Contracts aside it’s Jimbo. Finished number four in the country once and at least leaves some talent on the roster which, let me assure you Mullen did not.
He's up there as a HC that hates recruiting more than any HC ever, which when at Oregon was helped offset by the Nike connection and him taking over a healthy program to begin with. The transfer portal bought him a couple more seasons, but this was inevitable.
im 99.876 % sure he won’t leave OSU for UCLA. Not because I don’t think we are a better job just because I think he loves the beav
it’s my one hold out with us being able to retain him. He’s a legend as a QB and now as a Coach here. However I think the fact we got left out of a conference will kill any chance we have of keeping him, we won’t be able to be in the same stratosphere money wise.
personality wise seems like a good fit. Lesser “little brother” program that gets by on running the football in a pro style system. He’s been an underdog since he was a walk-on here and he fits well in that kind of program in their state/conference
MSU thrives best under a blue-collar guy. And they can pay for sure. But it's gonna be tough to place in the top third of the conf with any regularity going forward.
who are the top coordinators that are going to get looks this year? Ryan Grubb at Washington Glenn Schumann at Georgia Sean Lewis at Colorado? those seem to be the ones i've read about so far but i'm not super clued into the searches. who else?
I was just joking, I don’t want him to leave OSU. I definitely thinks he gets looks from MAC to lower level power 5.
Probably not, but I guess going to somewhere like Boston College or Syracuse isn’t better so I don’t know. The right MAC school helps but I guess I don’t know. Money probably talks a lot in that situation.
Those 2 schools are not much better no Cincy seems like it shoulda been the move but Satterfield fuckin sucks so he may get another shot in the next couple yeats
Not that those are good jobs but from a compensation and resources standpoint those are worlds apart from even the upper tier of the MAC. No idea what he makes at OSU but I’d guess it’s a lot more than most, if not all, of the MAC head coaches.
That’s the issue though in my mind. Go to one of those schools with more resources but little chance to win, or go to a good situation at a group of 5 school where the upper echelon teams turn over a lot more based on coaching and administration. I don’t really know the right way and each way has pros and cons for sure. However the Ryan Day/Kirby/Lanning going from coordinator to top job is getting more popular but if that’s the case Hartline as a 1 year coordinator under Ryan Day isn’t ready in my opinion.