In '18 28th in Total D, 20 in scoring. '17 is irrelevant to UF fans since he was at MSU.
I'm not agreeing with them, I like Grantham - but they had a Sirmon-ish defense this year compared to a typical UF defense.
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I think Dan would do OK in the NFL with a good roster. Obviously if he's taking over an expansion team or something like that he's going to suck.
To me his biggest weakness was his recruiting. He won't have to do that in the NFL. And the other thing is he would go way conservative against a superior team like Alabama. In the NFL there isn't an Alabama really although yes there are dynasty's. So I suspect he would be Ok play calling in the NFL based on how he play calls against teams with relatively equal or worse talent. The thing about that though is he may have to hire an OC. I'm not sure how many NFL coaches call their own plays but I'm pretty sure every team has an OC that can call plays while the head coach is managing the team at least at times. I don't know who Dan would hire as his OC so that would be interesting to me to see what direction he goes with that. I'd be kind of curious to see if he reunites with Sallach at TE coach.
I think his offense will be OK too. See Trask. And it worked fine with Dak too where we threw the ball a good bit.
One question I do have is who would be on his defensive staff. I think that might be why he is keeping Grantham at least in part. Grantham has some NFL experience. I know Brian Baker and Deshea Townsend have NFL experience and I think Dan would bring Christian Robinson with him. Maybe Dan will hire some of our former players as assistants- Johnthan Banks as a defensive assistant?
He would also have to hire a ST coach- LOL. Maybe he goes out and gets Chris Boniol?
That's a good point. I'm not really saying that Bryant was better. But between 77-80 Bryant may have been more dominant than Saban in any three year stretch- for now at least. It's inevitable that Saban is going to have more National Titles than Bear at Alabama. I'm wondering if he wants to win more games than the Bear a well.
No I can't recall that name. I only remember a few football coaches, one was JB Grimes who was a GA. I lived in Monroe 79-83. I have several good friends who live in Monroe. Benny Hollis was the HC.
Like I said JDC was an interesting no nonsense guy. He left NLU and opened up a Coors Distributorship which failed mostly because the beer had to be refrigerated in a warehouse.
I got out of Coaching and missed it for many years, but there was no money back then in coaching, my last year at NLU I made $17,000, but I had insurance and a University Car, LOL. Now days the money is off the chart! LOL.
Saban has learned A LOT since then. Now I'm not under some illusion that he'd compete for championships with 1 & 2 stars but I think he'd lead them to 7 and 8 win seasons every year with the ability to throw together a 9-11 win season every few years. The Process works because of Saban. It works better because of where he's at.
I'm not sure there is a more "all in for football than" Alabama! They had tradition way back but fell off the wagon till the Bear came calling when momma called. He pretty much built Bama, Saban has as much resources needed as any football program in the country. Both are the GOATS imo.
I'm not arguing he hasn't improved, he has i'm sure. However, the last two jobs are premier jobs and get elite talent. Without elite talent, you don't win big. He never had it at Mich st and thus his results. Now if he went back to Mich state it would be better, they are a much better program, partly do to him, and his name carries so much weight.
According to this Leach is #6 on the hot seat...hahahahah https://www.coacheshotseat.com/
This is bullshit...no way Mullen is on the hot seat