2019 College Football Season Thread

[Ronin]

Although Willie's ego must be bruised mightily, that $17 mm buyout he will receive should alleviate some of the pain.

A list of my viable candidates ( but will FSU have enough $$$$$ left after buyout to land one )

1. Mike Leach WSU HC. (why not, he could actually recruit D players there)
2. Mike Norvell Memphis HC
3. Mark Stoops ( not Bob ) Kentucky HC
4. Jeff Brohm Purdue HC
5. Dave Clawson Wake Forest HC
6. Luke Fickell Cincinatti HC
7. Lane Kiffin ( he has learned to behave @ FAU)
8. Sonny Dykes SMU HC
etc.

FSU is a recruit landing spot and also a minefield.

Report: FAU's Lane Kiffin Interested in FSU HC Job After Willie Taggart's Firing

https://bleacherreport.com/articles...ed-in-fsu-hc-job-after-willie-taggarts-firing

 

[Ronin]

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[Dback Jon]

Although Willie's ego must be bruised mightily, that $17 mm buyout he will receive should alleviate some of the pain.

A list of my viable candidates ( but will FSU have enough $$$$$ left after buyout to land one )

1. Mike Leach WSU HC. (why not, he could actually recruit D players there)
2. Mike Norvell Memphis HC
3. Mark Stoops ( not Bob ) Kentucky HC
4. Jeff Brohm Purdue HC
5. Dave Clawson Wake Forest HC
6. Luke Fickell Cincinatti HC
7. Lane Kiffin ( he has learned to behave @ FAU)
8. Sonny Dykes SMU HC
etc.

FSU is a recruit landing spot and also a minefield.

I wouldn't touch Brohm or Kiffin.

 

[Ronin]

7 year deal for P.J. Fleck. He stays in Minnesota thru 2026

 

[Ronin]

Brian Murphy

@murphmedia_

Minnesota AD Mark Coyle said coach P.J. Fleck's new salary on seven-year extension is $4.6 million, which puts him among top 10 head coaches in Big Ten. There is a $10 million buyout if he leaves early. Contract is guaranteed at 65 percent.

 

[Southpaw]

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Stoops coached in the state of Florida once upon a time. He was Steve Spurrier's D C at U of Florida.

 

[Southpaw]

If Stoops came in and brought the Air Raid to the state of Florida with the in state player recruitment base. He could own it and the ACC in 2-3 years. Outside of Clemson the ACC is 2nd tier.

 

[Southpaw]

Seems Mike Leach wants no part of that job citing "athletic Dep't dysfunction and ineptitude". Couldn't agree more.

https://sports.yahoo.com/the-bad-ne...t-worse-before-they-get-better-235857444.html

The sing-song Florida State chant that provided the soundtrack for college football for the good part of a generation has been muted. The gold helmets, elite talent and assembly line of NFL stars that were inherent to Florida State are now firmly part of its history. It’s a history that FSU is stuck in, which is the problem with their upcoming coaching search.

The Florida State football program is facing a crisis, as a program steeped in lore inexplicably got so entrenched in the past that college football has passed them by. Here’s the bad news for Florida State fans in the wake of firing Willie Taggart: The university and athletic department are horribly positioned to catch up.

Florida State should be an elite destination for a college football coach who can roll out of bed and win double-digit games. But it’s unlikely that a high-end Power Five coach would risk leaving a stable situation for Florida State right now, as it’s still being run like it’s 1988.

Florida State football is a monster truck with a rusted-out four-cylinder engine. FSU is shiny and imposing from the outside, but so antiquated administratively that many top coaches will be scared to even take a test drive. “Even though it’s a trainwreck because of the university’s dysfunction, it’s still a top-10 job,” said a collegiate official.

That’s the dichotomy facing the coaches who FSU will attempt to lure. The problem with Florida State is that the university’s mismanagement of the athletic department for decades has undercut the attractiveness of the football job.

How did we get here? A pivotal touchstone would be when athletic director Stan Wilcox left FSU for the NCAA in August of 2018.

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Former Florida State coach Willie Taggart watches his team play Wake Forest during a game on Oct. 19. (AP)
First of all, no sane person voluntarily goes and works at the NCAA in this era, especially from a high-end ACC job. Wilcox’s departure was widely viewed in the industry as him running for greener pastures. Or any pasture. And the fact that FSU swung and missed on so many athletic director candidates to replace him speaks volumes. They ended up with an internal candidate named David Coburn from the campus administration because they struck out so hard. He went from interim to full time in May of this year, and all of college athletics chuckled along while FSU buried itself deeper by anchoring down with one of its own.

None of the established candidates for this job know David Coburn, which means they will be hesitant to work for him. That’s mostly because he’s not expected to be there long term. Neither is university president John Thrasher, who is expected to retire after this year. That’s not to mention shadow AD Andy Miller from Seminole Boosters, who is also planning to retire. No one ever really knew who was in charge at Florida State. And for coaching candidates, well, they still won’t.

Coburn’s clumsy “hit by a bus” comments that exposed his naïveté to the nature of coaching searches." data-reactid="43">The new Florida State coach is projecting to jump off a plank and hope it works out at a place that needs a DeLorean to catch up. To established coaches who preach alignment, stability and relationships, that’s a non-starter. Urban Meyer’s name shouldn’t be mentioned here, and that has nothing to do with Coburn’s clumsy “hit by a bus” comments that exposed his naïveté to the nature of coaching searches.

Meyer would be more likely to go back to the MAC than walk into the administrative mess at Florida State.

Also, Florida State finally announced a restructuring to bring the Seminole Boosters into the athletic department. This is stuff that’s kept FSU so lodged in the past, as this transition should have happened back when SMU was giving out cars to recruits.

What happens when you have this level of administrative uncertainty? You end up paying more than $3 million to hire Willie Taggart (in addition to another $1.3 million to South Florida for the remainder of that deal) and then fork over more than $20 million to buy out him and his entire staff. That’s not just expensive ineptitude, it’s historic.

 

[Ronin]

Primetime is a head coach candidate for FSU?!?!

 

[Ronin]

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[Ronin]

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[Ronin]

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[Southpaw]

Primetime is a head coach candidate for FSU?!?!

Jesu Gristo. FSU can't be serious?

 

[Southpaw]

College coaches on the Hot Seat

https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...io-among-college-football-coaches-heating-up/

Difficult to determine which job comes with the shortest HC leash. College or NFL.

Highliting that list ( in my opinion)

1. Clay Helton USC

New AD, Urban Meyer waiting in the wings.

2. Kevin Sumlin U of Arizona

Only his 2nd year but.... he may be the king of over rated HCs. U of Houston, Texas A & M, Arizona Wildcats. Luke warm success.

3. Mark Dantonio Mich State

Too many player scandals with too little in the win column. Plays dinosaur ball. Never lives up tp preseason hype ( stupid preseason polls ).

4. etc

 

[Ronin]

Adam Schefter
@AdamSchefter


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1h​

Today’s Alabama-LSU game features 24 players
@McShay13
currently deems draftable prospects. Talent all over the field in the much-anticipated game​

 

[Ronin]

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[Ronin]

4 game suspension looming for Chase Youg

 

[Ronin]

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[Ronin]

Touchdown Penn State!
7-7

 

[Ronin]

Touchdown Minnesota!
14-7

 

[Ronin]

After the first period Minnesota leads 14-10.

 

[Ronin]

Minnesota with the interception.
Still 14-10

 

[Ronin]

Touchdown Minnesota!
21-10

 

[Dback Jon]

Boo birds out in Fayetteville.

28-7 Western Kentucky in the 2nd

 

[Ronin]

24-10 Minnesota