Adam Gonzaga named DB's coach!!

ffejfalcon · Post by **ffejfalcon** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 8:29 pm

I too welcome coach G! Make us proud and anjoy the SEBO Center!

CapitalFalcon · Post by **CapitalFalcon** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 8:42 pm

ZiggyZoomba wrote:I don't care if you're positive or negative. I just don't like responses being contrary w/o making any case for why you're taking that position. It's like starting an argument with "Nuh uh!!!" It gets taken personally and, more often than not, the downward spiral of a thread begins.

Nuh Uh!

Flipper · Post by **Flipper** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 9:33 pm

Na-huh....times infinity!

Post by **ZiggyZoomba** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 9:34 pm

CapitalFalcon wrote:
ZiggyZoomba wrote:I don't care if you're positive or negative. I just don't like responses being contrary w/o making any case for why you're taking that position. It's like starting an argument with "Nuh uh!!!" It gets taken personally and, more often than not, the downward spiral of a thread begins.
Nuh Uh!

I was waiting for someone to do that.

Rightupinthere · Post by **Rightupinthere** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:07 pm

ZiggyZoomba wrote:
CapitalFalcon wrote:
ZiggyZoomba wrote:I don't care if you're positive or negative. I just don't like responses being contrary w/o making any case for why you're taking that position. It's like starting an argument with "Nuh uh!!!" It gets taken personally and, more often than not, the downward spiral of a thread begins.
Nuh Uh!
I was waiting for someone to do that.

No you weren't.*

*This is the start of a Monty Python skit. I want to buy an argument.

Flipper · Post by **Flipper** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:41 pm

No you don't

Zom · Post by **Zom** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 6:33 am

Yes, he does.

Post by **ZiggyZoomba** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 9:08 am

Palin: I came here for a good argument.
Cleese: No you didn’t; no, you came here for an argument.
Palin: An argument isn’t just contradiction.
Cleese: It can be.
Palin: No it can’t. An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.
Cleese: No it isn’t.
Palin: Yes it is! It’s not just contradiction.
Cleese: Look, if I argue with you, I must take up a contrary position.
Palin: Yes, but that’s not just saying ‘No it isn’t.’
Cleese: Yes it is!
Palin: No it isn’t!
Cleese: Yes it is!
Palin: Argument is an intellectual process. Contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of any statement the other person makes.
(short pause)
Cleese: No it isn’t.

Flipper · Post by **Flipper** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 9:25 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwEwLDR61bo

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 10:37 am

My initial take is: Gee, he doesn't *look* like a DB coach. (He's big!)

Also, and I guess this is a technical point: Pacific was I-A until they finally decided to drop the sport after being down and out for a long, long time in the Big West. (I don't think they ever made a California Bowl, for example). So that, along with Navy, is I-A experience.

But I don't think it's that important. Look at the amazing turnaround Brian Kelly did at Central Michigan after racking up all those wins at Grand Valley State, another GLIAC program.

In some ways, winning at Northwood strikes me as more of a challenge. Northwood is not well-established (private, opened in 1959, was a charter member of the GLIAC starting in '72, but left for a while before returning in '92). It's small (fewer than 2,000 students at the Michigan campus). It's specialized (largely a business school).

So, he could be good. But it strikes me as even more difficult for fans to evaluate coaching hires than recruits. We don't even have heights, weights or 40s to consider.

Globetrotter · Post by **Globetrotter** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 10:57 am

But it strikes me as even more difficult for fans to evaluate coaching hires than recruits. We don't even have heights, weights or 40s to consider.[/quote]

This was exactly my point but I failed miserably to elaborate. I think 1987 saw that and he elaborated, everyone else thats a different ball of wax.