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Post by Sons of Vaval on Feb 6, 2019 10:42:52 GMT -5
Dave Cecchini to Bucknell, per Football Scoop.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Feb 6, 2019 11:14:17 GMT -5
Dave Cecchini to Bucknell, per Football Scoop. His five year record at Valpo was 17-38, 2-9 last season.
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Feb 6, 2019 11:14:53 GMT -5
Dave Cecchini to Bucknell, per Football Scoop. His five year record at Valpo was 17-38, 2-9 last season. I wouldn't read too much into that record.
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Post by sader1970 on Feb 6, 2019 12:01:35 GMT -5
And exactly why not!? We have a saying here on Crossports: "You are what your record says you are." You don't believe that? Check out Milan Brown, Sean Kearney, Tom Gilmore, . . . . . etc.
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Feb 6, 2019 12:07:16 GMT -5
And exactly why not!? We have a saying here on Crossports: "You are what your record says you are." You don't believe that? Check out Milan Brown, Sean Kearney, Tom Gilmore, . . . . . etc. Mostly because Valparaiso was the very worst FCS team in the country before he took over -- the previous coach was 3-40 (3-28) over four seasons. The fact that Cecchini managed to go 17-38 (13-27) over five seasons is fairly impressive, actually. Two seasons ago, he actually was above .500 at 6-5, and finished third in the PFL at 5-3. Cecchini is credited for developing some of those prolific offenses Lehigh had several years ago. He's a smart coach that is very well respected in PL / Ivy circles. This is a good hire for Bucknell.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Feb 6, 2019 12:57:54 GMT -5
And exactly why not!? We have a saying here on Crossports: "You are what your record says you are." You don't believe that? Check out Milan Brown, Sean Kearney, Tom Gilmore, . . . . . etc. Mostly because Valparaiso was the very worst FCS team in the country before he took over -- the previous coach was 3-40 (3-28) over four seasons. The fact that Cecchini managed to go 17-38 (13-27) over five seasons is fairly impressive, actually. Two seasons ago, he actually was above .500 at 6-5, and finished third in the PFL at 5-3. Cecchini is credited for developing some of those prolific offenses Lehigh had several years ago. He's a smart coach that is very well respected in PL / Ivy circles. This is a good hire for Bucknell. Perhaps this is comparable to lauding a football coach at, say, Columbia University who went 4-6 for several years after his predecessors went 1-9 year after year, or like a basketball coach at, say, Northwestern, who went 6-10 or 7-11 in Big Ten games after his predecessors won 1 or 2 or 3 conference games year after year.
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Post by bison137 on Feb 6, 2019 13:01:08 GMT -5
Dave Cecchini to Bucknell, per Football Scoop. His five year record at Valpo was 17-38, 2-9 last season. In the four years before he got there, Valpo beat exactly one team (Campbell). Lost to multiple D2/D3 teams. They have no football tradition and spend no money. Impossible job. Many Lehigh fans wanted him instead of Gilmore fwiw.
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Post by hcgrad94 on Feb 6, 2019 15:03:44 GMT -5
I was very surprised when Cecchini took the Valpo job as it certainly looks like a dead end and he was a little bit of a hot commodity given his work at Lehigh and Harvard. The most surprising thing about his time in Indiana was the backslide this year after he looked like he had things going in the right direction.
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Post by JRGNYR on Feb 6, 2019 16:17:40 GMT -5
That Valpo job might be the most difficult in D1 football.
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Post by bison137 on Feb 6, 2019 17:41:22 GMT -5
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