🏈 Hot Seats and Coaching Changes - EX UA coach, Billy Napier to ULL

[17BAMA]

 

[OldPlayer]

How does Taggart stay at an elite school for only one year without looking like a complete golddigger? Don't these coaches have anything invested in their jobs besides a paycheck?

If a competing company offered you a 25% raise and a guaranteed paycheck for five years, would you listen to them?

 

[planomateo]

If a competing company offered you a 25% raise and a guaranteed paycheck for five years, would you listen to them?

Not to mention zero state income tax (9.9% raise) and the ability to pump your own gas...

 

[TUSKtimes]

If a competing company offered you a 25% raise and a guaranteed paycheck for five years, would you listen to them?

In this case, you're not going up the corporate ladder and you're not taking your briefcase and lunch bag and simply heading to the door. He's at one of the bigger power 5 schools and they've invested millions financially, he has his staff in place, recruits are invested in going there. That's very disruptive and after only one season? He hasn't gotten his first full recruiting class in.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

In this case, you're not going up the corporate ladder and you're not taking your briefcase and lunch bag and simply heading to the door. He's at one of the bigger power 5 schools and they've invested millions financially, he has his staff in place, recruits are invested in going there. That's very disruptive and after only one season? He hasn't gotten his first full recruiting class in.

I'd rather him leave now before he locks up those kids on December 20th. Contracts have buyout provisions for a reason.

 

[planomateo]

Weird...this is a portion of the ASU announcement of Herm Edwards.

Arizona State University and Vice President of University Athletics Ray Anderson has unveiled plans for a restructured ASU football model and named former NFL head coach Herman Edwards as the 24th head coach of Sun Devil Football, pending approval by the Arizona Board of Regents.

The department's New Leadership Model will be similar to an NFL approach using a general manager structure. It's a collaborative approach to managing the ASU football program that includes sport and administrative divisions, which will operate as distinct, but collective units focused on elevating all aspects of Sun Devil Football. This structure will allow the department to form a multi-layered method to the talent evaluation and recruiting processes, increase its emphasis on both student-athlete and coach development and retention, and provide a boost in resource allocation and generation.

"Our goal for this football program is to reach unprecedented heights, and therefore we need to find a way to operate more innovatively and efficiently than we have in the past," Anderson said. "In the spirit of innovation, our vision for this program is to have a head coach who serves as a CEO and is the central leader with a collaborative staff around him that will elevate the performance of players and coaches on the field, in the classroom and in our community. Equally important, the head coach will be a dynamic and tireless recruiter."

Edwards, who will oversee the New Leadership Model, arrives in Tempe with a football legacy that has impacted thousands, whether as a player, coach, analyst, motivational speaker and author, or community advocate and philanthropist.

The New Leadership Model will allow for resource sharing and strategic planning between the football staff and administrators who are directly involved with the program. The administrative division will be primarily composed of Anderson, Executive Senior Associate Athletics Director Jean Boyd and Senior Associate Athletics Director Scottie Graham. The sport division will operate with an experienced and senior football administrator, Senior Associate Athletic Director Tim Cassidy, helping to manage day-to-day operations, along with a variety of staffers responsible for player development, player personnel, and recruiting, among other areas.

Sun Devil Football's existing recruiting infrastructure will be upgraded through additional staff support and evaluation resources, by instilling a culture of accountability at all levels, and building long-term relationships in communities across the country to help ensure recruiting quality and consistency. Both the sport and administrative divisions will play key roles in student-athlete development.

The New Leadership Model affords coordinators and assistant coaches more flexibility in how they develop student-athletes on the field, and enables Sun Devil Football to build on the 'Championship Life' program already in place through the Office of Student-Athlete Development to better equip student-athletes with the tools and skills necessary to succeed in their respective future endeavors.

Boyd is a former ASU football student-athlete who has risen to the role of Executive Senior Associate Athletic Director after 22-plus years of experience in Sun Devil Athletics. He has overseen the dramatic evolution of the department's Student-Athlete Development efforts and has been nationally recognized.

Graham, who joined Sun Devil Athletics in June 2014, has served as a sport administrator with additional responsibilities surrounding student-athlete development and welfare for the past three-plus years. He will transition to a new role where he will serve as the liaison between the sport and administrative divisions. He has an extensive background with the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) as he was the Director of Player Engagement for four years before arriving in Tempe, playing a key role in cultivating, maintaining and enhancing relationships with current and former players, business partners and other stakeholders.

Edwards will take a proactive approach to developing coordinators and assistant coaches, drawing on his nearly three decades of NFL experience in a variety of capacities and wide range of leadership positions within both the sport of football and in other endeavors.​

 

[TerryP]

Sun Devil Football's existing recruiting infrastructure will be upgraded through additional staff support and evaluation resources, by instilling a culture of accountability at all levels, and building long-term relationships in communities across the country to help ensure recruiting quality and consistency. Both the sport and administrative divisions will play key roles in student-athlete development.

That sounds a lot like the infrastructure in Tuscaloosa.

The New Leadership Model affords coordinators and assistant coaches more flexibility in how they develop student-athletes on the field, and enables Sun Devil Football to build on the 'Championship Life' program already in place through the Office of Student-Athlete Development to better equip student-athletes with the tools and skills necessary to succeed in their respective future endeavors.

This sounds a lot like the infrastructure we've seen at Tennessee.

 

[OldPlayer]

In other words, Herm has never recruited before and needs help.

 

[TerryP]

In other words, Herm has never recruited before and needs help.

Three years when he was at San Jose State. Now, that has been 30 years ago.

SJS was in the Pacific Coast Conference...Pacific Coast Athletic Association...something like that. It's had a few names. I want to say it went from Pacific to Big West and it's now the MWC? I don't know if they had scholly's back then.

 

[TUSKtimes]

Did I miss something or did Herm flame out a couple of times in the NFL? Something magical happens when you get to do commentating on national TV.

 

[TUSKtimes]

Report: Oregon's Willie Taggart to become Florida State coach

looks like Cristobal gets a crack as interim.

 

[rick4bama]

Stanford offensive coordinator Mike Bloomgren has reportedly been hired as head coach at Rice.

 

[planomateo]

The whole Arizona State thing is just weird. Replacing only the HC and doing that with Herm Edwards...this AD isn't gonna last much longer. What a dumbass decision.

Now we have Oregon moving forward with Mario.

 

[UAgrad93]

The whole Arizona State thing is just weird. Replacing only the HC and doing that with Herm Edwards...this AD isn't gonna last much longer. What a dumbass decision.

Now we have Oregon moving forward with Mario.

I see this as a good thing for BAMA when it comes to recruiting in South Florida. If Cristobal had made the move with Taggart to FSU, it would have put a dent in our recruiting. Good luck Mario! Keep your ass in the Northwest!!

 

[Google Inc.]

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Oregon reportedly promotes former Alabama assistant Mario Cristobal to head coach
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Another former Nick Saban assistant landed a coaching job Friday, this time in the Pac-12. According to a report from Bruce Feldman of Sports Illustrated, Oregon has removed the interim label from Mario Cristobal, and promoted him to head coach ...
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[Bamabww]

I still don’t understand the Herm Edwards hire.

 

[OldPlayer]

I still don’t understand the Herm Edwards hire.

They need a strong personality to work with Blake Barnett. (that's my story and I'm sticking to it):bamadance::rtrsign:

 

[planomateo]

 

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[TUSKtimes]

If this is true than LSU is getting closer each day to being stuck with OC Canada for another season. Nobody is going to top 1.5 mil a year for his services so coach O may be fresh out of options. So sad.