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I checked the hashtag, seems to be related to Olabisi Onabanjo University in Nigeria. Hope this helps.
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Also “out of uniform”
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SIAP, but there's a thread on RSS...
Shawn Peed started following Matt Rhule on Twitter today.
Soon after the thread was started pointing this out on RSS, Peed followed five or six more coaches linked to our search about 20 minutes ago, Leipod, Campbell, #2ndChoice, Doeren, etc.
Then, after discussion continued pointing this out, he deleted his whole Twitter account. This just happened in the last 10 minutes.
Shawn Peed started following Matt Rhule on Twitter today.
Soon after the thread was started pointing this out on RSS, Peed followed five or six more coaches linked to our search about 20 minutes ago, Leipod, Campbell, #2ndChoice, Doeren, etc.
Then, after discussion continued pointing this out, he deleted his whole Twitter account. This just happened in the last 10 minutes.
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Also mean One Of Us
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That rich fucker is watching the boards like a hawk
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Clearly. He was reacting to the thread in real time. Got caught following Rhule. Tried to dilute it with a bunch of other coaching follows. Then just deleted his whole account!
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#Out of Unemployment ?
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I guess One Of Us is a deal with Rhule and Geoff Collins, who coincidentally is also available.
One day during their years together at Western Carolina University, where they were both assistant football coaches, Matt Rhule presented Geoff Collins with a challenge and a way to fill some time during the offseason.
They should train for a marathon.
Collins is now the head coach at Georgia Tech, and the Carolina Panthers on Wednesday introduced Rhule as the fifth head coach in franchise history. But back then, in the early-to-mid 2000s, they were ambitious and mostly anonymous, two young coaches trying to break through in a profession that, at its lowest levels, can stretch bank accounts and leave dreams shattered.
By then, Rhule and Collins had been close friends for years. In 1998, Collins gave Rhule his first coaching job as an assistant at Albright College, a Division III school in Reading, Pennsylvania, where Collins was the defensive coordinator. When Collins took the same job at Western Carolina in 2002, he recruited Rhule to join his staff there. Their friendship grew.
“We have a thing that we’ve used for the last 22 years,” Collins told the Observer. “When we talk about recommending people to each other, as to hire and join coaching staffs, we always ask each other, ‘Is he one of us?’ So I think that’s kind of a badge of honor. For me or Matt Rhule to say, ‘You’re one of us’ is a pretty big deal.”
To be “one of us,” as Collins described it, means to have “really good energy.” It describes someone who “cares about players, cares about people — goal-oriented, driven, passionate about what they do.” Collins believed Rhule possessed those qualities in the early years of their relationship. Then came the marathon training.
Rhule was in his late-20s then, Collins his early-30s. Neither was necessarily a runner. They both weighed about 230 pounds. Both still looked like the linebackers they were in college — Collins at Western Carolina and Rhule as a walk-on at Penn State. They trained for six or seven months, Collins said, and often ran between 12 and 16 miles up and down and around the curves of twisting mountain roads in western North Carolina.
They ran around the Western Carolina campus, in Cullowhee, and ran to the neighboring towns of Sylva and Dillsboro and back. The runs gave them a lot of time to talk. They talked often about the future — not so much about the Catamounts’ upcoming season, but about where they saw themselves and how they planned to arrive there.
“You get to really know somebody at a deep level,” Collins said, “when you’re spending two hours at a clip running the road together in the mountains of North Carolina, talking and sharing themes and philosophies and belief systems and dreams and visions and goals.”
Late in their training, a scheduling conflict forced Rhule to run a different marathon than the one he and Collins had planned. Collins still ran the race and, before it, Rhule gave him a note to carry in his pocket. He told him not to open it until 20 miles in.
Collins thought Rhule had written “some long, meaningful note” about their friendship — about how much they’d grown during their training and how much they meant to each other. When Collins reached for the note after the 20th mile, though, he opened it to find something much shorter written in large letters:
FINISH THE RACE.
It helped push Collins to the end.
“In reality, that’s really what I needed at that point,” he said.
Over the years, Collins has told that story to his players. He has often talked about finishing metaphorical races, whatever they might be. Fifteen years later, Collins still keeps that note. When Rhule became the Panthers’ head coach Tuesday, his old friend thought about those words. All at once, Rhule had reached both a finish line and a point of new beginning.
One day during their years together at Western Carolina University, where they were both assistant football coaches, Matt Rhule presented Geoff Collins with a challenge and a way to fill some time during the offseason.
They should train for a marathon.
Collins is now the head coach at Georgia Tech, and the Carolina Panthers on Wednesday introduced Rhule as the fifth head coach in franchise history. But back then, in the early-to-mid 2000s, they were ambitious and mostly anonymous, two young coaches trying to break through in a profession that, at its lowest levels, can stretch bank accounts and leave dreams shattered.
By then, Rhule and Collins had been close friends for years. In 1998, Collins gave Rhule his first coaching job as an assistant at Albright College, a Division III school in Reading, Pennsylvania, where Collins was the defensive coordinator. When Collins took the same job at Western Carolina in 2002, he recruited Rhule to join his staff there. Their friendship grew.
“We have a thing that we’ve used for the last 22 years,” Collins told the Observer. “When we talk about recommending people to each other, as to hire and join coaching staffs, we always ask each other, ‘Is he one of us?’ So I think that’s kind of a badge of honor. For me or Matt Rhule to say, ‘You’re one of us’ is a pretty big deal.”
To be “one of us,” as Collins described it, means to have “really good energy.” It describes someone who “cares about players, cares about people — goal-oriented, driven, passionate about what they do.” Collins believed Rhule possessed those qualities in the early years of their relationship. Then came the marathon training.
Rhule was in his late-20s then, Collins his early-30s. Neither was necessarily a runner. They both weighed about 230 pounds. Both still looked like the linebackers they were in college — Collins at Western Carolina and Rhule as a walk-on at Penn State. They trained for six or seven months, Collins said, and often ran between 12 and 16 miles up and down and around the curves of twisting mountain roads in western North Carolina.
They ran around the Western Carolina campus, in Cullowhee, and ran to the neighboring towns of Sylva and Dillsboro and back. The runs gave them a lot of time to talk. They talked often about the future — not so much about the Catamounts’ upcoming season, but about where they saw themselves and how they planned to arrive there.
“You get to really know somebody at a deep level,” Collins said, “when you’re spending two hours at a clip running the road together in the mountains of North Carolina, talking and sharing themes and philosophies and belief systems and dreams and visions and goals.”
Late in their training, a scheduling conflict forced Rhule to run a different marathon than the one he and Collins had planned. Collins still ran the race and, before it, Rhule gave him a note to carry in his pocket. He told him not to open it until 20 miles in.
Collins thought Rhule had written “some long, meaningful note” about their friendship — about how much they’d grown during their training and how much they meant to each other. When Collins reached for the note after the 20th mile, though, he opened it to find something much shorter written in large letters:
FINISH THE RACE.
It helped push Collins to the end.
“In reality, that’s really what I needed at that point,” he said.
Over the years, Collins has told that story to his players. He has often talked about finishing metaphorical races, whatever they might be. Fifteen years later, Collins still keeps that note. When Rhule became the Panthers’ head coach Tuesday, his old friend thought about those words. All at once, Rhule had reached both a finish line and a point of new beginning.
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So that’s where he’s headed. Hope he can still recruit Texas
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He would be a poor criminal.
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Tweeted almost immediately after Texas Tech beat Cockeye State
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Nevertheless, still strange he’s just now active after everything that’s happened this week. If this is all just a coincidence then I’ve got got. An all-timer.
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It's getting serious @HuskerTimInOmaha is following Rhule now.
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