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Wildcat4E

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Re: 2026 Coaching Carousel
« Reply #42 on: October 30, 2025, 03:13:17 PM »
Quote from: SFBadger96 on October 30, 2025, 11:49:13 AM
Quarterback play wasn't the problem. As obnoxious as he may have been, Clausen was a very good college quarterback. Offensive and defensive lines were the problem. Weis could scheme, but he didn't know how to recruit and coach up a team.
Nobody remembers his stint at KU.  I suppose there's reason for that.

There was widely circulated video of a practice exercise he ran there.  They would kick a field goal, and simulate celebrating that it was a walk-off victory. In practice! </==off Allen Iverson> I crap you negative.



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Re: 2026 Coaching Carousel
« Reply #43 on: October 30, 2025, 03:15:58 PM »
Quote from: medinabuckeye1 on October 30, 2025, 02:24:09 PM
That is just baffling to me. 

If I was the governor, my thinking would be this:
  • If I stay out of it and it goes well I can claim some credit on the dubious basis that I appointed the Trustees/Regents/whatever they are called in Louisiana and possibly the University President (apparently the governor appoints those in Louisiana?). 
  • If I stay out of it and it blows up I can distance myself on the reasonable basis that while all Louisianans (sp?) love LSU ("Geaux Tigers" and all that), as governor I need to be concerned with governing the state, not the day-to-day operations of the LSU football program. 
  • If I get involved and it goes well it doesn't really help me. 
  • If I get involved and it blows up, I own it. 


If you think that's something, you should see the kerfuffles in the state legislature.  That can have a lot to do with general university administration, but there's definite power plays in the athletic dept. too, or at least attempts at it.  

Maybe it's part of the whole "football is a religion in the South" thing.  

Also, it'd be hard to convince me that a buncha politicians, known for their corruption, anywhere near a money machine like our Athletic Department, hasn't figured out a way to dip their hand in the jar for some personal gain.
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Re: 2026 Coaching Carousel
« Reply #44 on: October 30, 2025, 04:32:32 PM »
Quote from: SFBadger96 on October 30, 2025, 11:52:02 AM
Also, all these openings and press about buyouts are probably making it less likely that Wisconsin fires 2-10 Luke Fickell. That makes me sad. Next year McIntosh will celebrate the 6-6 improvement as a sign that he made the right decision. The rest of us will know that it was schedule driven and that beating a couple of cellar dwellers in the conference isn't the reason McIntosh fired Chryst.
Word around these parts is that KU's Lance Leipold is going to get that gig.

He is a good coach, turned that horrid program into respectability.  He is 0-5 against my Wildcats, but that was established as the way long, long ago.  Bill Snyder was 1-3 against KU at one time, so losing to the rival doesn't brand you as garbage forever.  It wouldn't be a flashy hire, but at one time I'm sure everyone wondered who the hell Cignetti was.
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Re: 2026 Coaching Carousel
« Reply #45 on: October 30, 2025, 04:47:59 PM »
There was some talking head that recently had an old tweet unearthed where he sarcastically joked: Watch out OSU, Michigan and Penn State! Indiana hire's JMU's Curt Cignetti! 
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Re: 2026 Coaching Carousel
« Reply #46 on: October 30, 2025, 05:07:14 PM »
Quote from: Wildcat4E on October 30, 2025, 04:32:32 PM
Word around these parts is that KU's Lance Leipold is going to get that gig.

He is a good coach, turned that horrid program into respectability.  He is 0-5 against my Wildcats, but that was established as the way long, long ago.  Bill Snyder was 1-3 against KU at one time, so losing to the rival doesn't brand you as garbage forever.  It wouldn't be a flashy hire, but at one time I'm sure everyone wondered who the hell Cignetti was.
I'd be good with it, but I'm not seeing that at all. I think he rides off into the sunset where he is.
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Re: 2026 Coaching Carousel
« Reply #47 on: October 30, 2025, 06:32:48 PM »
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Re: 2026 Coaching Carousel
« Reply #48 on: October 30, 2025, 09:15:37 PM »
Quote from: MikeDeTiger on October 30, 2025, 03:15:58 PM

If you think that's something, you should see the kerfuffles in the state legislature.  That can have a lot to do with general university administration, but there's definite power plays in the athletic dept. too, or at least attempts at it. 

Maybe it's part of the whole "football is a religion in the South" thing. 

Also, it'd be hard to convince me that a buncha politicians, known for their corruption, anywhere near a money machine like our Athletic Department, hasn't figured out a way to dip their hand in the jar for some personal gain.

talk from the governor about hiring the new coach
nothing about signing the new coach's contract with or w/o a buyout clause
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Re: 2026 Coaching Carousel
« Reply #49 on: October 30, 2025, 09:54:41 PM »
Quote from: MikeDeTiger on October 30, 2025, 03:15:58 PM
Maybe it's part of the whole "football is a religion in the South" thing.

This was a timely converging of events that were uniquely due to blow up in one of a few places to include Louisiana.

Geography: "It just means more" in Texas too. However, it wouldn't do the Texas governor any good to aggressively assert themselves into the Longhorns coaching search while trashing the athletic director because there are enough other instate voting Aggies, Raiders, Frogs, Bears, Cougs, and 'Stangs to make this a politically unpredictable endeavor. Even in less populated but college football minded states like Iowa or South Carolina, this would be a risk. LSU football is the only statewide show in town. (Please keep in mind this isn't the first time that an acting Governor took over the hiring process for a football coach.)

Buyout: As I've stated over the years in our "Coaching Buyouts and Contract Extensions Thread" thread, it was only a matter of time before a public official got vocal about the obscenely large and fully guaranteed buyouts. (I predicted it would be Mel Tucker's buyout that would draw a critical mass of attention to this, but, for good reason, his wasn't paid out.) And it just so happens the man responsible for the steepest buyout in college sports history was hired by LSU and wasted no time setting himself up for the same costly mistake by hiring Brian Kelly for a 1) fully guaranteed, 2) unrealistic dollar amount, for 3) an unrealistically long time. After Woodward tried to hire Tucker?!

And Scott Woodward absolutely deserves to lose his job for this. Forget the other sports that are doing well under Woodward's watch; BOTH football and men's basketball are underachieving.

There you have it:


https://twitter.com/On3sports/status/1984053089301631388
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Re: 2026 Coaching Carousel
« Reply #50 on: October 30, 2025, 10:15:59 PM »
The more of a shit show LSU is, the more likely Florida is to get their guy.
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Re: 2026 Coaching Carousel
« Reply #51 on: October 31, 2025, 07:47:45 AM »
must be talkin bout Scott Frost
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Re: 2026 Coaching Carousel
« Reply #52 on: October 31, 2025, 08:23:14 AM »
Quote from: Mdot21 on October 30, 2025, 06:32:48 PM
jesus...


https://twitter.com/ToddFuhrman/status/1983933202701189313
as a Husker fan, I'm OK with it

Rhule didn't get a raise - just a 2 year extension
He wasn't going to get any better job offers anyway
he wasn't getting fired - obviously - if they lose the remaining 4 games maybe he should

gotta send the message to the recruits 
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Re: 2026 Coaching Carousel
« Reply #53 on: October 31, 2025, 08:38:39 AM »
Lets not pretend that Texas politicians didn't have their hands all over SWC/XII realignment 
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Re: 2026 Coaching Carousel
« Reply #54 on: October 31, 2025, 08:45:26 AM »

Quote from: FearlessF on October 31, 2025, 08:23:14 AM
as a Husker fan, I'm OK with it

Rhule didn't get a raise - just a 2 year extension
He wasn't going to get any better job offers anyway
he wasn't getting fired - obviously - if they lose the remaining 4 games maybe he should

gotta send the message to the recruits
According to Stewart Mandel, the extension also modified his buyout terms such that his buyout is now $71M.


https://twitter.com/slmandel/status/1983978317700329647
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Re: 2026 Coaching Carousel
« Reply #55 on: October 31, 2025, 08:59:36 AM »
Quote from: Mdot21 on October 30, 2025, 06:32:48 PM
jesus...

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Matt Rhule is a combined 0-18 vs AP-ranked opponents at Baylor & Nebraska

College coaching is a hell of a gig
That shouldn't bother the fine folks/fans in the Alleghenies at all :(
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