(01-15-2025, 01:41 AM)bfine32 Wrote: You think so? 

He seems like Plan A to me. 

We might not like Plan A, but there's a chance he's who they've had their eye on since they parted ways w/ Lou. 

Maybe you know some folks who have turned them down 

(01-15-2025, 05:10 AM)Synric Wrote: Notre Dame is a "top tier" program but it's probably the hardest to recruit for out of that tier. Notre Dame is an academic school and even the athletes are expected to be real students with real majors not "sports management" like you see at alot of programs like Georgia, Alabama, Ohio State etc. You can't just be good at football to get into schools like Notre Dame and Standford. 

(01-15-2025, 10:25 AM)Nepa Wrote: You can't put Notre Dame on the level of Stanford, or even in the same sentence. Stanford has an acceptance rate of 4% and is ranked 4th by US News and World Report. Norte Dame is ranked 18th and has an acceptance rate of 12%. Notre Dame is closer to UCLA (ranked 15th, with an acceptance rate of 9%), Michigan (ranked 21) and Texas (ranked 30th) than it is Stanford. And it benefits from all the Catholic high schools promoting students going there. I don't think "it is probably the hardest to recruit for."

(01-15-2025, 10:25 AM)Nepa Wrote: You can't put Notre Dame on the level of Stanford, or even in the same sentence. Stanford has an acceptance rate of 4% and is ranked 4th by US News and World Report. Norte Dame is ranked 18th and has an acceptance rate of 12%. Notre Dame is closer to UCLA (ranked 15th, with an acceptance rate of 9%), Michigan (ranked 21) and Texas (ranked 30th) than it is Stanford. And it benefits from all the Catholic high schools promoting students going there. I don't think "it is probably the hardest to recruit for."

(01-15-2025, 10:56 AM)ochocincos Wrote: I don't think many folks in Ohio realize how hard it is to get accepted into U of M and how good of an academic school it is.

(01-15-2025, 10:25 AM)Nepa Wrote: You can't put Notre Dame on the level of Stanford, or even in the same sentence. Stanford has an acceptance rate of 4% and is ranked 4th by US News and World Report. Norte Dame is ranked 18th and has an acceptance rate of 12%. Notre Dame is closer to UCLA (ranked 15th, with an acceptance rate of 9%), Michigan (ranked 21) and Texas (ranked 30th) than it is Stanford. And it benefits from all the Catholic high schools promoting students going there. I don't think "it is probably the hardest to recruit for."

(01-15-2025, 10:56 AM)ochocincos Wrote: I don't think many folks in Ohio realize how hard it is to get accepted into U of M and how good of an academic school it is.

(01-15-2025, 11:28 AM)Synric Wrote: Student Athletes have nothing to do with school acceptance rate. Schools like Notre Dame and Stanford don't just recruit athletes to play sports they have to also pursue higher education. Duke is another but they are known more for Basketball.

(01-15-2025, 11:30 AM)Synric Wrote: But they offer their Student Athletes an easy track.

(01-15-2025, 11:30 AM)Synric Wrote: But they offer their Student Athletes an easy track.

(01-15-2025, 11:28 AM)Synric Wrote: Student Athletes have nothing to do with school acceptance rate. Schools like Notre Dame and Stanford don't just recruit athletes to play sports they have to also pursue higher education. Duke is another but they are known more for Basketball.

(01-15-2025, 01:23 AM)kevin Wrote: One delay could be The Bengals interviewed Patrick Graham, but then Jaguars interviewed him to be their head coach.  Graham is good and was a D Coach in Patriots Super Bowl years and was D Coordinator at Dolphins, Raiders.   Bengals interviewed him for a reason, but Jaguars considering him as their head Coach changes things.  If Jaguars hire a different Head Coach, Graham who Bengals interviewed is back in play.  

Here's one more thing Fans need to know about a slow process in hiring coaches.  Over the decades I've seen many coaches turn down coming to Cincinnati.  Fans think this is the #1 team to be on in football.  I'm not so sure the D Coordinators at Notre Dame or Oregon want to leave and come to Cincinnati and they might be looking for a Head Coaching offer somewhere to leave such top jobs they already have.  

This is why Fans shouldn't look down on the Bears Head Coach fired.  He needs a job, and the man turned the Colts defense around in a few months, so he has proved he is a good D Coordinator.  The big thing is he is out of work and available.  Again, I doubt that Golden wants to leave Notre Dame unless it's a Head Coaching job.   If he is a D Coordinator at Notre Dame, why take the same job in Cincy.  Same goes for the Oregon D Coordinator. 

The Bengals did interview Patrick Graham fast, but Jaguars then interviewed him for a Head Coach job, so that right there slows things down. 

(01-15-2025, 03:32 PM)t3r3e3 Wrote: Throwing Duke in there for basketball kills this line of thinking.  The Duke basketball team has mastered the one and done recruiting method, and has brought in all sorts of knuckleheads to play ball.  Are we calling Corey Maggette a scholar now?  Kyrie “the world is flat” Irving?  Grayson Allen?  C’mon…

Back to the original discussion, Al Golden would be such a lazy, low-effort hire.  Literally the antithesis of thinking outside the box.  He’s had a small amount of success as DC in college, but no real success in the NFL.  He’s not an up and comer either.  They can do far better.

(01-15-2025, 04:29 PM)higgy100 Wrote: Because you don't have to recruit, go on the road, pamper 17-18 year olds, put up with NIL and, more importantly, not have to deal with a revolving door of players transferring. NFL is a great great job.

(01-14-2025, 06:51 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: Definitely could be another reason, but if that is the case and we start 0-3 again we could fire Zac and give the new DC his job and 
see what he does. Might be the perfect job to get a shot at HC again if you are a guy like Eberflus.

(01-15-2025, 05:59 PM)Sled21 Wrote: Man, I must be Nostradamus or something. Less than a week ago I was getting blasted for saying the worst thing about hiring an ex- HC like Eberflus would be the Head Coaching controversy after the first win. Called it....  Season hasn't started and there are already a couple of posts bringing it up.... 

BTW, Mike McCarthy is fired..... Mike Zimmer enters the conversation!

(01-15-2025, 07:06 PM)007BengalsFan Wrote: Let me see if I have this correct, the plan is to fire Lou so we can turn around and hire his former LB coach keeping the Lou/Zac coaching tree in Cincinnati because Golden is familiar with the Brown family and coach Taylor.  I hope this is not the case.  Geting rid of Lou to hire his LB coach that has no NFL DC experience strikes me as odd but wouldnt be a bit surprising.