Reverse Engineering Coaching Hires

[BMF]

I'll play this game:

1. Jeff Brohm. He's done more with less. He's got Purdue playing decently well in Year One. That's with the the previous coach left. Imagine what he could do with top tier recruiting.
2. Scott Frost. In my mind, he's going to Nebraska until he goes somewhere else.
3. Mike Norvell. Only loss to Scott Frost, beat UCLA. Also has a top 25 offense.
4. Dino Babers. This is Syracuse's coach. In year two these guys have done well with the talent he inherited. Again, a very week recruiting base for football. I'm not basing this on beating Clemson. These guys competed and gave Miami a game, arguably should have one even with 4 INT's in the first half. Small, but good head coaching track record. Did lose to Middle Tennessee, but his other losses one score to NCSU and 8 points at night at LSU aren't bad. Again, Imagine with Florida talent.
5. Holgerson/Gundy. Hear me out, both of these guys coach at places where it is hard to get a good recruiting class and do well. They have monsters in recruiting like Texas (they can recruit if they aren't producing...yet) and Oklahoma to deal with. Both have top 5 offenses with less talent than they could get here. Part of that is defense failures on opponents, but part is pretty good schemes as well. Imagine with "Florida speed".

Solid list. I'll add Bryan Harsin, he's in my top 3 (Frost is my #1). I'd love to get a guy like Fuentes, but I don't think he'd leave (and he's gotta have a mega-buyout - same w/ any other P5 coach. Hell, McElwain's at CSU was pretty hefty).

 

[URGatorBait]

I am further assured by my opinion of Gundy because you are in disagreement.

You're welcome to support the Richt of the Big 12

 

[ThreatMatrix]

You're welcome to support the Richt of the Big 12

You don't know that.

 

[URGatorBait]

You don't know that.

The record pretty much stands for itself.

 

[Jbossgator8]

No matter who we get, someone is going to be unhappy about it. Someone HAS to find something to complain about.

 

[ThreatMatrix]

The record pretty much stands for itself.

No it doesn't.

 

[URGatorBait]

No it doesn't.

umm, okay, whatever makes you feel better

 

[ThreatMatrix]

umm, okay, whatever makes you feel better

I knew you'd see it my way.

 

[URGatorBait]

I knew you'd see it my way.

 

[t-gator]

I'm not disagreeing with your reasoning that we can't strike out again. But I think the difference between a guy like Frost and WM or McElwain is that, as you say, he is the talk of college football right now. Everything from his energy in recruiting, to his record, to his lining up to play QB in practice, is infectious. That's what guys like Meyer and Franklin were known for as well. It's hard to ignore what they're doing.

That simply wasn't the case with either of our last two hires. WM was a complete unknown to whom even his current employer Texas wasn't totally prepared to turn over the reigns. And JM was semi-proven, but far from a name that resonated with anyone outside of a select few. And worse yet, we needed him to come in and rebuild a brand, despite little to no relationship with anyone in our region.

If nothing else, a guy like Frost would immediately strike fear in our rivals and would be able to rebuild the talent through recruiting. People are watching UCF right now. That alone would make him worth the shot.

This where I'm at. Muschamp and Mac didn't bring much excitement from the jump. That wouldn't be the case with frost.