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Hopefully this will make a huge impact on the 2018 class.
Now we just need to bring in a big name coach that the top talent will recognize and respect.
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Lane Kiffin & Les Miles sound like the favorites right now. BIG names and excellent recruiters. Lincoln Riley is the dark horse hired. Anyone else, could be anyone’s guess.
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I think they go with Les Miles. We have to wait one more month for Lane Kiffin to arrive and start building. CTO is a wonderful man/coach but doesn’t carry the resume, or the ability to attract young talent.
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I saw something today about Riley being considered for the Oregon job. If so, I can’t see him coming here over Oregon. Between Les Miles and Lane Kiffin, I’m leaning Les Miles at this point mostly because Kiffin has been mediocre at best in his 3 stints as a HC. With Miles, you know you’re getting a guy who knows how to run a program, can recruit lights out, and has a great pedigree. He just needs to either keep Applewhite or find an awesome OC and stay out of the way on the offensive side of the ball. I echo @UofHouston13 regarding Orlando. I think there are just too many question marks about his ability to run a program and recruit. The risk of losing ground is too great in my mind.
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The 4th place team in the American West is the best team in Texas.
Wowzer.
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Yeah. I think Riley is not a great fit here because of the high buyout and stability Tilman Fertitta has preach to the media. I liked, that he said that. Coach Miles has won a couple of NCs. He brings coaching prestige. You think he can recruit better than Hermroids did at UH ?!
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Too many things go in favor of Miles.
- He has the most experience of all the candidates as a head coach at the top level.
- He never finished worse than 8-5 in 11 seasons at LSU and his two losses to unranked teams that got him fired was a premature evaluation because those teams happened to be Wisconsin and Auburn.
- Although he focused on recruiting in Louisiana, his ties to Texas were good enough for him to pull in several ESPN 300 recruits from Texas every year.
- His age is perfect. No long term commitment needed, because the longer he is at UH, the closer he gets to retirement anyway.
I think we’ll be happy whether is Kiffin or Miles.
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I don’t see Kiffin being here for the long haul and may not be interested in putting his commitment in writing. But if Kiffin agrees to a contract that has no buyout or a very large buyout to show his commitment, then I’m good with Kiffin.
As bad as it was for us fans, these players deserve a few years in which they don’t have to be told about commitment to the program over and over while hearing constant rumors that their coach is shopping elsewhere.
Something like 5 years $3.5 million a year.
First 2 years, no buyout, no retirement, no fire.
End of year 3, $7 million buyout both sides
End of year 4, $3.5 million buyout both sides.
Bonuses for conference championships, top 25 finishes, wins against top 25 teams, bowl wins, playoff appearances and National Championships.
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Change this to allow the school to fire him for violating a morality clause (don’t murder anyone, don’t cover up rapes, don’t violate NCAA recruiting rules, etc.), and I think something like this would work.
Sorry, thought “no fire” implied for performance. Contracts are usually voided when it comes to morality kind of like a person getting fired for HR issues as opposed to being laid off. For me it also implies that “no retire” and buyouts are voided if the coach has to retire for medical reasons.
It’s why Leach sued Tech and lost.
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Leach lost because of the sovereign immunity issue - never made it to the merits.
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“State District Judge William Sowder told the school and Leach’s attorney Monday that Texas Tech didn’t violate the coach’s due process rights when he was fired in December 2009.”
Why would a state district judge have any kind of ruling on merits then?
That was a judge in the trial court; however it was appealed. Both appeals yielded the same result - the State didn’t grant permission to be sued, either explicitly or through waiver. Sovereign immunity is tough to overcome.
Sowder’s court didn’t rule on the merits.