re: What I’m hearing (coaching search)

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Eventually I’m going to convince enough of you to hop on the Jeff Traylor bandwagon

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I’m on board.

I’d like him over Golesh.

thank you.

Now is not the time to be penny pinching, Cohen.

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I firmly believe it comes down to autonomy. A top notch coach would require the power brokers stay in their lane. They just can't relinquish the control they have over the football program. Thus, we like to hire coaches with less gravitas.

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So let them have full control. No booster funding, see how that works out. There is this thingy called NIL, might kinda sorta be important.

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So let them have full control. No booster funding, see how that works out. There is this thingy called NIL, might kinda sorta be important.

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Other schools seem to have figured out NIL without having the power brokers run the programs. Is it really an either/or scenario?

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Schumann if its gonna be a coordinator. He's learning from the best available

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And look at UGA's defensive rankings. Pretty much top 10 in everything and top 5 in many. He gives me Kirby vibes.

He’s learned under two of the best. Saban and Smart. Not a bad name to look at in all of this.

WEP Top 5 Coaches List - Saturday 11.29.2025:

***WTF: UNEXPECTED CHAOS EDITION UPDATE***

1. Lane Kiffin
2. Lincoln Riley
3. Bob Chesney
4. Aleksey Golesh
5. Sumrall

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If Florida came in and decided to wing top 5 money at who we singled out as “our guy,” getting into a bidding war over it is stupid.

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Just so you guys are aware: $10M is NOT "Top 5 money". Kentucky is paying Mark Stoops $9M a year. Eli Drinkwitz just got bumped up to $10.75M a year. These are bottom-feeder SEC football programs, and yet we have Auburn fans who want to all of a sudden take some sort of idiotic stand with what isn't even their own money.

Mike Elko was hired at $7M per year and less than two years later he got bumped all the way up to $11M per year.

The money argument is moronic. Even if you get Durkin signed for $6M and he succeeds, you will VERY QUICKLY end up paying him exactly the same or more money than what everyone else in the SEC is paying.

So what is the big-brained plan here? You want to hire a HC who nobody else wants for the low probability that you may get him on a "bargain" deal for a whopping ~2 seasons before you have to extend him at a market-rate anyway?

The more likely scenario is that your bargain-bin SEC head coach is going to produce bargain-bin results. Hence why he didn't have the bargaining power to get a better than bargain-bin contract from anyone else.

All the $10MM vs 8MM vs 6 MM analysis is false.

The numbers are minimum $50 MM vs $40 MM vs 30 MM.

If you think $20 MM is does not make a difference, great.

Let’s hire him and find out