Terry, The players would have lined behind that coach that left Alabama to go to A&M but he left in the middle of the night and didn't tell them that he was leaving. :lol:
As you know any coaching change is never easy nor fast to adapt to new schemes and coaching. I feel for AJ and the Huskers and the Gators as well. Twenty years ago the Paterno's, Bowdens and Switzers did have off years where they had to regroup after losing seasons but did so in a time before instantaneous communication, unlike in this era. This era demands 24 hour coverage of every player candidate offered a scholie down to how the mascot is having a bowel movement that day. College football is higher academic related in name only honestly, it is winner takes all with no time for patience or tradition outside of what the network wants to push on that particular weekend's match up. If the University is not sold out to achieving this goal then they will fall by the wayside as such programs like Pittsburgh, Miami etc....Keep up with the ever increasing intensity or become stepping stones for those that will. It is this intensity that pushes major donors of each University to accept no perceived weakness, treat it like the business it is, unplug the old and plug in the new potential AD, Coach and players. Tell me this doesn't sound like a version of the NFL, just win baby....
Rumor has it.....you guys are gonna love this.....that the new HC coach announcement will happen at the NU/Creighton men's BB game this Sunday at the Pinnacle Arena in Lincoln.........another rumor has it that sweater vests are on back order at Husker Hounds..... In another rumor....Oregon's AD has asked that everyone please respect the fact that they're getting ready for the PAC 12 champ game....... I know....just rumors.......but this is kinda fun.
Jim Tressel is under the NCAA "Show Cause" sanctions till 2016 so that makes him a rather unlikely candidate not to mention that when he took the job as President of YSU he announced he was done with coaching.
I wonder what will Hoke's fate today? ND faced a similar situation at the end of the 2008 season with Charlie Weis. The season was not good and he lost again to USC, he was sort of in Limbo for about a week while our AD decided what to do, eventually bringing him back for 2009. That of course didn't work out. I have to assume that he got the extra season not because there were clear indications that things would be better next year but because the AD just didn't have it together to do a search. If Hoke comes back you have to wonder with the AD issues that UM has had if they decide to give him another year if for no other reason than they aren't really ready to do a search or feel they have a candidate who is clearly better. On Harbaugh, lot of talk of course about him and his future with SF. Most of it centering on trading him, which the Raiders did with Gruden to the Bucs but it's not done very often. While this year has not been a good one for SF, Harbaugh still has the 2nd best record in the NFL during his time in SF. Only Jif's coach has a better record. I would think that, unlike a player who can be traded and baring a no trade clause has to accept that or retire Harbaugh would not have to accept that and could almost name his job in College or the Pro's.
A lot of coaches are going to get rich this Christmas season with all the rumors that will be going around, AD's will be offering their coaches extensions and raises.
Kind of ironic that on the day Brady was fired, Rodriguez was named the P10 coach of the year. I guess I was in the small minority thinking that Hoke would be given another year given that this year's team was so young. Really seems that in terms of job longevity, there is not much difference between being an NFL coach versus coaching at a major university. If the Harbaugh scenerio does not play out, my guess is that Miles or Schiano will be the next HC at M.
Couldn't see the lips but I think I can tell the name. First, the new coach will fail. Second, his name is Olden Von Floppin.