DiderotsGhost
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According to Chris Low, here's the list of coaches who rejected us.
James Franklin, Penn State
Luke Fickell, Cincinnati
Sonny Dykes, SMU
PJ Fleck, Minnesota
Tony Elliot, Clemson (OC)
Sorry to say it folks, but as it turns out, a lot of coaches don't want to walk into a situation with NCAA penalties are looming overhead. Other than Franklin, I don't think any of those coaches turn us down in a normal search. Getting a coach of Josh Heupel's quality in this situation is actually pretty good. Compare Ole Miss in 2017 who had to hire Matt Luke.
Overall, I think White did an excellent job in a bad situation. He swung for the fences, struck out a few times, but still hired a quality coach. In the previous coaching searches, we never even tried to land top-tier coaches. We passed on Gary Patterson and Mike Leach in 2008 (both of whom were interested). We never seriously went after Mullen in 2017 and our AD got fired when he went rogue and went after Mike Leach.
Heupel may succeed or he may not, but regardless, I think we'll be in better shape 3-4 years from now. Either Heupel improves us or we're in a better spot to hire a top-tier coach.
Given what has happened over the past month, I think this is actually one of the better case scenarios. At the very least, we got an elite AD. If we're lucky, we got a good HC, as well.
P.S. Glad Sonny Dykes rejected us. I think Heupel is better than Dykes.
Tom Herman would have been a better hire than Heupel and he’s currently unemployed.
White botched this hire no matter how hard you try to spin it.[/QUOTE
This hire makes about as much sense as Dooley, Jones ,Pruitt, now let's add Heupel. Big School would have hired him right out of Oklahoma if he was that good.
They didn't try on Chadwell or Napier? I get Kiffin and Freeze. Can't bring them with the NCAA stuff. But those first two didn't get a check? Absolutely nuts.
The fact that this guy has suckered our administration multiple times tells ya all ya need to know. This man (take a look at him) outfoxes our highest ranking employees.This coach called again to see if we would consider him for the Head Coach position but we didn't pick up the phone ... no more raises for you on our dime while you play us!
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"White cast a wide net through the Parker Executive Search firm and reached out to and/or interviewed several candidates, including Penn State's James Franklin, Cincinnati's Luke Fickell, SMU's Sonny Dykes, Minnesota's PJ Fleck and Clemson offensive coordinator Tony Elliott, among others."
We have no idea who all got contacted. We also don't know how serious White was in perusing the ones he did contact. Pretty much all conjecture and 'sources'.
According to Chris Low, here's the list of coaches who rejected us.
James Franklin, Penn State
Luke Fickell, Cincinnati
Sonny Dykes, SMU
PJ Fleck, Minnesota
Tony Elliot, Clemson (OC)
Sorry to say it folks, but as it turns out, a lot of coaches don't want to walk into a situation with NCAA penalties are looming overhead. Other than Franklin, I don't think any of those coaches turn us down in a normal search. Getting a coach of Josh Heupel's quality in this situation is actually pretty good. Compare Ole Miss in 2017 who had to hire Matt Luke.
Overall, I think White did an excellent job in a bad situation. He swung for the fences, struck out a few times, but still hired a quality coach. In the previous coaching searches, we never even tried to land top-tier coaches. We passed on Gary Patterson and Mike Leach in 2008 (both of whom were interested). We never seriously went after Mullen in 2017 and our AD got fired when he went rogue and went after Mike Leach.
Heupel may succeed or he may not, but regardless, I think we'll be in better shape 3-4 years from now. Either Heupel improves us or we're in a better spot to hire a top-tier coach.
Given what has happened over the past month, I think this is actually one of the better case scenarios. At the very least, we got an elite AD. If we're lucky, we got a good HC, as well.
P.S. Glad Sonny Dykes rejected us. I think Heupel is better than Dykes.
My problem is I do not see
Gus Malzahn
Lane Kiffin
Hugh Freeze
If I am making the phone calls I start with those 3 and let them turn me down. All 3 are winners in the SEC, some have baggage (Kiffin, Freeze) but all are capable of being good quality coach for us.
Did not wantAccording to Chris Low, here's the list of coaches who rejected us.
James Franklin, Penn State
Luke Fickell, Cincinnati
Sonny Dykes, SMU
PJ Fleck, Minnesota
Tony Elliot, Clemson (OC)
Sorry to say it folks, but as it turns out, a lot of coaches don't want to walk into a situation with NCAA penalties are looming overhead. Other than Franklin, I don't think any of those coaches turn us down in a normal search. Getting a coach of Josh Heupel's quality in this situation is actually pretty good. Compare Ole Miss in 2017 who had to hire Matt Luke.
Overall, I think White did an excellent job in a bad situation. He swung for the fences, struck out a few times, but still hired a quality coach. In the previous coaching searches, we never even tried to land top-tier coaches. We passed on Gary Patterson and Mike Leach in 2008 (both of whom were interested). We never seriously went after Mullen in 2017 and our AD got fired when he went rogue and went after Mike Leach.
Heupel may succeed or he may not, but regardless, I think we'll be in better shape 3-4 years from now. Either Heupel improves us or we're in a better spot to hire a top-tier coach.
Given what has happened over the past month, I think this is actually one of the better case scenarios. At the very least, we got an elite AD. If we're lucky, we got a good HC, as well.
P.S. Glad Sonny Dykes rejected us. I think Heupel is better than Dykes.
You can't force top shelf head coaches to walk into a sh*tstorm like the one currently surrounding the Tennessee football program and backing up a truck full of $$$$$ isn't going to work this time.If Danny White was the amazing AD that all here have said he is. He wouldnt have all these coaches telling Parker no. He'd go hire someone, period. Thats weak that our top tier guys saved him the rejections and he crawled back down to his former G5 program to go get his boy
I actually think Chris Low is dead-on accurate. I think Danny White used him to get the word out on who he went after, without publicly acknowledging that our new head coach wasn't always his top choice.Chris Low is just speculating like everyone else, he also believed that several others were in discussions about taking the job or contacting assistant coaches. He was in tight with Fulmer