Sentinel Article on Gregg Brandon

[BGDrew]

He called every person that didn't show up to one game not a real fan. Not real sure how you can say he's a good guy but to each their own.

[BGFan]

Too bad GB the head coach was 44-30 here at BG. I don't want to face that GB either.

That was Greg Brandon head coach working with Urban Meyers talent for first couple of years. Don't kid yourself.

A great deal of the talent they were working with the first couple of years was **gasp** Moe Ankney's.

[Rollo83]

Too bad GB the head coach was 44-30 here at BG. I don't want to face that GB either.

That was Greg Brandon head coach working with Urban Meyers talent for first couple of years. Don't kid yourself.

A great deal of the talent they were working with the first couple of years was **gasp** Moe Ankney's.

Actually Urban inherited Gary Blackney's 2000 team that went 2-9. He led the Falcons to a 8-3 record in his first year. **gasp**

Brandon inherited a Meyer-led team that went 9-3 in 2002 and he led them to a 11-3 record and a Motor City Bowl win in 2003.

[Flipper]

GB took a team that lost 3 of it's last 4 games and then had thier had coach leave after promising to stay. He pulled that squad back together. He had the rotten luck of having that team the same year a future Super Bowl winning QB wa lining up behind a OL that had played together four four years down at Miami...but he did a great job in taking that team to a bowl win and wins over more than one nationally ranked team.

Ultimately....the inability to find kids who would stick here bit him in the ass, but I don't think he's ever gotten enough credit for the job he did in 2003. So far as the comments he made after Buffalo game...yeah it was a dick move, but you can be a dick every once and awhile but still be a good person...

[Falconbadger]

Interesting reading the thoughts on Brandon of some here. His tenure reminds me at least in one way of Don Nehlen's in the early to mid 1970s. Nehlen was 53-35-4, and his teams upset Purdue, Syracuse and Southern Mississippi (and mabye BYU?), but he never won the MAC title. First he was up against the Chuck Eley-led Toledo teams and when Toledo slipped back a bit, the Don James-coached Kent State teams came along, as well as the very strong Miami teams of Bill Mallory and Denny Crum. There was a lot of coaching talent in the MAC during that period.
Nehlen left B.G. to be a Bo Schembechler assistant for a couple of years at Michigan before going on to West Virginia. Seems to be the consensus of opinion here, though, that being a head coach is probably not the ideal role for G.B.

[transfer2BGSU]

That was Greg Brandon head coach working with Urban Meyers talent for first couple of years. Don't kid yourself.

And some of Gary Blackney's recruits too. Remember Josh Harris?

Coach Brandon was responsible for some of the offensive players that Meyer recruited.

Urban and Moe never took a BGSU football team bowling.

[tiznow]

That was Greg Brandon head coach working with Urban Meyers talent for first couple of years. Don't kid yourself.

And some of Gary Blackney's recruits too. Remember Josh Harris?

Coach Brandon was responsible for some of the offensive players that Meyer recruited.

Urban and Moe never took a BGSU football team bowling.

Moe did invent the Poe Ditch Rat offense.

[kdog27]

That was Greg Brandon head coach working with Urban Meyers talent for first couple of years. Don't kid yourself.

And some of Gary Blackney's recruits too. Remember Josh Harris?

Coach Brandon was responsible for some of the offensive players that Meyer recruited.

Urban and Moe never took a BGSU football team bowling.

In my opinion Urban Meyer would not have faired any better in 2003. I don't believe he coaches us to a victory in any of those 3 losses. Brandon was a significant part in the success Meyer had. The spread was unique then and our offense was foreign to teams like Kansas and Missouri.

[JoeFalcon]

That was Greg Brandon head coach working with Urban Meyers talent for first couple of years. Don't kid yourself.

And some of Gary Blackney's recruits too. Remember Josh Harris?

Coach Brandon was responsible for some of the offensive players that Meyer recruited.

Urban and Moe never took a BGSU football team bowling.

Moe did invent the Poe Ditch Rat offense.

Moe Ankney, Mo problems.

[Rollo83]

That was Greg Brandon head coach working with Urban Meyers talent for first couple of years. Don't kid yourself.

And some of Gary Blackney's recruits too. Remember Josh Harris?

Coach Brandon was responsible for some of the offensive players that Meyer recruited.

Urban and Moe never took a BGSU football team bowling.

In my opinion Urban Meyer would not have faired any better in 2003. I don't believe he coaches us to a victory in any of those 3 losses. Brandon was a significant part in the success Meyer had. The spread was unique then and our offense was foreign to teams like Kansas and Missouri.

Meyer had more to do with Brandon’s success than Brandon did with Meyer’s success…IMO. Don’t get me wrong, I think Brandon is a helluva “O” Coordinator. But are we really comparing him to a guy that’s won two national titles, overall record of 104-23 (.819) and 7-1 in bowl games?

[debtzoomba]

Some of "Brandon's" players had off the field issues? What happened in the news today again?