re: Gus to Florida State?

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but I also realize that “right now” Gus is better than what we could replace him with.

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There is absolutely no way to know this. Coaching hires are 95% of the time crap shoots. Unless you're a blue blood you rarely ever get to hire the proven winners. Dabo was essentially hired off the streets and has become a homerun. Other "home run" type hires at the time ended up fizzling out. Both of the last two hires by Texas are great examples. And then sometimes the guys that take the mid majors and win 12 games a year with them become Urban Meyer. Sometimes the guys that hover around .500 but have one good season at Michigan state turn into Nick Saban. There are good candidates with potential out there that can be nit picked to death like Bill Clark and PJ Fleck or Matt Rhule or Dave Aranda. There's plenty of names to throw around. If Ed O can succeed idk why one of those guys couldn't.

I say all that to say this. Nobody on this message board can say beyond the shadow of a doubt that there's not an elite coach in the making coaching some other school out there. But an overwhelming majority of us know that Gus is not an elite coach in the making. So it makes more sense to take your chances with the field. Unless you're ok with 4 losses every season like it seems like alot of you are