How Not To Hire A D-1 College Football Coach

Fulmer just keeps looking better and better.

If Mike Hamilton keeps his job it will be damning evidence of how HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup) can damage ones mental faculties, assuming there were any present to begin with.

I don’t know how Hamilton keeps his job after this debacle and that asinine contract he gave Kiffin and staff.

Snubbed by someone with ties to the program for Duke. Ouch.

They should promote Willie Mack Garza, based solely on the awesomeness of his name.

Of course a black guy named Garza probably wouldn’t go over so well in SEC country.

SEC coaching has become a complete circus.

That conference is the common thread in all coaching sleeze and drama.

They all just throw their entire budget at each hire and hope for the best.

If they are already still paying Fulmer for firing him, he might as well be coaching.

You would really blame Kiffin for leaving a second-tier job for arguably the top job in college football? That’s an irrational hatred there.

Leaving for your dream job is one thing — practicing a scorched earth policy on the way out (having your assistant call Tennessee recruits while still in town) is something else.

The dude is a sleazbag with other sleazbags working for him.

can someone explain why muschamp would turn down the tenn job- I know it’s not as good as texas but its a sure fire beginning ans he could return to texas if he wanted. what’s the reason????

“You would really blame Kiffin for leaving a second-tier job for arguably the top job in college football? That’s an irrational hatred there.”

Kiffin is a dirty little shit, but Tennessee should blame themselves for ever hiring him in the first place.

Pete Carroll made the USC job appear to be the best gig in college football. It isn’t. Fickle alumni and fans, mediocre facilities, etc. Better than Tennessee to be sure, however.

can someone explain why muschamp would turn down the tenn job- I know it’s not as good as texas but its a sure fire beginning ans he could return to texas if he wanted. what’s the reason????

Aside from the fact that the program is a train wreck, the Athletics Director has no clue, it’s recruiting base it thin, and it ranks – at best – as the 4th program in it’s league, I can’t imagine why anyone would turn the job down.

To answer the question, Muschamp probably knows when Mack will retire and is probably comfortable with it. Two, there is no guarantee that he could return, what if he goes and fails? He’s out in three years and back to coaching Southern Miss. or such. Now he waits two years, earns as much if not more than what he would have earned at Tennessee and has several years of goodwill at Texas.

“can someone explain why muschamp would turn down the tenn job- I know it’s not as good as texas but its a sure fire beginning ans he could return to texas if he wanted. what’s the reason????”

Tennessee will always be second fiddle in the conference to Alabama, Florida, LSU, hell, even Auburn and Georgia. Tennessee is also at a severe recruiting disadvantage compared to the aforementioned schools. The program has a brutal rebuilding phase in front of them. Why would Muschamp want the headaches and potentially damaged reputation that would come with that job. He was completely right to stay put.

What a donkey show.

BTW, did Clipper Cooper kill Scipio in Pasadena and bury him somewhere on the TransPacific Ocean Railroad? I miss his rapist wit..

I imagine one great big reason everyone is running like hell from the Tennessee job is that they have to keep Kiffin’s staff for at least 2 years. Who wants to go into (possibly their first) a HC job with somebody else’s cast-offs? They’re a trainwreck, nobody wants to step into that mess.

I can’t speak for Muschamp, but here’s why I would stay at Texas:

Austin v. Knoxville. For anybody with a family, this is a big deal.

Working with Mack Brown vs. Hamilton

A short-term financial sacrifice, but the opportunity for stable, long-term, accumulation of very serious coin working with good people in a great institution that has the most powerful financial model in the country.

It’s the same reason that senior associates at Wachtell Lipton, or VPs at Goldman Sachs, frequently pass up the opportunity to go to other firms for higher wages .

Owhn’t no nuthin bout no coaching fuhbaw. Dang ol AD get fired lika shut neva hard that dude man. Dang ol wrong UT guy said.

Chili Mac Garza is what we always called him.

I get the impression Lane Kiffin is a puppet set up so the older sleazebags can do their tricks behind the scene.

Kiffin is an instant gratification kind of guy. Look at his coaching career (limited though it is). He never stayed in one spot very long, and he’s always looking for something bigger and better. Tennessee was looking at a minimum of two more years before they were seriously competitive with the league’s elite teams. And that assumes things go well for him and the team.
At USC, he is instantly among the leagues elite teams. Further, he has the most highly recruited quarterback in last year’s class with a year of experience already under his belt. He can compete for conference and (possibly) national titles immediately. I think that had a lot to do with why he took the job. Building up a program takes time. He doesn’t like to wait.
At the end of the day, everyone is looking out for #1. Kiffin did a good job of that, Tennessee did not. I don’t agree with what Kiffin did, but Tennessee should have been looking out for Tennessee.

Didn’t Tennessee recently have some possible infraction issue with hostess hookups?

Kiffin is a certified D bag. There is no way around it.

However, I agree that TN was not looking out for themselves. This guy raised read flags from day one that he is all about himself.

He says he purposely got the negative media attention so he TN would be always in the news, but it is clear he did it because he likes to see his own face and hear his voice on TV.

The guy will sink USC before it is said and done, and Oregon will become the team of the PAC-10.

Now you tell me…

They supposedly sent hostesses to watch some players in South Carolina, when the hostesses are supposed to stay around campus.

What up and coming coach in his right mind would agree to take on the staff of the former coach especially one as slimy as Kiffin. I can understand a coach or two but to take on an entire staff that presumably you can’t fire?

That’s why you get turned down by the coach at Duke and the coach at Air Force ouch.

Next up . . . .

Wow. What a disaster.

More and more indications as to why Muschamp didn’t take this job. We’d better hope that someone who has their act together doesn’t come around and throw a similar deal (7yrs, $21M) his way.

Everyone needs to hope that Georgia does well these next couple years otherwise Muschamp will likely be coaching them.

Interesting development re the legacy Tennessee staff. Have to think that figured significantly in Muschamp’s decision.

I just don’t know if I feel more or less sanguine about us holding onto Muschamp after this week.

Honestly, people really think the USC job is the best job in CFB? Wow.

Derek Dooley? Obviously everyone’s first choice.

And now the HC at La. Tech is the leading candidate?

In a way, UT’s search for a head football coach eerlily reminds me of my search for a date to my senior prom many moons ago – the longer it went, the lower my standards got.

Maybe George O’Leary has his resume ready…

They should just give the job to Kippy. But Willie Mack does have the best hi-top-fade in Longhorn football history. He was either the Kid or Play of our DBs. I don’t remember which one was Kid and which one was Play. But they were awesome.

Dang. No wonder these coaches need agents. Shame on Tennessee for getting out maneuvered by a punk. Sounds like their program will be screwed up for awhile.

Clusterfuck, thy name is Tennessee.

these colleges are looking like they have no SKILLS at contracts and hiring people,I mean if you have a name you can walk in there and have anything you want and they’ll SIGN………then the coach can walk scott free.My dad would be pissed,went to Tenn. good thing he cant see this crap.also to top it off they fired Fulmer,even if he was losing.

Joker. Kippy. Damn, mamas of SEC coaches should lay off the hooch, at least during pregnancy.

I hope our attorneys are watching this shit. Sounds like all these coach “weddings” need some serious prenuptial agreements for when the romancin’ stops.

Kid had the high top fade.

CloseToJumping said:

Honestly, people really think the USC job is the best job in CFB? Wow.
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To be fair, USC has a huge recruiting advantage, has an excellent tradition, has a home game in their conference champion BCS bowl game every year (Rose Bowl obviously), has the local police completely in their pocket, are in a weak sister conference but can still go to the national championship by going undefeated based almost solely on their national reputation. Plus, there’s hot chicks in SoCal (I prefer our or more natural looking Texas girls myself).

I mean, Pete Carroll won 1.5 national championships at USC and he’s a terrible field coach. Imagine what Saban could do there. While UT, OU, and the top 5 of the SEC are hoping to land two or three 5* players per year, SC is pulling in upwards of eight.

CTJ:

I think living on the beach at a school with a great football history, an equally great history of looking the other way regarding the “recruitment” of athletes, making a ton of money, sitting smack dab in the middle of a shit load of talent, with no real competition (UCLA is really a basketball school) would appeal a large number of the coaches in the country. Especially those residing in places like Norman, Lincoln, Alabama etc.

There are plenty of negatives, some of which I’ve listed elsewhere but yes, USC is right up there.

Other than Texas, which I’ve stated before could easily switch places with USC, which job job is better?

For being considered big business, the hirers and firers in college football sure are chumps.

How you rate the USC job depends on how important you think stadium, facilities, and actual campus location are. In USC’s case, these all suck. When they were losing 12 in a row to ND and 8 in a row to UCLA, who would have said it was the top job? There are 15-20 programs that at any time could be considered “top” jobs. It’s what the coach makes of it.

The USC job 5 years ago was the top job no doubt. With the impending scholarship reductions it is moving down the list.

Yes, I am optimistic the NCAA will grow a set. A small set, but still.

Call me crazy but I like this La Tech guy.

You crazy.

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