That’s what I’m saying. The talent is now spread out a lot more within the big conferences. It’s gonna be harder than ever to steamroll the rest of a really deep conference. None of the big boys are going to be patient with a coach that stumbles. A really good season at Georgia, Alabama or Texas will need to be no more than two losses. Just get into that playoff.
Brian Kelly
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Can you imagine if LSU dug up the money to pay Brian Kelly, paid Cignetti’s buyout and then reset the market with the richest contract for him? Louisiana is the most talent rich state in the union. I think those Bayou hillbillies are crazy enough to make a run at him.
yes, I think the hc role made him put the rb coach role on the back burner...it seems like every so often the team catches fumbelidus..
dan and buck, then Ron brown had them doing something with tennis balls and a chain link fence...then when rhule started it was 2 hands on the football for a season....a funny one was when a rb was carrying the ball around with him all the time, and sipple told him he might take it away
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That may be but u still have to wait till next year to fire him. Or u do it in 2002. Doing it in 2003 made our fans seem unreasonable.
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AD's are in a tough spot because most schools, real schools, want to win games, a lot of them.
You have programs that have no pressure, iowa, minny, NW, MSU, Purdue, and so on...
But other schools are just insane. I know there are fans here that think the coaches like the fans but again, the coaches hate us. We are annoying to them.
You have programs that have no pressure, iowa, minny, NW, MSU, Purdue, and so on...
But other schools are just insane. I know there are fans here that think the coaches like the fans but again, the coaches hate us. We are annoying to them.
This.. the whole NIL thing threw a lot of programs off, and some that capitalized on it early to great success, however once things settle down with the rules etc, those that got thrown off, may find it easier to get back on and return to their prior success tier. Not guaranteed, but I thought the Penn State move was way short sighted and others are making similar knee jerk reactions..
Some haven't navigated NIL as well, and fear they are on the cusp of missing out, when they see a handful of teams all of a sudden in the top 25 that never used to be there, and their own team starts performing poorly.
I do think a smart AD is going to understand that to be successful, they have to balance their NIL budget with the type of system that they are going to run, coaching and staff salaries and sizes etc. Throwing money at problems is successful to a certain point, but can easily be overdone. Administrations need a CFO (if they don't already have one). Someone who can manage all the different sources of capital and expenses, and tailor those in such a way to give a team an edge.
For some teams, they could do with less administrative staff and that extra million dollar player or two, while other teams need less spent on NIL and more spent of student retention and facilities.
Teams that were great at "cheating" before might have a hard time adjusting.
I imagine LSU BELIEVE’s the sting of his buyout will be mitigated by him getting a new job with a longer contract somewhere else. Hell he’ll probably get a pay raise.
This is what I was thinking as well... the Dude is good enough that he's gonna get picked up somewhere good with all the vacancies out there so do it now so they can reap the biggest offset to his contract... That is unless he goes Full "Coach O" and says F'it an retires with the cash
...and some of the Assistant Coaches stopped doing their jobs like they had under TO.
90% of our fans weren’t unreasonable. A few of the ones that write big checks were unhappy with Frank and Pedie thought that gave him a license to fire Frank. I think Pedie was either a year too early or a year too late to have the fan base think it might have been reasonable to fire him.
Frank wanted make changes right away but TO said no. Coaches like Young and Darlington etc. got lazy and stopped recruiting. Crouch was good enough to cover up the issue. Steve P . Didn’t like Frank personally because of Franks “ of field “ issues. It was more of a personal firing than a professional one.
Close enough. Frank’s recruiting philosophy was a big problem as well for Pedie who had been Tom’s recruiting coordinator.
I’d be very surprised if cig left. People have to stop paying attention to the name on the helmet and look at the monetary investment. Indiana has big program money. He isn’t going anywhere.
Yeah, people said the same about DeBoer and Washington (and many others along the way). And Washington is 10 times the football program Indiana is. But the lure of an Alabama was still too much to turn down.
First off, no one said that about DeBoer. And it’s not even close to the same. Indiana is spending bama money. Washington isn’t. Until people accept the fact that Indiana is out spending most of college football, you won’t understand what is happening there. They’re winning with real talent and good coaching. They bought and paid for it. Pretty simple. Nothing magic.
Absolutely one year late….i still can’t understand why he allowed Frank the opportunity to make changes which proved to be successful yes there were bad losses but got back to 9 wins and fired him. What a moronic move.
Ed Orgeron wants his old job back. Maybe a coincidence, but he'll get his final buyout payment in December.
Indiana was a program that for 100 years accepted its fate, as a loser FB program with no chance of doing anything...
Then NIL hit and they have a few super rich boosters and it all changed for them.
This is just like when one high school dominated in a town/city...and then another new high school opened up. That new school gets some kids that would have been (starters) at the old school and all of a sudden, things start to change.
You can look at a school like Creighton Prep, for years they were able to dominate. Then Millard North opened, the Millard West, Elkhorn South, Elkhorn North, Skutt...
Once those schools stole a would be Prep starter here and there, it all changed.
Indiana can snag players now too.