Bear Down Wildcats

Chicat wrote: ↑Thu Nov 11, 2021 9:06 am

UAEebs86 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 11, 2021 8:04 am

Chicat wrote: ↑Thu Nov 11, 2021 7:57 am Jim Mora to UCONN.

No, that’s not an Onion headline.

Junior or Senior?

Senior has to be in his late 80’s/early 90’s.

It's UConn football - a program that makes Arizona look good. Sr. would make for some great sound bites. Disappointed...

Sr is 86 and hasn't coached since 2001.

azgreg wrote: ↑Thu Nov 11, 2021 9:27 am Sr is 86 and hasn't coached since 2001.

So? A guy can dream, can't he?

It’s actually not a bad hire for UCONN

Fired 3 times as head coach. Sounds familiar.

EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Thu Nov 11, 2021 10:06 am It’s actually not a bad hire for UCONN

I think (prior to Jedd Lasso getting the job) that we’d be pretty upset at getting another retread.

Outside of our conference, are we really that much better a program than UConn right now?

sadly, no

Chicat wrote: ↑Thu Nov 11, 2021 10:39 am

EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Thu Nov 11, 2021 10:06 am It’s actually not a bad hire for UCONN

I think (prior to Jedd Lasso getting the job) that we’d be pretty upset at getting another retread.

Outside of our conference, are we really that much better a program than UConn right now?

No.

The only difference is UCONN has only had a D1 football program for 20 years meaning it doesn’t really bother most of the alumni base and students.

On other hand I’ve been jonesing for a rose bowl since the MIS class at the U of A was teaching FORTRAN.

EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Thu Nov 11, 2021 5:10 pm On other hand I’ve been jonesing for a rose bowl since the MIS class at the U of A was teaching FORTRAN.

Fall of 81? Fred Snowden was still basketball coach. That's how long I have been waiting.

FORTRAN on punch cards no less!

FORTRAN was a very underrated language. No need to declare variables like you did in COBOL. Any variable beginning with I, J, K, L were automatically integers, such as ICOUNT. ICOUNT = ICOUNT + 1

Although I really liked Pascal (not an acronym like FORTRAN and COBOL)

icount := icount + 1

Although I spent many decades coding in COBOL and ended up coding Oracle SQL, although legacy, not ANSI standard.

ADD 1 to ICOUNT (COBOL).

Now they can get a real coach, not a cartoon.

Yep, 86

Merkin wrote: ↑Thu Nov 11, 2021 6:25 pm
Fall of 81? Fred Snowden was still basketball coach. That's how long I have been waiting.

Me too.

FORTRAN on punch cards no less!

FORTRAN was a very underrated language. No need to declare variables like you did in COBOL. Any variable beginning with I, J, K, L were automatically integers, such as ICOUNT. ICOUNT = ICOUNT + 1

FORTRAN integers are variables starting with I, J, K, L, M, N. The range is the first two letters in the word "integer".

Although I really liked Pascal (not an acronym like FORTRAN and COBOL)

icount := icount + 1

You can also say

icount := succ(icount);

but I have always preferred your way except in function call parameter lists.

It used to be that the pred() and succ() functions were slower due to the function call, but modern Pascal (e.g. Delphi) optimizes it away.

Delphi is all I program in these days in my retirement (except for a trivial OReXX script now and again).

Although I spent many decades coding in COBOL and ended up coding Oracle SQL, although legacy, not ANSI standard.

Me too, well, COBOL and IBM Assembler and both Oracle and DB/2. Then I started installing SAP/R3 and did a lot of SAP/ABAP coding. I always describe ABAP as being to COBOL as BASIC is to FORTRAN - similar, but simplified syntax, and interpreted instead of compiled.

ADD 1 to ICOUNT (COBOL).

While that is certainly 'traditional' COBOL syntax, COBOL also has a formula syntax using the 'COMPUTE' verb.

COMPUTE ICOUNT = ICOUNT + 1.

Looks like USC has their man!!

Someone is drunk as USC plays in the Coliseum…

The rumor is that LSU is going to offer Lincoln Riley 8 years for $96 million.

I wonder if Sumlin was drunk tweeting and referring to this?

Sonny Dykes to TCU.

nm

It had to be done. Jerry Kill had them playing well, but he’s not a long term solution.

Chicat wrote: ↑Fri Nov 26, 2021 5:29 pm Sonny Dykes to TCU.

Probably got a big raise and doesn't even have to move.

azgreg wrote: ↑Fri Nov 26, 2021 5:55 pm

Account suspended

Fake account. Damn it.

Fucking hackers!

Well, he didn’t lie…

azgreg wrote: ↑Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:00 pm

Not going to happen. Kings bury is the coach of the team with the best record in the NFL with a GM and owner that love him. If anything the Cardinals will extend his contract.

I’ve been so use to USC making terrible decisions that it’s shocking they would even go for Riley. It won’t really matter to Arizona, it’s not like Arizona will be competing for the south for at least a couple of years if everything goes right.

Kliff will use this to get a raise and extension. I can’t really fathom a semi-successful/ breakout NFL coach wanting to move back to college. Oklahoma will be left with a 3rd or 4th option.

Makes you wonder if Cliff’s agent floated that rumor.

Chicat wrote: ↑Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:16 pm Makes you wonder if Cliff’s agent floated that rumor.

Our old buddy…

The real estate details seem to make up for the difference in state taxes he’s about to experience.

Watch LSU end up with Kiffin.

UW hires Kalen DeBoer from Fresno State. Was 12-6 there just since last season. Won a lot at an NAIA school before Fresno but still not the most impressive hire.

That to me is a surprising move. Did they give Kelly like New Orleans or something?

Always liked LSU from afar but I have never liked Kelly since he put that kid in the tower that day.

Somehow a kid getting $500 to shout out a local pizza place on social media portends the destruction of the amateurism model of college sports but Brian Kelly getting paid $100,000,000 to coach that kid is nothing to even blink at.

Chicat wrote: ↑Mon Nov 29, 2021 8:28 pm Somehow a kid getting $500 to shout out a local pizza place on social media portends the destruction of the amateurism model of college sports but Brian Kelly getting paid $100,000,000 to coach that kid is nothing to even blink at.

These salaries are beyond ridiculous at this point. Where does it end?

If you thought there was separation between the haves and have nots in college football currently. How on earth are schools outside the top 15 ever going to pay $100 million for head coaches?