Well Don... getting a job for $8-10 million a year at a place with Florida's resources would not be a hard sell to just about anyone. Not saying your guy will leave, but nothing would surprise me due to the numbers now in play...
Hope this doesn’t happen. Lane Kiffin Is Not Going To Leave Ole Miss For Florida As Jimmy Sexton Prepares Huge Contract Extension
LSU fired Kelly and there is a lot of speculation that they go after Kiffin. I’m still optimistic for the Gators but worry about LSU.
Scott, if they wave that kind of money at Hartline, he will be hitting the internet researching Gainesville luxury homes and the best sun tan lotion for UV protection. His ability to recruit NFL ready receivers is off the charts.
While there is no doubt that Hartline loves it at Ohio State and as Bobda noted is the best recruiter out there, esp for WR. But how long will he be happy as a OCoord at OSU when he's being offered big time jobs with big time money? If it were a situation where Ryan Day was in his 70's and Hartline was the coach in waiting, like Jimbo was for Bowden at FSU, then sure he probably not interested in Florida or LSU or any other place. But Day is relatively young and seems to be a fixture in Columbus and settling in for a long run.
I guess it is inevitable when you're as successful in a high profile job with the visibility that Hartline has received that eventually the offers will get to be too big to ignore. In our favor are several things.....1) he is a Buckeye to his core, born and raised in Canton and an alum and one of those guys that bleeds scarlet and gray. 2) He has a very young family, 3 young children and met his wife at Ohio State and Momma Hartline is a Columbus gal. 3) He had a pretty successful NFL career, 7 years or so and $20 million in earnings back when $20 million was really $20 million so he's not going to be as money motivated as many other young coaches and can afford to be more selective in his choices. That said, the dude is an alpha competitor and no doubt at some point will be drawn to want to test his chops as HC at the right spot, in the right situation. My prayer is that it takes him a few more years to decide to make the leap although he did play the majority of his NFL career in Miami so there is that....
There are guys who don't desire to be Head Coaches, I guess. But they are few and far between. Everything you say though is pointing towards he can be very choosy about his first head coaching job, doesn't need the money, likes where he's at at the moment, but unless Day goes to the NFL and the Ohio State job opens up he's got to leave Columbus. Guys like Brent Venables who stayed as Coordinator for a long time, did so because they weren't offered jobs or jobs they wanted. Venables left Bob Stoops and OU for Clemson because he believed he needed to show how good he was had nothing to do with Stoops being the real DCoord at OU. But he still had to stay quite awhile. You remember Mickey Andrews, Bobby Bowden's DCoord? He reportedly always hoped he'd get a shot at a HC job but supposedly was a terrible interview and never did get a job , or at least an offer he was interested in taking. Is Hartline now fully in charge of the offerense, calling plays and all that stuff? If he's not then I wouldn't hire him at Fla, LSU or Penn State. Maybe like Urban Meyer he would have to go to the MAC first and build his CV that way.
You guys forgetting all the morons that were calling for Ryan Day's firing after last year's Michigan loss? I figure the administration will be smart enough to be immune to those dummies even if we should lose this year...but the pressure mounts.
I would put it this way.....he is fully in charge of coordinating the development of the game plan and calling the plays of Ryan Day's offense. At the end of the day, this is still Day's offense, he's an offensive guy and that will always be in his DNA. That said, Hartline has been around a long time, knows Day well and clearly given his time as a WR in the NFL can bring alot of valuable insight into a sophisticated passing game that Day likes to put on the field. Not unlike what Chip Kelly managed to bring last year to tweak Day's offense to inject some new wrinkles to kick start the run game after the OL was hit with the injury bug deep into the season last year. Agree with your points re: Hartline, if he wants to do it which I suspect he does, he will have to leave eventually but is in the enviable position of being able to choose his spots
I liked Joey Freshwater before it was acceptable. I don't see Lane leaving Ole Miss. He's got family and roots there now.
I'm not sure a leopard can change its spots. There is going to be a lot of money flying around and there are going to be several bidders for his services. With the transfer portal and NIL, the whole landscape has changed.