Using LSU as an example Bama was suppose to sweep easily in 2019 but the Tigers pulled off the upset win to advance. So as anyone that bets on horses knows, the favorite doesn't always win. A LOT of things can happen during the course of a season both good and bad.
The 2019 LSU team IS one of the best teams in College Football history. The media just hyped up Alabama as they usually do.
just going on what some in the Huntington WV area have said, you wouldnt want that beer with Donnan
He was popular at UGA but could not win the big one .. he turned down the UK job in past.
folks in Huntington WV said he was a real turd when he competed in racket ball. That was a long time ago so the guy has had many years to change and probably has but there were people who said if you beat him you had to fight him! Just not a way for the head coach at your local school to act!
Didn't he win a 1-AA National Championship at Marshall....around 1992? I also think he is in the CFB Hall of Fame (as a coach).
Jim Donnan was actually discussed in-depth for UK HC here on this forum back in 2003 after Guy Morriss departed for Baylor and before Rich Brooks was hired. Happy he's still around.
Also ran a multi-million dollar Ponzi scam and lots of coaches and players who invested got burned. Found not guilty when it went to the courts. That said I'm happy when anybody in the football world gives UK football props.
He was. He wanted the job, I think. Lobbied Barnhart for it, if I remember correctly.
Yes he was and a lot of UK fans were very disappointed we did not get him.
Chad Pennington throwing to him too, it was their first year in the MAC, which they won
MU was never D2 to my knowledge. D-1(AA)…now called FCS in the SOCON before they went D1(A) (FBS) and won their conference in year one. Probably the best transition to D1 FBS in memory. From 1-AA national champs in 96 to D1-A conference champs in 97 (the first of 4-straight MAC championships). Lost to ole Miss by 3 points (34-31) in the motor city bowl that first year but beat the fool out of UL in the same bowl the following year 48-29. Pretty strong program back then….especially under Coach Pruitt.
Believe it or not one of Bobby Bowden's sons was involved in a Ponzi scheme I was on the Federal Grand Jury that was reviewing the evidence. I finished my term before we voted to indict or not so I do not know if he ever got indicted Took a bunch of Coaches for millions.
I was, admittedly. Norm Chow was another popular pick in these forums back then. Mitch chose Rich Brooks because he'd worked with him up in Oregon. Many questioned the hire. I visited Lex around that time. As I understand the situation, his mission was "fix football first and then worry about Tubby". I remember when his daughter worked camera for CBS Sports and Gerald Fitch crashed into her on the sidelines during a BB game at Rupp. Talking heads considered him a solid football coach. Once he recruited some talent, he was.
I was all in on the Doug Williams train. Donnan and Williams were the two hot names.
Obviously Georgia should be the favorite but there was nothing easy about that game with them last year. If we had any creativity at all we win that game.
Anything can happen in sports but UK couldn't beat Georgia with our best team in 50 years in 2018 and UGA wasn't as stacked as they are now then.
You can probably vouch for what I'm about to say, but I heard Jim Donnan came off as rather politically incorrect while at UGA. He often referred to Dawg fans as "you Georgia fans". I also recall discipline issues. Here was a coach who went 40-19 at UGA. Another major issue: losing three straight to the Gators.
