(05-06-2018 03:45 PM)THUNDERGround Wrote:  

(05-05-2018 10:46 PM)Ragu Wrote:  

(05-05-2018 10:33 AM)THUNDERGround Wrote:  

(05-05-2018 10:19 AM)nastybunch Wrote:  Got to love these newbies....

Exactly what I was thinking. Funny you don't see or hear from them when their team is crapping the bed.

And a lot of people who smack talked Florida Atlantic for years are being shut up now. It goes both ways

And I was never one of them. So no skin off of my back. But don't act like you're somehow now world-beaters. You just eked by us at your house.

Eekd?
FAU was up two TD’s and Marshall threw one up on a 4th and 10 to close it to 7 then we took a safety.
You also got your face pounded in by an avgerage FIU team.

I did say after that game game I knew we wouldn’t run Marshall over like the others in the league because you guys have recruited well like we have over the last 4-5 years.

(05-05-2018 02:00 PM)goherd24herdfans Wrote:  

(05-04-2018 08:33 PM)Seminowl Wrote:  

(05-03-2018 12:16 PM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  Kiffin can coach circles around ANY OTHER COACH in this conference. He ran through this conference with a team that was just plain awful in previous seasons. The players didn't suddenly become more talented......they just became well-coached. FAU wasn't the most talented team in the conference and they won't be this year either. But good coaching and knowing how to use players based on their respective skill sets is often paramount to pure talent, especially in a conference like this. The talent gap among teams in this conference is not large......it isn't like say......Alabama and Vanderbilt or Clemson and Wake Forest. The gap in pure talent between say......UTEP and FAU is not nearly as wide as that of Alabama and Vanderbilt. The main difference is coaching. UTEP hasn't had a competent football coach in years and it shows. Before Kiffin, FAU was similar.

A repeat conference championship is all but inevitable for FAU. He makes other coaches look completely clueless.

Our team was never bad, our coaches were purely incompetent. We actually have been the most talented team in the conference for a while. Our avg recruit rankings are usually towards the top of CUSA if not #1.

2015 - CUSA Avg Recruit Rank #3
2016 - CUSA Avg Recruit Rank #2
2017 - CUSA Avg Recruit Rank #1
2018 - CUSA Avg Recruit Rank #1

The last two classes were both Lane, but to say our team wasn’t talented is a lie. I watched every game and I know bad coaching when I see it. We made terrible second half adjustments after the opposing coaches figured us out. We blew so many 2-3 touchdown leads in the second half it was disgusting. We had Alabama tied at half, we lost by 40. We had Florida down by 3 at half, we lose in OT. We had UM tied at half, we lost by 30. I watched Middle Tennessee, ODU, Marshall, Ball State, and UTEP beat us in the last 4 minutes of the game. The coaches were bad, not the players.

Yes, FAU has always been a powerhouse. Good God i can't wait for the season to start. FAU squeaked by Marshall with Legg last season, and lost so many against the worst OC on the planet. Not worried about FAU or kiffin.

Jealousy looks good on you.

(05-04-2018 02:53 PM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  

(05-04-2018 01:24 PM)owlcountry40 Wrote:  

(05-04-2018 12:34 PM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  

(05-04-2018 10:02 AM)owlcountry40 Wrote:  

(05-03-2018 12:16 PM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  Kiffin can coach circles around ANY OTHER COACH in this conference. He ran through this conference with a team that was just plain awful in previous seasons. The players didn't suddenly become more talented......they just became well-coached. FAU wasn't the most talented team in the conference and they won't be this year either. But good coaching and knowing how to use players based on their respective skill sets is often paramount to pure talent, especially in a conference like this. The talent gap among teams in this conference is not large......it isn't like say......Alabama and Vanderbilt or Clemson and Wake Forest. The gap in pure talent between say......UTEP and FAU is not nearly as wide as that of Alabama and Vanderbilt. The main difference is coaching. UTEP hasn't had a competent football coach in years and it shows. Before Kiffin, FAU was similar.

A repeat conference championship is all but inevitable for FAU. He makes other coaches look completely clueless.

By far the most talented school this year.
Our secondary 2 deep would start over anyone else in this conference.
Two future draft picks at LB.
Motor is the most dynamic player in this conference.

Nope.
You really think you'd be saying that same thing if you hired a bad coach with the same players and went 4-8 last year? Kiffin has made them BETTER.

Good coaches get more out of their players because they know how to best use them. It isn't a coincidence. It's not like FAU has ever been great at recruiting. Their recruiting is middling like everyone else in this conference. Let's be honest with ourselves.

You need to be honest with yourself another Florida school has passed old has been USM.

I just said y'all would breeze by the conference this year, goofball.

At the same time, Lane Kiffin is the sole reason for FAU's success. Don't be naive and think otherwise. He turned around a perenial cellar-dweller in one year.

Shifty you are a cuckhold to Owlcrap40 and FAU

(05-05-2018 10:33 AM)THUNDERGround Wrote:  

(05-05-2018 10:19 AM)nastybunch Wrote:  Got to love these newbies....

Exactly what I was thinking. Funny you don't see or hear from them when their team is crapping the bed.

lets see where owlcrap40 is after the Oklahoma game.

I don’t think we are going win that game, but it’s halarious that La Tech fans need a preseason top 10 P5 team to shut us FAU fans up all while we play you next year.
Just LMAO.

(05-07-2018 08:54 AM)D4RKW4T3R ROCK Wrote:  

(05-04-2018 02:53 PM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  

(05-04-2018 01:24 PM)owlcountry40 Wrote:  

(05-04-2018 12:34 PM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  

(05-04-2018 10:02 AM)owlcountry40 Wrote:  By far the most talented school this year.
Our secondary 2 deep would start over anyone else in this conference.
Two future draft picks at LB.
Motor is the most dynamic player in this conference.

Nope.
You really think you'd be saying that same thing if you hired a bad coach with the same players and went 4-8 last year? Kiffin has made them BETTER.

Good coaches get more out of their players because they know how to best use them. It isn't a coincidence. It's not like FAU has ever been great at recruiting. Their recruiting is middling like everyone else in this conference. Let's be honest with ourselves.

You need to be honest with yourself another Florida school has passed old has been USM.

I just said y'all would breeze by the conference this year, goofball.

At the same time, Lane Kiffin is the sole reason for FAU's success. Don't be naive and think otherwise. He turned around a perenial cellar-dweller in one year.

Shifty you are a cuckhold to Owlcrap40 and FAU

Cuckold*

This entire thread is very strange. As CUSA members we should be glad one of our universities is receiving pre season hype. The FAU fans didn’t publish this list so I don’t see why the backlash against them. This is very good for anyone that has FAU on their schedule. If FAU lives up to the hype that means one of you guys might be hosting a top 15-20 team. How often does that happen? Beat them and all of a sudden if you’re also having a good season you might see your name in the top 25.

This is how the AAC and MW receive multiple teams in the polls. One has a good year bringing a top 25 ranking into conference play and once another good team beats them now we have two top 25 teams.

Anyways carry on bashing the FAU fans. I hope FAU has a good year and they’re in the conversation for the access bowl.

(05-07-2018 09:34 AM)owlcountry40 Wrote:  I don’t think we are going win that game, but it’s halarious that La Tech fans need a preseason top 10 P5 team to shut us FAU fans up all while we play you next year.
Just LMAO.

It is really halarious

Congrats FAU. I think it is great someone is getting that kind of recognition. Good for the conference. Good for attendance when they come to town. Good for bowl prospects. Good all around.

Agree. Good for the league and attendance. Hell, I hope they are ranked and undefeated when they come to Huntington. That will put more butts in the seats.

(05-07-2018 11:13 AM)MonarchManiac Wrote:  Congrats FAU. I think it is great someone is getting that kind of recognition. Good for the conference. Good for attendance when they come to town. Good for bowl prospects. Good all around.

No, it's not good for attendance when they come to town. No one is going to care, including FAU fans. They'll still be bottom of the barrel in league attendance.

I'm glad someone in this conference is pre-season top 25. Even if it is a team who has historically been a FBS doormat. Until 1 season ago.

(05-05-2018 09:21 PM)eaglebeaver Wrote:  

(05-05-2018 08:19 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  

(05-05-2018 06:43 PM)eaglebeaver Wrote:  

(05-04-2018 04:58 PM)owlcountry40 Wrote:  

(05-04-2018 02:53 PM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  I just said y'all would breeze by the conference this year, goofball.

At the same time, Lane Kiffin is the sole reason for FAU's success. Don't be naive and think otherwise. He turned around a perenial cellar-dweller in one year.

How is having a few bad seasons make you a perenial cellar-dweller?
We have not had a program long enough to be perenial anything. Since FAU joined C-USA USM is three games better than FAU with both being under .500.
USM fan do not want to accept we are passing them as a program.
Better Stadium, better recruiting bigger budget, better falcilties.

In 20 years USM fans will be fighting with Florida Tech fans about how rich the USM history is as your coaches bail to that school.

Maybe in 20 years you'll be bragging about your one "great" C-USA Championship...

We are certainly 'down" for USM right now, but you guys have been "down" and pathetic "has beens" your school's entire short history, except for one decent year..

Only schools who have done NOTHING call other schools with rich histories, "has beens"..

But if being honest you would take a hammer to your left nut to be where FAU is today. And last Dec.

For the record FAU has as many (2) conference championships as S. Miss since FAU started playing football in 2004. Well actually I'm wrong....S. Miss has to go back to 2003 to get their 2nd.

You are correct FAU might drop back to a nobody 3 win team when they lose their coach. Hell thats the case for all of us....

it sure was for S. Miss even with all that history

FAU has ONE Conference USA Football Championship.....and hell ya, I'm honest, since I stated very visibly that USM was DOWN right now.

Looks like your mighty Hillpoppers are having a case of "Too-many-Head-Coaches-itis", just like USM...and won't be long til FAU suffers from it to (since it is very contagious in C-USA)

....and No, I couldn't care less being where FAU supposedly is right now...and at least I HAVE A LEFT NUT!

Yep.....

very well could be a 3 win team this year. I just never dreamed Western had a AD that would change systems 180 degrees.. Not after the two hires he had made. Hell after this year hitting yourself in the nuts might be less painful than Western football. BTW Western is stuck with Boy Wonder.......school had to cut 43 million from the budget this year. So unless someone steps up with private money he can go 3-9 and keep his job.

Championships are championships and FAU has 2 along with 3 bowl games and 3 wins in those games. FAU won 8 games the year they won their 1st conference championship including a win over Big 10 Minnesota and Memphis ( beat S. Miss) tied for 2nd in CUSA.

FAU played a schedule of

Oklahoma State
Minnesota W
14 KY
6 S Florida (with in 4 points with over 6 to play and lost by 12) (CUSA champ, UCF lost to USF 12-62 same year)
14 Florida
Memphis W bowl game

Come on you would still be bragging about that schedule and the Minnesota win and close lost to the #6 Team in the BCS. The SBC had wins over Oklahoma State, Minnesota, and Alabama the year FAU won their 1st conference championship

If you are damn good and your history is that damn good.....there's really no need putting another team down based on a short history.

(05-07-2018 11:27 AM)va-eagle Wrote:  

(05-07-2018 11:13 AM)MonarchManiac Wrote:  Congrats FAU. I think it is great someone is getting that kind of recognition. Good for the conference. Good for attendance when they come to town. Good for bowl prospects. Good all around.

No, it's not good for attendance when they come to town. No one is going to care, including FAU fans. They'll still be bottom of the barrel in league attendance.

I'm glad someone in this conference is pre-season top 25. Even if it is a team who has historically been a FBS doormat. Until 1 season ago.

2017 Attendance:

FAU - 18,948
USM - 21,711

Not a whole lot of difference there and if your fans don't know a ranked team is coming to your stadium that's on the football savviness of your fans.

The hiring of Kiffin has almost been as good for CUSA has it has been for FAU. Congrats, and take it to those Sooners!

(05-07-2018 01:16 PM)chidave Wrote:  The hiring of Kiffin has almost been as good for CUSA has it has been for FAU. Congrats, and take it to those Sooners!

I agree. Since the creation of CUSA 3.0 I haven’t seen any other CUSA school receive so much publicity on ESPN.

http://www.espn.com/college-football/sto...ing-future

(05-07-2018 01:20 PM)JCMiner Wrote:  

(05-07-2018 01:16 PM)chidave Wrote:  The hiring of Kiffin has almost been as good for CUSA has it has been for FAU. Congrats, and take it to those Sooners!

I agree. Since the creation of CUSA 3.0 I haven’t seen any other CUSA school receive so much publicity on ESPN.

http://www.espn.com/college-football/sto...ing-future

Western got a ton of coverage with the BP hire but that was our last year in the SBC. At some point the hire was on the front of every major sport media outlet. That lasted for months.

Teams in CUSA getting ranked in any top 25 poll is good for the conference. It's the first step in gaining some respect...repeat it enough and it sticks

(05-07-2018 09:34 AM)owlcountry40 Wrote:  I don’t think we are going win that game, but it’s halarious that La Tech fans need a preseason top 10 P5 team to shut us FAU fans up all while we play you next year.
Just LMAO.

Cmon man, the same FAU team that beat CUSA teams lost to Navy by forty or fifty and freaking Buffalo at the begining of the year. Talent alone would have stopped unathletic Navy team and a pitiful MAC team. Or at least kept Navy from kicking FAU A**. Trust me we know, Tech beat Navy in a Bowl 9 months before your game

It took awhile for the players to adjust to the system and for the trick plays to iron out. And once it did, FAU started rolling, no doubt about that. Props to Kiffen and Briles for turning around the season after the disasterous losses against mediocre teams. Once again coaching

The ranking seems high because Briles is leaving and that was the key to FAU winning, it sure wasnt that defense, BTW Navy put 500++ yards on FAU just like Tech

As far as the FAU-Tech game, their was reason why Tech lead the NCAA by far in failed red zone attempts and nothing to do with FAU. UAB,UNT,USM,USC same story for all those games. We easy moved the ball down field and once we got inside the 20 Holtz didnt trust JMAR to throw. Kiffen knew that Tech lead all of NCAA football in failed red zone. Once again coaching.

BTW Kiffen coached circles around Holtz that day; 21 points, 2 TD trick plays that lead to receivers not being covered and 1 td from the kickoff return and that was ballgame

(05-07-2018 12:22 PM)mturn017 Wrote:  

(05-07-2018 11:27 AM)va-eagle Wrote:  

(05-07-2018 11:13 AM)MonarchManiac Wrote:  Congrats FAU. I think it is great someone is getting that kind of recognition. Good for the conference. Good for attendance when they come to town. Good for bowl prospects. Good all around.

No, it's not good for attendance when they come to town. No one is going to care, including FAU fans. They'll still be bottom of the barrel in league attendance.

I'm glad someone in this conference is pre-season top 25. Even if it is a team who has historically been a FBS doormat. Until 1 season ago.

2017 Attendance:

FAU - 18,948
USM - 21,711

Not a whole lot of difference there and if your fans don't know a ranked team is coming to your stadium that's on the football savviness of your fans.

It's not lack of knowledge, it's lack of caring.

With Kiffen as coach, FAU will be hard to beat no doubt about.

Also Briles took a very mediocre younger Driskell brother and made him into a decent QB, once again coaching.

(05-07-2018 01:39 PM)Dawgxas Wrote:  With Kiffen as coach, FAU will be hard to beat no doubt about.

Also Briles took a very mediocre younger Driskell brother and made him into a decent QB, once again coaching.

I am not sure if Briles or Kiffin were actually calling the plays. If Briles was calling them FAU should hire him when Kiffin leaves.