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  1. UMFan83
    I am more than fine with names like Bowles and Kubiak. Not as thrilled with Marrone and Gase. Not sure why though.
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    Just a very mediocre 7-5-1 since our 8 game winning streak. Bulls are 3-3 since their 7 game winning streak. Both teams played the majority of those games at home. Lesson is to not go on winning streaks or play at home?
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    He should, but it obviously seems like he doesn't want to cede that. He went out of his way to define the org structure ahead of Pace today, and there are rumors that Ballard was more concerned about who was ahead of him than Pace was followed by a maybe coincidental shift from Ballard being the heavy favorite to Pace being hired.
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    Well George has made it a point to say that unless he has to he does not mettle in football operations (Obviously he had to this year though). If Pace was reporting directly to George maybe his leash is a little longer, who knows. That's probably a stretch though. Other than that, if Phillips says he has full control over football operations and Ted is just there to fire him or extend him depending on how he does, then its nothing to worry about.
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    It was fine. No Joe Maddon or Theo, but I'd say it was positive. Yeah that's the other thing. The last front office/managerial press conference we watched was Maddon's where he charmed the pants off of everyone. Hard to live up to that.
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    It was pretty meh, but that really doesn't mean anything at all. It's not like he said anything devistatingly bad. And like Banedon said, Emery was a home run based on his press conferences and look how that turned out.
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    Apparently the Dolphins and their 5 Super Bowl appearances (2 championships) aren't a historic franchise.
  9. UMFan83
    Seems like he's calming down a bit and getting more comfortable.
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    He sounds like he's super amped up
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    Reports to Ted Phillips Ernie Accorsi apparently still involved in interviewing head coaches
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    Odd to pick a World Series winner in January anyways.
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    http://worldseriesdreaming.com/2015/01/08/another-day-another-rooftops-lawsuit/
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    Not for nothing but didn't Phil Emery have complete control? Yep. He just wasn't very good at it. I thought that Ted Phillips was the head of Football (and Business) Operations during the Emery regime. I read the tweet to mean that Pace reports directly to George and Phillips is being Crane Kenney'd
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    Sean Payton is an EIU alum....I'll trade a 1st for him :) You'd trade the 7th pick in the draft for a coach that just went 6-10 in one of the worst divisions in the history of football? I don't know, I wasn't really thinking it through as I don't think it has any possiblity of happening. Also didn't they go 7-9?
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    Sean Payton is an EIU alum....I'll trade a 1st for him :)
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    Honestly I thought that the hiring of Ballard was an almost certainty and the other interviews were just a formality.
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    Is that supposed to be meaningful? Exactly. Was he the main scout of the Midwest region or something? He would have had to have been a pro scout if he's responsible for signing Brees away from San Diego.
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    Hard to do with GM's. Best I can say is that the Bears didn't just go with the expected. But then, they didn't with Trestman either so.... All we can really go off of is the fact that: a) The Saints really didn't want to lose him b) The Saints fans are pissed that they lost him c) Pace apparently had such a good interview that they diverted from hiring Ballard at the very last minute when it seemed like Ballard was the heavy favorite going into the process.
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    Yeah there was an article 2-3 days ago that said he wasn't expected to leave NO
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    How's his relationship with Sean Payton?
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    Wow. Wasn't expecting that. What do we know about him?
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    anything Entourage related < everything else in the world Entourage Sloan is the exception.
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    http://i.imgur.com/XgsBHif.jpg I'm definitely more of a Michigan fan, but DePaul is a clear 2nd favorite team...great to see some sort of progress, although only 1 of the 3 teams they beat (Xavier) is any good. Guessing the honeymoon is over quickly though....next 8 games are @ Nova, vs. Georgetown, vs. St. Johns, @ Seton Hall, @ Xavier, @ Providence, vs. Villanova and vs. Seton Hall. 5 against ranked teams, 2 additional road games against good teams, and a home game against almost ranked Georgetown. If they win 2 of those games I'd probably be thrilled.
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