Running off on the typewriter …
Forget in regards to the ridiculous rumors you’re listening to about USF hiring disgraced NFL coach Jon Gruden to steer its program. There needs to be just one major candidate on athletic director Michael Kelly’s checklist:
Scott Frost.
I don’t know if Frost is even within the job or if he desires to sit down out for a yr and dwell on the $15 million contract buyout he simply obtained after being fired by Nebraska, but when Kelly is sensible (and he’s), he’ll most actually gauge Frost’s curiosity.
It’s arduous to clarify why Frost failed so miserably at Nebraska, however I do know what sort of coach he was at UCF. He was pushed, he was targeted, he was thrilling, he was charismatic and his offense was electrifying. He inherited an 0-12 program and two years later the Knights have been 13-0.
In truth, the resurgence of this system below Frost is way of the explanation UCF will probably be becoming a member of the Big 12 subsequent season.
And in the event you ask me, Frost and USF are in determined want of one another. Frost must resuscitate his teaching profession and USF must revive its dying program.
Frost clearly has recruiting connections in Florida — as does your complete UCF workers he took with him to Nebraska. If anyone can resurrect the moribund USF program that was 4-26 below just-fired head coach Jeff Scott, it’s Frost.
The rumblings you might be listening to about USF focusing on Gruden are nothing wanting laughable. I get that Gruden is an enormous title who’s a longtime Tampa resident, however he hasn’t coached on the faculty stage in additional than 30 years.
Furthermore, how may USF presumably rent Gruden after he was run out of the NFL for racist, homophobic, misogynistic emails that surfaced whereas he was teaching the Las Vegas Raiders?
Don’t neglect that USF performs its house video games at Raymond James Stadium, the place Gruden’s title was erased from the upper-deck facade and expunged from the Bucs’ Ring of Honor after his disgusting emails surfaced.
It can be completely surprising if USF employed Gruden, particularly when there are a lot better and youthful candidates with out the big quantity of bags Gruden would deliver.
Kelly says he plans on hiring a brand new coach someday in early December earlier than the switch portal opens.
What an ideal time — proper earlier than the vacations — to deliver Frosty the Showman again to Florida, the place he by no means ought to have left within the first place. …
Short stuff: Mikey likes: UCF over Tulane by 5 in Upset Special, FSU over Syracuse by 10, Florida over South Carolina by 8, Georgia Tech over Miami by 4, SMU over USF by 24, Chiefs over Jaguars by 12, Seahawks over Bucs by 5 in Upset Special II, Dolphins over Browns by 6, Central Florida over Hurricane Nicole by our resolve, resilience, objective and civic unity. .. RJ Currie of SportsDeke.com on native elementary colleges calling for Halloween outfits that don’t scare anyone: “So my niece dressed her son as a Detroit Lion.” … Speaking of the Lions, the crew introduced that it’ll erect an 8-foot statue of iconic operating again Barry Sanders at Ford Field subsequent season. Considering Sanders’ greatness was wasted on the awfulness of the Lions, they need to seek advice from his bronze monument as “The Statue of Misery.” As one among my peeps stated on Twitter: “The statue will be out there alone in the elements with nothing to protect it. Just like when Barry played for the Lions.” …
Breaking information: Gov. Ron DeSantis beat Charlie Crist so badly on election day that the Miami Hurricanes now try to schedule the Crist Campaign to allow them to get bowl-eligible. … From Dwight Perry of the Seattle Times: “Taylor Swift made history as the first musical artist to claim all top 10 spots on the Billboard Hot 100 list for the week of Nov. 5. Kind of like Nick Saban on national signing day.” … Lame Excuse of the Week comes from Brooklyn Nets level guard Kyrie Irving, who repeatedly refused to apologize for selling an anti-Semitic movie on social media and eventually was suspended by his crew. Said Irving on why he initially didn’t apologize: “I didn’t make the documentary.” What a knucklehead. That can be like anyone retweeting a vulgar, obscene, racist diatribe after which making an attempt to clarify it away by saying, “I wasn’t the one who originally tweeted it.” … I simply noticed the place extra Publix grocery shops are putting in in-store bars the place you may drink beer and wine. I don’t learn about you, however I hope they’ve BOGOs! And can I get a chosen driver for my procuring cart? …
Florida State basketball recruit Baba Miller, a 6-foot-11 ahead from Spain, has been suspended for 16 video games by the NCAA for inadvertently breaking the foundations by receiving journey advantages to attend a basketball camp whereas he was nonetheless in highschool. Does anyone need to clarify how a Spanish teenager will get a 16-game suspension for unknowingly breaking the foundations whereas a nationwide championship-winning faculty basketball coach (see Bill Self of Kansas) is serving only a four-game suspension for knowingly operating a grimy program? … Why is everyone up in arms as a result of the Indianapolis Colts fired head coach Frank Reich after which employed ESPN commentator Jeff Saturday because the interim coach? Hey, at the least they didn’t rent Stephen A. Smith, Woody Paige or Greeny. … Did you see the place IMG Academy, a highschool soccer manufacturing unit in Bradenton, led Canada’s West Toronto Prep 96-0 at halftime final week? Who does West Toronto Prep assume they’re — Charlie Crist? … Dwight Howard has simply signed with the Taoyuan Leopards — knowledgeable crew in Taiwan. Stay tuned for a world incident. …
Last phrase: This comes from David Whitley of the Gainesville Sun: “Please raise your hand if you thought Kansas would become bowl eligible before Oklahoma, Texas A&M, Miami, Florida and the Bucs.”
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