He's rocking the mullet, check. This would really send the academians a spinning.
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The national discourse is always BIG/SEC right?
You’re dead on regardless. Have to sell ourselves to someone.
Important to note which jobs are likely to come open. It’s still just a third of the way into the season, but early projections:
Arkansas: with their NIL & getting Calipari for BB, Pittman better produce.
Florida: Napier was on the hot seat last year, moving to Lagway @ QB saved the season and his job. Seat returned to hot after the USF loss.
Wisconsin: Count me as one who thought Fickell would thrive there. Don’t know what’s going on there other than they’ve sucked.
UCLA: Open after Foster firing. Rumors that Kalaen DaBoer is the target if Bama continues to struggle.
Va Tech: Talent-rich area, don’t know much else about their situation but it’s been a few years since Beemer had it rolling in Blacksburg.
I’m sure I’ve missed some, but I think those are fairly likely/guaranteed. This could play in our favor in terms of a guy looking for an SEC/B1G job. I think the most realistic outlook is what ACC/Big 12 jobs might be open. Having said that, it would appear that there’s a fair amount of ‘stability’ across the P2/P4 jobs and could work out in our favor.
Arkansas: with their NIL & getting Calipari for BB, Pittman better produce.
Florida: Napier was on the hot seat last year, moving to Lagway @ QB saved the season and his job. Seat returned to hot after the USF loss.
Wisconsin: Count me as one who thought Fickell would thrive there. Don’t know what’s going on there other than they’ve sucked.
UCLA: Open after Foster firing. Rumors that Kalaen DaBoer is the target if Bama continues to struggle.
Va Tech: Talent-rich area, don’t know much else about their situation but it’s been a few years since Beemer had it rolling in Blacksburg.
I’m sure I’ve missed some, but I think those are fairly likely/guaranteed. This could play in our favor in terms of a guy looking for an SEC/B1G job. I think the most realistic outlook is what ACC/Big 12 jobs might be open. Having said that, it would appear that there’s a fair amount of ‘stability’ across the P2/P4 jobs and could work out in our favor.
Clemson could come open as well…..
LS1 Z28
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Hiring Jon Gruden would be wild. It would gain us a ton of national attention. I'm not sure how good he would be at actually coaching the college game, though.Jon Gruden is currently 6/1 on getting the job. Now THAT would be an interesting fire. Only problem, he wants to coach in the SEC. I don't think we'd hire him, but I think he'd win games in Stillwater.
1. G.J. Kinne 3/1
2. Zac Robinson 4/1
3. Ben Arbuckle 5/1
4. Jon Gruden 6/1
5. Collin Klein 8/1
Jon Gruden still aiming for return to coaching, this time in college football: 'I'd die to coach in the SEC'
Gruden, who resigned from the Raiders amid controversy in 2021, has made it clear he wants to be back on the sidelineswww.cbssports.com
Osucowboys344
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I am on the GJ kinne train after seeing where we are at.
I think he has some built in advantages the other candidates don’t have.
1) he has current college coaching experience
2) he turned around a struggling program
3) he recruits texas and areas we target heavily
4) he is young and has a point to prove.
5) he knows how to use NIL.
Yes, he is not tied to OSU but I think he would bring some outside perspective this team needs.
I think monken is great but getting older and may not want to plant himself in Stillwater.
Zac Robinson is young but in the NFL and falls back on gundy principles who coached him and Atlanta doesn’t seem happy with him currently.
The others don’t really seem like as good of a fit.
I think he has some built in advantages the other candidates don’t have.
1) he has current college coaching experience
2) he turned around a struggling program
3) he recruits texas and areas we target heavily
4) he is young and has a point to prove.
5) he knows how to use NIL.
Yes, he is not tied to OSU but I think he would bring some outside perspective this team needs.
I think monken is great but getting older and may not want to plant himself in Stillwater.
Zac Robinson is young but in the NFL and falls back on gundy principles who coached him and Atlanta doesn’t seem happy with him currently.
The others don’t really seem like as good of a fit.
No, not on Sirius/XM. They actually talk up the ACC/Big 12 a fair amount and have some perspective. They talk about Gundy as a top 10ish coach for the last 20 years, so they’ve got some depth to their discussions.
As I’ve mentioned before, Jimbo Fisher has become one of my favorite listens every week. He’s railed against the SEC/B1G, even though he coached at some of the bigger schools. He voices some of the same things people do here, fwiw. He talked yesterday about the game against us in Dallas, coming off an NC, about Gundy’s teams and the job he did. Very complimentary, but the whole ‘times change’ thing was there.
To your point though, this isn’t the BCS anymore, or even the 4 team playoff. There’s a path to the CFP, then whatever. There’s a reason Few’s stayed at Gonzaga, sell that!
Heard Sam Mayes on yesterday and h mentioned Josh Henson, @ Purdue now.
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This is my question. There are at least 10 other coaches I would be interested in before him.
With Monken & ZR:
Monken’s older & on the cusp of an NFL HC job.
ZR has chosen to pursue NFL coaching experience and has done so under one of the respected minds in the game today. You don’t just walk away from that and assume it’ll ever be there again. Secondly, he’s made a choice to do that and not pursue the college game.
Monken’s older & on the cusp of an NFL HC job.
ZR has chosen to pursue NFL coaching experience and has done so under one of the respected minds in the game today. You don’t just walk away from that and assume it’ll ever be there again. Secondly, he’s made a choice to do that and not pursue the college game.
Gruden kinda got canceled with the old emails thing in a completely unrelated situation, but that being said his last few years weren’t really impressive. He became a great media personality and then his coaching legend grew every year.
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Yeah, he is more legend than man at this point. His last really good season was in.....2005. I also have doubts he would be able to navigate NIL. We don't want another Herm Edwards or Bill Belichick. I want a college coach who has experience with it.
We can (and should) try to get someone with an NFL pedigree for GM.
Gruden won a Super Bowl and the only thing he has done since is lost in the wild card twice. Add the emails and it’sa hard pass for me.
Yes, we agree on this
PistolsFiring
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Any truth to rumors OSU has requested an interview with Saban?
Is Bruce Pearl coming to coach basketball and teach ethics as well
We’re interviewing Jimmy Johnson just to kick the tires
PokingOutOfMyShorts
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I have tried to find out which AI platform we are using to determine our choice. I've cracked into a few low level staffers IP addresses in the athletic department. But I haven't been able to hack any devices the last 18 hours. 
Do we all think it was the same AI that told us to fire Mike Gundy or is it a different platform?
Do we all think it was the same AI that told us to fire Mike Gundy or is it a different platform?
Making sure this is on this side for discussion as well.
