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2022-23 college football coaching carousel

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by dixiehack, Sep 19, 2022.

  1. LanceyHoward

    LanceyHoward Well-Known Member

    Thanks for the correction>> that is one reason I gave up on journalism as a career option. To many mistakes in my copy.
     
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  2. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    I'm not questioning his sanity, I'm calling out his hypocrisy.
    He sold his taking the job at Jackson State as a nobler calling. He sold his high-end recruits on coming to Jackson State instead of a traditional football factory as a nobler calling.
    And then the first chance he got, he threw all that in a dumpster and chased the money.

    I think we all recognize that the coaching profession is almost always about staying one step ahead of the booster posse that wants to take you down after the first 5-7 season. Most coaches, though, don't try to pretend that they're in this business for more than winning football games and making money (for themselves and whatever program is signing their paychecks at the moment). If they make some lives better in the process, give some kids an opportunity who might not otherwise get it, that's a great perk. But at the end of the day their primary jobs are to win games, put asses in the seats, and bring in tons of money. If it works out well the personal goal is to move up the ladder.
    Deion played a different card. From day one he portrayed his mission there as something bigger and grander. He played that up on every front, trying to portray himself as some sort of savior of SWAC football. It was to the point that this season he was taking credit for the huge crowds at other stadiums in the league as well as at Jackson State. He was playing everybody. In the end, he was only ever using it as a steppingstone job the same as any other coach would.
     
  3. micropolitan guy

    micropolitan guy Well-Known Member

    Yeah, I can buy that. But color me shocked that a college football/basketball coach turned out to be a hypocrite.

    OTOH, he probably was the reason road crowds for Jackson State games were so large. So he did get that part right.
     
  4. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    I would think if there’s one group that intimately knows college football coaches are 100% hypocrites, it’s college football players.
     
  5. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    What could be more American than being an idealist until there's more money in not being one? Anyway, that was about the only pitch Deion could use for Jackson State. His pitch for Colorado will likely be, uh, more worldly.
     
  6. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    Sanders is a selfish piece of shit. This is not news. I'm not dismissing your point. You are absolutely right. I'm just saying that it shouldn't surprise anybody that Sanders would act like a lying hypocrite.
     
  7. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    Oh, he definitely did do a lot to raise the profile of Jackson State and HBCUs as a whole. You can't deny that. I just think that, leaving now for the first P5 job that came along, he also showed how much of his message was complete and utter bullshit. It's distasteful.
    And don't get me wrong, I'm not saying he needed to stay there another 20 years. Maybe just one or two more. Cycle through one recruiting class and do what he said he would do by getting some of his guys to the NFL from an HBCU. Start layering in a recruiting class or two so that whoever succeeds him doesn't flop next year, and maybe even pledge not to take any transfer portal guys from JSU rather than openly campaigning for them to come. Couch it all by saying he'd done what he set out to do, and now he wants to give someone else the opportunity to build on it (something he could've done now, but hasn't).
    I guess it just seems like, even if he was obviously chasing the money, there was still a classy way to camouflage it a bit and he hasn't made one attempt to do that.

    One gesture he could make that would be interesting, and would go a long way toward helping what he said he was trying to do in elevating HBCUs, would be to schedule Jackson State for either a paycheck game in Boulder or take a one-off road trip to Jackson for a reduced guarantee. Jackson State plays in a 62,000-seat stadium that would sell out in a minute for that game. It wouldn't be like taking a road trip to some dumpy 20,000-seat FCS backwater.
    The Pac-12 has made some inroads in scheduling true home-and-home series with SWAC schools for basketball. I wonder if that's something they would actually consider for football, as a one-off deal?
     
  8. FileNotFound

    FileNotFound Well-Known Member

    You hit this square, @Batman . Nobody is asking “Coach Prime” (ugh) to be Eddie Robinson. Just would have been nice to have seen him show maybe a tad bit more integrity. And maybe I’d think differently if he had left for Miami or FSU, but Colorado is just so out-of-left-field.
     
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  9. Justin_Rice

    Justin_Rice Well-Known Member


    Agreed with everything you're saying.

    In the end, Coach Prime didn't transform anything but his paycheck.
     
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  10. exmediahack

    exmediahack Well-Known Member

    I never have a problem with a talented person, like Deion Sanders, increasing his profile and his paycheck.

    My issue just comes from Colorado buying a lottery ticket on this but we all know the results. It's one of two paths...
    - Go 8-28 in three years and Deion/Colorado part ways
    - Go 2-10 and 5-7 in Year 2 and Deion goes to Miami or Auburn as their next coach.

    I don't see any of these making Colorado a better program.
     
  11. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    I'd love to read an article from a coach or former coach who explains all the behind the scenes dealings when coaches are in the process of ditching their teams for another job. How quickly it happens, who do they confide in, how many lies they have to tell etc.
     
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  12. Slacker

    Slacker Well-Known Member

    Disgust and anger are fine, but there should be no surprise.
    Neon Deion has always been a self-serving attention whore.
     
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