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Who should/could we have hired back in December 2010?


Butch was knee-deep in the UNC scandal, so he would've been a non-starter.

Schiano? Would that have worked? Didn't he turn us down at one point? Would he have still left for the NFL anyway?

Strong? Cristobal? The Pirate?

Would Patterson/Petersen/Briles had left if we ponied up like we did for Richt?

Malzahn? Would he have left to go back to Auburn after Shapiro-gate broke?

It seems like that was kind of a ****** year to hire a coach. A lot of schools ****ed up (Hoke to Michigan, Muschamp to Florida, etc...)

2011 College Football Coaching Carousel: Grading The Hires | B-FLO 360
 
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It was a terrible year to hire a coach. I remember Herbstriet and others at the time saying Miami made a really good hire.
 
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Looking back, yeah, he sucked. The problem with Golden is that he stayed on too long. Should have canned him after 2013.
 
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The 3 finalists were Golden, Edsall and Trestman. Even in retrospect I'm not sure Golden was a bad choice compared to the other 2.
 
AUcane said:
Looking back, yeah, he sucked. The problem with Golden is that he stayed on too long. Should have canned him after 2013.
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Wrong.


They should have canned him after the 2011 BC game. I was tempted to say after the 2011 Maryland game, but nobody realized at the time that would be the Terps only FBS win.
 
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What an awful hiring year.

Golden was rated as the #1 hire at the time. And as bad as he was he honestly didn't turn out any worse than about 2/3 of the coaches on that list did.
 
Green5 said:
AUcane said:
Looking back, yeah, he sucked. The problem with Golden is that he stayed on too long. Should have canned him after 2013.
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Wrong.


They should have canned him after the 2011 BC game. I was tempted to say after the 2011 Maryland game, but nobody realized at the time that would be the Terps only FBS win.
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Hindsight is 20/20 and all, But that's just silly bc they're not firing a guy in the midst of a probation investigation and 1 year in.
 
I was super happy with the Golden hire, everyone loved it, his intro presser was a home run. He was a great salesman. He rebuilt Temple, imagine what he can do at Miami. That offseason, he had two guys go first two rounds in the draft (Wilkerson and Jarrett), I thought Miami would back to having a killer defense with pros all over. I don't think there was a better candidate out there, Gruden was a message board fantasy
 
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