The Coaching Carousel...
by skycaster on Dec 14, 2009 11:57 AM CST
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The coaching carousel is in high gear so grap your barf bag and hold on. I know we are all guilty of bitching about Jim McElwain's play calling some justifiable, but if he leaves for a head coaching job what will that do for Alabama's consistancy heading into 2010?
Do you think Mullen's departure from Florida had something to do with the gator's lowered offensive production all season long? Now Florida's DC, Strong, is headed to Louisville to be their headcoach. One has to wonder if this will affect the gators defensive ranking next year.
The old saying about being careful to you hope for may be coming into play. A postive view maybe that Jim McElwain may use the NCG to impress the San Jose State AC and open up an offensive highlight reel performance. It's hard to deny these coordinators a chance to advance, but stability would still be nice.
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Not much
The offense may regress a bit, it may not. It really depends on who would replace Jim and what kind of philosophy they hold.
Not sure there is much to be had looking at Florida in this case, wasn’t Mullen with Urban back in Utah?
Frankly, I’d be surprised if McElwain left to go to San Jose St. Seems like his career would do better to stay at UA and shoot for a HC gig at a bigger school (eg Louisville)
yeah, the carousel hurts schools
in terms of developing talent. Case in point: USC this season, after 5 years of that program being a revolving door for coaches to move up the ladder, it caught up to them this year. Their players are talented, yet they lacked the knowledge and discipline that comes from being in the same system for a few years. Jason Campbell is another perfect example of this. As far as McElwain going to SJST, I have never heard of a coach leaving a program for another, only to face his old team in the first game of the season at his new school
"Yeah, it's Tennessee, that's the way it is sometimes." - Corey Zickefoose, Pulitzer Prize winner and robbery victim
by Thomas Walker Esq on Dec 14, 2009 12:26 PM CST reply actions
Florida's D ranking will take a hit. Not from the loss of Strong but rather the fact they loose so many players.
I can’t help but think McElwain could grab a better gig than San Jose State. He would fall off the radar if he goes there.IMO
Your temper brings dishonor to my happy mooshu palace.
Some continuity will be lost ....
The real qustion is, how much? Some of the play calling has been crappy this year. It looked like too much ‘mind lock’ and lack of flexibility whne certain things weren’t working. A couple of game we won on team talent and not coaching.
It’s a tough fit in the deep south for west coasters. That may factor in. Who wouldn’t want to feel more at home.
The head coach will have enough talent in place to help an OC/play caller to look great, even an average one. If we got a brilliant one, the sky’s the limit!
Charlie Strong has experience and has had talented teams to work with, but I have seen the lizards lose some close ones based on bone-headed decisions. Urban won’t miss a lick at getting a good one to replace Charlie.
Turner Gill
I think it’ll be interesting to see what Turner Gill does at Kansas since he was considered a strong possibility for Auburn in the wake of Tuberville getting axed.
too bad Lowder and Raines
had a problem with a black coach with a white wife…I personally thought he was a more promising candidate than Chizik
"Yeah, it's Tennessee, that's the way it is sometimes." - Corey Zickefoose, Pulitzer Prize winner and robbery victim
by Thomas Walker Esq on Dec 14, 2009 3:18 PM CST up reply actions
I found that incredibly strange
I’ve heard of racial prejudice against black coaches, but Strong was the first instance in which I had heard of hiring prejudice against a black coach just because he had a white wife. But then, I’m from Kansas.
by burntorangehorn on Dec 15, 2009 12:39 PM CST up reply actions
how well do you think it would go over
in Texas or Kansas if you had a coach up for the job with a hispanic immigrant for a wife?
"Yeah, it's Tennessee, that's the way it is sometimes." - Corey Zickefoose, Pulitzer Prize winner and robbery victim
by Thomas Walker Esq on Dec 15, 2009 12:52 PM CST up reply actions
I doubt it would be a problem at most major schools
Maybe at Texas A&M, but definitely not at UT or Tech. UT has a couple of interracial couples on the staff. I went to school up in Kansas, and while I guess it’s possible that people would have had a problem with it at some programs, we had black and hispanic coaches and assistants.
The interracial thing has been a non-issue anywhere I’ve ever lived, to be honest, and I’ve lived in in a number of places each in Kansas, Texas, California, Arizona, and now Maryland. I’ve known a very, very small handful of people to be racist against black people or hispanic people, or here in Maryland, against white people, but I’ve never known anyone who would be fine with a black coach unless said coach had a white wife (or any analogous situation, like the hispanic/white coupling).
Now, the immigrant thing might’ve been a problem, but mostly just in Texas, and even then only if the immigrant were illegally in the U.S.
by burntorangehorn on Dec 15, 2009 1:16 PM CST up reply actions
How could the immigrant be in the US illegally if they're married to a US citizen?
by billycthulhu on Dec 15, 2009 3:30 PM CST up reply actions
Marrying a US citizen...
…doesn’t grant you automatic citizenship. Here’s an example of how your question could actually happen: if they were married in another country, but planned on staying in the US and the non-citizen comes over on a tourist visa rather than going through the proper channels. It’d be sorted out eventually, but they’d be an illegal immigrant for a while.
I found this by doing a google search earlier...
I don’t know how reliable the website is but FWIW…On Dec 9th this site said that the names floating around were: David Shaw (Stanford Offensive Coordinator), Tyrone Willingham (Former Washington Head Coach), Jim McElwain and Tom Rathman (San Francisco 49ers Running Backs coach). It also said that according to sources, the press conference to name the new Head Football coach would be held on Tuesday, December 15th at 10 am.
Then on Dec. 12th the site said that Bobby Hauck (Montana Head Coach) had spoken to SJS about the job and was considered a “strong” candidate…
The website is: http://www.footballcoachscoop.com/Scoop.html
by BamaGirlinVegas on Dec 14, 2009 4:24 PM CST reply actions
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