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how did that guy get so many frickin' jobs? he's beloved in Boulder because he was a McCartney assistant from the beginning to the top....OC for the MNC 90 team.....and I had some further awareness of him since he was at Vandy when i was there.....but LSU and Indiana, too? wtf were they thinking? He won 5 games at Vandy so he gets the job in Baton Rouge?

i had a TA, who was a moderately cute girl who referred to him as Gary Hardon-O a couple times. not sure what that was about. yikes.

He's on the Big Ten Network now, getting his ass kicked full-time by Howard Griffith.

So I'm assuming there's something you heard off the wire and are commenting on it without stating what it is you are commenting on? Little help here for those of us "not in the know."

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:He's on the Big Ten Network now, getting his ass kicked full-time by Howard Griffith.

more things change, more they stay the same. ex-Bronco Howard Griffith?

IndyFrisco wrote:So I'm assuming there's something you heard off the wire and are commenting on it without stating what it is you are commenting on? Little help here for those of us "not in the know."

if you are talking to me, it's purely historical. i was talking with one of the long time dudes who works at CU's Dal Ward Center (the AD)....and he mentioned DiNardo doing something once....and I remembered that the Original G and I had a shared past at Vanderbilt. Something I completely forgot about. and that GdN had sucked balls pretty much everywhere but had NFL'd that into a few BCS type jobs.

King Crimson wrote:

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:He's on the Big Ten Network now, getting his ass kicked full-time by Howard Griffith.

more things change, more they stay the same. ex-Bronco Howard Griffith?

Yeah, that's the guy. He does pretty good tv work. Former Illini player.

Gotcha now...because I hadn't heard of him doing anything much lately and I thought you were saying he got yet another job.

As for his time at IU, those here kind of liked him even though he had a bad record. His team put up points. Lots of them. Course, they gave up twice as many. The alumni here were just glad to be putting up 28 points a game even though they lost by 20.

King Crimson wrote:

IndyFrisco wrote:So I'm assuming there's something you heard off the wire and are commenting on it without stating what it is you are commenting on? Little help here for those of us "not in the know."

if you are talking to me, it's purely historical. i was talking with one of the long time dudes who works at CU's Dal Ward Center (the AD)....and he mentioned DiNardo doing something once....and I remembered that the Original G and I had a shared past at Vanderbilt. Something I completely forgot about. and that GdN had sucked balls pretty much everywhere but had NFL'd that into a few BCS type jobs.

There were actually rumors floating around in the early 90's that he would eventually succeed Holtz at ND when Holtz decided to step down. He was, after all, a starter on ND's national championship team in '73.

Notice I said early 90's. By the time Holtz actually did step down in '96, DiNardo's star had diminished considerably, and he never received serious consideration for the job.

Of course, ND wound up hiring Bob Davie instead. In hindsight, they probably would've been better off with DiNardo. Certainly they'd have been no worse off.

DiNardo beat Auburn his first season at LSU; Terry Tater Tot Bowden was coach at AU and had beaten LSU in a miracle comeback the year before.

After that DiNardo was average at best and replaced by Nick Saban a few years later.

Last I remember, he was coaching an XFL team.

Carson wrote:DiNardo beat Auburn his first season at LSU; Terry Tater Tot Bowden was coach at AU and had beaten LSU in a miracle comeback the year before.

After that DiNardo was average at best and replaced by Nick Saban a few years later

Back when the SEC was irrelevant? Yeah, I remember those days.

Yeah, only three MNCs that decade.