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1moretimeagain
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Apparently rumors have been swirling today about VT hiring Big Game James Franklin.
I can see it. Feel like he would do really well there.
Would not be good for UNC, but it would at least be better than Franklin at State.
Not sure I understand why Franklin wouldn’t be good at UNC. He might be lacking on the big stage but he has a formula for consistency.
Sorry, I worded that poorly. I meant that it would not be good for UNC if VT hired Franklin.
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He should wait a month. There will be better opportunities.
PLEASE LET THIS HAPPEN!
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LSU Needs a New Football Coach. The Governor Wants Trump To Make the Pick.
In an address from the Louisiana state capitol, Gov. Jeff Landry asked for the president’s help in solving a statewide emergency: finding a new head coach for the Tigers
—> https://www.wsj.com/sports/football...e?st=dqCUeV&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink“At the Louisiana state capitol on Wednesday afternoon, Gov. Jeff Landry used his weekly press conference to address a topic of grave importance.
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In an impassioned speech in Baton Rouge, Landry announced that the man whose job would seemingly make him responsible for finding a new coach for the Tigers, LSU athletic director Scott Woodward, had been relieved of his duties. Woodward was behind the hiring of Brian Kelly, whom the Tigers fired on Sunday after the team fell to 5-3 this season, to a 10-year, $100 million contract.
To rectify that catastrophe, Landry took Woodward off the job and recommended the choice of a successor be assigned to someone whose office demands decisions of roughly equal gravity.
The President of the United States.
… “In all the years I’ve covered college football, I’ve never seen a governor fire an athletic director at a press conference,” said ESPN analyst Paul Finebaum. “That was a new experience for me.”
Yet Landry assuming an active role in determining who will coach LSU next season isn’t actually the overreach it might appear. Former LSU president William Tate left the school in May to take the same job at Rutgers, and the university’s Board of Supervisors has been searching for his successor ever since.
Until LSU’s board hires a new president, they’re in charge. And Landry, whose mansion sits just four miles north of Death Valley, holds sway in that group.
In fact, the discussions that ultimately led to Kelly’s ouster on Sunday night took place at none other than the governor’s residence.…”
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“… On Wednesday, Landry blamed Woodward—who also hired since-fired Jimbo Fisher at Texas A&M—for a run of failure that called into question not only his football acumen, but the state of the nation.
“I’m tired of rewarding failure in this country,” Landry said, “and then leaving the taxpayers to foot the bill.”“
These schools really never learn. Give it another season or 2 and Nebraska will be coming off a 7-5 record anxious to get rid of Rhule, but will be stuck with him as a lame duck because they basically negotiated with themselves and got locked into a ridiculous contract extension.
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Landry says Louisiana taxpayers are on the hook for Brian Kelly’s buyout.
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If he does half of what he's talking about doing, he's really gonna fuck this up.LSU Needs a New Football Coach. The Governor Wants Trump To Make the Pick.
In an address from the Louisiana state capitol, Gov. Jeff Landry asked for the president’s help in solving a statewide emergency: finding a new head coach for the Tigers
“At the Louisiana state capitol on Wednesday afternoon, Gov. Jeff Landry used his weekly press conference to address a topic of grave importance.
…
In an impassioned speech in Baton Rouge, Landry announced that the man whose job would seemingly make him responsible for finding a new coach for the Tigers, LSU athletic director Scott Woodward, had been relieved of his duties. Woodward was behind the hiring of Brian Kelly, whom the Tigers fired on Sunday after the team fell to 5-3 this season, to a 10-year, $100 million contract.
To rectify that catastrophe, Landry took Woodward off the job and recommended the choice of a successor be assigned to someone whose office demands decisions of roughly equal gravity.
The President of the United States.
… “In all the years I’ve covered college football, I’ve never seen a governor fire an athletic director at a press conference,” said ESPN analyst Paul Finebaum. “That was a new experience for me.”
Yet Landry assuming an active role in determining who will coach LSU next season isn’t actually the overreach it might appear. Former LSU president William Tate left the school in May to take the same job at Rutgers, and the university’s Board of Supervisors has been searching for his successor ever since.
Until LSU’s board hires a new president, they’re in charge. And Landry, whose mansion sits just four miles north of Death Valley, holds sway in that group.
In fact, the discussions that ultimately led to Kelly’s ouster on Sunday night took place at none other than the governor’s residence.…”
It's gonna be a crowded job market this off-season and the best coaches are going to have options, if he tries to go for an incentive-laden contract over a more typical one or if tries to get cute with the hiring process, the best candidates are going to go somewhere that seems more "normal" and less crazy. He's already undercut his AD and the university has no current president, so I would already be concerned if I were a coach looking at the position.
I'll be interested to see who they manage to come out of this with unless they somehow manage to sideline Landry as part of the hire.
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Yahoo Sports weighs in on Landry and the LSU situation with an interesting article...
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The sordid tale of LSU football, the Louisiana governor and a yearslong feud
Even for Louisiana, a place with a history of jarring political acts and unusual public behavior, Gov. Jeff Landry’s unfurling this week has been a bizarre jolt. But the state's politics have long been uncomfortably intertwined with LSU football.
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Jon Gruden seems like a good fit.
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Lols. I'd like to think you're right. I could definitely see Trump picking some MAGA influencer that occasionally mentions SEC football as the new coach and them failing miserably.
I could also see Trump hiring somebody like Hugh freeze pointing out his success at Liberty and glossing over his less than success at Auburn. Then LSU going 7 and 4 and Trump blaming college liberals for Auburn not getting into the playoffs. Even threatening funds if they don't get into the playoffs. I wish I was kidding. I typically try to point out the tin foil hat theories and I know this is one but I kind of think it's possible.
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