All feels very similar to 2009
- Thread starter Boston.Knight
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At about 70 years old, it's time for GOL to hang up the whistle and hand off the program to someone else. He will not be around long enough to complete this extensive of a re-build. It would be nice if he could see the writing on the wall make a graceful exit, but he may simply be too stubborn to see it. Hopefully GOL lays out a public plan for retirement very soon and the search can begin for a new regime of leadership to get in here quickly after the season ends to get things trending positive.
I sure do hope he can go out with at least a mediocre record. He may not want to retire otherwise if he has the choice. There's no way he is going to want to coach more than this year and next anyway. I just don't see it.
I don't get the age thing, in the SEC alone Spurrier, Miles, Pinkel and Saban are all 60 or over, Art Briles is about to be 60. They have no issues with recruiting at that age. If you say we'll they're in the SEC so it's easy to recruit that's great because we are not. We don't have the tradition, history, money, facilities or academics to compete with that no matter if the coach is 30 or 70, some people on here need to understand who were are and who we aren't.
The point of the age thing IMO is that there are rumors of GOL's pending retirement (he can't coach or live forever) growing louder every year. 60 is not 70. GOL is past retirement age and approaching the average life expectancy of a male US citizen. This year, he fueled the fire by accepting an interim position as AD. He clearly is trying to figure out what life after head coach looks like. That's awesome, he has earned it. However, the program needs a head coach that is 100% focused on UCF football.
Nick Saban is about to turn 65, the retirement age, yet nobody is talking about him walking away. Bill Snyder is as at least 75 and going strong, Spurrier is 70, they're coaches not players the age issue doesn't matter.
