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BananaShampoo
Dren1 said:
Oregon head coach Willie Taggart is leaving for Florida State:

http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...eaving-oregon-take-florida-state-coaching-job
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He's a Florida guy. No big surprise there. He was born there, grew up there, and of course coached USF for four years. By the way, look at his record progression while coach at USF. He started 2-10 in year 1, then 4-8, then 8-5 with a bowl win, and then 10-2. I'd hoping for (expecting?) a similar type progression with Lovie over the next few years.
 
#229      
Ramrod2010
IlliniInTexas said:
Great article about the Herm Edwards hire:

https://www.theringer.com/2017/12/4...red-arizona-state-university-college-football

Best snippet:

There are several critical differences between Smith and Edwards. Smith was a significantly better NFL coach, going 89-87 with a trip to a Super Bowl and an NFC championship game while Edwards was 20 games below .500 and never made it past the divisional round of the playoffs. Smith had a connection to Illinois, having coached the Bears for nine seasons, while Edwards has no connection to Arizona. Smith had over a decade of college experience, working as a linebackers coach for power programs such as Wisconsin, Ohio State, and Tennessee, while Edwards had just the three years at SJSU. Smith continued working as a coach in the NFL until right before the Illini hired him, while Edwards has spent the past nine years talking for money. To summarize: Hiring Edwards is like Illinois’s horrific decision to hire Smith, except worse in every conceivable way.

Read the last line an interesting take on the hire (and why they spent $12mm to buy out Graham)
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Hey, who does this writer think he is.. :D
 
#231      
Second and Chalmers
TeamWilliams said:
How is this much different than say... The Lovie hire?!
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In that ASU's vacuous Goodell-bot moron of an AD is essentially only hiring Edwards to be the motivational speaker-in chief while retaining Todd Graham's staff and giving Edwards limited input into actual football coaching.

It's one of the strangest, dumbest things I've ever seen in college football.
 
#232      
blmillini
dgcrow said:
Another "one and done" coach. I understand Oregon tried to keep him, but his home state of Florida (and, I assume, the $$) were too much.
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I can't imagine it has anything to do with money. Oregon has not shortage in that department.
 
#233      
BZuppke
I find it interesting how programs rise and fall. Despite all their money, Oregon may be relatively irrelevant for some time to come with the coaching turnover and the rise of Washington and Washington St. FSU? Is Taggart the answer? Time will tell. What I find very interesting is the rise of the other Florida schools (UCF, USF, FAU etc.)
 
#234      
dgcrow
blmillini said:
I can't imagine it has anything to do with money. Oregon has not shortage in that department.
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Apparently Oregon offered Taggart a contract extension the weekend of November 25-26, reported as five years worth $20 million, but it wasn’t enough to keep him. Taggart’s base salary this year was $2.9 million. Taggart’s contract at Florida State reportedly is for six years and $30 million:

http://registerguard.com/rg/sports/...s-after-one-season-for-florida-state.html.csp
 
#236      
blmillini
dgcrow said:
Apparently Oregon offered Taggart a contract extension the weekend of November 25-26, reported as five years worth $20 million, but it wasn’t enough to keep him. Taggart’s base salary this year was $2.9 million. Taggart’s contract at Florida State reportedly is for six years and $30 million:

http://registerguard.com/rg/sports/...s-after-one-season-for-florida-state.html.csp
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I'm assuming they could match it if they wanted to but it may not have made a difference anyway given his connections to Florida.
 
#238      
Dan
It's over :(

Alabama DC Jeremy Pruitt has accepted the job as Tennessee's new coach. Details are still being ironed out, sources said, but the deal is basically done. He has coached in Alabama HS ranks for 8 years and in college for 11 years, 8 at Alabama
https://twitter.com/JimmyHyams/status/938606123195789312
 
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#245      
blmillini
Verified Insider said:
Ouch.

Oregon made a huge mistake promoting Helfrich after Chip Kelly left. They settled on a lesser coach because he kept the system in place rather than hiring the right coach for the long run, and it failed. I wonder if this will prove to be the same thing.
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Is that you, Ron Guenther?
 
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Deleted member 631370
blmillini said:
Is that you, Ron Guenther?
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At least Guenther didn't promote Jimmy Collins rather than go out and get Lon Kruger, or promote Rob Judson rather than go out and get Bill Self.

To some extent, that's what Oregon is doing. They have the deepest pockets of any program, and while they're a little late to the coaching carousel and probably lost out on a lot of other options that have since gone elsewhere or signed contract extensions, I have to believe they could have still gotten a fairly big name.

Cristobal is definitely a gamble for Oregon.
 
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