I do not think it is THE solution, but Ken Niumatalolo is a hell of a coach, and if the best way is to get slightly less athletes, but with good grades and who are tough winners, OK, but Vandy cannot and will not compete in the SEC as it is.
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I do not think it is THE solution, but Ken Niumatalolo is a hell of a coach, and if the best way is to get slightly less athletes, but with good grades and who are tough winners, OK, but Vandy cannot and will not compete in the SEC as it is.
Where was this reported?
Agree 100%. Lea gives Vandy a shot to be similar to Pat Fitz’s Northwestern: mediocre to bad a lot of years with a magic season mixed in with older players every so often.
ahoelsken
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Northwestern's been mediocre to bad under Fitzgerald? WTF are you talking about? This is his 15th year at Northwestern, and he's gotten them to bowl eligibility 10 times (using that figure because who knows what the hell bowl season will look like next month).
Perhaps, but that wasn’t ever explicitly stated. He did say he was a “bad fit” for Berkeley, but I doubt that LBGTQ had much to do with anything on the football team. In any case, SMU is a good fit for Sonny and doubt he leaves unless it’s a clear step up in a part of the country he wants to be in, namely Texas.
Sonny Dykes: Cal Was a Bad Fit, Considered Leaving
Sonny Dykes joined the High Motor podcast to talk about his career, why Cal wasn't a good fit and more.
herosports.com
It worked pretty well for Paul Johnson at Georgia Tech, also a tough place to recruit to.
Bowl eligibility does not exclude mediocrity.
ahoelsken
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Meh. They're also likely to win the division for the second time in the last three seasons? Fitzgerald's done a hell of a job there.
Bowl eligibility (despite how hard CU makes it seem) is a pretty meaningless metric. Fitzgerald is a good coach who has a pretty mediocre record overall at Northwestern. Both can be true.
Yes, but for northwestern extended mediocrity with flashes of good is their ceiling.
I would say Fitzgerald and Northwestern have been mediocre to good. He has a .565 win percentage, which puts him 6th among active BIG coaches. The last five years they've won 10, 7, 10, 9, and 3 games.
This. Northwestern is experiencing their pinnacle of football success right now. Northwestern and Vanderbilt are two very similar situations.
CULifer
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In the B1G, even if the B1G West, that's doing a hell of a job at a school like Northwestern, imo.
Bert.
It's well known. There are very few coaches who can run a successful program if they can't call their players fags for going to class.
Sonny Dykes is half the football coach that Wilcox is currently at Cal and it will be proven within a few more years. SMU probably peaked last year.
Source? Or I call BS.
Believe his reply was sarcasm.
Source for the sarcasm?
Link?
Me? Nah.
Yes. Which may mean it works for him there and he would flop elsewhere. Finding the right coach is not easy, even for blue bloods.
The last thing any program should do is box themselves into having to hire one particular candidate or a type of candidate (an option coach for example).
That's fair.
ahoelsken
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Can he win championships if he gets that job? No. Nobody can. Can he win 4-6 games a year there? Yes.
BehindEnemyLines
beware the habu
I agree with your point but there are outliers. Wisconsin is 1 example of hiring coaches that perpetuate one certain style of play.
ahoelsken
Well-Known Member
Not that as much as Cal's academics. I think he's at SMU for a while TBH-unless Texas Tech or Baylor opens.
DeNiro
My Dixie Wrecked
You just described FHCMM
ahoelsken
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Report: Hugh Freeze would prefer to land with the Tennessee Vols
A to Z Sports Your On-Demand Sports Talk Show. Live Weekday Mornings at 8am in Nashville, Dallas, and Kansas City.
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I think this one's happening this offseason.
BehindEnemyLines
beware the habu
Report: Hugh Freeze would prefer to land with the Tennessee Vols
A to Z Sports Your On-Demand Sports Talk Show. Live Weekday Mornings at 8am in Nashville, Dallas, and Kansas City.
I think this one's happening this offseason.
The proverbial match made in heaven?