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Posted on 10/8/17 at 11:07 am
Posted on 10/8/17 at 11:07 am
This is a good a time as any to fire up this thread. Let's discuss names, resumes, fits and suggestions. My top 5 in no particular order:
Chad Morris
Scott Frost
Jeff Brohm
Mike Norvell
Dark horse - Greg Schiano
**ETA 10/13**
Here's the updated comprehensive list:
Chad Morris -- HC, SMU
Scott Frost -- HC, Central Florida
Mike Norvell -- HC, Memphis
Greg Schiano -- DC, Ohio State
Matt Campbell -- HC, Iowa State
Justin Fuente -- HC, Virginia Tech
Jeff Brohm -- HC, Purdue
Mike Gundy -- HC, Oklahoma State
Neal Brown -- HC, Troy
Willie Fritz -- HC, Tulane
Mike Leach -- HC, Washington State
Brent Venables -- DC, Clemson
Skip Holtz -- HC, Louisiana Tech
Philip Montgomery -- HC, Tulsa
Frank Wilson -- HC, UT San Antonio
Lane Kiffin -- HC, Florida Atlantic
Gus Malzahn -- HC, Auburn
Craig Bohl -- HC, Wyoming
Jeremy Pruitt -- DC, Alabama
Charlie Strong -- HC, USF
PJ Fleck -- HC, Minnesota
Sonny Cumbie -- OC, TCU
Chad Morris
Scott Frost
Jeff Brohm
Mike Norvell
Dark horse - Greg Schiano
**ETA 10/13**
Here's the updated comprehensive list:
Chad Morris -- HC, SMU
Scott Frost -- HC, Central Florida
Mike Norvell -- HC, Memphis
Greg Schiano -- DC, Ohio State
Matt Campbell -- HC, Iowa State
Justin Fuente -- HC, Virginia Tech
Jeff Brohm -- HC, Purdue
Mike Gundy -- HC, Oklahoma State
Neal Brown -- HC, Troy
Willie Fritz -- HC, Tulane
Mike Leach -- HC, Washington State
Brent Venables -- DC, Clemson
Skip Holtz -- HC, Louisiana Tech
Philip Montgomery -- HC, Tulsa
Frank Wilson -- HC, UT San Antonio
Lane Kiffin -- HC, Florida Atlantic
Gus Malzahn -- HC, Auburn
Craig Bohl -- HC, Wyoming
Jeremy Pruitt -- DC, Alabama
Charlie Strong -- HC, USF
PJ Fleck -- HC, Minnesota
Sonny Cumbie -- OC, TCU
This post was edited on 10/13/17 at 5:18 am
Posted on 10/8/17 at 11:14 am to oklahogjr
Saban
Gruden
Cowherd
Harbaugh
Urban Meyer
Tom herman
Gruden
Cowherd
Harbaugh
Urban Meyer
Tom herman
Posted on 10/8/17 at 11:24 am to Feral
Just give me a wide-open offense and a heavy blitzing defense. If we're gonna lose, I wanna lose in style.
Posted on 10/8/17 at 11:56 am to Feral
Doesn't matter, if Jeff Long is still AD
Posted on 10/8/17 at 12:01 pm to Feral
Justin Fuente
Scott Frost
Jeff Brohm
Mike Gundy
Dark horse- Frank Wilson
Scott Frost
Jeff Brohm
Mike Gundy
Dark horse- Frank Wilson
Posted on 10/8/17 at 12:02 pm to Woopigsooie20
Brohm
Morris
Campbell
Morris
Campbell
Posted on 10/8/17 at 12:02 pm to Feral
Neal Brown. He learned from Leach and Mumme.
I'd be fine with Mike Norvell, too, although he still has a lot of Fuente's guys.
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I'm not against getting an assistant from a top program, either. Why not Alabama's DC, who did great job when he was at FSU as well? Or Venables from Clemson?
I don't see us getting Morris or Frost if their alma maters want them.
Leach isn't leaving the Pac-12 for the meat grinder that is the SEC.
I'd be fine with Mike Norvell, too, although he still has a lot of Fuente's guys.
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I'm not against getting an assistant from a top program, either. Why not Alabama's DC, who did great job when he was at FSU as well? Or Venables from Clemson?
I don't see us getting Morris or Frost if their alma maters want them.
Leach isn't leaving the Pac-12 for the meat grinder that is the SEC.
Posted on 10/8/17 at 12:10 pm to Porcine Human
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ehh
I qualified what I said by mentioning that he still he still has a lot of Fuente's players. But he's at least been able to sustain what they built, for the most part.
I'd take him over Bert at this point and we're going have a lot of competition this year if we do wind up looking for a new coach.
Posted on 10/8/17 at 12:10 pm to admiralduckwad
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Cowherd
Colin?
Posted on 10/8/17 at 12:11 pm to Feral
Dream/top tier:
- Leach (after his comments about WMS especially)
- Gundy
Possible tier:
- Fuente
- Frost
- Brohm
- Venables
frick it, let's do something crazy and see what happens tier:
- Skip Holtz
- BMFP
- Leach (after his comments about WMS especially)
- Gundy
Possible tier:
- Fuente
- Frost
- Brohm
- Venables
frick it, let's do something crazy and see what happens tier:
- Skip Holtz
- BMFP
This post was edited on 10/8/17 at 12:12 pm
Posted on 10/8/17 at 12:15 pm to Hank Murphy
Meh on Norvell. I would rather have someone who turned a loser into a winner than someone who took over a winner and maintained it like fatass did at Wisconsin.
Posted on 10/8/17 at 1:18 pm to The Sultan of Swine
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Colin?
Lol.. meant Cowher
But sure
Posted on 10/8/17 at 1:22 pm to Arkansasrazorback
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Meh on Norvell. I would rather have someone who turned a loser into a winner than someone who took over a winner and maintained it like fatass did at Wisconsin.
This x1000!
My #1 trait is a guy who took nothing and turned it into something. Second is recruiting ties. I want a guy from the south. Preferably in Texas and LA, but if he is a Florida /GA guy i can handle that as long as he gets guys with Texas/LA ties.
Posted on 10/8/17 at 1:31 pm to HogX
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Just give me a wide-open offense and a heavy blitzing defense. If we're gonna lose, I wanna lose in style.
This. Maybe we need Nolan Richardson.
Posted on 10/8/17 at 1:51 pm to Feral
As much as I hate to admit it, CBB's philosphy of 'man up and play real American football' is just not going to work for us. I really would love for it to, BUT we are just not going to ever be able to have enough men on the lines to 'man up' against most of the other SEC lines. Never. Just a fact of our recruiting base and geography.
If we expect to win, we are usually going to have to do so with less overall talent than most teams we play. We do usually have some pretty decent skill players, but just not the line to help them succeed.
We are going to need a coach that can see the deficiencies that we have, work a scheme around them, and be innovative enough that we are unpredictable and hard to prepare for.
I can't say who that is. Offensively at least, perhaps Leach?
If we expect to win, we are usually going to have to do so with less overall talent than most teams we play. We do usually have some pretty decent skill players, but just not the line to help them succeed.
We are going to need a coach that can see the deficiencies that we have, work a scheme around them, and be innovative enough that we are unpredictable and hard to prepare for.
I can't say who that is. Offensively at least, perhaps Leach?
This post was edited on 10/8/17 at 1:54 pm
Posted on 10/8/17 at 2:14 pm to Feral
Neal Brown.
Who?
The gent who beat LSU last weekend. He put up a ten win season at Troy last year. Yes, his first year at Troy they sucked, but he can build a winning program.
He is young and he is not, at the moment, the hot name.
His experience is within our footprint and at the highest level. He is worth keeping an eye out for.
Look, we need to go with a young coach who can build something. No established coach is coming here unless Mike Leach gets a wild hare up his arse.
It is a two horse race right now. Norvell and Brown. Young coaches that can build on what we have and will be here for some time and come cheap.
There are no Lou Holtz's out there based on their record. We have to find the next one. I think those two guys could be the ones we need to hire and let develop into an elite coach.
Who?
The gent who beat LSU last weekend. He put up a ten win season at Troy last year. Yes, his first year at Troy they sucked, but he can build a winning program.
He is young and he is not, at the moment, the hot name.
His experience is within our footprint and at the highest level. He is worth keeping an eye out for.
Look, we need to go with a young coach who can build something. No established coach is coming here unless Mike Leach gets a wild hare up his arse.
It is a two horse race right now. Norvell and Brown. Young coaches that can build on what we have and will be here for some time and come cheap.
There are no Lou Holtz's out there based on their record. We have to find the next one. I think those two guys could be the ones we need to hire and let develop into an elite coach.
Posted on 10/8/17 at 2:31 pm to Arksulli
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Neal Brown.
I'd rather take a shot on a guy like this, than try luring an established guy and promising him the moon to come here. Think of the things we could have in Brown's contract in case he can't cut it. You won't be able to do that with an established guy.
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