Two really bizarre stories I've seen today about coaches being in the mix for open jobs. For one, Dennis Erickson has supposedly been pushing to go back to Oregon State as their head coach. To be fair, he is one of the few modern coaches who has had great success there. He went 31-17 in four years in Corvallis, including an 11-1 Fiesta Bowl season in 2000 that ended with the team being ranked inside the top five. His proposal to the OSU brass reportedly includes a coach-in-waiting situation, but still, Erickson is 70 years old, and he went 35-39 in his last six years of college coaching, one season at Idaho and five at Arizona State. Speaking of Arizona State, the other story is that Herm Edwards is apparently interviewing for that opening. That seems like it would be a disastrous hire. He was an under-.500 head coach in the NFL and he hasn't coached in college at all since the 1980s. Sure, Pete Carroll worked out well at USC after being a mediocre NFL head coach, but that's clearly the exception to the rule here.
Looks like Penn State OC Joe Moorhead is headed to Mississippi State. He's had quite the ascent. As recently as 2015, he was the head coach at Fordham, and his biggest FBS job prior to Penn State was as OC at UConn. The MSU search was so straightforward and professional compared to the searches at Tennessee and Arkansas. They put together a pretty good list (assuming the widely rumored candidates were correct), and then hired a good candidate in an efficient manner. Meanwhile, Tennessee had happen what happened on Sunday, and Arkansas has decided it's a good idea to try to hire a coach and an AD at the exact same time, all the while with no real frontrunners having emerged for the job.
Good hire by Mississippi State. Looks like Tennessee struck out again yesterday as it was reported they were going to make a run at Mike Gundy in which he tweeted last night:
Most people are wrong then, His personality isn't good for the NFL, but he's a great college HC. What Schiano was able to do at Rutgers was truly amazing.
Oklahoma State has always been 2nd banana to OU, not as bad as aTm but the point stands. I respect Gundy for doing what he can and sticking around with the program, for the most part OSU has rewarded him with great job security, and with every Texas school in the shitter outside of TCU, recruiting will never be this good again for OSU.
I want a HUNGRY coach who can take a CHALLENGE. Not Johnny Job Security, where you're so confident you cant be fired you start growing a mullet.
Okie dokie. Maybe he thinks that the Ok St. job is a better job? Every year I hear fans of programs like Tenn, A&M, Baylor and others that think their football programs are better than they really are. A&M is a good but not great job. They will always be below UT.
There are challenges and then there are just messy situations, think Tennessee falls into the latter at this point.
So Bill Snyder is a wuss for staying at Kansas State after turning around the program from a laughingstock to a perennial powerhouse? If you are great, you can be picky, if going to a dumpster fire like Tennessee or Florida where you get fired in 3-4 years if you can't out-recruit and beat Bammer doesn't suit you, then don't go. Florida won the SEC east twice in a row, and fired their coach after one down year, I'd rather stay in the program I built into a perennial 8-4 to 10-2 team then battle Saban, the delusional fans, and the trigger happy AD.
Why are you even yapping about TAMU for? Out of nowhere. Unprovoked. For no apparent reason. Very random and weird. Lulz.
Are you talking about the past or now? Nobody wants Bill Snyder right now. The only person interested in him at this point is the Grim Reaper.
aTm, Tenn, Florida, and ASU are all fine examples of historically mediocre programs/ 2nd bananas in their own state/divison with fanbases and administration acting like not being the regional powerhouse is the exception instead of the norm, with aTm being the one school that the users on the site are most familiar with.
