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More on the Chesneys...
Bob Chesney Senior is 76 and he's in the UCLA football building early in the morning and he's still in there at night.
He's in the staff meetings. He works with the DL. He's got no title, he's not on the payroll and nobody ever asked him to come.
The players call him Coach is summer and has been there since.
His son is the head coach. UCLA are 5th in the country this week (first time they've been in the top 10 since October 2001) and they're 8 and 0.
Now back up 26 years.
Bob Chesney grew up in Kulpmont, PA (population at last census 2,758). It was a coal town, with a corner store and a bar on pretty much every block and a social life that went through the clubs, the Knights of Columbus, the VFW and the American Legion and the Polish and Irish clubs.
His dad coached at the Catholic high school. So did his uncle. So did his grandfather. Chesney was the ball boy before he was old enough to play.
His parents couldn't afford his schooling so he went back home in the summer and worked. Some summers that was doing the landscaping. Some summers it was at the mine.
'The toughest one was mining coal.'
"Back in Kulpmont that's what you did."
Years later as a young assistant at Johns Hopkins (making around $28k) he was sharing a 4 bedroom house with his future wife and two roommates and was tending bar at a club in Baltimore at night (four or five hundred a shift).
"Got me through those years."
He started out as a graduate assistant at a DIII school in 2000. Then Delaware Valley. Then King's College. Then Johns Hopkins. Then head coaching jobs at Salve Regina, Assumption, Holy Cross and James Madison.
8 conference titles. A career record of 132 and 52.
Martin Jarmond (the AD who hired him) put it in seven words.
"Everywhere he's been he's turned it around."
Be absolutely clear about what his father actually watched, as it wasn't anything quick and it was by no means glamorous. Bob Senior saw all 26 years of it from the very start and that's how he describes it.
He did it one rung at a time. He didn't skip a single one.
A 76 year old man who coached high school football in a coal town is now standing on a practice field in LA with no title and no pay at all, just watching his son coach the 5th best team in the country.
I do get choked up about it. I'm an emotional guy.
Somebody asked Chesney what the best bit about having his dad there was.
"Well that he is my dad."
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Rating the safeties...
Our @PFN365 highest-graded FBS safeties this season:
Rabbit Evans, Utah: 92.8
Amare Ferrell, Indiana: 91.3
Dylan Smith, Memphis: 90.9
Robert Fitzgerald, Northwestern: 90.5
Jaylen McClain, Ohio State: 89.6
Damon Walters, Northwestern: 89.2
DJ Coleman, Florida: 89.0
Dwayne 88.4
Kingston Lopa, California: 88.4
Tyren Polley Jr., SMU: 88.1
Peyton Bowen, Oklahoma: 87.7
Jessiah McGrew, Arizona State: 87.6
Tamarcus Cooley, LSU: 87.6
Colby McCalister, Baylor: 87.5
Tanner Heckel, Illinois: 87.3
Quan Sanks, Indiana: 87.3
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The Drink on Wingo...
Eli Drinkwitz says St. Louis native Ryan Wingo broke his heart as a recruit. He had hope Wingo would end up at Missouri. He signed with Texas and has been a playmaker for the Longhorns since day one.
“He’s a tremendous young man. Always very respectful. He’s one of those guys I alk to after the game because they won’t want me to tamper. He is absolutely one of my favorites and wish him all the best except for Saturday.”
InsideTexas.com
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First look at how the bracket would look if...
Here's how the #CFP bracket would look if the season ended today‼️🏆
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Utah Football Announces Season-Ending Injury Ahead of Holy War sports.yahoo.com/articles/utah-… via @YahooSports
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Missouri coach Eli Drinkwitz says he won't be replacing Mike Norvell at Florida State sports.yahoo.com/college-footba… via @YahooSports
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Big 12 evaluating football operations ...
per source close to the Big 12: Executive meeting this week w anyone involved in officiating (on-field, replay booth, command center, etc). Entire operation will be evaluated.
Conference has had issues with application of the rules/officiating mechanics 3 weeks in a row
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Down to business...
They’ve left their hats at the door and the first CFP Selection Committee Meeting of the season is officially underway! 🏆
#CFP
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Consistency....
NEW: Clemson's Dabo Swinney on the consistency of the Tigers' football program:
"We're going for our sixth win in this game."
... You talk about consistency, that would be 27 years in a row for Clemson... And 18 years in a row for me. When you think about the consistency in low bar? But that list is just Clemson, Georgia, Ohio State, Oklahoma."
(h/t @chapelfowler)
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TV ratings in swoon....
After years of growth, college football TV ratings are down on nearly all the major networks this season.
The SEC continues to dominate and the Big 12 is up, but the Big Ten and ACC have tanked.
What's behind the decline? I did a deep dive on the data.
Gift link below.
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Notre Dame's Absher is Outland Trophy National Player of the Week fwaa.com/a/4b188eae
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The FWAA wants to celebrate its four former award winners who are being inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame on Dec. 8 in Las Vegas. Donald and Suh won both the Outland and Nagurski trophies, Laurinaitis the Nagurski Trophy and Patterson two Eddie Robinson Coach of etwork @Pitt_FB @OhioStateFB @HuskerFootball @TCUFootball
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