Player’s perspective: An insider’s look at what it is like to see your coach leave for another job

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@CougarRed2013 (Ty Cloud) wrote this one. Good look into the locker room:

https://houstonsportsandstuff.com/2016/12/01/players-perspective-an-insiders-look-at-what-it-is-like-to-see-your-coach-leave-for-another-job/

Editor’s note: Ty Cloud is a former University of Houston offensive lineman who was part of the Cougars when Kevin Sumlin bolted for A&M. He provides his take on what it is like for a player in that situation and will be a regular contributor to Houston Sports and Stuff.

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FWIW, it’s pretty revisionist to say the 2011 coogs weren’t anticipating a move to a power conference. Remember, at that point, we had just been invited to the Big East, which was a BCS conference at the time. Boise hadn’t backed out yet. Our basketball team was still going to a conference tournament at MSG. The C7 were still in the league, as were Louisville and Rutgers. That didn’t really start falling apart until the end of 2012.

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Ty was and is a great Coog but a Coach that is not fully invested is prone for failure.
scumlin and th failed because they were not fully invested. Ty knows that the difference between a win and a loss is now very minimal.
Ask yourself this question:
Would a Southern Miss player be motivated to play against an undefeated and highly ranked Team?
You all know the answer. It applies for both Coaches. Ty knows it.

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Southern Miss played their butts off, cost their team a bus load of BCS money, lost their coach, and went 0-12 the next season. I’m not crediting them with much.

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How about Western Michigan?

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Here’s a question – what if coaches that tend to lose at the end of the season leave because coaches that lose at the beginning of the season don’t have as good of a resume for the same jobs? Like, it’s easier to justify the hype behind a coach when they’re, say, 9-0 rather than 7-2, even when they’ll both wind up finishing 10-2.