2013 College Football Coaching Carousel thread...

While not the smoothest in how the Kiffin/Orgeron transition played out, I think Haden did the prudent thing here. Give O a shot at running the table or, at least, giving the program a shot in the arm on the way out the door. Orgeron did that, to his credit.

Yet, even three weeks ago, I didn't think he would be the right hire.

Orgeron might be the girl at the bar willing to do anything and everything you ask her to do... she'll dress up like a sexy cop for you. She'll do the stuff that you only read about in criminal complaints. it works for a few weeks.

But when you look her past and at her failed marriage that was like three years of domestic police calls in a trailer park (Orgeron going 3-21 in SEC at Ole Miss), Haden/USC retreat to the bathroom and think, "wait, you're Don Draper. You can do better."

 

What has Sarkisian done that warrants what is essentially a promotion?

I just don't see whatever it is USC sees. He's a good recruiter, but as far as game coaching. Nope.

 

Here we go. Bodie pissing on the guy as he walks out the door.

 

I never liked the hire.

I always wanted Mora as UW coach.

I really want someone to explain to me how you reward a guy who is 24-21 in his tenure as a head coach?

 

Wake Forest should be considered one of the all time great jobs if people are even a little surprised when a coach making $3M a year resigns after going 5-7, 3-9, 6-7, 5-7, and 4-8 in his last five seasons.

 

He took over a team that had gone 0-12, had them 5-7 the next year and in a bowl game a year later. No, they haven't been great, but it can take years to undo the damage done by a predecessor, who by most counts, just gave up.

 

This line of argument is disingenuous to say the least without acknowledging the condition of the program he inherited. UW's record the 5 years before Sarkisian:

2008: 0-12
2007: 4-9
2006: 5-7
2005: 2-9
2004: 1-10

THAT'S how.

 

Nick Saban was 25-21-1 in his first 4 years at Michigan State. Just sayin' ...

 

Don't gimme that 0-12 shit, read this:

http://seattletimes.com/html/budwithers/2022382058_withers03xml.html

 

Haha!

That's a good one, Bodie.

I didn't realize Bud Withers was such a butt-hurt Husky.

They were 0 and fucking 12.

 

I know a lot of people like to say, "Well, there's nowhere to go but up." when taking over a program that has bottomed out, but the coaches who can pull a team out of the cellar have to work so hard during recruiting and just changing the mindset by the players and how people across college football look at the program.

Sarkisian did an amazing job at Washington. I can't believe people are acting like this is a bad hire because he hasn't won a conference title in five years after the program was almost inarguably the worst school in a BCS conference in the country.

 

I don't think it's a bad hire for USC. I think it's an average hire.

You're USC, the premier program in the western US, you can throw a whole lot of money at anyone you want to coach a team that just has to open its back door to get a top 20 recruiting class every year and you go for a guy who is a very average gameday coach?

Sark is a great recruiter, no doubt about that but as far as gameday coaching, I just don't see it. He had as much talent as any UW team this season and he still was 8-4.