PSUVikings
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Had a wild thought, Joe Glenn's stay at Wyoming may come to an end here soon if he can't win, 1 winning season in 7 years equals a firing. If he were to get fired do you think he would come back to UNC?
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Joe Glenn
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PSUVikings
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GoBears said:
What were his feelings towards UNC? Is it his hometown? Graduate? Why was he at UNC in the first place?
Hopefully UNC gets the opportunity, you never know.
Joe started out as an assistant here at UNC, the promoted head coach. All in all I think he spent about 17 seasons as a UNC coach either as head coach or assistant. He loves Greeley and I can see where a person would like Greeley more then Missoula Mt or Laramie Wyoming. Of course if you ask him he would tell you he loved every city. That's just the type of person he is. Joe walks lights up any room he walks into. He's a very likeable individual and sells his programs to good recruits. He has surrounded himself with good coaches that have been with him for a long time. I would like to see him come back to UNC but if he doesn't survive Wyoming, he might just hang it up. This is the place where has spent the most time during his career and his kids grew up here. Who knows?
gobears
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It is hard for me to say, I was not around when he was here, but near as I can tell, he was hired as our coach, and did a great job, and lead us to back-to-back national championships.
From what I understand, he still likes UNC, but left to pursue a DI opertunity, for which I have no hard feelings at all. I saw him at a UNC game last year celebrating the 10th aniversery of the first championship.
He also wrote our fight song.
Anyone who was around durring this time, pease feel free to correct and/or elaborate, as I suspect some of you know him well.
From what I understand, he still likes UNC, but left to pursue a DI opertunity, for which I have no hard feelings at all. I saw him at a UNC game last year celebrating the 10th aniversery of the first championship.
He also wrote our fight song.
Anyone who was around durring this time, pease feel free to correct and/or elaborate, as I suspect some of you know him well.
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Beardown said:
I here a lot from a Wyoming fan I know that even though he has done no better then any other coach in Laramie he is treated like the mayor of the city. Obviously, the guy has had 1 winning season in 6 years at UW, at any other school that equals a firing. Honestly I hope he gets fired, maybe he will want just one more winning season, comes back to UNC and delivers.
We can always dream, damn what a nightmare it would be if he went back to Missoula :evil:
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Brian said:
Tiller gave them one 10-2 season, a 6-5 season, 6-6 season, and two 4-8 seasons, so yeah beyond the 10-2 season you are right. But honestly, 7-5 is the best he has done in 6 years? IMO not acceptable. At an SEC school Glenn would have been fired 3 years ago...but this isn't the SEC
bearsradio
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Glenn actually is a Lincoln, NE, native, and when the Solich stuff hit the fan, many there were pushing for him.
GoBears, are you sure of this? "He also wrote our fight song."
I believe someone wrote that in the 60s (at least)...An older gentleman was honored at one of the hoops games for either that or the Alma Mater, and I'm thinking it was the fight song...
GoBears, are you sure of this? "He also wrote our fight song."
I believe someone wrote that in the 60s (at least)...An older gentleman was honored at one of the hoops games for either that or the Alma Mater, and I'm thinking it was the fight song...
It is absolutely ridiculous to say that joe glenn has done no better than the previous coaches. the guy before him only won 5 games in like 5 years. Glenn is having to build this program from nothing and psuviking is comparing it to an SEC school--come on. I am personally getting sick of the crap spewing from psuviking and i really cannot understand his infatuation with UNC.
gobears
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bearsradio said:
He did not write the music, but I am reasonablly sure he wrote the lyrics. I once had a copy of the lyrics, that said "By Joe Glenn" on them.
I have also heard a persistant rumor from the Pride of the Rockies folk, that they are trying to tweak the lyrics so that they match the music a bit more, especially the second verse. But that is just a rumor.
gobears
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jjjj said:
I do beleive he mentioned that UW was not an SEC school. PSUVikings has no particular infatuation with UNC, he is around on all the message boards in the BSC and a lot of other places too. Most of the time I for one appreciate his presence . He brings a different prespective, and he often brings in stuff that would otherwise go undiscovered here.
PSUVikings
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jjjj said:
Read better smart one.
Joe Glenn has spent 4 years at UW, his record is 21-27, here are the records of the coaches before him, I'm only talking 90's and 00's recent.
Vic Koenning 5-29
Dana Dimel 23-12
Joe Tiller 39-30
Paul Roach 35-15
Beyond Konning Glenn hasn't done much better, 1 winning season in 4 years. So jjjj you are right it is ridiculous to say that Glenn has done no better, he has done worse.
uncfootballrules
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Glenn has only been at Wyoming for 4 years and inherited a program that won less than 3 games (or some ridiculous number like this) the previous three years. I know a lot of Wyoming alums and Glenn is in no jeopardy of losing his job. In case you're interested, here are his records - 4-8, 7-5, 4-7, 6-6. With the first bowl win in about 40 years, he is safe. Wyoming is not a football hotbed (can you imagine trying to recruit there) so if he keeps them around 500 and has a bowl game every couple of years he will be a legend at UW just like he is here at UNC.
Unfortunately we will not be getting him back. Now if we want to get serious about the conversation, we could start talking about some of his top assistants. there is a chance at that.
Unfortunately we will not be getting him back. Now if we want to get serious about the conversation, we could start talking about some of his top assistants. there is a chance at that.
PSUVikings said:
I would say 21-27 is light years better than 5-29--especially when you consider how he turned around the program with the same kids that Koenning had.
I haven't done a lick of research on this but I will guess that Portland State's best years are very mediocre. You might have made the playoffs in D-2 but you haven't done anything in D-I. In fact what is the highest D-I ranking you have had? probably not even top 20. You are psyched when you are a little better than .500.
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jjjj said:
We come in this season ranked 9th in the FCS :roll: Some say we should be higher. Maybe you do need more research, PSU is in the Top 20 every year.
PSUVikings said:
Every year huh? starting when? I really don't care enough about your commuter campus and team without its own stadium to do research on this issue. I realize that people say UNC is a suitcase college but PSU is in its own league.
I was talking to a friend who lives in Portland and asked him if he ever goes to any PSU games and his reply was that he didn't know PSU even has athletics. He thought it was kind of like the University of Phoenix. I have been to Portland and went to check out the campus but I couldn't really find it. My friend pointed it out to me and it just looks like a few buildings in the middle of downtown. PSU is really the equivalent of Metro State. Nobody attends that college on purpose--they only go there if they need a degree and cannot move out of Portland for some reason like career or family etc.
So the bottom line is yuck it up while you can. You don't have the infrastructure or support to carry on a winning program and sooner or later your administration is going to accept that you are more of a community college and will realize that athletics might as well be cut. Even if they don't cut athletics, do you really think that playing football in a baseball stadium is a way to ensure continued success? PSU is the ultimate wannabe.
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jjjj said:
All coming from a fan whose school can only beat themselves.
Are you joking? The city of Portland has more people to support the program then any other city in the conference. In fact we have sold out most of our tickets this off-season, we are projected to be 2nd in the conference attendance wise. You are in serious denial, the Vikings are going nowhere but up right now, have you not heard anything that has happened in the past months?
Try winning a few games in conference before you think you can bash the top half of the conference.
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Beardown said:
That is right, that will always exist and never go away. This is what Jerry is trying to clean up, bring fans to the game, get the word out, which he has done so far, tickets have been sold. We even made a commercial.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18xLcHkJ2d8
Anyway back to topic.
I think the season after this season Glenn will be on the hot seat if he doesn't produce.
