The NEXT Coach

[vegashog]

silverfield had 70 transfers this season. knows a little about building a team quickly.

and his wife's last name is the same as his, and she's a doctor. someone be fucking with wiki.

[PorkyPig]

Also, "Silverfield has two dogs, Sadee and Cooper, and is married to lobbyist and Memphis native Katie VanLandingham."

No way we can hire a coach whose wife has a name like that. 

How about Manfrenjensenden?

[TC]

Any coach we might want would be a huge success at another school but will flop horribly as coach here.

Doesn't matter the coach.

I will always wonder how Kiffin would've worked out here.

[Feral]

I will always wonder how Kiffin would've worked out here.

"I will always wonder how [insert coach we didn't hire who went on to have success elsewhere] would've worked out here" is tale as old as time for Arkansas football.

[BleedinRed]

"I will always wonder how [insert coach we didn't hire who went on to have success elsewhere] would've worked out here" is tale as old as time for Arkansas football.

Was about to post the same thing.  The number of coaches who had connections to the program or state and who went on to win hugly is impressive. 

[Thin Red Swine]

At this point I'm fine with a coach using us as a stepping stone because it'll have meant he had success here.

There's always the chance they could fall in love with the place. Ole Miss was a stepping stone for Kiffin but he still hasn't gone anywhere.

Excellent point. We still have to go all the way back to Nutt to find a coach who went directly somewhere else, and back to Hatfield who went directly of his own volition (and even THAT was sketchy). 

[Borenutz]

It him or Petrino for me. He won pretty big with Cornrows players, then fell off for 2 years, rebuilt and is 29-6 the last 2 seasons and this year so far.

I think Petrino would be better. Of all the G5's being mentioned, I think he'd be much better over the next 3-5 years than any of those.

I'd love to see the vaunted glued in HTL's list of candidates that are way higher than him. But we all know that is just a fake persona and that he knows nothing.

Either way, I'd just love to see our athletic department actually vet viable candidates instead of taking recommendations from the likes of Jerry jones and Gustavo malazan and have some sort of plan for the future.

[Borenutz]

Excellent point. We still have to go all the way back to Nutt to find a coach who went directly somewhere else, and back to Hatfield who went directly of his own volition (and even THAT was sketchy). 

We should be grateful to be used as a stepping stone at this point. That's not a knock on us, but you'd have to be uber successful to have success here and be entertained for a bigger job. You're talking maybe 20 schools at most.

[vegashog]

per biddy fwiw:

four p4 hc coaches 'very interested', two from b10, two from acc. judging from his comments a couple of days ago, one of the b10 guys is franklin. looking at 6 g5 guys, and two from the nfl (not hc). bp still in it but that was before yesterday's game.

off topic, someone told him there is some 'concern' about dvh. none other than porkryan confirmed saying he's not happy about the settlement split.

also cal is owed a 'loyalty bonus' of $10 million after five years and that's being paid by stephens.

again, take it fwiw.

[buff2.0]

Cool, but recent coaching searches have taught me not to trust a word from any of those slapdicks.

Kinda need to know more about DVH though.  Or maybe someone please tell me there's another DVH that I'm not familiar with.

[TC]

"I will always wonder how [insert coach we didn't hire who went on to have success elsewhere] would've worked out here" is tale as old as time for Arkansas football.

So what's your point? That it's a fruitless exercise? Thanks for that riveting information, I guess.

[Borenutz]

Cool, but recent coaching searches have taught me not to trust a word from any of those slapdicks.

Kinda need to know more about DVH though.  Or maybe someone please tell me there's another DVH that I'm not familiar with.

Yeah. What is the settlement split?

[Feral]

So what's your point? That it's a fruitless exercise? Thanks for that riveting information, I guess.

I wasn't being an asshole. Hiring the wrong coach and seeing the right guy go somewhere else and win while we play with our food for a few years is woven into the fabric of the DNA of our football program and Kiffin is the latest in a long string of guys we could have had but stomped on our dicks like we always do.

[Feral]

per biddy fwiw:

four p4 hc coaches 'very interested', two from b10, two from acc. judging from his comments a couple of days ago, one of the b10 guys is franklin. looking at 6 g5 guys, and two from the nfl (not hc). bp still in it but that was before yesterday's game.

The Big Ten coaches are no doubt Franklin and Odom. Odom probably would've had the inside track if he'd stayed at UNLV and kept winning instead of jumping to Purdue where he'll likely finish 2-10 this year.

The ACC coaches are a bit of a head scratcher. Lashlee can't be one of them since he reportedly already turned us down and signed an extension at SMU. Maybe Cornrows is trying to get a landing spot for when he gets canned at FSU? Probably also someone also like Doeren or Wilcox trying to get out of town in the same manner.

The G5 guys are probably the usual suspects of Golesh, Sumrall, Morris, Silverfield, Chesney, though not sure who the 6th is. Maybe Kinne or Mullen.

Wouldn't be shocked if one of the NFL guys was Kingsbury.

I think Petrino's totally out of it unless we inexplicably beat Texas. 

[buff2.0]

I'm just prepared to be whelmed

[Feral]

I think Petrino would be better. Of all the G5's being mentioned, I think he'd be much better over the next 3-5 years than any of those.

I love BMFP but I also think we have to start thinking long term and get away from this notion of a short term 'bridge coach,' which is what Pittman was.

[Pig Benis]

Yeah. What is the settlement split?

Revenue sharing

[Feral]

Revenue sharing

What was DVH upset about? The percentage allocated to baseball?

[bigpig]

I'm sure Bobby wouldn't stay as OC if he doesnt get the gig, but he'd be a great OC for Odom

[animal]

We no doubt have had Big 10 coaches write letters.