2013 College Football coaching carousel

Television station reported Auburn looking at Shawn Watson. Isn't he something like Chizik's record at HC??

ANd Versatile, you can bet that it's Gruden or bust in Knoxville. Petrino or Fulmer in Kentucky (Either is a good hire) and Tubbs would easily be in Hog Country with one phone call.

 

Tuberville's a pretty good coach, but I don't think he should "scare" anyone ... unless your team has a horseshit coach itself.

 

Fulmer at Kentucky would be a disaster. What does he bring them, a national championship 15 years ago? He'll have a few nice Rich Brooks-like seasons, but I doubt that'll satisfy the rich UK mob.

 

Well, as you can see, it was his work that made Tennessee relevant. He would win 7 games a year on average and make 3 bowls every 5 years. That would be a good career at UK.

 

For a brief period yesterday, Bovada let you wager on whether or not Chizik would be Auburn's head coach next season. And astonishingly, "No" was getting +135. I did what any sane person would do and bet it. Five minutes later, it was off the boards.

Apparently, "No" was +150 at one point.

I'm just wondering if they pay out when he's fired, when the new coach is hired, or the date of the first game next season.

 

He's not when you factor in all the baggage. You can't hand a million dollar contract to a guy just a few months removed from lying to is previous employer and setting said employer up for millions of dollars in lawsuits.

Banging a hot former volleyball player wouldn't be enough to keep from hiring the guy but banging a hot former volleyball player you hired and lied about it to your boss is enough.

 

I don't think he was interested last time... I think less people want that job than people seem to think...

 

Those would all be good hires... I kind of think Strong would be a better fit at Arkansas than Auburn. I think Petrino will be at a SEC school next season. Gruden would be a home run for the Vols. If Kentucky can get Petrino, they should do that in a heartbeat, but he might be a tougher sell at a public school than at a private school. I don't know if Auburn wants him, but that seems a better fit than Kentucky.

 

Are you kidding? Have you seen what an unmitigated disastrous shitshow UK fooball has become? They'd LOVE to return to the Rich Brooks level, that's life in the luxury penthouse compared to where they are now.

The "rich UK mob" saves its irrational expectations for the basketball court, where they are as irrational as any irrational mob anywhere in sports. But in football they take a distinctly different approach.

 

If not Petrino, who at Kentucky? Sonny Dykes? Tuberville? Koetter?

I don't think any would be a bad hire.

 

Dykes or Neal Brown at Texas Tech.

 

Stoney, the rich mob is never happy, anywhere.

And maybe that's where I needed to clarify my point. There always (with rare exception) is someone, very high up the food chain, suggesting the head coach isn't doing a good enough job. See Bobby Lowder in the '00s.

The mob is much bigger at SEC schools than even 10 years ago, and than at many schools. You get a taste of winning, you can't go back. LSU's football program was a walking disaster in the late '90s. Very quickly the expectations got ratcheted up again.