Wisconsin is the job that Nebraska thinks it is.
“Well, I just don’t believe in Dana.”
“Give him time.”
Record scratch … “Time?”
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Good perspective from that O’Gara article. Firing a coach so early in the season doesn’t do anything but hurt the players. Unless you have a coordinator who you think will be the next head coach, just wait until the end of November. Some situations where it makes sense, but not many. Programs are just hoping to start their coaching search early, but does that actually help them?
“Think about that from a player’s point of view, though. You’re being told in the middle of the season that all hope is lost when an 8-month offseason was washed away by 2 or 3 losses in the first part of the season. Sure, not all motivation is lost. But that’s not really what this is about. This is about administrators telling student-athletes that they no longer care about any short-term goals.”
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Did you know that in a chicken house, if one chicken gets a scratch and starts bleeding the other chickens will attack it and start pecking it to death. They also start spreading blood to other chickens who are then also attacked, and it spreads. My relatives in Mississippi have chicken farms where they have chickens to lay eggs they sell to Purina. They have about 50 houses each holding about 5000 chickens. One hurt chicken can just about wipe out the hen house.
The media is like the chicken houses. If they notice any coach having a hard time, they attack just like the chickens in the hen house. They will peck and peck and try their best to create as much controversy as possible in hopes of getting a coach fired so they can then have articles on who will be the next coach – and their next victim. Meanwhile assistant coaches and families all suffer so some self-serving reporter can get some headlines.
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We’re in a transitional phase. Teams are disinclined to wait until the end of the season to fire their coaches, but the other end hasn’t caught up.
The transition will be complete when it becomes unremarkable that a coach at North Texas leaves in the fourth week of the season to immediately start working for Texas Tech.
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GT #4. You could walk 25 from the campus and pass the homes of many FBS recruits.
Academics are the issue.
The recruiting challenge of Colorado #5 is daunting & Folsom Field an awesome setting but its nearly 100 years old.
I feel like there’s a large gap between #1 and #2 on that list, and 2, 3, and 4 could be arranged in any order depending on how you feel about the state of the program. Nebraska reads to me as Texas But Without Access to Texas Recruits, which is…not a job I’d be tripping over myself to accept. ASU is a hot mess, and cleaning that up is gonna present its own set of challenges, but may be an easier job in the short term. GT is Stanford But In Georgia, which reads to me as an upgrade, but your rivals there are Georgia and Clemson, and having annual games against those two is a very tall task.
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Uhhh…our own fans seem to be doing a fine job of attacking our team, our players, our coaches and our school. Nothing to blame the media for. We’ve seen the enemy and it is us.
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We hear complaints every day. Can you imagine living as a chicken in a hen’s house?
S. King new novel coming in time for Halloween.
Charlotte is going to be dreadful in the AAC for awhile.
FIU was whipped at home by UGone. How bad is Charlotte ?
Of the six that were added, Charlotte is the one I can make the least amount of sense of. Their inclusion makes me wonder if Georgia State really did decline. Even if so, and even restricting myself to good markets, I’d have taken ODU. I might have even taken FIU if they had a decent presentation.
That D+ coaching staff at TCU is doing pretty well
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I hear you Pogo.
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Can Charlotte pay more than some of these position coaches are making at Bama, S. Carolina, Texas, etc ?
Nice buyout for Healy.
“If fired after:
2022 season – approximately $1,515,000”
https://www.agent49.net/by-the-numbers-will-healys-contract-and-buyout/
GT simply is not able to recruit the players it needs. While the school may be in Atlanta, it may as well be in Boston at this point. Approximately 40 percent of its students are either OOS or international, and it is about 65 percent male. This is not the sort of place that can get recruits, plain and simple.
I have many friends and colleagues who graduated from Ga Tech, and the three biggest complaints that I hear from them are:
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The school has lost sense of its purpose. It is a public school, but thinks it MIT. If it wants to be MIT, then it should not receive state money. It’s turning away local HS kids with 1300 and 1400 SAT scores, kids of the taxpayers who fund it!
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It accepts too few students. 4,000 freshman in a state as large and as growing as GA is simply not enough. You have really goods students leaving the state and going to Auburn, Clemson, NC State, FSU and Va Tech, no to mention Tennessee and Bama, because of this. There are similar complaints, but less so, for UGA.
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Athletics is not valued and is underinvested in. The school does not put money into athletics. The question now is whether Ga Tech should simply voluntarily drop athletics or go down to say, the AAC or Sunbelt. I mean, even its basketball and baseball teams now suck. At one point, Ga Tech was a power house in both. The MBB Team was in the Men’s NCAA Finals in 2004!
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We think Dana’s contract is bad but its peanuts compared to some of these at other P5 schools.
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Judging from some of the comments I’m seeing on Tweeter, Memphis fans are ready to move on from their HC. They’re saying some pretty nasty things.
If you want to read nasty post about a coach you’ve come to the right place here on Coogfans.
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