planomateo
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š Auburn hires Bryan Harsin as head coach.
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Oregon is rewarding Cristobal for the crap that got Gus Gus fired.
So about that USC team...
JoseyWalesTheOutlaw
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JMO but the barn's next coach has a game to coach Saturday and the only question is which conference is he coaching. Expect the unexpected.
If in fact the barn did actually offer MC the job then you bet he would have been paid around 5 million at least to come challenge Nick, Kirby, Lane, Dan, Jimbo, and Ed. You have to assume he wanted no part of that deal.
If in fact the barn did actually offer MC the job then you bet he would have been paid around 5 million at least to come challenge Nick, Kirby, Lane, Dan, Jimbo, and Ed. You have to assume he wanted no part of that deal.
hush! don't say that too loudly
Unexpected, like Chizik?
Would be awesome if Steele was HC and Nix was OC. I just want 1 season of it, then the good Lord can taketh me away...................
My gut says its done....my friends say it's done. They're getting a steal of a deal.
JoseyWalesTheOutlaw
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Both James and Nick will be rock stars at the SEC Media Days this year. The PSU job once was elite but I just don't see that anymore.
Then again
I hope no one thinks I'm saying it's Franklin
That certainly appears to be where it is headed, but I just can't buy it. I refuse to as I don't want to get my hopes up. I still probably wouldn't believe it until midway through the 3rd quarter in their opening game with Akron...
Only the vanquished remember history.
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Firing a guy and giving him $21 million to not coach, so you can hire the current DC who will most likely keep Chad Morris is SO BARNER!!!!!!!!
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18Champs
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Marshall:
Coaching searches at the highest level of college are sometimes clean and soetimes messy. Most of the people involved at Auburn thought this one was going to be clean as could be. It didn't turn out that way. It frequently doesn't.
In 2007, Alabama had Rich Rodriguez hired. He had accepted, but he backed out at the last minute. Saban didn't like the NFL and kind of fell in their lap. It didn't happen until January after he said flat out he was not going to Alabama. How different would the landscape be if Rodriguez had accepted the job?
Tennessee's last coaching search was much messier than even this one. The fans made so much noise they cut Greg Schiano lose and ended up Jeremy Pruitt. The AD was fired. Schiano has already made Rutgers competitive and Tennessee has lost six out of its last seven games. I have to believe some Tennessee folks wish they had ignored the tumult and stuck with Schiano.
Alabama hired and soon fired Mike Price. The hiring of Bill Curry was as contentious as any I've personally witnessed. Florida's hiring of Ron Zook wasn't far behind. Auburn thought it had Vince Dooley hired in December of 1980 and was left holding the bag with no Plan B. Dye wasn't hired until January.
This one, it seems to me, is mostly messy because of controversy around Steele. Otherwise, it would be fairly normal - fire the head coach and begin a search for a new coach. Instead, it has become quite the uproar. Who knows where it will eventually lead?
Every program is different and has different power centers. Trustees are usually very involved. Major donors have significant input everywhere. Different personalities are involved. They all have the potential to get messy unless there is an obvious choice that everyone wants or a dominant personality that can impose his will.
The truth is college football is a messy business.
Who would have thought that Dabo Swinney, a wide receivers coach who had never called a play in a college game, would win two national championships, almost win another and build a dynasty at Clemson?
Who would have thought that Ed Orgeron, who was 3-21 in SEC games at Ole Miss, would have one of the great teams in SEC history and win a national championship at LSU?
Who would have thought that Tom Herman and Scott Frost, two had-to-have group-of-five coaches, would be feeling the heat of unhappy fans at Texas and Nebraska? Who would have thought that Jim Harbaugh would hardly be able to win a game that matters after returning to Michigan, where he was a star quarterback? Auburn hired Gene Chizik, who had lost 10 straight at Iowa State, and won a national championship two years later.
Of the 10 highest paid coaches in the country, four were assistants in their previous jobs and two were group-of-five coaches. And those donāt include Ohio Stateās Ryan Day and Oklahomaās Lincoln Riley, who were promoted from within.
You can hire the coach everybody wants, the one that is all over ESPN for two days, and he might not win. You can hire a coach who has never won a power-five game and have great success.
Six of the teams in the current top-10 are led by coaches who were assistants at their previous jobs. Two are led by coaches who ran group-of-five programs at their previous jobs.
Every fan base wants their favorite programs to go out and hire a coach who has proved can win championships at the highest level. Every fan base believes any of those coaches ought to be proud to work for their favorite schools. But that happens only rarely.
To whom will Auburn turn to replace Malzahn? We should know that answer in a week or a little more. Whoever it is ā whether itās Kevin Steele or Billy Napier or Steve Sarkisian or a shocking āhome run hireā - nobody will know what the future holds.
Administrators can look at experience, look at success at other levels or even the same level, but itās always a roll of the dice.
Coaching searches at the highest level of college are sometimes clean and soetimes messy. Most of the people involved at Auburn thought this one was going to be clean as could be. It didn't turn out that way. It frequently doesn't.
In 2007, Alabama had Rich Rodriguez hired. He had accepted, but he backed out at the last minute. Saban didn't like the NFL and kind of fell in their lap. It didn't happen until January after he said flat out he was not going to Alabama. How different would the landscape be if Rodriguez had accepted the job?
Tennessee's last coaching search was much messier than even this one. The fans made so much noise they cut Greg Schiano lose and ended up Jeremy Pruitt. The AD was fired. Schiano has already made Rutgers competitive and Tennessee has lost six out of its last seven games. I have to believe some Tennessee folks wish they had ignored the tumult and stuck with Schiano.
Alabama hired and soon fired Mike Price. The hiring of Bill Curry was as contentious as any I've personally witnessed. Florida's hiring of Ron Zook wasn't far behind. Auburn thought it had Vince Dooley hired in December of 1980 and was left holding the bag with no Plan B. Dye wasn't hired until January.
This one, it seems to me, is mostly messy because of controversy around Steele. Otherwise, it would be fairly normal - fire the head coach and begin a search for a new coach. Instead, it has become quite the uproar. Who knows where it will eventually lead?
Every program is different and has different power centers. Trustees are usually very involved. Major donors have significant input everywhere. Different personalities are involved. They all have the potential to get messy unless there is an obvious choice that everyone wants or a dominant personality that can impose his will.
The truth is college football is a messy business.
Who would have thought that Dabo Swinney, a wide receivers coach who had never called a play in a college game, would win two national championships, almost win another and build a dynasty at Clemson?
Who would have thought that Ed Orgeron, who was 3-21 in SEC games at Ole Miss, would have one of the great teams in SEC history and win a national championship at LSU?
Who would have thought that Tom Herman and Scott Frost, two had-to-have group-of-five coaches, would be feeling the heat of unhappy fans at Texas and Nebraska? Who would have thought that Jim Harbaugh would hardly be able to win a game that matters after returning to Michigan, where he was a star quarterback? Auburn hired Gene Chizik, who had lost 10 straight at Iowa State, and won a national championship two years later.
Of the 10 highest paid coaches in the country, four were assistants in their previous jobs and two were group-of-five coaches. And those donāt include Ohio Stateās Ryan Day and Oklahomaās Lincoln Riley, who were promoted from within.
You can hire the coach everybody wants, the one that is all over ESPN for two days, and he might not win. You can hire a coach who has never won a power-five game and have great success.
Six of the teams in the current top-10 are led by coaches who were assistants at their previous jobs. Two are led by coaches who ran group-of-five programs at their previous jobs.
Every fan base wants their favorite programs to go out and hire a coach who has proved can win championships at the highest level. Every fan base believes any of those coaches ought to be proud to work for their favorite schools. But that happens only rarely.
To whom will Auburn turn to replace Malzahn? We should know that answer in a week or a little more. Whoever it is ā whether itās Kevin Steele or Billy Napier or Steve Sarkisian or a shocking āhome run hireā - nobody will know what the future holds.
Administrators can look at experience, look at success at other levels or even the same level, but itās always a roll of the dice.
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