re: What was your worst coaching hire all time. ?

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Curley will always be the worst.

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I think we can all agree on this one. Lou Tepper being the worst coordinator might be another we could all agree on.

Bill Battle won 31 games during his first three seasons as a head coach lol that’s laughably dumb over Butch Jones

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I think we can all agree on this one. Lou Tepper being the worst coordinator might be another we could all agree on.

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I think you're on to something there.

Tepper was impressive in how badly he undermined the 1998 season.
LSU, which started the season #7, was able to score 36 against Kentucky, 31 against Ole Miss, and 36 against Notre Dame... and lose all three games.

Chad Morris is the worst of all.

For Ole Miss it was Steve Sloan.

No contest. George O'Leary for my Notre Dame and it doesnt even come close to any of you SEC fans teams. We hired this dude from Georgia Tech and he lied on his resume and didnt even coach 1 game for us. Our vetting team must have been complete shite. Let me know if any of your teams have hired a coach and fired him weeks later before even coaching a game.

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Craggy Morris

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True, but we should never forget this lost season as well.

Mark Stoops, was a rough few hours.

Followed up by Franchione.

We had a guy named Woody Stull that coached in the late 80s/early 90s. Awesome mustache, terrible football.

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Smells of Bourbon at least won half his games in the first year.. Boo Blake only notched a 33% win in three years.

We hired Boo Blake because he was black.. DEI sucked back then , it sucks now. All because OSU hired Simmons.. another black coach. Simmons had ability... he flamed out at Colorado, but that is besides the point. Boo Blake was just black..DEI.

In Boo Blakes second year he hired Dick Winder(from Taco Tech) as OC We had an offense, no D.... so what did Boo Blake do.. fired Winder, went back to the "Bone ' with a in house hire.

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Let me clarify all this.

Schnellenberger had won a national championship at Miami. And his Louisville teams had kicked the crap out of teams like Texas and Bama... and that was the appeal.

Unfortunately, Howard had evolved into an all day drinker. Louisville tolerated that. But at OU... he didn't have the street cred to get away with it.

Part of the Blake hire was due to the panic of OSU hiring Simmons and Simmons immediately beating OU and Howard. But the main thing is that Barry Switzer was trying to find a place for Blake to land in order to get him off of his Dallas staff. Apparently Blake had gotten crosswise with Troy Aikman... and Switzer and Aikman had an extremely tenuous relationship. So Switzer talked OU into taking Blake.

Schnellenberger was extremely arrogant. Blake was nice... but he was a guy who knew how to teach a defensive lineman a swim move and not much else. Completely incapable and unprepared to be a head football coach at the college level.

There were people who thought Blake could grow into the job. But one OU guy told me... "John Blake is not ready to be a head coach. He won't be ready to be a head coach in five years. He won't be ready to be a head coach in fifty years."

Morris, yes
Croom actually did a very good job and you have to look at his record in context and during the timeframe it happened.
State was a complete dumpster fire when he was hired (2004) and then further he had to purge about 20 talented but malcontent players.
He had to completely build the football program from the ground up. What most people do not realize, is Coach Mullen (2009) inherited a talented squad (sans a QB) and a number of those players went on to NFL careers.
So yes, the record looks poor on paper but he left the State program in much better shape than he found it.
Thus he was not a bad hire.