….

UCLA needs changes, Peter Yoon, ESPN Los Angeles

….but those needed changes had nothing to do with Rick Neuheisel’s inability to field a winning team at UCLA.

The changes that Rick Neuheisel is talking about…

“In an interview with Colin Cowherd on ESPN Radio, Neuheisel likened the UCLA coaching job to “taking a knife to a gunfight” when it comes to trying to compete with elite-level programs such as cross-town rival USC.

“I think every program across the country has to make a determination as to what their expectation level is and then finance that expectation level, and in some places those numbers don’t jibe,” Neuheisel said.

Athletic director Dan Guerrero said Monday that UCLA is “in a different league” financially for hiring its next coach. Neuheisel made $1.25 million a year and UCLA is expected to go beyond $3 million a year for Neuheisel’s successor.

Guerrero also said that upgrades to UCLA’s practice facility, where currently there is no 100-yard field, are in the works.

Said Neuheisel: “You want to make sure you are getting the same things that those teams where the expectation level lies are getting so that you can compete at that level.”

….would make the difference between a Winning and Championship football program BUT Rick Neuheisel put up a record of….

Overall: 21 – 28 (.429)
Pac-10/12: 13 – 23 (.361)

…after taking over a UCLA football program under the preceding head coach Karl Dorrell put up a record of…

Overall: 35 – 27 (.565)
Pac-10: 24 – 18 (.571)

…which means that Rick Neuheisel took the UCLA football program BACKWARDS by any measure we can think of unless you are a racist and you are going to judge the white coach (Rick Neuheisel) on an easier scale than the black coach (Karl Dorrell).

It’s time for Rick Neuheisel to end his media tour Pity Party and just admit that he didn’t get it done at UCLA and actually took the program BACKWARDS from the Dorrell and Bob Toledo eras.

Now after 4 years of Rick Neuheisel and 5 years of Karl Dorrell the problem at UCLA is bigger than the last two head football coaches of the Bruins.

The problem at UCLA is who is hiring the football coaches which would be UCLA AD Dan Guerrero.

1.  When Karl Dorrell was hired in December 2002 he was the wide receivers coach with the Denver Broncos and had never been a head coach before.

2.  When Rick Neuheisel was hiring December 2007 he was the QB coach for the Baltimore Ravens and had been run out of Washington for a lot of reasons with the best one in our minds being that Neuheisel was a Pompous Arrogant Ass when he was the head coach at Colorado and Washington and REALLY did believe he was God’s gift to Planet Earth. (We will say that the Rick Neuheisel that coached at UCLA the last 4 years was much humbler man…more of a human being and acted perfectly every time we were around him at UCLA.…but a worse coach which say something but we are not quite sure what since we can name dozens of big time winning college coaches that were decent human beings during their entire lives…like former UCLA head coach Terry Donahue).

Getting back to the REAL problem at UCLA which is not facilities or even lack of money….although better facilities and more money would be great….the REAL problem at UCLA is Dan Guerrero who he is hiring as head football coaches of the UCLA Bruins.

A couple of Coaches Hot Seat members happened to be in Santa Monica living and working with their families when Bob Toledo was fired and Karl Dorrell was hired in December 2002 and they both vividly remember UCLA’s decision to hire Karl Dorrell which they believed at the time (from reading the LA Times on the hiring of Dorrell) came down to an impressive interview by Dorrell with Guerrero and the chancellor at UCLA where Dorrell showed up for the interview in a brand new suit…which evidently did the trick for the UCLA chancellor. Yes, can’t you just see the UCLA chancellor thinking to himself: “Hey, a football coach that owns a suit! I love it! Hire him!”

Sorry, but Karl Dorrell was NOT QUALIFED to be the head football coach at UCLA in 2002 and 5 years later that terrible hire by Dan Guerrero of Karl Dorrell led to a column by Bill Plaschke in the Los Angeles Times at the end of Dorrell’s 5 th season in Westwood:

Progress was rarely seen in Dorrell era, much like the coach, Los Angeles Times

“His offense ran off the field for the last time, their soiled and bandaged jerseys passing his spotless and pressed jacket.

They didn’t look at him. He didn’t look at them.

Moments later, he was jogged off the Coliseum field followed by five policemen who proved entirely unnecessary.

The large UCLA cheering section did not acknowledge him. He did not acknowledge them.

Five years ago, on a chilly day in Colorado, the Karl Dorrell era at UCLA began with the new coach disappearing under the moment, leading me to write that the Bruins had gone from “Holy Toledo to Holy Ghost.”

Fittingly, this is also how the era probably ended Saturday at the Coliseum, on a day holding that same chill.

Such a good, decent man.

Such an invisible head coach.

The Bruins were wiped out by USC, 24-7, in a game featuring four turnovers, 10 penalties and peculiar play calling.”

Hell, Plaschke could have changed Dorrell’s name to Neuheisel and the score of the UCLA – USC game and just submitted the same column to his editors this past Sunday!

After the hiring of Karl Dorrell in 2002 Dan Guerrero then hired Rick Neuheisel in December 2007 which led us here at Coaches Hot Seat Blog to write:

UCLA fired Dorrell to hire who? Say it isn’t so Dan Guerrero…., CHS Blog, December 30, 2007

Now Dan Guerrero is on his 3 rd head coaching search in the last decade and is there anyone out there that thinks Guerrero can land the right coach this time around?

Only someone in Dan Guerrero’s family or a complete Moron could answer “YES” to that question!

Now we read in the Los Angeles Times that UCLA is targeting Boise State’s Chris Petersen as their next head….

UCLA targets Boise State’s Chris Petersen to be next football coach, Los Angeles Times

….who Dan Guerrero tried to get on the phone in 2007 before he hired Neuheisel and we remember Petersen saying something like (paraphrased):

“I don’t want anything to do with that mess down there.”

And Petersen turned down a $3 Million Dollar a year offer from Stanford last year after Jim Harbaugh jumped to the 49ers.

If Chris Petersen will not take the Stanford job for $3 million a year would he really take the UCLA job for the same amount of money? Hell, if there is a more expensive place than Palo Alto it would be the westside of Los Angeles and we don’t know if $3 million a year wouldn’t be a downgrade in the standard of living for Petersen and his family from $1.5 million that Petersen is now making at Boise State.

The westside of Los Angeles is at least twice as expensive as Boise, Idaho and don’t forget the “for my trouble fee” that Petersen should ask for all of the Wacko Liberal Nuts in Westwood, Santa Monica, Brentwood, Pacific Palisades, Venice Beach, etc. that he will have to deal with on a regular basis as best exemplified by typical westside of LA resident Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm!  (Although we always have a GREAT time making fun of those Wacko Liberal Nuts on the westside of Los Angeles when we are in La-La Land!  Yes, those folks are NUTS!)

If we were Chris Petersen would we take the UCLA head coaching job?

Well, we cannot honestly answer that question since we know the lay of the land very well in Los Angeles and know exactly where we would live (Santa Monica or Pacific Palisades within 10 blocks of the Pacific Ocean which has great weather, pretty good public and very good private schools and the traffic is not that bad if you are on the westside of the 405 most of the time) so we would take the UCLA head coaching job just because Bruins football plays on a very big stage, it is easy to recruit big-time talent to UCLA and the school itself is a great educational institution.

If Chris Petersen called us tonight and asked us if he should take the UCLA job we would say:

If you are interested in taking the UCLA job then UCLA needs to come up with the amount of money for you and your assistants that make it worthwhile for you to take the Bruins job.

What would that be?

To take the UCLA job we would want:

$4 Million Dollars per year with a 7 year contract

$100K raises each year of the 7 year contract

$1 Million Dollar bonus for completing 3 years

$2 Million Dollar bonus for complete all 7 years (plus another bonus detailed below)

Standard benefits that all big-time coaches get (see Urban Meyer’s latest contract)

$3 Million Dollar buyout if fired before the end of the contract

Help from UCLA in buying a house in Santa Monica or Pacific Palisades so the head coach would not be too far from the UCLA campus

A nice home in Santa Monica or Pacific Palisades costs between:

$2.5 and $4.0 Million Dollars

See these two homes as examples:

Pacific Palisades Home, $2.45 Million Dollars

Santa Monica Home, $3.95 Million Dollars

A $3 Million Dollar home with 20 percent down-payment creates a $2.4 Million Dollar mortgage amount and a monthly mortgage payment of $11,300 per month including taxes and insurance so UCLA should give Petersen a $600K loan or whatever is the 20 percent down payment needed to live in a nice house which would turn into a bonus if Petersen completed his 7 year contract.

$3 Million Dollars for assistant coaches

A commitment from the UCLA administration to raise $100 Million Dollars for UCLA football and a new UCLA football building and practice fields.

(On that $100 Million Dollars that UCLA should have already raised for UCLA football within 5 miles of the UCLA campus sits people that have a collective net worth in the Tens of Billions of Dollars and it is disgrace that more money has not been raised from both UCLA alums and non-UCLA people that love going to UCLA athletic events BUT never get asked to give one Dime from anyone at UCLA)

What if Chris Petersen will not bite on the offer that UCLA gives to him or even what Coaches Hot Seat believes that CHS should offer to him?

We would then hire either Kevin Sumlin (Houston), Mike Leach (ex-Texas Tech), Troy Calhoun (Air Force), Gary Patterson (TCU) or even a wildcard choice that might have a hankering for some new scenery, some warmer weather to live in and a big stage to coach on which is Los Angeles…

Bob Stoops at Oklahoma

Would Bob Stoops consider taking the UCLA head coaching job?

Well, we do know that when the Pac-12 was talking about combining with 4 schools from the Big 12 which would have included Oklahoma that Bob Stoops was very excited about the Sooners playing some new teams at some new venues on the West Coast and maybe Bob might consider moving out to Hollywood even with that new and BIG house that Bob Stoops is building outside Norman, Oklahoma.

Hell, it looks like to us that Bob Stoops needs a new challenge in life and rebuilding UCLA football would be a GREAT and FUN challenge for the man from Youngstown, Ohio.

There is only one way to find out…..Give Bob Stoops a call.

Now we would love to see the look on Lane Kiffin and Pat Haden’s faces in the athletics building at USC when they first heard that Bob Stoops just took the UCLA job! Oh, that would be priceless!

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Bogus and Un-American BCS:  Where Has the “Regular Season Is the Playoff ” Crowd Gone? – Oh, Now’s It’s About Being “Fair?”

When considering the Bogus and Un-American BCS has anyone else noticed that the…

“The regular season is the playoff” crowd has over the last couple of weeks been replaced by the….

“The BCS was designed to have the No. 1 and No. 2 teams play each other in the title game.”

Of course, both of the above comments about the Bogus BCS are Completely Absurd because the Regular Season is of course the…

Regular Season.

And as for what the BCS was designed for…

The Bogus and Un-American BCS was designed so a very small group of Power Hungry Sorry Pieces of Crapola that would be known as “Leeches” on most of Planet Earth could keep control of the college football postseason which has to date cost Intercollegiate Athletics…

$2 Billion Dollars Plus…..and Counting!

….and still doesn’t crown a Legitimate National Championship in Major College Football.

A few of the Power Hungry Sorry Pieces of Crapola that are behind and prop-up the Bogus and Un-American BCS have been out in the media lately making all kinds of comments that know to be Complete LIES like….

“The BCS has worked every season…except for that year Auburn was left out”

…which is so much of a LIE we are surprised that the Sorry Pieces of Crapola making such claims are not struck down by lightning on the spot…BUT…the Greedy Bastards behind the Bogus and Un-American BCS that have pursued their own selfish interests will one day have to answer to a higher power….although it is hard to imagine that anyone involved in the Bogus BCS could be religious since the BCS is one of the most immoral things going on in the American Republic today. (see BCS Controversies at Wikipedia which completely refutes the BCS BS “usually works” Crap)

We here at Coaches Hot Seat have been looking into the Bogus and Un-American BCS for a few years and one of our members that was trained by YOUR Government in the art of looking at things, connecting dots and generally trying to figure out what the Hell is really going on within a country or system made a very interesting comment after a trip he made this past summer:

CHS Member paraphrased (His opinion): “This BCS reminds me of the old Soviet Union or Cuba in that it only exists because a very small group of people want it to exist and in both the old Soviet Union and in Cuba the so-called “great” leaders of those two countries were very motivated to keep their corrupt countries going because they were personally making a fortune at the expense of the people. A small group of people in the bowl system are making a fortune by keeping a stupid system going and then there are another small group of people that protect the bowl system which has already cost intercollegiate athletics over $2 Billion Dollars and the alternative system, a postseason playoff, is the system used by 99 percent of sports in America including every other sport on college campuses in our country.”

So ask yourself: Why does the BCS still exist?”

We believe we know why the BCS still exists here at Coaches Hot Seat and if we are right…

(once the US Justice Department actually gets back into the business of enforcing the laws of the United States of America instead of doing all they can to get high-powered weapons into the hands of Mexican drug cartels which then create all kinds of mayhem and violence along the Mexican – US border. See the Bogus Fast and Furious Operation which was overseen and encouraged from the highest levels of the US Justice Department)

….and the Sorry Pieces of Crapola that prop-up and defend the Bogus and Un-American BCS are going to have a Helluva lot to worry about in the future once all of the money that is now paid by college students in “athletics fees” is identified that in a direct way subsidizes the Bogus and Un-American BCS because those “athletics fees” that all students pay are often funded by the US Taxpayer through grants and other types of financial aid which makes the Bogus and Un-American BCS something that should be and will be investigated by US Justice Department once the US Justice Department gets back into the business of enforcing US law and not running high-powered weapons to Mexican drug cartels.

The BCS is as Un-American as Communism was and is as still practiced in Cuba and North Korea and Major College Football is going to have a Postseason Playoff Tournament and these Very Sorry People that do all kinds of Un-American things to protect the “Leeches” in the bowl system that have already cost Intercollegiate Athletics…

$2 Billion Dollars and counting

…better give some Damn thought to where they stand today because where they stand today is where they will be standing when a Federal Grand Jury is seated to look into just why in Hell a very small group of people would keep alive a system that is costing Intercollegiate Athletics Billions of Dollars which makes about as much sense as a country choosing to run a Communist system of government when Communism runs counter to every motivation and desire of Human Beings.

Yes, the “Regular Season is the Playoff” folks have disappeared only now to be replaced by the “The BCS supposed to match up the No. 1 and No. 2 teams” and now we have college football head coaches imploring voters to be “fair.”

Is that what America is about?

Coaches that don’t watch any of the games but do according to the Wall Street Journal do vote their own best interests in the Bogus Coaches Poll (New Research Suggests Coaches Play Favorites, Wall Street Journal), Harris Poll Voters that have often had long-held ties with individual schools and will of course vote in a very Bogus and Biased way as well and a bunch of computer geeks that don’t really care what happens on the field beyond what the computer programs tell them what happened which makes about as much sense as…

Letting the Coaches who watch NO games rank the teams when everyone knows that Head Coaches are more biased than anyone else and they DON’T WATCH ANY GAMES!

Yes, that makes sense….NOT.

Of course, NONE of the Bogus and Un-American BCS makes any sense just like the Bogus and Un-Human Soviet Union made any sense and luckily for those living in Russia and Eastern Europe especially since Putin is putting back together the Soviet Union in everything but name only (while the Morons in Washington DC are asleep at the switch…again) the USSR was tossed onto the dustbin of history and that is where the Bogus and Un-American BCS is going as well as is the Completely Absurd idea that a small group of Sorry Pieces of Crapola should be able to control Major College Football so they can host a few Meaningless Exhibition Games that Mean NOTHING AT ALL….while….

Costing Intercollegiate Athletics Billions of Dollars

AND

Not Crowning a Legitimate National Champion

….which leads to head football coaches imploring voters (very biased voters remember) to be “fair.”

Is that was America is about?

Yes, Washington DC is filled with Stupid and Corrupt People that would sell out your family and children for a few pieces of silver and come to think of it that is exactly what a small group of Stupid and Corrupt People that support the Bogus and Un-American BCS have done to Major College Football and its Fans.

Yes, these are some Very Sorry People that are behind and support the Bogus and Un-American BCS and one can only wonder how they sleep at night with all of this BS they have pulled over the past 15 years…BUT…then how does someone (George W. Bush ) sleep that has caused 40,000 plus casualties after taking the United States of America into a Bogus war in Iraq that was waged just so he could prove that he was a “man” after he failed the test of being a “man” during all of his adult life?

Yes, one can only wonder.

Now assume for moment that the Major College Football Postseason was being run by REAL Americans and not Sorry Pieces of Crapola that cared more about their own rear-ends and lining their own pockets at the BIG expense of Intercollegiate Athletics what would the I-A College Football Postseason look like:

It would look like EVERY other Postseason on EVERY level of sports and intercollegiate athletics in America OR something like this….

Post Week 13 Coaches Hot Seat Power Playoff Poll and 16-Team Postseason Tournament First Round Games

Below is the eighth Coaches Hot Seat Power Playoff Poll of the 2011 College Football Season which will be used to seed a 16-team Postseason College Football Tournament with the Top 7 Conferences From the 2010 college football season (using the Sagarin Conference Ratings) getting automatic seeds into the Tournament and the 4 remaining Conferences sending their Champions to Play-In Games in order to gain entry into the Tournament. The remaining spots will be filled with 7 At-Large Team seeds which are chose by the below poll but in the real world would be chose by a committee similar to the NCAA College Basketball Selection Committee:

Automatic Conference Champions in the 2011 College Football Postseason Tournament: SEC, Big 12, Big East, Pac-10, ACC, MWC, Big Ten

Conference Champions that would have to play each other to get into the Postseason Tournament: Sun Belt, C-USA, MAC, WAC

Wildcard Teams: 7 Wildcard Teams

Post Week 13 Coaches Hot Seat Power Playoff Poll

* = Predicted Conference Champion – # = At-Large Team

1. LSU* (12-0)

2. Alabama# (11-1)

3. Stanford# (11-1)

4. Virginia Tech* (11-1)

5. Oklahoma State* (10-1)

6. Houston* (12-0)

7. Boise State# (10-1)

8. Oregon* (10-2)

9. Michigan State* (10-2)

10. Arkansas# (10-2)

11. South Carolina# (10-2)

12. Georgia# (10-2)

13. Wisconsin# (10-2)

14. Oklahoma (9-2)

15. Kansas State (9-2)

16. Michigan (10-2)

17. TCU* (9-2)

18. Baylor (8-3)

19. Nebraska (9-3)

20. Southern Miss (10-2)

*Conference Champs

#At-Large Teams

Projected Conference Champions not in Top 20

Big East – Louisville* (7-5)

WAC Champion – La. Tech* (8-4)

Sun Belt Champion – Arkansas State* (9-2)

MAC Champion – Northern Illinois* (9-3)

We now use the above Power Playoff Poll to seed a 16-team college football postseason playoff tournament, although we would prefer that a committee similar to the committee for the NCAA basketball tournament be used to pick the 7 wild card teams and then seed the 7 Conference Champions and the 2 teams that win the Play-In Games in the postseason tournament. The higher ranked team in the Final CHS Power Poll will host the home game.

Conference Play-In Games – Saturday December 10, 2011

Houston, Texas

Northern Illinois vs. Houston

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Ruston, Louisiana

Arkansas State vs. La. Tech

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First Round Games – Friday/Saturday December 16-17, 2011 – (Higher ranked teams host first round games)

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Winner of MAC (Northern Illinois) – C-USA Conference (Houston) Champions Play-In Game

LSU – SEC Champion

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Eugene, Oregon

Wisconsin – #7 At-Large Team

Oregon – Pac-12 Champion

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Athens, Georgia

Louisville – Big East Champion

Georgia – #6 At-Large Team

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East Lansing, Michigan

South Carolina– #5 At-Large Team

Michigan State – Big Ten Champion

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Tuscaloosa, Alabama

TCU – MWC Champion

Alabama – #1 At-Large Team

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Palo Alto, California

Boise State – #3 At-Large Team

Stanford – #2 At-Large Team

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Blacksburg, Virginia

Arkansas – # 4 At-Large Team

Virginia Tech – ACC Champion

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Stillwater, Oklahoma

Winner of WAC (La. Tech) – Sun Belt Conference (Arkansas State) Champions Play-In Game

Oklahoma State – Big 12 Champion

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Which of the above games does ESPN College GameDay go to? Yes, it is an embarrassment of riches to choose from but our guess for where GameDay goes for the First Round Games is….

Tuscaloosa, Alabama for the TCU vs. Alabama game – Now that would be a Helluva interesting football game to watch!

Great 8 – Second Round Games at Four Regional Sites – Friday/Saturday – December 23 – 24, 2011

Final 4 – Third Round Games at Two Regional Sites – Saturday – December 31, 2011

National Championship Game – Saturday – January 7, 2012

Can you say…

Legitimate National Champion in Major College Football?

With the above Postseason Major College Football Tournament why…..

YES YOU CAN!

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