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re: UPDATE: Mike Irwin just said Malzahn is choice #1.
Posted on 11/16/17 at 9:15 pm to DaleDenton
Posted on 11/16/17 at 9:15 pm to DaleDenton
If I thought he could win here at close to the same clip he does at AU I could probably look past the sleazeball character issues and be alright with it, I just don't think he can at all.
Case and point: I remember my family discussing their personal run-ins with BP and how much of an outright prick he was to anyone and everyone around when he was on The Hill. The dude had zero prejudice when it came to who he tore into and why, so much so that he was giving out verbal arse kickings at times and places completely unrelated to football. At the time these stories were hilarious and everyone just laughed it off like "haha classic Bobby!"
Fast forward many months later after he's fired and those EXACT same stories are being passed around, only this time to justify why it had to be done and why he was such a POS. It's not like this was on some small scale between the people who knew/ran into him here and there either; the entire fan base was taking these stories and justifying in the same way.
Point being, people can look past A LOT when a HC is successful. I don't believe GM woukd have the success necessary.
Case and point: I remember my family discussing their personal run-ins with BP and how much of an outright prick he was to anyone and everyone around when he was on The Hill. The dude had zero prejudice when it came to who he tore into and why, so much so that he was giving out verbal arse kickings at times and places completely unrelated to football. At the time these stories were hilarious and everyone just laughed it off like "haha classic Bobby!"
Fast forward many months later after he's fired and those EXACT same stories are being passed around, only this time to justify why it had to be done and why he was such a POS. It's not like this was on some small scale between the people who knew/ran into him here and there either; the entire fan base was taking these stories and justifying in the same way.
Point being, people can look past A LOT when a HC is successful. I don't believe GM woukd have the success necessary.
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Posted on 11/16/17 at 9:17 pm to RazorBroncs
Maybe we'll finally start paying players.
Posted on 11/16/17 at 9:22 pm to RazorBroncs
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Point being, people can look past A LOT when a HC is successful. I don't believe GM woukd have the success necessary.
But he wouldn't have influential boosters fighting tooth and nail to keep him in place like we had with Houston Dale.
So he has that going for him.
Posted on 11/16/17 at 11:07 pm to RazorBroncs
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Point being, people can look past A LOT when a HC is successful. I don't believe GM woukd have the success necessary.
I'm in agreement this, and I think lots in the state are too and lots aren't.
I know what I'm getting with Gus and it will be around 7 wins each year... Bareley above what we have now. Perhaps with the right qb, he could hit a 10 win season, but overall I think it'd be somewhere in between Bert and Nutt. That's not exactly Bobby P in his prime. I also think we'd recruit about where we are now...probabaly around 25 every year, but with far more players from Texas and Arkansas. I do know that every single rock in the state would be turned over for talent, though.
Personally, I'd like to see what Kiffin could do here, and that's not a joke. He's an arse, yes but he could finally get us into the upper 15-17 or so of recruitng and I believe his offensive philosophy is actually a far more advanced than Gus's...especially now that Briles has given his influence.
I know there's probably about a 5 percent chance of Freshwater coming here and probably an 85-90 percent chance of Gus coming... If Long were still here though, I'd know there a 100 percent chance neither would be hired...
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