Lebby: counterpoint
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when you hire junior high coaches like Arnett and Lebby but turn your nose up at Brian Kelly and Jeff Gundy ? Reminds me of the super smart fans who said HOFer Mike Leach wasn’t any good and held Weekly polls to fire him during a 9-4 season.
To be realistic Brian Kelly or Dabo would never take this job. Best bet is to hire successful veteran g5 or d2 coach
For the “we improved talent” crowd, I don’t follow this stuff closely, but I felt like after the portal I just felt “we completed failed on improving our OL”. Then we lost our LT. we were high on some of our OL portal guys in the last couple years, but they didn’t pan out, and I don’t even remember hearing anything positive at that position during the last recruitment cycle. I just remember our LT pipe dream didn’t work out then our backup plan didn’t have eligiblity
Honestly, if Dabo Swinney can't win at Clemson, I don't think I want him here anyway.
What's a 5* or 4* ??? Are we suppose to have those type of guys?? Asking for a friend.
I didn't hire Lebby and I wouldn't have hired him if it was my choice, so you're not talking about me.
I would not have hired Lebby either but probly would have made a worse choice. Crapshoot at best. I dont understand hating on Loadholt tho. He was hired late last year. Missed the portal and had to grab guys in the spring. He has not been here long enough to be grade imo. We will see this year tho
The absolute best thing we could do is paint ourselves as is a place to resurrect your career. Sherrill got his 2nd chance here.
Ole Miss hired Kiffin as a second chance after he flopped at USC.
We should 100% hire a guy that has won big before, but flamed out of his last job at the end. Jimbo, Ed O, Brian Kelly, Gundy. These guys have won or played for a title. Do that instead of hiring no name Charles Huff.
People want to say Jimbo sucks! He got fired by A&M he sucks! Well, he’s won a national title. I’d be fine having a national championship winning coach as the coach of MS State.
We’re not getting a sitting P4 coach. So we can hire a coordinator, which many would complain about, or a G5 coach, which many would complain about.
Or we could think outside the box for once and give a guy a second chance.
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The OL portal haul wasn’t as bad as others make it out to be. McVay had a solid spring at LT he was recruited as the starter had Seaton not jumped in the portal. Sneh was signed as Jayvin James replacement he was a little on the small side. But UAB screwed that up on his eligibility. Chester was a freshman all sec at LSU. Steen returns after being one of the most sought after RT in the portal last spring. We just beat out AU and ARK for the Mercer guard who was all conference in that league. On3 has our portal class ranked 13th ahead of OM FYI.
I'm skeptical that Jimbo or Brian Kelly would win big here.
...however I'm quite certain that they would be better than 7-18 (1-15) if they had been our coach for the last 2 years. Either of them probably has 10 or 11 wins and we'd all be expecting another bowl this fall.
It was ok. But heavy on future potential and zero experience. Won’t be much help this year if any. And can go back in the portal in January.
McVay started games at bama and UNC. Chester started as a freshman LSU Steen started at UVA Boone has started games here last year. This doesn’t count Mathew’s from FSU and Prudhomme