Arena 2024-25 NCAA Football Discussion

Every school that fires the good recruiter who wins 9-10 games per season but didn't beat the rival / win a title often enough thinks they are getting the Cooper-to-Tressel upgrade. No one thinks they'll get the Solich-Callahan move.

History says Georgia isn't likely to get the Tressel.

 

I am just glad that Washington State had a winning record this year!! GO COUGS!!!

 

Callahan, by season:


5-6
8-5
9-4
5-7

Coming on the heels of Solich going

9-4
12-1
10-2
11-2
7-7
10-3

Just saying. There's usually a drop off.

 

Yup. Tennessee and Fulmer is possibly the benchmark for "be careful what you wish for".

 

In My Opinion, that's righting the wrong from a few years back when they should have kept the interim coach (Orgeron) and instead went for the splashy hire.

 

Some of the (awesome) gear Navy will be wearing for the Army-Navy game:



More info- Navy Twitter

 

Those Navy uniforms are just ridiculous. For everything Nike has done at Oregon, none of them hold a candle to those.

On the subject of 5-7 teams going bowling, I really like the suggestion that Taylor Zarzour made, even though I know it is nowhere near being in the realm of realistic possibilities. He suggested that rather than sending a 5-7 team Bowling based on APR (which, don't get me wrong, I have nothing against using APR and actually putting the student back into student athlete), we fill those Bowl slots with teams from the Ivy League and other conferences that don't have post season tie ins. I know I'd rather tune in and see Harvard in the meaningless but ESPN has time to fill Bowl than Nebraska.

 

With all of the coaching firings/resignings, did someone issue an Order 66 on their jobs?

 

I'm betting MSU beats Iowa soundly, now.

 

Pun intended here - I don't think that hire is very smart for Georgia.

The history of coordinators - no matter how good they are - who come into a high profile job with no head coaching experience and succeed? Not much of that, especially in the SEC and especially defensive coordinators. History is littered with hot defensive coordinators who came into the SEC for their first head coaching job and flopped.

Zook
Muschamp
Orgeron
Dubose
Croom
Stoops
Mason
Tuberville

Varying degrees of "how good they looked at hire", but none of them found that much success. Sure, there's Dan Mullen, who has succeeded, but at a much lower profile job than Georgia. Success at Mississippi State is failure at Georgia, as Mark Richt just proved.

I'm a little surprised they didn't try to back up a truck full of cash to Tom Herman and force him to say no.

 

As dooming as it sounds, what about someone pulling trestman down from the ravens to hc?

 

It's not that Smart can't be successful at Georgia, or that it's guaranteed that he won't be successful.

It's that the odds are against that type of hire.

You're asking a guy who has never run an entire program.
Let alone run a program in a Power Five League
Let alone run a program with National Championship Aspirations
Let alone run a program with realistic National Championship Aspirations

To do all of those things and learn on the fly? And do so replacing a guy who was a) from all accounts well like and a good guy and b) who won a lot of games just not titles.

When you have options out there who at least check some of those boxes?

Dantonio is a poor comparison for a number of reasons. First, when he took over at Michigan State, they weren't a national title contender. More importantly, though, he had previous Head Coaching Experience (Cincinnati) prior to taking over at Michigan State

 

It looks like Mark Richt will be Miami's new coach.

 

May the football gods grant us Georgia-Miami in a Bowl Game!

 

Some of them are head scratchers, but I know one that makes total sense. London has had one foot out the door at Virginia for a while.

 

So has Beemer, sadly enough. It was one of those 'You know it's coming, but it's still sad when it's official' type of deals.

 

The BattleFrog Fiesta Bowl?

They should lose their standing as a NY6 game for having such a dumb name/sponsor.

 

I disagree. I mean. Just look at this dude http://www.customrugbyjerseys.net/uploads/6/7/1/8/6718354/4109225_orig.png