While some of y’all have been sitting around for a week .. bitching and moaning about Dan, the SEC has made three coaching hires ..
Georgia .. fires Mark Richt, coming off a 9 win season, and hires Kirby Smart, DC at Alabama. Smart may be the answer at Georgia but he has never ever been a HC at any level and he just spent the last 7 years as DC for Nick Saban .. the real DC at Bama. Still scratching my head over this hire.
South Carolina .. Spurrier announces his ‘retirement’ in early October and after two months, USCe hires Will Muschamp, DC at Auburn. This is the same coach that took over at Florida .. which was coming off two SEC Championships, two national championships, 5-1 bowl record, and 65-15 record under Meyer. Same Florida that has a huge budget (2[SUP]nd[/SUP] highest in SEC) and a state with some of the best football talent .. and proceeds to go 28-21, loosing complete control of his team. Same Muschamp that just made the Auburn defense actually look worse than Ellis Johnson did .. again losing complete control on the Auburn sideline. USCe spends 2 months searching .. and ends up with Muschamp? Just don’t get it.
Missouri .. Pinkel, the ‘winningest’ Miss’ou coach ever (117-71)), announces his retirement in mid-November after a troubled year. Same Missouri team that Pinkel has taken to nine straight bowls and has been to the SEC Championship game 2 of the first 3 years that the Tigers are in the SEC. Missouri hires Barry Odom, current DC as HC after a two week search. Odom, does have HC experience .. he coached HS for two years before he came back to Missouri as a GA. Appears to be a good DC .. but has ZERO HC experience in CFB.
Summary .. 3 hires in the SEC East (the ‘easiest’ of the two SEC Divisions) and NONE inspire ANY confidence, whatsoever. Where are the ones mentioned on the MSU boards? The ones just dying to get into SEC Coaching .. Chip Kelly, Fuente, Herman, Rich Rodriquez, Jimbo Fisher, Fedora, Gary Patterson? Three SEC HC openings and all three end up with unproven (or in Muschamp's case .. a proven failure) DCs?
Where's the Beef?
Georgia .. fires Mark Richt, coming off a 9 win season, and hires Kirby Smart, DC at Alabama. Smart may be the answer at Georgia but he has never ever been a HC at any level and he just spent the last 7 years as DC for Nick Saban .. the real DC at Bama. Still scratching my head over this hire.
South Carolina .. Spurrier announces his ‘retirement’ in early October and after two months, USCe hires Will Muschamp, DC at Auburn. This is the same coach that took over at Florida .. which was coming off two SEC Championships, two national championships, 5-1 bowl record, and 65-15 record under Meyer. Same Florida that has a huge budget (2[SUP]nd[/SUP] highest in SEC) and a state with some of the best football talent .. and proceeds to go 28-21, loosing complete control of his team. Same Muschamp that just made the Auburn defense actually look worse than Ellis Johnson did .. again losing complete control on the Auburn sideline. USCe spends 2 months searching .. and ends up with Muschamp? Just don’t get it.
Missouri .. Pinkel, the ‘winningest’ Miss’ou coach ever (117-71)), announces his retirement in mid-November after a troubled year. Same Missouri team that Pinkel has taken to nine straight bowls and has been to the SEC Championship game 2 of the first 3 years that the Tigers are in the SEC. Missouri hires Barry Odom, current DC as HC after a two week search. Odom, does have HC experience .. he coached HS for two years before he came back to Missouri as a GA. Appears to be a good DC .. but has ZERO HC experience in CFB.
Summary .. 3 hires in the SEC East (the ‘easiest’ of the two SEC Divisions) and NONE inspire ANY confidence, whatsoever. Where are the ones mentioned on the MSU boards? The ones just dying to get into SEC Coaching .. Chip Kelly, Fuente, Herman, Rich Rodriquez, Jimbo Fisher, Fedora, Gary Patterson? Three SEC HC openings and all three end up with unproven (or in Muschamp's case .. a proven failure) DCs?
Where's the Beef?
