Random thought with the coaching changes this year:
Florida, LsU and USC were all hunting for coaches and LsU landed Brian Kelley, and USC stole Lincoln Riley. 4 years ago AM stole jimbo fisher from FSU… how come when Texas was searching last year with no competition they landed the stud himself Steve sarkisian?
If you sit back and think how 3/4 schools mentioned landed big fish, and 1 didn’t with really no competition in the coaching market it really puts persepective to the current state of some programs around here…..
Urban Meyer mentioned ut lacked commitment, he was reffering to money offered to come to ut. Sark fell for much less.
When people bring up his failures in the playoffs to Bama - who wasn’t getting pounded by Bama? It’s a real topic to be able to recruit in in the south w/o restrictions compared to ND. He’s a smart guy and will bring a lot more to the table than Coach O. He will bring discipline and structure to a new level that has not been at LSU in a while. It’s a good hire.
Riley says in that interview that his first contact with USC was 11:00 on Sunday morning after Bedlam. So they negotiated the contract, he talked to his family and accepted by early that afternoon? Hmmmm....
Good luck this week! I think Mullet takes cares of business and gets in the playoff
Texas took a swing at the biggest fish, Urban Meyer and while it looked good for a bit, he decided the NFL was his next gig. Texas was also firing a football coach in the middle of a pandemic where they cut salaries and jobs in the athletic department so the optics were not great to begin with. I do not think they had an unlimited, open check book to go hire with if it was not Urban.
Lincoln was not leaving OU for Texas, so that was off the table.
A&M got Jimbo by offering him an obscene (for the time) contract, so not sure how they stole him. Jimbo was already on the outs with FSU admin as well.
Edit: If Urban Meyer hadn't expressed interest in the Texas job and Texas thought they could get him, I am not sure Herman would have ever been fired. The problem for Herman is he didn't make any friends in the program and when it came time for people to stick up for him, there was nobody there. I do think there is a chance they would have stuck with him for one more year if Urban would not have been flirting with Texas.
Urban thinks he is better than he is........sidenote, he would be gold in todays NIL world.
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