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re: Fitzgerald is a better coach than frost
Posted on 8/27/22 at 3:03 pm to TigerintheNO
Posted on 8/27/22 at 3:03 pm to TigerintheNO
Pat Fitzgerald is a fantastic coach!!! This guy has 109 wins at Northwestern in his 16 year career. Northwestern didn’t win 109 games in the previous 50 years. My goodness
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Posted on 8/27/22 at 3:13 pm to Buckeye Backer
Yeah a lot of the people commenting in this thread don’t understand just how horrible northwestern was before fitzgerald. Anything above 3 wins was a good year
Posted on 8/27/22 at 3:26 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
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Yeah a lot of the people commenting in this thread don’t understand just how horrible northwestern was before fitzgerald
Before Gary Barnett...
Pat Fitzgerald was on that 1995 team that went to the Rose Bowl for the first time since 1949. Before that team they were considered the worst program in the nation along with Temple and K-State.
Posted on 8/27/22 at 3:32 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
quote:bill Snyder TYFYS
they were considered the worst program in the nation along with Temple and K-State.
Posted on 8/27/22 at 3:33 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
Randy walker was solid for them but Fitz is legend for sure
Posted on 8/27/22 at 3:34 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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. Before that team they were considered the worst program in the nation along with Temple and K-State.
Rick Venturi WOAT
Posted on 8/27/22 at 4:11 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
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Yeah a lot of the people commenting in this thread don’t understand just how horrible northwestern was before fitzgerald. Anything above 3 wins was a good year
Anyone remember it was Dennis Green that had the balls and moxie to take over that program and lay the groundwork for today.
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from 1979 to 1982, the ’Cats went on a record period of futility, losing 34 straight
Green’s ‘82 team broke the streak versus Northern Illinois, whom at the time was still Division II, and the goal posts came down and Green appeared on GMA and the Today show.
The fraternity and coaching tree of college sports is a real phenomenon, Green got his big break coaching at Stanford under Bill Walsh and eventually worked his way up the ladder to OC. There was this blonde-haired California kid at the time, named John Elway, whom Green got to mentor and an assistant Stanford AD at the time whom in a few years would be named the AD at Northwestern.
Life is beautiful at times and the serendipity of it all continues to make me laugh.
Posted on 8/27/22 at 4:25 pm to lowspark12
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They’re both painfully mediocre.
Lol Fitzgerald is a fantastic head coach
Posted on 8/27/22 at 4:49 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
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directional school
What in the actual frick are you talking about?
Northwestern is the polar opposite of a directional school.
Posted on 8/27/22 at 6:45 pm to AlonsoWDC
quote:northwest is a direction. Their school name is northwestern. Therefore it is a directional school.
What in the actual frick are you talking about? Northwestern is the polar opposite of a directional school.
Posted on 8/27/22 at 8:52 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
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northwest is a direction. Their school name is northwestern. Therefore it is a directional school.
Yeah dude.
UNC is a directional school too then.
Posted on 8/27/22 at 9:21 pm to VermilionTiger
quote:If he was not a Northwestern alum, I think he'd have been offered by any big time program who was hiring after 2009, 2010, 2011 or 2012. The years when he's had good athletes, they've been really competitive.
Fitzgerald is a better coach than 90% of the coaches in CFB
Before Fitzgerald took over there, they were always in the bottom 10 power five schools, the same way Kansas State was, before Bill Snyder. They played in five bowl games in all of the years before he got there. Since he's been there they played in 10. He's the only Northwestern coach that's ever won a bowl game. Looks like he, and Ara Parseghian, are the only Northwestern coaches that have a winning records.
Northwestern year-to-year results on Sports Reference
This post was edited on 8/27/22 at 9:26 pm
Posted on 8/27/22 at 9:34 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
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northwest is a direction. Their school name is northwestern. Therefore it is a directional school.
Just like Southern Cal?
Posted on 8/28/22 at 1:41 am to Mingo Was His NameO
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Fitzgerald wouldn't win more than 7 games a year at Florida
Maybe. But what is your evidence? If he can win(make a good bowl game) every 4 or so years at NW, why can’t he do so at UF?
This post was edited on 8/28/22 at 1:44 am
Posted on 8/28/22 at 7:30 am to Saucypants
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If he can win(make a good bowl game) every 4 or so years at NW, why can’t he do so at UF?
Because he plays a slow, run the ball, throw 5 yard out syle, and he wants to.
It's pretty damn simple, would you want Fitzgerald coaching LSU or whoever your team is? My answer? Hell no.
I'm not even an anti Fitzgerald guy. He's good for what Northwestern is, but he's not a national championship level coach at a school that has the resources.
Posted on 8/28/22 at 7:32 am to Buckeye06
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Oh yea I'm sure you can provide receipts proving you are a big winner
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Buckeye06
5-2 isn't a bad start to the year
Posted on 8/28/22 at 7:35 am to Hawgnsincebirth55
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directional school
LOL
Posted on 8/28/22 at 9:17 am to Hawgnsincebirth55
I agree Fitzgerald is a great coach. Took over a Northwestern program that was struggling and turned them into a solid team every year in the Big 10 essentially. Hard to do that.
Posted on 8/28/22 at 9:18 am to Hawgnsincebirth55
Easily. I don’t think anyone will argue otherwise.
Posted on 8/28/22 at 9:34 am to A Menace to Sobriety
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Took over a Northwestern program that was struggling and turned them into a solid team every year in the Big 10 essentially
James Franklin won at Vanderbilt. Scott Frost won at UCF. PJ Fleck won at Central Michigan. Kevin Sumlin won at Houston. Rich Rod won at West Virginia
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