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My understanding before today was that a large part of why they fired Chryst was because they didn't want to lose Leonhard to another job. Wonder what changed

Might be best to ignore the win total next year. Just look for competence and improvement.

TAMU probably needs WTI to be closer to $100/bbl in order to fire Jimbo. Doubt they can afford that buyout with it only at $75.

Total number of wins is kind of a poor metric: football is a sport with a lot of randomness and variation. Better to look at root performance: How well do you do the things that usually lead to winning games? Are you balancing explosiveness and efficiency on offense? Are you breaking up...

I think we should aim a bit higher than "whoever USF wants". He hasn't had a good season in well over a decade and is 3 decades removed from a college coaching career that topped off at tight ends coach at the University of the Pacific. There is zero evidence that he is able to recruit, that...

Where did the Gruden talk come from? He hasn't coached in college in 33 years, was barely mediocre in his last stint with the Raiders, and was fired for good reason. Why in the world do we think he would be a good fit, much less that he would pull in 5 star QBs?

Probably not a coaching hire, unless we get someone not actively coaching (Mullen, Meyer, Rhule?). No active head coach or coordinator would leave their current school in the middle of the season.

LSU is a bit of a weird school to try to compare anyone to. I really don't think there's a good comp out there for what Death Valley can be. I lived in Baton Rouge for almost a decade, but if LSU was at home and if you got to the tailgate by 10am for a 6pm game, and you were already 4 hours...

I think the Raiders one is correct by the rulebook. At the very least, it's borderline on the "don't land with all or most of your weight on the QB" rule, and refs are instructed to call it if in doubt. The Falcons and Tech ones were pretty egregiously wrong in my opinion.

The defense was 4-2-5 Effort Based. Now it's just a regular 4-2-5. Effort wasn't working, I guess. Offense is still a Spread Pro-Style (and has been since he showed up), which literally means nothing. That's just throwing two football words together and adding style at the end. It makes no...

Giving boosters a say almost never works well. Look at Auburn, Alabama pre-Saban, LSU pre-Saban (hell, go back to the 30s when the biggest booster was also the governor of Louisiana. How many titles did Huey Long get in Baton Rouge?), Texas, USC, etc etc etc;. Time and again big boosters...

It worked pretty well against Clemson over the weekend.

Clawson does have that weird long handoff that throws a defense off. Their mesh legitimately takes 2 seconds, and I have no idea how it works as well as it does.

Boosters need to learn to stay hands off. They are not nearly as knowledgeable about running an athletics department as they think they are. One of Saban's big successes at LSU and Alabama was getting the boosters in line and under control. We need an AD that can do the same.

No, it's not necessary. Interim AD and president can make the hire if necessary. You'd obviously prefer to get the AD in place first, but it's not a requirement.

We don't save any money unless we wait until Jan 1, and you cannot wait that long to make a change. We would need to have the new coach in place by mid-December to give them a chance at piecing together a recruiting class, and the coaching market will be dry if we wait that long anyway.

Thought this was an intriguing quote: May be worth a shot.

I think the contract structure stuff is largely overblown. The vast majority of contracts these days are 6 years, so a 7th year on top for "transition reasons" seems reasonable. Buyout dropping on Jan 1 instead of after the season or as each game goes by is pretty poor, but that might be a...

This is actually an area where I think Stansbury has been solid. He's definitely beefed up our fundraising ability, which has partially helped fill the gap of the ACC's disastrous media rights deal. We really need to find a way out of that TV deal fast.

While you can pick and choose some good stats on defense (havoc seems to be good, high numbers of tackles for loss and all), the aggregate still isn't good. 112th in defensive SP+, 107th in defensive FEI. Against Ole Miss we gave up a 50% success rate, 7 yards per play, 9.5 yards per pass...