Coaching Hot Seat and Searches

[Thin Red Swine]

4 more wins over the last decade and it's the better program...Is that the point you want to press?

Okay, if you want to look at it over the last 5 years then it's Ole Miss with 38 wins vs Auburn with 32.

It's not that big of a deal. I agree that historically Auburn is the better program, and with more prestige than OM, but I think Ole Miss is trending up and right now is a better job than Auburn. If you disagree, that's okay too.

Yes, we can agree to disagree.

[buff2.0]

Could be soon

https://x.com/walterkfriedman/status/1835338535945064591?s=46&t=DTGVKlgNTKh5Nq29PdZsdg

[jdcatty]

Kinda find it hard to believe since I haven't seen anything about them firing Napier other that these posts at 10 something this morning.

[Thin Red Swine]

Da Gatah will probably beat inept MisStake next week, then get a week off before what could very well be Florachaggie fighting for his job against Saint Gus the week after that.

If they don't beat Cowbell Aggie, then the bye week would be the time to make the move. 

It's inevitable, just a question of how much embarrassment they'll let him cause.

[TC]

Da Gatah will probably beat inept MisStake next week, then get a week off before what could very well be Florachaggie fighting for his job against Saint Gus the week after that.

If they don't beat Cowbell Aggie, then the bye week would be the time to make the move. 

It's inevitable, just a question of how much embarrassment they'll let him cause.

Florida needs to throw the bank at Stoops and give him a big Nil budget. The problem for Florida is they have the Auburn disease. Expecting top of the pack results when paying middle of the pack salary. Napier is at somewhere around 7.5, and Stoops is at almost 9.

Yes, Kentucky is paying their football coach around $1.5-2mm more per year than both Florida and Auburn. "But it's the better job" is antiquated thinking unless you're ready to go for broke, because your half-life just resulted in a natty, or fired in 2.5 years.

This years coaching search is gonna be interesting.

[piglosopher]

Florida has Lane Kiffen written all over it

[Hizog]

Florida has Lane Kiffen written all over it

This is my hope. Not for Florida's sake, but for ours.

[animal]

Kiffin is more likely to take a championship ready made situation over having to rebuild. Though anymore you can flip a roster in one off season if you wanted to.

Florida tends to hire up and comers even Meyer was. Weird there really isn't much out of that tree that made much account as a head coach off the top of my head. Mullens? Oh yeah been done.

We dodged a bullet with Napier...he interviewed when we hired Chad. Fritz I believe ended up being possibly the better choice and he was the one floated that everyone poo pooed.

Arkansas has to wait for a time when half the SEC isn't looking for head coaches and strike. Otherwise there is a bidding war and coaches are going elsewhere...hence Kiffin to Ole Miss. Drinkwitz to Mizzou.

This off season could be that right time to pull the trigger.

[DirkPiggler]

Florida has Lane Kiffen written all over it

I see Drinkwitz being their guy.  He's kicked their asses and taunted them after.  Spurrier attitude in a librarian's body. 

Getting him out of Missouri would help us as well.  Would love for them to hire someone for whom Arkansas isn't the coach's personal Super Bowl every year. 

[Show-Me Hog]

Fritz I believe ended up being possibly the better choice and he was the one floated that everyone poo pooed.

This sentence put bad visions in my head.

[buff2.0]

Going to be interesting with Drink already being a $9 million coach at Mizzou.  Florida think bumping him to $11 mil is the answer? 

[DirkPiggler]

Going to be interesting with Drink already being a $9 million coach at Mizzou.  Florida think bumping him to $11 mil is the answer? 

Don't think it would just be about money.  He'll have access to higher quality athletes in far greater numbers at UF.  Plus all those guys who wear visors have fantasies of being the next Head Ball Coach.  The thought of having the office once occupied by Spurrier would make Drink's little pee pee tingle.

[animal]

I think a lot of the same names will be up again this season for jobs barring contracts they can't get out of easily.

Chris Klieman
Joey McGuire
Barry Odom
Jeff Traylor
Lance Leipold
Jason Candle


Names to watch on the rise

G. J. Kinne
Jake Dickert
Jamey Chadwell



A couple of these guys like Traylor and Liepold don't have as good of teams this season so their stock may fall. Dickert I believe has a decent team at Wash State and may be in line for a big job at the end of the season.

Not listed but Dillingham at Arizona State could be another interesting name to look for. Especially if FSU opens as that offense seems to have went to shit since he's left. Hammock at North Illinois has some good pub but I don't necessarily see him leaving his alma mater but if he wants to get into the elites he's not going to do it there.

[piglosopher]

Don't think it would just be about money.  He'll have access to higher quality athletes in far greater numbers at UF.  Plus all those guys who wear visors have fantasies of being the next Head Ball Coach.  The thought of having the office once occupied by Spurrier would make Drink's little pee pee tingle.

Your arguments for Drink could apply to Kiffen as well, except cheaper and Joey Freshwater gets to look at hotter Coeds.

Both have the douchebag visor thing going on though.

Either hire helps us.

[piglosopher]

Drink is insufferable and Kiffen...was, but slightly more likeable now. Both have their teams in the top 10. We had the opportunity to hire either...but we hired Sam.

Florida isn't going to go after Sam

[DirkPiggler]

Your arguments for Drink could apply to Kiffen as well, except cheaper and Joey Freshwater gets to look at hotter Coeds.

Both have the douchebag visor thing going on though.

Either hire helps us.

I just think Kiffin is in a better situation at Ole Miss than Drink at Missouri.  If I had the choice I'd definitely take Lane.

[vegashog]

g j kinnes is currently 10-6 at texas st., the redwolves hung 77 on them last year. i just don't get the hype.

[Texzilla]

Coaching hires are so much more complicated now vs olden times.  One, even assistants are making huge money and wives like setting roots and keeping kids in the same school a bit instead of moving around every year.  They are like other younger folks and also look at quality of life, pressure, stress, windshield time, etc. 

Next, with NIL, the portal, media, the "brand" of legacy schools isn't as important.  A savvy coach can recruit and pay and move quickly to get a lesser program moving. 

Sam doesn't fit any checkbox one needs in a football coach, whether OG or new school.  JFB would have run his ass off.  Who were his OL coaches?  Folks like Joe Gibbs. Jimmy Johnson.  Wonder who prime JFB would hire?

[BleedinRed]

JFB would probably hire Ken Hatfield and pass on Switzer and Johnson.  He would then follow that up by hiring Crowe and Nutt.  

Frank wasn't exactly great with his coaching hire decisions.  

[animal]

g j kinnes is currently 10-6 at texas st., the redwolves hung 77 on them last year. i just don't get the hype.

Perhaps the body of work isn't good but a good season this year puts him in the conversation I believe. Texas State was competitive against Arizona State for what it's worth, beat UTSA which has been a good program the last few years. We'll see how it shakes out. They may be on the move up.