re: Your Ranking of Job Openings?

1.) aTm - Should see a boost after joining the SEC
2.) UCLA - With USC scholarship limitations starting to take affect, they have a huge opportunity to take the city & PAC-12 south.

I wouldn't touch any of the others.

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For coaching career Pac12 > SEC

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This week has proven this to be untrue. At least at the present.

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TAMU has a very loyal rabid fanbase that has shown in the past it will fund the program to get the best talent out there


They have never funded the program before..

Sherman at $2.2M was the 12 highest paid coach in the SEC. We will see if they step up or not.

Remember we are talking about a school that borrowed money from the University in the past.

So you are saying you'd put TAMU at the top because they have a rabid fan base? That's it?

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I was alluding to their past NCAA run ins not so much facilities and coaches

ASU is set up to explode with the right coach. Laugh if you will but it is a sleeping giant.

A&M, chance to become a legend, higher risk, but higher reward

Penn State same thing

UCLA, if you've been to UCLA campus, you know why

ASU, why live in arizona if you can live in SOCAL

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A&M is a sleeping giant. A&M has faced the same political issues that LSU faced that has kept it from reaching it's potential prior to 2000. Bowen Loftin is to A&M what Mark Emmert was to LSU. Any LSU fan that has been a fan longer than 2000 knows exactly what I mean.

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I've been hearing this my whole life. Texas A&M continues to make bad hires and nothing has changed. Potential at LSU has and always will be better than TAMU. It's the only game in town with a very nice recruiting base.

LSU doesn't have a bigger program in their own state not to mention another program that is almost literally in their state (OU)

Why in 5 years is Penn State a top 10 job and ASU is not? Besides Penn being the only game in town in their state.

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A&M, chance to become a legend, higher risk, but higher reward

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Why can't you become the same legend at ASU with an easier road to hoe?

Penn State is already built and needs someone to manage not become legendary.

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Homerism at it's finest, which is fine because the SEC is the best and I hate the Pac12 junk out here, but..... Thinking objectively makes me place TAMU towards the bottom for the reasons I listed prior.

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Yeah, it sounds like you have absolutely no bias against A&M.

You may have some valid points, but there is no way A&M is in the bottom half of coaching vacancies.

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Yeah, it sounds like you have absolutely no bias against A&M.

You may have some valid points, but there is no way A&M is in the bottom half of coaching vacancies.

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TAMU has a lot more going against it than ASU does. There is a reason they aren't good in the modern area of football.

1. They pay their coach only $2.2M (12th highest in the SEC)
2. They are 3rd best in the region for Texas kids (UT, OSU, LSU)
3. Their weird culture, perception does matter which does matter.
*This could be why they are rumored to be looking at 2 good minority coaches* (Houston, Louisville)
4. Has had past money issues by borrowing money from the University for Athletics 5. You have LSU, Ark, Bama and Auburn in your division.

All of these factors could change.. but it's take a coach to change that and why fight those battles when you can go to ASU and start off with an easier work load right out of the gate?


I personally make fun of TAMU as an Arkansas fan but I'm putting that aside and justifying why ASU is a better choice. In Theory UCLA and TAMU should be top 10 jobs every year but haven't been.. Why, I'm going with the reasons I listed above.

1) PSU






2) Texas A&M
3) ASU







4) Ole Miss









5) UCLA