The NEXT Coach

[Pumpkin Escobar]

I thought Campbell turned us down last time around? Would be a good hire if true. I figured he wanted a Big10 job.

[animal]

we're still in the "You'll never guess who it is" stage...is it ever who anyone says it is until about 2 or 3 hours out before the announcement?

Jake Dickert (Wake Forest) I think would be another interesting choice...got that makes out with shit resources dna we're looking for and still manages to field a competitive football team.

Campbell would be that guy you hire because you need a name and he really should have already bounced from Iowa State. He's 45 and still has a lot of tread on the tires...likely still has some great years of coaching to go yet. Does he really want to spend those years slogging it out in the SEC with Arkansas? Doubtful. Also if the tea leafs are correct Missouri could open if Dork goes to LSU when Kiffin doesn't take that gig. Missouri immediately becomes a much better job than Arkansas which is fucking sad.

The new SEC scheduling model may have some impact on how we're percieved because we're not always going to be getting ass pounded by Alabama every single fucking year. Instead we'll have our salad tossed by a variety of teams.

[bigpig]

I could get excited about Campbell, especially if he gets a top name OC

[BleedinRed]

I can't believe you guys are talking about Matt Campbell as an exciting hire. 

He has fielded a team that has won more than 8 games in a season two times (9 and 11 wins).   He has one season where he has won more than 10 once (11 wins). 

He is a lifetime 8 win coach.  I guess his 1-1 record in the Liberty Bowl excites the base.

There are much better options so hard pass. 

[DirkPiggler]

I can't believe you guys are talking about Matt Campbell as an exciting hire. 

He has fielded a team that has won more than 8 games in a season two times (9 and 11 wins).   He has one season where he has won more than 10 once (11 wins). 

He is a lifetime 8 win coach.  I guess his 1-1 record in the Liberty Bowl excites the base.

There are much better options so hard pass. 

He wins 8 a year that historically (like over the last 100 years, not us since 2012) won 4 or fewer.

The only other coach to leave there with a winning record in the last 100 years is Earle Bruce who was 36-32 when he left for Ohio State in 1978.   Before that the last one left in 1919.  Campbell has their only 10+ win season (2024) and one of their two 9 win years. 

The only reason he might be willing to leave is that ISU has supported NIL even less than we have.   Campbell took a $1MM pay cut last year for that money to be diverted to their NIL efforts. 

Iowa State was as bad as Vanderbilt historically if not worse before Campbell got there.   

[vegashog]

He wins 8 a year that historically (like over the last 100 years, not us since 2012) won 4 or fewer.

maybe some of these guys need to actually look at their program history.

https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/iowa-state/index.html

[Barton Fink]

I can't believe you guys are talking about Matt Campbell as an exciting hire. 

He has fielded a team that has won more than 8 games in a season two times (9 and 11 wins).   He has one season where he has won more than 10 once (11 wins). 

He is a lifetime 8 win coach.  I guess his 1-1 record in the Liberty Bowl excites the base.

There are much better options so hard pass. 

Who are these better options you speak of?

[Show-Me Hog]

He wins 8 a year that historically (like over the last 100 years, not us since 2012) won 4 or fewer.

The only other coach to leave there with a winning record in the last 100 years is Earle Bruce who was 36-32 when he left for Ohio State in 1978.   Before that the last one left in 1919. 

The only reason he might be willing to leave is that ISU has supported NIL even less than we have.   Campbell took a $1MM pay cut last year for that money to be diverted to their NIL efforts. 

If he can do that at Iowa State just think what he can do here!  WATCH OUT KIRBY SMART!

I don't think that computes.  I just wanna beat Dorkawitz.

[HTL]

I can't believe you guys are talking about Matt Campbell as an exciting hire. 

He has fielded a team that has won more than 8 games in a season two times (9 and 11 wins).  He has one season where he has won more than 10 once (11 wins). 

He is a lifetime 8 win coach.  I guess his 1-1 record in the Liberty Bowl excites the base.

There are much better options so hard pass. 

Fucking clown.

[DrMongoose]

I can't believe you guys are talking about Matt Campbell as an exciting hire. 

He has fielded a team that has won more than 8 games in a season two times (9 and 11 wins).   He has one season where he has won more than 10 once (11 wins). 

He is a lifetime 8 win coach.  I guess his 1-1 record in the Liberty Bowl excites the base.

There are much better options so hard pass. 

How many times have we won 8 games since Bobby 1.0 ?

Sam's 9 win season was a result of Covid - everyone else's good players left for the nfl so we had the oldest team of super seniors which as we saw proved to be a one off as it was not sustainable.

A 10 win a year coach isn't walking through that door, we are dead fricking last in the SEC RIGHT NOW. 

We can't beat Missouri much less cover the spread.

We are looking at our THIRD WINLESS SEC season under the current AD.

Wake up to the reality of the situation. Your mentality is exactly why we are mired in shit right now because you refuse to see the reality of where this program and sport is while hugging on to memeories of 1964 and 2012 cause it gives you warm fuzzies.

Hopefully Campbell, if it is him, brings the Iowa state AD with him.

[DrMongoose]

Note: he is doing this in Ames, fricking Iowa and I believe many wanted Gary Patterson to come here, so.....

Campbell is the winningest coach in program history, surpassing Dan McCarney during a magical 2024 season. He enters his 10th season with a record of 64-51 in Ames and his winning percentage (55.7 pct.) is also the best in school history. Additionally, no Cyclone football coach has more conference wins (45) or a better conference winning percentage (55.6) than Campbell.

Campbell's 45 Big 12 Conference wins are tied with Gary Patterson (TCU) for the seventh-most in league history.

National rankings and bowl berths have become the norm thanks to Campbell's leadership. The three-time Big 12 Coach of the Year (2017, 2018, 2020) has led the Cyclones to winning records and bowl games in seven of the last eight seasons, including a school-record five straight from 2017-21, and regular appearances in the national rankings.

The 2024 Cyclone football team rewrote the record books, finishing with an 11-3 record as it recorded the first double-digit win season in the program's 133-year history. The team tied for first-place in the Big 12 regular-season standings, reached the program's second conference championship game, both of which have come under Campbell, and defeated No. 15 Miami in the Pop-Tarts Bowl.

[Mazeppa Pompazoidi]

I can't believe you guys are talking about Matt Campbell as an exciting hire. 

He has fielded a team that has won more than 8 games in a season two times (9 and 11 wins).   He has one season where he has won more than 10 once (11 wins). 

He is a lifetime 8 win coach.  I guess his 1-1 record in the Liberty Bowl excites the base.

There are much better options so hard pass. 

Based on your criteria for judging a coaching hire, you would've also been a hard pass on Nick Saban before he went to LSU.  His record at Michigan St. is very similar to Campbell's at Iowa St.

[The Whyte Boar]

Based on your criteria for judging a coaching hire, you would've also been a hard pass on Nick Saban before he went to LSU.  His record at Michigan St. is very similar to Campbell's at Iowa St.

That's exactly what I was thinking about.  Not to say he is Saban or we are LSU, but very similar records.

[BleedinRed]

Fuck it.  I have seen the light.  Hire Campbell.  We can repeat the process in 5-6 years.

Edit: it is funny to me that we have historically ragged on the Big 12 as being a shitty conference that only had two good teams year in and year out.  Now we want to hire a guy who led one of the worst teams in that conference and he is sold as the next Saban. 

[DrMongoose]

Whoever it needs to keep the top in-state talent home. Pittman has maintained the border as well as Biden did.

Bryant has 2 kids committed to OU and one to Missouri., that is shameful, thanks Sam.

[bigpig]

Hiring Campbell out of Iowa State is like Penn State hiring Franklin out of Vandy.

[BleedinRed]

Based on your criteria for judging a coaching hire, you would've also been a hard pass on Nick Saban before he went to LSU.  His record at Michigan St. is very similar to Campbell's at Iowa St.

Now Campbell is the next Saban?  

Jesus take the wheel!

[The Whyte Boar]

I remember when LSU hired Saban and people were talking it being a great hire.  I looked at his record and I was like, WTF?  He seemed pretty mediocre.

[Mazeppa Pompazoidi]

Now Campbell is the next Saban? 

Jesus take the wheel!

Oh yeah, that's exactly what I said.  The more and more I read your posts, I'm beginning to suspect your just another screen name for HTL, and you're just trolling us.

[Son of Spam]

Since there are so many better programs than ours looking right now, we will end up with the leftovers. So, look for us to be looking again in about 3-4 years.