The NEXT Coach

[BASS]

I say go all in on Chesney at James Madison

[Borenutz]

We all knew Bobby needed to win two games at least. Those two are L's. There's no wins left on the schedule. He's not going to be retained and that's fine, even as a fan of him. It sucks that this team is devoid of talent, and maybe not all his fault but it is what is. His HC time is likely done and we have to move on. I was on team Bobby after atm, on fence after aubbie, now back on burn it down mode.

[rzrbkfan69]

UAB and Kent State are still open so thats a big no for Gundy

Kent St already gave their interim the gig.

[Barton Fink]

Assuming AU fires Freezus, you have the following jobs open. If Whisky fires Fickell, I'd put them right above us. Same goes for Dabo and Clemson (which is possible).

Penn St
FL
LSU
AU
Arkansas
OSU
UCLA
Va Tech

Let's assume Kiffen stays put. These are the commonly mentioned coaches for openings.

Franklin
Kelly
Napier
Golesh
Sumrall
Morris
Chesney
Jimbo

At best we're the fifth best job with a
pool of hopeful candidates. I think a lot of these schools are gonna be unhappy with their hire.

[flash23]

What happened to Franklin going to VTech? Talking heads on the twitters were acting like it was a done deal just a couple of days ago.

[Spiderham]

What happened to Franklin going to VTech? Talking heads on the twitters were acting like it was a done deal just a couple of days ago.

"Things changed"

[Barton Fink]

Hokitorian out...

[vegashog]

the names being mentioned for pedo st are guys we were never going to look at anyway. hartline, elko, and jeff brohm. we aren't competing with them for a coach.

auburn hasn't had a winning season since 2019 and and if freeze is fired it will be 4 coaches in the last 7 years. that they are 'above us' is imo, debatable.

it will come down to if the fat cats will put a pot of money together. if that happens, outside of lsu and florida, i like our chances against the rest.

[Barton Fink]

Agree of PSU but I think Auburn is a better job. They've won a title and made it to the title game in the last 15 years. They recruit better year in and year out. Much better local talent pool as well.

[Son of Spam]

Maybe the big named coaches who have been fired don't want to coach any more. Maybe they are tired of the portal fiasco, NIL, and all the other BS they have to deal with in coaching. Give me 53 million and I will go off and live very happily all the rest of my life with hardly any worries. I think we may see people we have never heard of coaching before long. Maybe even some HS coaches hitting the college ranks to make their millions.

[animal]

The only way anyone will be convinced they can win at Arkansas is IF they know they've got a fat wallet backing their play. Lets be honest a lot of schools will have that. There really isn't anything we offer that other schools can't offer and more plus not stressed as much about recruiting ground. 

The in-state talent isn't here. What little there is ends up going elsewhere because we place almost zero interest in it even though historically a lot of that kind of talent has shown to win football games. Admittedly you have to go back to the Petrino/Nutt years since our last drove of in-state talent that was consistently worth a damn. 

In a perfect world you would be looking for the coach that can be resourceful...does more with less kind of guy because that's what we're facing. We're fielding a team of basically 40 guys that are probably paid pretty good to lose games. We have to find a way to have more like 60 serviceable players out of 105 or whatever the number is. That means somehow we have to build it up from high school players in a age where that shit doesn't work...AND RETAIN THEM.

Who here thinks Russell, Jackson, and some other younger guys will be on the roster next season? I'd say it's doubtful.

[Barton Fink]

Agree. We are not an attractive program today.

[bigpig]

I agree with those who say Bobby wasn't given a fair chance to earn the job for next year. I agree with those who want poetic justice with him coming back after he was wrongly fired. I agree with those who say if he was given a huge NIL budget he could make a lot of noise.

I also think, on a practical level, it's not likely he'll get the job solely because he lost two winnable games in a row. Excuses are what they are, but results matter more, and I think losing vs Auburn and Miss State makes it where Hunter or whoever is making the hire can justify hiring him.

It's not fair but neither was the way the game was officiated last night. We still lost.

[Pig Benis]

We'll probably be lucky to get a sitting G5 head coach.

[Barton Fink]

I thought it was a long shot he gets the job when promoted. Too much stink within the program to hire someone on staff. It was gonna take miraculous effort for him to get it.

That said, everyone else firing their coach is gonna make things interesting. I just don't see a candidate out there I trust can win more than Petrino.

[mr.zorak]

Petrino has stepped into a tough situation this year.  They are playing hard but the defense is just not able to keep up unfortunately.

[Pig Benis]

I thought it was a long shot he gets the job when promoted. Too much stink within the program to hire someone on staff. It was gonna take miraculous effort for him to get it.

That said, everyone else firing their coach is gonna make things interesting. I just don't see a candidate out there I trust can win more than Petrino.

I agree but will be surprised if it happens at this point. If we do end up with him we'll know exactly how this job is perceived by other coaches.

[Borenutz]

We'll probably be lucky to get a sitting G5 head coach.

Disagree with that. I think we could have our pick of ones that aren't hired by the more attractive openings. There may be a few  that wouldn't jump based on situation (geography, ties to school etc) but most of those coaches would likely be at least doubling their pay and money talks.

[Barton Fink]

You don't hear much chatter about coordinators as potential candidates. Any worthy options there? There doesn't seem to be many long standing coordinators like there used to be.

[Pig Benis]

Disagree with that. I think we could have our pick of ones that aren't hired by the more attractive openings. There may be a few  that wouldn't jump based on situation (geography, ties to school etc) but most of those coaches would likely be at least doubling their pay and money talks.

I meant a good one. I know there are plenty of Chads who will take our money.