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The 2020 COVID Coaching Carousel

TSchekler said:
This is probably the correct answer for Vandy
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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.
 
CarolinaBuff said:
Lea is probably their best, most realistic candidate. If he doesn't take it then I agree that Healy would be a good hire
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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.
 
manhattanbuf said:
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.
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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).
 
Rob DeVere said:
Sonny got tired of the political correctness, the academics and LGBQ stuff at Berkeley!
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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.

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ahoelsken said:
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).
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Bowl eligibility does not exclude mediocrity.
 
ahoelsken said:
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.
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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.
 
Darth Snow said:
Yes, but for northwestern extended mediocrity with flashes of good is their ceiling.
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This. Northwestern is experiencing their pinnacle of football success right now. Northwestern and Vanderbilt are two very similar situations.
 
TSchekler said:
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.
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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.
 
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.
 
Darth Snow said:
Yes, but for northwestern extended mediocrity with flashes of good is their ceiling.
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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).
 
Duff Man said:
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).
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That's fair.
 
4BienemyTDs said:
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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Can he win championships if he gets that job? No. Nobody can. Can he win 4-6 games a year there? Yes.
 
Duff Man said:
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).
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I agree with your point but there are outliers. Wisconsin is 1 example of hiring coaches that perpetuate one certain style of play.
 
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