Not true.Lovie has too big of a buyout right now. It lowers substantially after another season. We can't afford the buyout and to pay more money to a new coach and fund his staff.
Not true.Lovie has too big of a buyout right now. It lowers substantially after another season. We can't afford the buyout and to pay more money to a new coach and fund his staff.
He certainly is having a good year. Really affordable from what I saw as well. Question is how many schools are going to be interested in him.Jamey Chadwell would be my #1 choice.
I'll be honest, whenever I see someone suggest "we need someone young," I immediately think of lasagna. No thanks. Although, I guess young is a relative term (wasn't he early 40s?). I'm all for some new life, but I don't know that age has to be a factor.
Beckman was 47 when hired. Not young, just in over his head.I'll be honest, whenever I see someone suggest "we need someone young," I immediately think of lasagna. No thanks. Although, I guess young is a relative term (wasn't he early 40s?). I'm all for some new life, but I don't know that age has to be a factor.
Drops to 1M in Feb or March. Idk if the late season makes waiting until then more of an option? It’s not like Lovie is going to sign a lot of guys between now and then anyway. Ultimately the 1M difference isn’t probably the deal breaker either way.Not true.
I understand where you're coming from, but I don't foresee JW hiring a clown like Beckman. Based on what I've seen from Josh I think he values the schools image almost as much as winning and some on here might even say he values it more than winning.I'll be honest, whenever I see someone suggest "we need someone young," I immediately think of lasagna. No thanks. Although, I guess young is a relative term (wasn't he early 40s?). I'm all for some new life, but I don't know that age has to be a factor.
John Holocek who has never coached at the college level?If I’m JW, I’d being ringing the doorbell of John Holecek to see if the timing is right for him to take over.
Me too, I agree with you about rather having Coach Smith.Until recently, I was living in Texas. I watched a lot of the Slowhorns and they are currently coached by the dumbest coach in college football. He makes Harbaugh look like a Tom Landry. Hermann could not coach a flag football team in a grade school playground. Rather have Lovie than this clown
The problem is you don’t want to be the last school looking for a new HC.Drops to 1M in Feb or March. Idk if the late season makes waiting until then more of an option? It’s not like Lovie is going to sign a lot of guys between now and then anyway. Ultimately the 1M difference isn’t probably the deal breaker either way.
100% agree. IDK if you can have a coach waiting in the wings and be legal. Doesn’t matter I suppose. I doubt that would be how JW would handle it. We either quickly decide to move on or we don’t.The problem is you don’t want to be the last school looking for a new HC.
They are this year, ranked #12 nationally, and with bright prospects for the future. They are 6-1 in the Big Ten, beating Michigan, Wisconsin, and Penn State and losing to OSU by only one score. If that was the Illini, we would all be ecstatic. The current Indiana coach took over a program in even worse shape than ours, and built them into a winner, with positive growth each year. Most of his recruits are three stars, like ours, but the difference is he has maximized the performance of that talent.I get the frustration but Indiana is not a power house lol.
I would actually really like his brother Todd. Was a candidate for the Bucs job after Lovie and had way more college experience plus more links to IL while keeping our inroads in FL and GAI'm just gonna float Jeff Monken again because I just don't see a move being made.
I don’t necessarily know how to explain the Herman question. I will say: I don’t like hiring coaches after only a year or two of success as a head coach. Too difficult to tell whether it was a flash in the pan or if they really built that. Ones that have gone to a couple programs, helped build them up after years of struggling—give me that, whether it’s in the MAC or wherever.Me too, I agree with you about rather having Coach Smith.
However, why was Hermann so successful at Houston?
Throughout college football circles this is viewed as a bottom of the barrel job. Getting a sitting P5 head coach to leave their current job to come here would be next to impossible. Hell you could throw 20 mil a year at Urban Meyer and he’d say no.South Carolina took a bigger risk than I would have guessed hiring an assistant. I figured Napier would be SEC bound if hes to leave. With as many p5 schools open or rumored to be open has me a little worried we’ll be running into a sumlin senerio where were just being used as leverage. Hopefully jw has a short list and can get his guy. I was excited about the lovie hire but its just not working out. Hard to defend it and wont gain anything keeping him around. He spent big money on lovie so i do t see that as an issue. Wonder if anyone has any similar feelings that BU had about Illinois basketball. Im not sayin Illinois football is comparable to Illinois basketball but theres got to be someone who wants the job, no?
How about this: we fire Lovie, promote Rod Smith to HC but only give him a 2-year deal then exclaim that "it's not a death blow to the program".The problem is you don’t want to be the last school looking for a new HC.
No i don’t disagree, i wasnt tryin to say we’d flip another p5 guy to come here but simply praying theres a guy who wants to be here. Of all the g5 coaches there are many I like but ask myself would they come here? I feel any new hc would be better than where we’re headed now.Throughout college football circles this is viewed as a bottom of the barrel job. Getting a sitting P5 head coach to leave their current job to come here would be next to impossible. Hell you could throw 20 mil a year at Urban Meyer and he’d say no.