re: Buccees Mascot Coaching Edition (Former Jet Tracking)

I know that. It's just more blatantly obvious at Auburn, followed by Texas

I'm saying it's onvious the AD is NOT the boss. Direct reports rarely make 6 or more times what their boss does.

That would be like saying Bruce Arians had control of all players in Tampa

Think of the AD as more like a schedule coordinator and CFO.

I have understood the AD's role. ADAG did not

I disagree….

Chizik on paper was not a bad hire. He was the early 2000’s version of Kirby Smart….extremely respected DC that had produced multiple championship defenses at two different programs. You could look at Iowa State as fitting a round peg in a square hole and they were a dumpster fire when he took over, that was a rebuild job with limited resources and a difficult schedule. Chizik probably in hindsight should have been more selective in his first HC job. He brought Auburn the first NC we have seen in decades while Saban was at his peak and he looked promising….until he wasn’t.

Malzahn was one of the hottest names as far as coaches the year we hired him. He was our version of Heupel. Hard to look into the future to see how he would refuse to adapt his offense because for an offensive genius like him you would think that would be a given. Took us to the NC game and two SECCG. The biggest issue with Gus was the massive contract Auburn let Jimmy Sexton strong arm them into.

Bottom line when you take a chance with a “hot” new coach it could either work out for you (like Smart at UGA, Dabo at Clemson, etc) or flame out quick…..just like Heupel, he’s doing work right now but who knows what UT will look like in 2-3 years, can he sustain? Will he be stubborn like Gus and refuse to adapt his offense? Everyone thought Muschamp would be THE next big coach and he failed epically but nothing in his coaching past led you to think it would happen. Venables was the coordinator EVERYONE wanted for years and Oklahoma fans are already calling for his head.

Harsin was a BAD hire due to the fact he has ZERO ties to the SE but you can’t really pin that on the “money people” as that was ADAG going rogue.

Hence my comment about ADAG not understanding the role of the AD

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Harsin was a BAD hire due to the fact he has ZERO ties to the SE

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You can already see this narrative developing at it’s wrong… Harsin doesn’t suck bc he has no ties to the southeast… he sucks bc he’s sucks.

Urban Meyer and Nick Saban are Catholics from the Midwest…. The two best SEC coaches in our lifetimes.

No thanks to that

More, and more, if Freeze is a no go, it’s Muschamp. He had to clean up for Urban and Dabo’s luckily getting generational QBs made SC an impossible situation. Come on , get on board. Let’s go recruit.
Of course he won’t be considered but his success odds would be as good as anyone’s.

Found this Sports Illustrated profile on Rhule from during his final season at Baylor. Some excerpts:

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Embracing Texas is maybe the most essential piece to Rhule’s turnaround in Waco. Sure, his dialect and appearances leaned more Texan, but he also connected with the state’s legion of high school football coaches, the true power brokers in arguably the most talent-laden state in the union. Rhule mined their players, too (77% of Baylor’s roster is from Texas). There were other pieces to this turnaround, of course. He implemented a rebuild plan that included a physically demanding regimen built on player-coach relationships, sticking to it through a 1–11 season in his first year that came with its share of player pushback.

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“There are a lot of high school coaches out there who could coach in college or the NFL,” Rhule says in an interview last month from his office. “Those three guys helped me understand the landscape of Texas. They helped me understand who to get to know and how things worked to help avoid the pitfalls that some other college coaches have made. I didn’t want to make mistakes that other guys who came from out of state and didn’t make it work. They had players recruited by those staffs.”

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Rhule’s program isn’t built on Xs and Os or any kind of elaborate schemes. In a way, he views that as a positive. He’s one of the rare coaches to have spent significant time during his career as an assistant on both sides of the ball. He’s coached the defensive line and he’s coached the offensive line. He’s coached quarterbacks and he’s coached linebackers. It makes him more well rounded than most head coaches, many of them offensive savants of sorts. “The players on the team feel like I’m the head coach, not an offensive head coach,” he says. “That can breed contempt.”

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Unfortunately, the article also includes this anectdote:

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Throughout Baylor’s football facility, flyers hang on the walls reminding players of their focus for that week. The upcoming opponent’s logo is alongside three characters in black bold font: 1–0.

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