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Coaching Candidates - Bargain Sleepers

Going the cheap route gets you guys like Shannon and Golden. You want to minimize your chances of getting another bum, dont go the cheap route. Knowing this admin, theyll get Cristobal.
 
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bigsonnyu said:
With the debatable topic of whether Da U has the capacity to pay a top-notch coach, due it being a private school... Coupled with the fact that even if Folden is canned after a 7 - 5 year; with the buyout, I'm not convinced that this administration would be willing, to turn around and be locked into paying ANYONE $3Mil per yr, to get a coach that'll make a big splash.

So, let's name drop some guys that would know what to do with S Florida talent; Butch? Yeah I know...but who are some other proven coaches that we may be able nab right now for the low-low ($$), yet turn this program around.


I'll start it off with the car-salesman with swag in Terry Bowden! Right now, he's at Akron, with no talent at all, and has only assembled a record of 11-25 from 2012-2014. However, this is a guy that when he has talent, he's shown that he know what to do with it.

Record is as follows ->

Samford:
1st year in 1989: 4-7
1991: 12-2; 1992: 9-3
Overall tenure: 45-23-1
Turned program around, Considered a Hot coach at the time.

Auburn:
1st year in 1993: 11-0 (on probation due to previous staff)
1994: 9-1-1; 1995 & 1996 (post probation affects):8-4; 1997: 10-3; 1998 1-5
Overall tenure: 47-17-1
Did very well with a loaded team, and even with Scholarship reductions, until it really hit Auburn hard in 1998.

North Alabama:
1st year in 2009: 11-2
2010: 9-4 (3 of 4 combined loss total -7 Pts); 2011: 9-2
Overall tenure: 29-9
Did pretty well, may have made a mistake in leaving for Akron

What y'all think? Are there any other sleeper's out there that would do well with this roster? Mike Leach??
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Trolling?
 
The entire premise about cheap, upcoming coaches has one glaring flaw.

You get one, and when he's doing well, he gets one big, fat offer from a big school, and he's GONE.
 
UMFarArcher said:
The entire premise about cheap, upcoming coaches has one glaring flaw.

You get one, and when he's doing well, he gets one big, fat offer from a big school, and he's GONE.
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On the other hand, most coaches aren't sticking around these days save for Saban, Meyer and Les Miles, and they
have a $million$ reason$ why there are staying put.

We don't have those resources, so we are not going to be stealing anyone' elite coaches of that ilk, and keep them
for 10-15 years, but that doesn't mean we have to operate on the cheap.
There is a middle ground, and folks need to be realistic, IMO.
 
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