Should have on OC choice. Herman is available now /s
So your contention is that Bret Bielema is a bottom of the barrel coach who is what we should expect at such a hopeless, garbage football program?I do think the Illini are bottom of the barrel in the Big. How can you argue that?
Depends on the staff. I thought you meant the program in general. I despise the BB hiring. But he may succeed.So your contention is that Bret Bielema is a bottom of the barrel coach who is what we should expect at such a hopeless, garbage football program?
You cannot have it both ways here.
I don't get what Texas is doing - besides all the money they are spending on buyouts, which is insane, Sark was a failure at USC, and who couldn't do a good job calling plays at Alabama with the talent they have. That qualifies him to take over at Texas? Herman killed it at Houston of all places before Texas...I'd take him in a second here. I believe he's 5-0 in bowls.
Alabama's offense has an insane amount of talent with an offensive line who gives the skill position guys and QB time to excel. I think there's a number of play callers who could look good calling plays for them.Sarkisian failed at USC because he is an alcoholic and hadn't yet sought treatment. He has now completed a treatment program and is presumably sober. He did a good job at Washington prior to that.
I don't know what you're talking about with Alabama, though. They're offense, which he calls, is prolific. They've dismantled everyone this year.
Did he? He took over a program in bad shape and recruited really well, and quickly had them back up and running, and then failed to take that next step kinda over and over again over a 3-4 year span. They didn't live up to the talent level he brought in.He did a good job at Washington prior to that.
This years offense was literally record setting. If you don’t think sark is a good, borderline great, offensive coach, I don’t know what to tell you.Alabama's offense has an insane amount of talent with an offensive line who gives the skill position guys and QB time to excel. I think there's a number of play callers who could look good calling plays for them.
I didn't say that. I just said Alabama has incredible talent that a lot of play callers could have looked good coaching. They have two of four Heisman finalists and doesn't count their RB who looks like an absolute stud to meThis years offense was literally record setting. If you don’t think sark is a good, borderline great, offensive coach, I don’t know what to tell you.
Alabama's offense has an insane amount of talent with an offensive line who gives the skill position guys and QB time to excel. I think there's a number of play callers who could look good calling plays for them.
Serious question.....how would he have looked at Illinois last year calling plays for our offense?? Would he have been worth any extra wins?This years offense was literally record setting. If you don’t think sark is a good, borderline great, offensive coach, I don’t know what to tell you.
The thing about Bama is not so much the talent advantage as the culture of detail orientation and process mastery and internal discipline that Saban has built and obsessively maintained.This years offense was literally record setting. If you don’t think sark is a good, borderline great, offensive coach, I don’t know what to tell you.
Rod Smith did a credible job here, and as I said above, it's mostly about the culture you build through your entire building which has been awful here forever and which Sark couldn't have fixed alone in a year. Still, I do feel like he would have been a much better fit with Peters and Bhebhe and yeah, I do think we'd have been a better offense if he were here, possibly much better.Serious question.....how would he have looked at Illinois last year calling plays for our offense?? Would he have been worth any extra wins?
Yeah, it's way too early to be tossing red flag talk out there. I'll be comfortable with whomever BB brings in. I think he knows how important these hires are.I disagree it's a red flag. Were the bottom of the barrel. Just cause my friend has undertaken a huge task which everyone else has failed at, doesnt mean I'm going to join him. Especially when a handful of more attractive jobs are available
Problem is that cincy actually has HC money. They’d pay Freeman more to stay than Texas would to be dc. Texas is crazy but 3-4 mil on a dc would be nother level crazyJust a thought on Texas. Their bottomless money pit would be a way to square the circle of "how do we get Luke Fickell and Marcus Freeman on the same staff?"
That would be a better hire than Sark, IMO.
I think Luke might be too smart for that. Though big money does have a way of making people not so smart.Just a thought on Texas. Their bottomless money pit would be a way to square the circle of "how do we get Luke Fickell and Marcus Freeman on the same staff?"
That would be a better hire than Sark, IMO.
Did he? He took over a program in bad shape and recruited really well, and quickly had them back up and running, and then failed to take that next step kinda over and over again over a 3-4 year span. They didn't live up to the talent level he brought in.
There were definitely doubters of him taking over at USC, but he's deeply tied with that program, he's a SoCal kid, he was recruiting the heck out of California, he brought a good staff along with him, there were a lot of reasons to think it was a fit.
He has none of that going to Texas. That is a viper pit and he's a stranger in a strange land. It feels like Armenian Charlie Strong to me.
I really don't get Fickell's Skyline Chili Hamlet routine. Just take the Michigan State job you dork.I think Luke might be too smart for that. Though big money does have a way of making people not so smart.
Funny thing is, good chance he’d bring enos in as oc.I really don't get Fickell's Skyline Chili Hamlet routine. Just take the Michigan State job you dork.
It really would have been a stroke of genius if we'd hired Freeman. He was on a couple of those first initial speculative lists by Jeremy Werner and the like and that was such a smart option to look at. The reason that's scary is the question of staff construction and management and being able to draw from a deep network of connections. WELP.
You are what your record says you are. Were bottom of the barrel.It is incredibly obnoxious that it has barely taken two weeks for people to start ludicrously, laughably denigrating the program in order to prostrate themselves before the new power structure. Get a freakin hold of yourselves.
We are not remotely the bottom of the barrel, for a number of reasons, but overwhelmingly more important than the rest combined being that we don't pay like the bottom of the barrel.
Ash is a really really top DC. He may have other suitors that can pay even more than we can, though we ought to be able to pay a ton. If he's the next guy at LSU, it will be tough to go chicken little over that as some "rejection" of Bielema. The context will matter.
But for goodness sakes, please spare me the notion that our lavishly funded, brand newly housed program, undertaking a fresh, heavily invested six-year project with our decorated new head coach we turned down solid candidates to hire ought to be pulling assistants worse than Dead Man Walking Zook and Semi-Retired Guenther, or Mr. WINT Beckman and History's Greatest Monster Mike Thomas. Show yourself the respect of not pretending to believe that.
What was fresh about a 5 year failure?