r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • 3h ago

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Northwestern Defeats Michigan State 24-21

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
Northwestern 3 7 3 11 24
Michigan State 7 7 0 7 21
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u/Dry-Membership3867 Jacksonville State • Arkansas 3h ago

Why did Pat Fitzgerald get another HC job again

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u/CrawlerCoolie LSU Tigers • Southeastern Lions 3h ago

Never understood his hype.

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u/Rigatoknee Northwestern Wildcats 2h ago edited 2h ago

Fitz deserves credit for making a lot of a little at NU. But by 2019, it was clear that the sport had started to pass him by offensively. The university cost themselves millions by firing him for hazing when they should’ve fired him for going 4-20 in his final two seasons.

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u/ZeiglerJaguar Northwestern • South Alabama 1h ago

The number of seasons he got a free pass for fielding one of the worst offenses in all college football just because he kept finding incredible defenses …

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u/ldwr011 Michigan State Spartans • Paper Bag 2h ago

Well he did a TV interview and while holding a binder said that he "earned a PhD in NIL and the portal."

I guess that was enough for the people in charge.

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u/LastWordsWereHuzzah Northwestern Wildcats 2h ago

He was always a CEO style coach, never a master tactician. And he started making very dumb CEO decisions and stopped making good ones.

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u/BursleyBaits Michigan Wolverines 2h ago

he was really doing a great job in Evanston for quite some time, tbf, the hype was warranted in the mid-2010s or so. but that was a while ago now