Monken appears to be here for life

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Monken appears to be here for life

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If Monken was ever going to leave for a power 5 job, the most likely candidates would be Vandy, Ga Tech, Kansas, Nebraska and Illinois.

All 5 jobs have been open in the last 2 years, and he hasn't gotten a sniff. As I"ve said, huge are the balls that will hire an option guy.

I personally still feel that his eventual departure will be to a southern Group of 5 school, like USF or FAU or someplace like that....but....it appears we may very well have coach monken for life.

My post-AF fears appear to have been wrong. Now..hopefully we can beat Navy, get in a bowl, win that game too...and then perhaps some changes forthcoming over the winter.
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i hope he's the coach for life, but he needs to make some assistant coaching changes after the season regardless of the outcome of the navy game
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Hope you are right, wpgrad. Despite significant frustrations this year, I remain a strong JM fan. Not only has he made us into a winning program again, he is a great representative and component of WP overall.

I am more pessimistic in our chances at a bowl, however, for 3 reasons:

1. After we whip the squids, we will have 5 qualifying wins since only one of our FCS wins counts. This means that we won’t be bowl eligible at 6-6.
2. The bowl selection announcements will happen on December 4, a week before we play the Squids. At that time we will only have 4 bowl-qualifying wins.
3. There are 41 bowl games requiring 82 teams. 79 teams are currently bowl eligible, leaving 3 slots for non-eligible teams. Buffalo could become eligible if they beat Akron on Friday (they are 11.5 point favorites). So there will be 2-3 slots available for teams that aren’t bowl-eligible. The next criteria is Academic Progress Rate (APR). There are 4 teams that are 5-7 that are ahead of Army in APR: Rice, UNLV, Michigan State, and Auburn.

There is a small chance that we could get a waiver from the NCAA to count the second FCS win which would then send us to the Independence bowl, per our contract.
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Would have been so much easier if Navy were 5-6. Then you simply invite the winner of the Army-Navy game to appear in the Independence Bowl, assuming we were granted said waiver.

Rice is a big time academic school, but how do UNLV, Michigan State, and Auburn have higher APRs than we do? I'm guessing it's the "slightly less rigorous" curriculum and possibly inflated grades.
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Coach MC wrote: Tue Nov 29, 2022 8:46 pm Would have been so much easier if Navy were 5-6. Then you simply invite the winner of the Army-Navy game to appear in the Independence Bowl, assuming we were granted said waiver.
Spot on, Coach. It is always the Squids fault!
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I saw the below info on Instagram. I have no way to validate it...

This was sent to me by someone who has a contact with ESPN The email was from the ESPN employee and , hopefully, this will end the debate about whether or not we will go bowling:
"Hope you have a great Thanksgiving. Appreciate the link to the complete story - sent it to the ESPN CEO for the Armed Forces Bowl - will keep on him to use it and also send it to Independence Bowl - Shreveport - for 23 Dec game - Army under contract when they beat UMass and navy!!"
And that, folks is that, now we focus on beating Navy!
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