TedHendricksOffspring
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Lol
"Homoerotic"?
You took it there? Lol
It's not that serious.
Kiffin isn't even my top candidate. But as a fan who doesn't live in South Florida, I'm objective enough to understand that living in South Florida is not for everyone. And, I suspect, many of the candidates better than Kiffin may not be interested in bringing their family to South Florida for anything other than vacations. Kiffin would take the job.
I'm also fairly certain the likelihood of Miami hiring Kiffin is greater than the likelihood of us hiring Butch. So, from a practicality perspective, I'm trying to help soften your, and others, disappointment. "Help me, help you"! Lol
Everyone keeps pointing out how Kiffin failed at USC, and USC is an equivalent situation to Miami. Well, Pete Carroll wasn't a hot name when he was hired ... He just turned out to be the right hire. And since then, Neither Kiffin or Sarkisian have done anything of significance, and those are the HCs they've have hired.
If USC can't get a huge name, or hire an established HC from another program who's won more than 9 games, what makes people think the Miami job will be so much more attractive???
And their model for success is much more recent than ours ...
Can we stop with the dismissing of UNC's football history?
The work Mack Brown did at UNC got him the Texas job. Texas would not have hired him if he hadn't built that program up. Butch was resurrecting what Mack had already built ... He wasn't building from scratch.
And as far as Kiffin is concerned, yall better get ready to accept him ... He comin'!
Give it up, dude. You might as well say lets take Harvard and Princeton's football history into account. Every school has some measure of football history.
Since Mack Brown had left in 1997, North Carolina had one 8 games once before Butch got there and had three 9 loss seasons. Any residual positive impact that Mack Brown had brought to the school had long since evaporated. It was starting from scratch in over a decade since they were relevant. And you're deliberately ignoring that Butch has history at Miami and was resurrecting or however you want to say it North Carolina. Get over yourself and your out there posts.
Lane Kiffin has failed or been fired at every place he has been a head coach and you want to crown with your weird borderline homoerotic obsession with him. The only one accepting and his coming is you and his wife at this rate. Let it go. There are at least 5 better options than him right now.
I didn't take it there. You put it out there. Stop whining.
And there's a load of people who would want to actually live in South Florida as the coach. You can take somebody from Port Arthur, Texas in Jimmy Johnson and have him thrive in South Florida and you can take the Southern California guy in Lane Kiffin who's currently living in Tuscaloosa. There's not some recipe for living policies.
And there's no reason tho think the University would go after Kiffin as of now. He dipped out on Tennessee after a year, attempted a 73 yard filed goal in Oakland when he knew he was getting fired as a middle finger to Al Davis, and he also got Tennessee a NCAA violation while trying to call Florida out for one. And take your own advice on help because you just backed off your support of Kiffin because it seems like his bubble of coaching acumen has decreased in your eyes.
All I've done in this post series was show how USC was not as bad off as Miami and I listed the recruiting numbers to prove that so you just made that up. Classes of 21, 29, and 17 recruits all averaging around 5th in ranking in the three years Kiffin was there is hardly what Miami went through. Pete Carroll had gone to the playoffs two out of his three years as the coach in New England and had won a playoff game so he actually was a hot name when he was hired if you, once again, attempted to do any research. And Sarkisian has been on the job for one year so to say, "He hasn't done anything of significance," off such a small sample is stupid. And he went 9-4, beat three ranked teams, and finished the season ranked 20th so I he has actually accomplished something.
As far as I know, Sarkisian was their first option for the position and the last time they hired a coach away from another college was when they hired Larry Smith away from Arizona in 1987. That's obviously not how they like to hire their coaches.
[MENTION=5232]Marc[/MENTION]hallrc13: Carroll had succeeded as a coordinator and I would call his Patriots tenure a push. Belichick had succeeded as a coordinator and got jobbed in Cleveland with the move when that team was very much on the cusp of winning. What coaches that failed multiple times have succeeded at the end of their tenure? And nobody called anyone names. He's entitled to his opinion and I'm entitled to respond to it and if he can't handle that or the homoerotic obsession line, especially on this board, he's in the wrong place and needs a sense of humor.
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