That's exactly their business model, as I've mentioned here several times. When a Congressman from a city that gets screwed, the P-5 will change and not until then. Already, it's rigged so only P-5 schools can feasibly make the final 4. And after the Big 10 champ gets bypassed, the Big 12 altogether, and perhaps the Pac 12 or ACC this year, the whole shebang will implode as politicians start grandstanding for their states.
Helfrich out at Oregon? Frost??? Taggart? see below
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I hope he does! And I'm glad he came out and said it! AP
Sure they can. Just like we can play 500 give or take a bit against them and still not be in.
Getting Dungy to endorse him, he must really want out of Tampa.
Yesterday, Helfrich was ever so gracious during a national sports radio show (the one with Danny Kanell). He said that he'd called his former boss Chip of the 49ers a couple weeks before he was fired to tell him not to worry about accepting the job if he was fired. But he also admitted how much the S.F. coach disliked the whole recruiting thing.
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Taggart is a great recruiter but if he doesn't get the Oregon job I wonder if it will start having a negative effect on the Recruiting trail for USF. His whole sells pitch is #BayMade and being Tampa Bay's team since he's from the area but he has had his agent throw his name into the mix for other jobs 2 straight offseasons(South Carolina last year) .
This has to have his current recruits thinking if they want to sign with them when the chances of Taggart being there by their Junior Season is a lot lower with his very public interest in leaving asap & I don't think USF is a place where many studs will 'pick the school, not the coach'.
This has to have his current recruits thinking if they want to sign with them when the chances of Taggart being there by their Junior Season is a lot lower with his very public interest in leaving asap & I don't think USF is a place where many studs will 'pick the school, not the coach'.
He'd be silly not to. This is no future for coach at USF. It's a way station on the way up or a place that fires you after several bad seasons. Helfrich spent his entire life in Oregon. It was different for him.
Looks like the delay has Oregon fans thinking Chip Kelly is coming back
I'm going with Dan Mullen throwing his name in late and he's the guy they hire
I'm going with Dan Mullen throwing his name in late and he's the guy they hire
His reputation in Pac12 country is ruined bc of what happened at USC. He's thought of a little differently in the South East with the job he's done as Bama's OC.
That's true, but you'd think if people think he's ready to be head coach again, the west coast is where he has more recruiting connections.
Oregon's 247 board is melting down at Wolken's report that Rhule might have picked Baylor over Oregon
He keeps falling forward in life. Tanks the Raiders, tanks Tennessee, tanks USC.
I think he's just cut out to be a college OC, but if people want to experiment.
Hopefully the UCF staff already has the guys on Taggart's commit list that they want picked out.
Kiffin's job at oc vs the last oc at Bama (who's now with Florida) is a stark contrast in favor of Kiff.
So if Kiffin leaves, will Alabama promote Key to OC?
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If they hire Taggart Oregon just paid 11.6 million dollars to fire Helfrich after 1 really bad season despite making the inaugural college football playoff to hire a Coach that still has not won a Division despite arguably having more talent than the entire division for 2 straight seasons.
It would be a really risky hire when they could have just gave Helfrich 1 more season with a revamped Defensive Staff.
If it's not Chip or Dan Mullen Oregon fans will probably be underwhelmed.
It would be a really risky hire when they could have just gave Helfrich 1 more season with a revamped Defensive Staff.
If it's not Chip or Dan Mullen Oregon fans will probably be underwhelmed.
All true. Reality is setting in. They're discovering their program ain't such hot stuff after all, and the field is really thin after the top talent has already been snapped up. Time to go back to be just another team from the northwest. It's "Oops" time.
I think that the Oregon luster is history.
Does anyone see them getting to the playoffs anytime soon?
Does anyone see them getting to the playoffs anytime soon?
Oregon's luster started coming off the minute everyone else not in the Pacific Northwest starting getting 1,327 versions of their uniforms and running the same offense.
Thank goodness Frost didn't go to Oregon. ESPN seems to think Frost will be the guy top power 5 schools come after next year. The seem impressed with what he did this year. I said renew his contract for mega money and make these schools have to pay us a lot of money to poach. It's not fair to schools like us that have to go through coaching changes just because we are "stepping stones". We can be a destination job. We are in Florida surrounded by the top talent in the nation. So making contracts with outrageous buyouts will make it so these top schools can't just come in anytime they want because they had a ruff year.
I think Frost is doing the same thing Hermann did. He's waiting for the big one. Texas, Florida, Bama, USC, Ohio State, Michigan, Oklahoma, FSU, LSU, Georgia, etc.
Rather than just a raise, we need to copy Houston's approach: jack up the buyout costs to protect our investment (as well as giving us a big windfall to if he goes too soon). That will also ensure that only the wealthiest programs can go after Frost. Finally, when other schools say to top recruits, "You don't want to pick UCF because Frost will be gone next year," we can assure them that's unlikely and if it does happen, UCF can now afford a top coach to replace him.
