Just To Keep This Straight
by SMQ on Dec 12, 2007 7:19 AM EST
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PrintTake a week off, miss titillating scads of hot coaching action. Time to break out the new SMQ Coach Board to get up to speed.
Raise your hand if you're the tiniest bit surprised by Bobby Petrino's alienating jump to Arkansas before finishing his first full season in the League. Bueller? Bueller?
Fedora should be announced at Southern Miss today; Disloyalty? Petrino? Les Miles scoffs at your puny overtures to doubletalking opportunism; and Karl Dorrell couldn't possibly find a better fit than Duke: mediocrity is a significant step up, and no one will ever start a Web site dedicated to his termination. Unless you're a little too successful, that is, in which case Coach K can get a little territorial.
Update [2007-12-12 16:19:19 by SMQ]: It's officially official. In reality, it looked like this:
In our minds, it's more like this:
Fear the Fedora!
(I only downloaded the 30-day trial of Photoshop, for non-blog purposes, and don't think I'm not going to get my non-money's worth. Go Eagles.)
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Congrats USM
If you get what you want -- a coach who can bring USM back to the level you expect the Golden Eagles to achieve, your coach will be gone in two years. And the coaching search starts again.
Obviously
Expectations/performance
They were exceptions...
Make the best hire you can - I like Fedora - win while you can, and if you have to start over in three years, start over and try to make the best hire you can the next time. It's the nature of who you are and where you are and what you can afford. Just do the best you can and don't be afraid to be a little more ambitious sometimes than outsiders think you have any right to be.
consider this:
Security comes at a price.
Heck, look at...
From what SMQ and others who actually know about the program have said in the past few weeks, it looks like USM recognized the downward trajectory they were on and acted sooner rather than later. It's easy for an ESPN talking head to say that "so-and-so should name their time to leave," but they don't have to deal with the program-killing consequences of the grand old man hanging on 3-4 years too long.
So?
With the possible exception of the New England Patriots, every team at every level of football is a feeder for somebody higher up the chain. That's just the reality of it.
It continues to amaze me how everybody knows more about the Southern Miss football program than the people who actually pay attention to it every day.
A matter of perspective...
Congrats to USM. With the firing of Bower and the hiring of Fedora you now become the SEC's main feeder program.
That beats the heck out of being the main feeder program for non-existent Sun Belt teams:
http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=466&f=3200&t=1603160#s=466&f=3200&t=1603160
Congrats SMQ
As for Miles, this wouldn't be 2K7 if he weren't keeping us on edge to the very end. One hesitates to defend him yet intimating that his sliminess exceeds that of Petrino seems a tad much. His interest in Michigan is at least in part spurred by loyatly rather than pure mercinary considerations and he would be going to what is in some ways an inferior job for less money. At the same time he is in the middle of trying to win what will officially be considered an MNC and finds himself in a situation where the best motivations will make it difficult to avoid looking like an asshole.
We'll se if and how he slithers out of Red Stick to pass final judgement but comparing him to Petrino would seem to be quite unwarranted.
remember december 2004...
when there was a rash of "nobody wants the ND job because you can't win there" stories
so when are we gonna see those about Michigan?
Southern Miss will rise again. No program with such ugly colors can be kept down.
God Bless the SEC
by RotoJeff on Dec 12, 2007 2:31 PM EST reply actions
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