re: 247 List of Top Jobs in College FB

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Clemson was barely a top 30 job 5 years ago. Now they're #3 all of a sudden ahead of friggin USC, Texas, and Florida LOLOL

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Now see, this is where you aren't thinking. Southern Cal, Texas, Florida. Places where the fanbase is never, ever happy. Ever.

That's not the gig you want. You want the stable gig where you can win games, live a good life, make 4, instead of 6 million a year. And win a national championship in ten years maybe. The kids are happy, wifey is happy. You are happy.

No emo, no drama. No Auburn boosters. No crazy Gumps.

So from this list, these are my picks if I was the flavor of the month coaching candidate:

Clemson
Michigan
UCLA
Penn State* (The Paterno stain is not gone yet though. Have to disqualify them.)
Michigan State
TCU
Washington
Stanford
Oregon
Virginia Tech
Arkansas* (Maybe I sense disturbances in the booster force. Still they do seem to show patience.)
Miami (Fla.)

You are looking for sane fans, boosters that aren't Bobby Lowder flying in Petrinos on a plane. A place where if you do a great job and eventually win something big, people LOVE-LOVE-LOVE you.

Not a place like Auburn where you play for a national championship, then they are ready to burn you in effigy 2 years later.

And another thing. You guys, or a lot of you apparently don't know what's what.

South Carolina had 4.8 million people as of 2014. Obviously we are behind a number of southern states, but have more than states like Alabama (think we passed them), Mississippi, maybe Louisiana, certainly Arkansas.

We do pretty well per capita at landing players in the NFL. You see some variance in this, but we consistently do pretty good. Only Louisiana and Mississippi consistently beat us at this. As I said you see a lot of these analyses if you read them as they come over the years. But we definitely do not lag Florida, Texas, Alabama, Texas, Georgia, California, North Carolina, etc in any given year. Actually I'd wager we finish ahead of those states more often than not. If you figure on a PER CAPITA basis.

So, what's Georgia's populatiion? Florida's? Maybe you wipes would be sucking our schlongs if we had the same population.

That is all.

*Oh yeah, wanted to add something. Definitely not a Clemson fan, but while Georgia hasn't been as fruitful for Clemson as it has for Auburn, they are about the same distance from Atlanta. They are well situated to recruit that and North Georgia. Couple that with the fact they play 4 NC teams a year, and they have quite a good recruiting footprint.

Hasn't always turned out that way, but if you think about it, it really is a better setup than Auburn has. Or lots of schools. Off the top of my head only A&M, LSU, Florida, and Georgia have better ones from a mechanical standpoint from the SEC (yeah I left Alabama off that list Gumps; Saban goes and you better hire a heck of a recruiter if you want to keep it up. Your base is not as good as some other schools.)