Can we put this to bed right now? 3 million a year and a SEC HC gig will always have the line out the door.
Can we put this to bed right now? 3 million a year and a SEC HC gig will always have the line out the door.
We aren't firing him after one year so what's the point.
Not a single SEC level HC would jump for 3m. You'd have to grab a random unproven new G5 coach/not cream of the crop P5 coordinator. Top P5 coordinators and top G5 coaches can get 3m anywhere. Aranda and Neil Brown, for instance, could get 3M from a P5 school like it's nothing. And if our top choices are looking at 3m at State, or 3m at a different school, they'll pick the one that doesn't have to play 4 top 15 recruiters every year, and the one that will give them more than 1 year to win.
You'd have 1,000 applications, none of which would have much of a resume or hints they'd be good HCs. The next Saban may be in there but it's an absolute crapshoot, highly unlikely we come out with a good enough hire to keep the program from deteriorating.
Why do people act like Hudd is a decent fall back plan? Maybe as an interim he'd be a fine in game coach, but as the full time HC he'd be bad. Dude is a failed G5 coach, and yet people here haven't adjusted their 5 year old opinions on Hudd to the new facts.
The fact is Hudd is not a better hire than Joey Jones would be. If Hudd hadn't been here before this year we'd view him as we do JJ, namely, by the resume.
"At worst Hudd would take it" = "at worst we get a failed G5 coach that's not even an X's and O's guy". That's pretty bad.
The only way Joe remotely gets canned is if we go 3-9 losing to a far lesser talented La Tech, a god awful Ark and a defensively retarded OM. To me I think a semi-plausible case can be made. But, I doubt we fire Joe after a year. Now, next year, if he's still clueless and the offense is sputtering around like a 1982 Toyota and it's a 4-8/5-7 season, he's gone.
I'm a big fan of him. I was shocked nobody took him last year after his 2nd 10 win season.
However, the fact he didn't have options last year doesn't mean we're ht only game in town this year. And is he gets a decent P5 offer this year that isn't us, why would he pick the one broke the precedent every school in the country follows by firing a coach after 1 year?
Guys, remember that LSU lost to Troy last year after being blown out by us. Every LSu forum was melting as bad as we are. They didn't fire him and now are pretty good. Game 5 results are not proof of long term failure. I know I'll get roasted and I can't find any positives about Moorhead either, but it is possible giving him a year 2 will work out.