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Head Coach Power Rankings

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  • Mario Cristobal

    Votes: 134 59.6%

  • Greg Schiano

    Votes: 13 5.8%

  • Lane Kiffin

    Votes: 77 34.2%

  • Tom Herman

    Votes: 16 7.1%

  • Mark Stoops

    Votes: 93 41.3%

  • Luke Fickell

    Votes: 87 38.7%

  • Dave Clawson

    Votes: 27 12.0%

  • Billy Napier

    Votes: 22 9.8%

  • Jamey Chadwell

    Votes: 14 6.2%

  • Matt Campbell

    Votes: 34 15.1%
  • Total voters
    225
  • Poll closed .
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Genghis Cane said:
From what I’ve heard, he’s a deep south guy, so not sure he would be a cultural fit. I could also be dead wrong — just a gut feeling.
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we need to move away from the "cultural fit"...that **** doesn't matter. we don't need some flashy miami guy for the job. look at our best head coaches in our history...was jimmy a cultural fit? how about erickson, or even schnelly? they were just **** good coaches in their own right. i really don't understand nor do i give two ***** about some cultural fit. just hire a god **** competent solid head coach with, preferably, power 5 experience.
 
IndayArtHauz said:
Herman is the low key steal on this list. I think he’d kill at UM.
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Elaborate

Although I don’t think Herman did bad at UT or anything close, interested to hear opinions on him. Texas has extremely high and unfair expectations IMO, I don’t think the man should have been fired but he definitely hadn’t gotten them *there* yet. With all the money and resources in the world at UT, the elephant in the room question is what would be different here? Where we have 1/3 of what they have? I think he will land on his feet somewhere eventually.
 
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so we roll the dice again and then wait another 3 years for success or failure....sigh!

Howard started it all, get some NFL OC (Eric Bieniemy)
or DC (Don Martindale) if they want to be here. Either that or JJ came from Ok St get Gundy!
 
Fickell, Schiano, Mario, Kiffin, and Stoops in no particular order could all win here. I would be very happy with any of them.

Fickell is the biggest risk of them all as there's been a lot of non-power five guys who didn't live up to their expectations after their hot start at a mid major.

The rest would have us at 9 to 10 wins and beyond on the regular. I wouldn't even mind missing out on any of them if we got one of those four.
 
htownkidd said:
Elaborate

Although I don’t think Herman did bad at UT or anything close, interested to hear opinions on him. Texas has extremely high and unfair expectations IMO, I don’t think the man should have been fired but he definitely hadn’t gotten them *there* yet. With all the money and resources in the world at UT, the elephant in the room question is what would be different here? Where we have 1/3 of what they have? I think he will land on his feet somewhere eventually.
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Genghis Cane said:
Not saying you’re wrong, but what makes you think he’d do better here than at Texas?
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Great questions.

I think Texas is an extremely tough place to build a champion.

The external expectations are insane, possibly the hardest in the country, and the culture surrounding the program seems to be a lot of rich, selfish and inflated egos. The only reason Mack Brown succeeded is because he had arguably the best college QB ever and a second guy who was phenomenal in his own right. Outside of those years Texas has been the Georgia of the B12, even with all the money in the world and unilateral domination on recruiting (at that time). Brown made it harder to do the job by raising expectations while burning bridges and making recruiting the state harder. That job is cutthroat and friendless. In short, Texas ruins people.

I like Herman as a play caller and a developer. He’s a serious football mind that isn’t that far removed from being at the front of the game schematically. The only place he didn’t succeed was Texas, but I obviously don’t pin that all on him. He made Houston think it was a P5 player all by himself. The only knock on him there is how he finished his last season, but he was already heading out of town. He recruited well, developed well and got the most out of his offensive players there. D’Eriq King under Herman would be a much better player than under Lashlee.

I also think Herman coaches with a chip on his shoulder, which fits Miami like a glove. The guy loves to **** people off, and I think Texas robbed him of being the wild card. He had to conform to the mountain range of expectations. Miami is a mole hill by comparison.

The risk with him is that he isn’t hungry anymore, that Texas genuinely killed his imagination and drive. That may be the case and we would have a younger, slightly more capable Richt on our hands if so. But all of these cats have risk, no matter who they are, and while he isn’t my first choice he’s in the top 5 for sure.
 
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If we want to rule college football again (or at least be relevant) we need to go big or go home.

$25 per game ticket avg price increase and we've got another $6M on top of the $5-6M we've been paying to Manny & crew. Get a few boosters to kick in $500k each for another few million. $15M a year for HC, staff, support staff, analysts and now were cooking with Crisco.

Make some NFL HCs say no to us before looking at all these retreads on the list above.

John Harbaugh (hot start probably makes this 0.00% chance).
Sean Payton (Saints suck and he's saddled with Crab Legs at QB)
Doug Pederson (fired from Philly)
Mike Zimmer (perennial hotseat when all he does is make the playoffs with garbage)

Next grouping would be:

Herman
Stoops

For fun factor:

Freeze
Kiffen
 
htownkidd said:
Elaborate

Although I don’t think Herman did bad at UT or anything close, interested to hear opinions on him. Texas has extremely high and unfair expectations IMO, I don’t think the man should have been fired but he definitely hadn’t gotten them *there* yet. With all the money and resources in the world at UT, the elephant in the room question is what would be different here? Where we have 1/3 of what they have? I think he will land on his feet somewhere eventually.
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I have brought up Herman several times before, and I just want to list my reasons as to why I think he can do well here.

1. Ace recruiter - 2x top 3 classes at UT with one top 10 class, and he also recruited a 5* DT to Houston.
2. Has signature wins against top 10 schools, and did it with both Houston and UT.
3. Always does well in bowl games 5-0. Something we desperately need.
4. His teams always play physically, and always seem to be in it.
5. Connected to the Texas area for recruiting and transfers.
6. Seems to win the games that he is supposed to win for the most part. Very important in the whack ACC.
7. Not a first x head coach
8. Has experience coaching in a P5 program for a big x school.

The man seemed to have it going for him until zack smith bytch *** started snitching on him cheating on his wife. Everything seemed to go downhill from there. I imagine the BOT in UT too gave him **** as well.

I just think he is a name to consider. Hire a firm and have them do the HW for us. No buyout and a lot of checkmarks for what we would want.
 
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Juanka said:
I have brought up Herman several times before, and I just want to list my reason why I think he can do well here.

1. Ace recruiter - 2x top 3 classes at UT with one top 10 class, and he also recruited a 5* DT to Houston.
2. Has signature wins against top 10 schools, and did it with both Houston and UT.
3. Always does well in bowl games 5-0. Something we desperately need.
4. His teams always play physically, and always seem to be in it.
5. Connected to the Texas area for recruiting and transfers.
6. Seems to win the games that he is supposed to win for the most part. Very important in the whack ACC.
7. Not a first x head coach
8. Has experience coaching in a P5 program for a big x school.

The man seemed to have it going for him until zack smith bytch *** started snitching on him cheating on his wife. Everything seemed to go downhill from there. I imagine the BOT in UT too gave him **** as well.

I just think he is a name to consider. Hire a firm and have them do the HW for us. No buyout and a lot of checkmarks for what we would want.
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When he lost another 5* last minute to one of the big boys he came out with this ....

 
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Juanka said:
I have brought up Herman several times before, and I just want to list my reason why I think he can do well here.

1. Ace recruiter - 2x top 3 classes at UT with one top 10 class, and he also recruited a 5* DT to Houston.
2. Has signature wins against top 10 schools, and did it with both Houston and UT.
3. Always does well in bowl games 5-0. Something we desperately need.
4. His teams always play physically, and always seem to be in it.
5. Connected to the Texas area for recruiting and transfers.
6. Seems to win the games that he is supposed to win for the most part. Very important in the whack ACC.
7. Not a first x head coach
8. Has experience coaching in a P5 program for a big x school.

The man seemed to have it going for him until zack smith bytch *** started snitching on him cheating on his wife. Everything seemed to go downhill from there. I imagine the BOT in UT too gave him **** as well.

I just think he is a name to consider. Hire a firm and have them do the HW for us. No buyout and a lot of checkmarks for what we would want.
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He drips SWAG and comes from the Urban Meyer coaching tree. Lost some luster after his time at UT but guy reminds me of young JJ.
 
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