FSU raises $20 million, fires Willie Taggart.
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Wow, that's a lot of dough to pay off. Not that he didn't deserve to get canned though. I wonder who FSU will target? There isn't much quality out there that is available. Meyer would be a home run hire.
Holy crap. Nothing says "GTFO" like boosters raising 20 million to tell you, you suck.
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Hard to feel sorry for a guy getting a severance like that though. Where do I sign up for a gig like that, lol?
Why do you want to fire a coach in mid-season?If you do then the AD who hired him should also go.-----I also feel if you want to send young men or women into battle then the congressman or woman who voted for the action would be picked at random to go with them.It might have saved a lot of american boys if their ass was also on the line.
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Here's a list I saw:
Bob Stoops
Matt Campbell with his $20 million buyout
PJ Fleck
Mark Stoops
Brent Venables
Mike Norvell
Jeff Scott
Mike Leach
Mark Richt
Norvell is an interesting name to keep an eye on.
Clawson will draw some interest this off season.
Sounds like Campbell's buyout makes him unlikely.
I think Fleck is a gimmicky coach, who won't win long term.
Venables might be worth a shot somewhere.
Urban Meyer?
IMO, Mike Gundy should be on any team's short list of candidates. I'd take him at Texas.
Bob Stoops
Matt Campbell with his $20 million buyout
PJ Fleck
Mark Stoops
Brent Venables
Mike Norvell
Jeff Scott
Mike Leach
Mark Richt
Norvell is an interesting name to keep an eye on.
Clawson will draw some interest this off season.
Sounds like Campbell's buyout makes him unlikely.
I think Fleck is a gimmicky coach, who won't win long term.
Venables might be worth a shot somewhere.
Urban Meyer?
IMO, Mike Gundy should be on any team's short list of candidates. I'd take him at Texas.
Does Leach get a shot? I know he has always been at after thought universities in the state, but the FSU program is capital B bad. Their offensive line would make our defensive line look like all americans
I pretty much agree with all above, especially Gundy. I am not sure how an AD would assess, but, I think the "hungry" factor would be so important. Things aren't the best right now at Texas, but, I do know Tom Herman is "hungry". I couldn't say for sure if Bob Stoops, Gundy, Leach, Richt or even Venables might be.
Pretty common for them to use a consulting firm like Korn Ferry to do it even if you have your main guy targeted.
What's his salary? Hard for me to believe it comes close to what FSU could offer, but I could be wrong. (Not that he's hurting for cash or anything.)
Big question is does Stoops want to have to recruit again at the college level?
Yep, very true. CFB is a very different beast, and judging by his personality, I'm sure recruiting was among the parts of the job he least enjoyed at OU.
Korn Ferry gets paid tons of $ to tell you what you already know! I want a gig like that!
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Stoops would fit in fine at FSU. Considering how much heat the Noles took in keeping Jameis Winston eligible, they would consider Stoops a PR upgrade with the way he ignored common decency in playing Mixon and Westbrook.
Herbstreit called stoops this morning and stoops told him that it ain't happening. Per ESPNU radio.
Arkansas now in the mix for a new head coach. Slim Pickens for colleges wanting a new head coach.
I wonder if teams are going to take more chances on NFL assistants. Something about this year seems different about the coaching carousel. Will there be more risk taking or less risk taking.
These coaches like Strong, Taggert, Frost (a case can be made for Herman, but, I am not there yet) are premature rock stars and I would think have many athletic directors very cautious about the flavor of the day.
Then there are the recyclables. There are good recyclable and bad ones. Sumlin and Muschamp I don't understand even for Arizona or S Carolina. They never proved they could do it. Miles at KU or Mack at NC, Holgorsen at UH and even the Richt at Miami before getting axed made good sense. Programs like Kansas know they would be happy alternating between 5-7 win seasons as long as blowouts are limited to one or two and the other losses being fairly competitive. Then the flight to safety-Klieman/KSU are so few and far between-I guess the good recyclables would cross into this category.
What is everybody's thought on Joe Brady, the passing game coordinator/wr coach for LSU? He looks to be up and coming. He is only in his 1st year with LSU and was only with the Saints for 2 years as an assistant. So hard to determine if the stars just happened to line up with the LSU situation and Joe Burrow. Still, the game plan still has to be carried out and it is working big time for them. Seems his best option would be to stay at LSU a couple of years and develop a 2nd QB before taking on an OC
These coaches like Strong, Taggert, Frost (a case can be made for Herman, but, I am not there yet) are premature rock stars and I would think have many athletic directors very cautious about the flavor of the day.
Then there are the recyclables. There are good recyclable and bad ones. Sumlin and Muschamp I don't understand even for Arizona or S Carolina. They never proved they could do it. Miles at KU or Mack at NC, Holgorsen at UH and even the Richt at Miami before getting axed made good sense. Programs like Kansas know they would be happy alternating between 5-7 win seasons as long as blowouts are limited to one or two and the other losses being fairly competitive. Then the flight to safety-Klieman/KSU are so few and far between-I guess the good recyclables would cross into this category.
What is everybody's thought on Joe Brady, the passing game coordinator/wr coach for LSU? He looks to be up and coming. He is only in his 1st year with LSU and was only with the Saints for 2 years as an assistant. So hard to determine if the stars just happened to line up with the LSU situation and Joe Burrow. Still, the game plan still has to be carried out and it is working big time for them. Seems his best option would be to stay at LSU a couple of years and develop a 2nd QB before taking on an OC
Joe Brady will be a head coach within a few years just by what he has done with that LSU offense.
Taking a slightly different approach, Nebraska has given Scott Frost a two-year extension (to 2026) after his 8-13 (likely 8-14 in a half-hour or so) start as NU head coach.
I saw that. I think Frost will turn it around, but, why on earth give him an extension when his contract isn't due to expire until 2024? Stupid.
Nebraska has bought in on Frosty. They believe this is a long rebuild and Frosty has convinced them of such. I have a buddy that's an engineer in Nebraska and all three of his brothers played there and the "midwestern-ness" of their boosters know there's no quick fix to the nebraska problem of recruiting, and they know Frosty knows how to coach, so they are sticking with him.
In a few decades, people will think of the Nebraska program about like they think of Minnesota today.
I guess the main thing I don’t understand is that he has been there two years and he has 5 seasons remaing on his contract. They have 3 more additional years to see what he can do and still have a2 year buffer to renew if the ship isheaded the right way. I don’t get why do a contract for 7 more seasons.
I just told ya.
Look, back in the day, nebraska used to get hundreds of kids that walked on. They were mostly farm kids from rural areas that grew up doing their chores every morning at 4am and watching nebraska football every Saturday. It was a religion. (Think Rudy and Notre Dame)
Nebraska was able to use those spare bodies to stay healthy. Imagine not having to worry about your 2nd a 3rd team players ever getting injured in practice because you had 105 tackling dummies.
Now enter Monsanto and conagra and the super huge industrial farmers. Farms used to be small. And the agriculture became BIG business and many of the mom and pop farmers sold out to the corporate beasts and moved their kids from Tilden into Omaha or Lincoln or completely out of state. Yes, big farming has helped to destroy nebraska football.
Frosty knows this. He also knows it's going to take MUCH longer at nebraska to bring in the recruits than it did in the past. Nebraska hasn't been "great" since before the advent of the smart phone. You ever been to Lincoln? It's not all that. Nice people, but there's not much to do there.
https://www.omaha.com/sports/colleg...cle_dc00dc36-0bd6-11e6-a03e-4fccc11c5b3c.html
Here's a history of the nebraska walk on that ended up getting drafted in the NFL.
