The NEXT Coach

[Son of Spam]

The only way we will be relevant early, is if we have enough money to outbid other good teams. If not, we will remain where we are. Money will get players. But, other, better teams will also be offering. We will need a hell of a lot of cash to field a better team.

[Show-Me Hog]

You're going to get more "aw shucks" and some people here are going to fucking love getting back to perennial liberty bowls.

What I wouldn't give to be a Liberty Bowl team versus being an 0-fer-conference team (our status before and after being a Liberty Bowl team).

I'm dead serious. The football gods have adjusted my expectations.

[Hognrock]

We have a losing culture problem in addition to a somewhat deficient talent problem.  It's time to wipe the slate clean and start over.  Find someone with a track record of building a program that is young and not looking for his last job before retirement.

It is sickening that all of our SEC losses except Auburn (which was a terrible showing) were one score losses, with most being within a FG.  That is a losing culture that is not accustomed to winning.  ND is really the only game we weren't competitive in.

Culture is hard to fix but in today's era it can be done quickly by flipping a roster.  I don't know who the answer is for HC but we need to move on from Bobby and I love him to death.

[buff2.0]

Wrong fread

[Son of Spam]

Boomer lol

Fuck Bama!

[Barton Fink]

The only way we will be relevant early, is if we have enough money to outbid other good teams. If not, we will remain where we are. Money will get players. But, other, better teams will also be offering. We will need a hell of a lot of cash to field a better team.

Yep.

I fully expect us to have a depleted roster which is a good thing. What we have to spend to replace it with will determine success more than anything.

[Show-Me Hog]

Wrong fread

Right said Fread.

[AporkalypseNow]

One thing about this new era of football, you don't need to give a coach 5 years and rebuilding can be a one year thing.

You can absolutely go out and build a competitive roster in a year, definitely within 2.

Agree that ultimately success is 100% dependent on somebody opening their wallets.  That's how Texas Tech did it, and FFS have any of you actually been to Lubbock?

If our upper level boosters won't spend for football but only basketball, we'll be "mid".  Still, it's not like Indiana and Vandy have $50M rosters.

[Son of Spam]

Just hope we don't spend all the money on the coaches and have none left for players.

[Thin Red Swine]

One thing about this new era of football, you don't need to give a coach 5 years and rebuilding can be a one year thing.

You can absolutely go out and build a competitive roster in a year, definitely within 2.

Agree that ultimately success is 100% dependent on somebody opening their wallets.  That's how Texas Tech did it, and FFS have any of you actually been to Lubbock?

If our upper level boosters won't spend for football but only basketball, we'll be "mid".  Still, it's not like Indiana and Vandy have $50M rosters.

I've been to Lubbock and drove like two hours west of there for work one time. I couldn't believe I was still on the planet, much less Texas. 

[HogOfWar]

Yurachek is entirely culpable because Pittman was not a coach any FBS team other than Arkansas was going to hire.  If you hire him as a "placeholder" then you give him a contract with a one season buyout and guarantee him 3 years and nothing else.

The extension and buyout was inexplicable.  Was Alabama coming for him, come on?

He did a decent job replenishing the roster and building a team didn't look like it belonged in the FCS, but when he peaked it was time to move on.  Two years ago we should've  politely eased him into retirement. With no buyout, it wouldn't even be contentious.

Yurachek is on the hook for that whole scenario.

Nobody else in the FBS would hire Bobby based on his track record post-Arkansas, either. Last season at Louisville made our team this year look exemplary in comparison. If you guys get your way I hope we don't give him an equally dumbass contract because his phone won't be ringing, either.

I do kind of wonder if we even had the requirement to look for another job in Pittman's contract or since it was a given he couldn't get a DI head coaching job anyway they didn't bother.  I mean, not putting it in in the first place is pretty damn telling you don't need a significant buyout.

Pittman didn't do shit. He was lucky to keep the players that Morris recruited with Barry Odom and Kendell Brilesto help shouldering the load. After his super seniors left (as others have pointed out), he was a deer in head lights.

Pittman couldn't recruit,  evaluate talent, coaches, or had a vision for what he wanted.

Besides being told he was a good player's coach from former players, he was hired because all the good coaches are under Sexton and he hates us, so we weren't getting them.

[Cornhogio]

Personally, we are going to suck for the foreseeable future, no matter who we get. The question is, are we going to give the next hire time to right the ship? It is going to take time.

The entire roster needs an enema.  There is rot in the locker room.  I can count on one hand how many players I'd be glad to see back on campus next year. 

[BleedinRed]

Our fans are an interesting group. 

Nicky Saban could have been appointed interim and he would have gone winless with this team.  
And our fans would say he is washed up and shouldn't be hired.  BP obviously isn't Saben but he isn't chopped liver either.  He was dealt a bad hand and has done all he can with Sam's shit sandwich.  I'll always be grateful for his desire to right his wrongs.  

With that written, I will be zero percent interested until whoever they hire wins more than 8 games in a season.  Until then none of it really matters.  

[Ray Zorback]

The only way we will be relevant early, is if we have enough money to outbid other good teams. If not, we will remain where we are. Money will get players. But, other, better teams will also be offering. We will need a hell of a lot of cash to field a better team.

This is where I'm at. I don't see a lot of difference in the coaches we can get, BP included.

I want the one that brings the most booster money with him.

[Guardrail]

I've been to Lubbock and drove like two hours west of there for work one time. I couldn't believe I was still on the planet, much less Texas. 

I drove through Lubbock one time and it was so hot that the AC in my truck stopped working. I thought I was gonna have a heat stroke.

[Spiderham]

I think back to Nick Saban's intro press conference at Bama.
The Bama AD introduced Nick as "the best coach in America".
Nick corrected him.  "I'm not the best coach in America... but I am the best recruiter."

We are not going to hire Nick but let's go find the best recruiter we can possibly find and throw money at our football problem.  I'd rather hire the football version of Guy V Lewis that can recruit the football version of Phi Slamma Jamma over some X and O guru that draws up gee whiz plays and has a Chad Morris like playbook that it takes us years to learn.  Where is a young Jimmy Johnson?

[HogOfWar]

It is not just better recruiting that we need to do, it is retention of good players. The current state of college sports is not conducive to allow that unless we open up the coffers.

We only play twelve games and cannot wait till November to put the pieces together like basketball where we might make a run in March. You are either good or not.

[Barton Fink]

Recruiting = NIL. Coaches are secondary to money today.

[Borenutz]

Recruiting = NIL. Coaches are secondary to money today.

Disagree somewhat. Need both but I think the latter can still overcome some NIL shortcomings

[animal]

Credibility > MONEY > NIL > Recruiting > Retention & Development