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One million eye rolls.

I don’t understand Florida’s strategy in recruiting. To be fair, Mullen probably doesn’t either.

@golfclap Weren’t you praising Radunz in the offseason?

A&M is very confident in flipping Bryce Anderson fwiw. LSU will probably have their worst class of the past decade if they aren’t competitive in the West again.

Wherever Gray ends up, he’ll probably thrive. I made the mistake of watching a few of their games over the past two years, and the combination of Jim Cheney, an overrated o line coupled with poor coaching by Will Friend, and terrible QB play from Guarantano did him in. I can’t believe Haynes King almost committed there.

Did Keithron Lee’s Twitter get hacked last week? There are some...interesting retweets. https://twitter.com/longlivet_5?s=21

Also, I can’t say enough good things about Kyle Flood as an o line coach. His idiocy as a HC burned down Rutgers and made it impossible for the next guy to succeed (though Ash hired the worst offensive staff I’ve ever seen), but his o lines have been incredible. The ‘06 line was particularly great, and it helped that Ray Rice was running through the gaps they created. I think Sark would be reaching to name Flood as OC, but I’d bet anything that he’d build up a quality o line within two years.

While it won’t happen, I’d like to see Scott Fuchs at Buffalo get a shot at as a P5 OL coach. He did incredibly well at NDSU from 09-13, Wyoming from 14-16 (I think) and now at UB. He might hate recruiting but he can sure develop linemen.

It's for sure easier to win a title at A&M right now compared to FSU. I don't think most of y'all understand how bad of an AD FSU has at the moment. If it were my choice, I'd take jobs like UNC and Ole Miss over FSU.

Yes, it is for sure is now. Read about how haphazard and disheveled of an organization the FSU AD is right now and you’ll realize it’s just not a good job at the moment. A&M has premier facilities and an outstanding group of recruiters on their staff. Also, you have to understand that it isn’t that weird anymore. They still are really into their football traditions and the ring, but it’s mostly just normal suburban kids there now. Also, they now have an active group of bagmen assisting their recruiting ops. They’re about to dwarf Texas’ NFL development by the 2022 draft as well; you’d be naïve to believe otherwise.

Kelly likely knows ND can’t realistically get better than what they are right now under his watch. Also, he saw in person in 2016 just how much easier it’d be to recruit at Texas. If someone is at all hamstrung at their current job, then they’ll look elsewhere. Forget brands/title history; everyone on here stupidly scoffed at Jimbo for moving from FSU to A&M when he was actually doing himself a favor by making winning titles easier.

Fair, I’m just calling my shot. Day is/was a top tier recruiter, and just needs to make a co-DC change (like Meyer had to several times) for them to get back to being a top 10 defense next year. I mean Day has landed Fields, CJ Stroud, Kyle McCord, and now Ewers in consecutive classes. I think he’ll match or surpass Urban’s ratio of NC seasons:non-NC seasons if he stays there for a while.

A&M will be in the Orange Bowl since it’s the highest ranked non-playoff SEC/ACC matchup. They’ll square up with Mack and probably win, but it might be close.

Who knows if Riley will end up with better long term results than Stoops, but he’s definitely better than late-era Stoops so you can’t really say he’s “a lesser coach”. Also, Day is hardly a lesser coach than Urban.

Have you heard anything about how McQuarrie is progressing? I actually really enjoy watching UCLA now that the offense can move the ball in a few different ways.

I'd rep this more than once if I could. I said it months ago on here, but you can just tell how damn good of a coach that guy is when you watch his press conferences and how his teams respond to him. He's way too green like you said, but Day absolutely nailed that hire more than a year ago. I hope he has a special season at BC when his roster matures in a few years.

Also, I haven't read through a lot of this thread, but anyone who voted for Fuente needs to delete their account and reconsider every choice they've ever made. That guy has absolutely fucked up that program even worse than Herman is fucking up things in Austin. Whether you read their boards, watch their games, or look at their metrics as a team, you're going to realize that the guy just doesn't know how to manage a P5 (hell, probably even a G5) program.

I'm concerned about Cristobal, but I'm not ready to give up on him yet. They had the most star players opt out of any team in the nation (likely because they realized the patsy P12 schedule Larry Scott cobbled together was going to limit them even if they went undefeated). I will say that their DC, Avalos, has seemingly done a terrible job this year when he did an outstanding job last year. They absolutely don't have the personnel to play with 3 down linemen, yet he keeps banging his head against the wall, refusing to change. I will say that he might not have a choice there because their overall d-line recruiting has been the worst of any unit on that team (save RB). They probably only have one future draft prospect in their two deep on the d-line, and that's going to heavily limit you.

Wommack is outstanding, but their offense is legit too. I posted this in another thread, but Allen's rise at IU reminds me a lot of when Mack finally got UNC rolling. However, I think the one key difference is Mack's legendary recruiting acumen. I'm not sure that Allen has that, but some of his assistants sure do.

I know you're trolling, but Schiano won't leave Rutgers until he has accomplished what he has set in mind. He now has increased political clout in the state, and his best attribute as a coach is how well he knows NJ HSFB. Also, he has a huge mountain to climb because the current talent level of the roster is horrendous.

I need to post in the Tom Allen thread as well, but Indiana is on the verge of being a great team this year. Looking at FPI nominally is useless, but you can find out a lot from looking at Strength of Record and Game Control in FPI Resume. Those two metrics suggest Indiana is the fourth best team in the nation this year, and I don't think that's far off. Anyway, Tom Allen absolutely loves Indiana. I think he's going to be in a position similar to Mack Brown at UNC in 1997 in which he asks his AD if anything more can be done to turn the basketball-dominant school into one in which football is an equal. If he receives the same answer that Mack did, then he'll leave. If he doesn't, and Indiana commits to upgrading their facilities to be on par with the nation's best, then he will stay. I don't think he's leaving this offseason to be quite clear. I'm incredibly interested in finding out what Brian Kelly's total compensation is. It's publicly listed at $1.8m, but I'd guess it's actually around $6. @alphahorn @RVC2005 @Dbeasy Is there any chance y'all know more about Kelly's compensation? @RVC2005 I think you mentioned that you have connections in Ohio, so maybe you know a little about the inner workings of football in the state to the west of Ohio? He's turned ND into a real playoff contender, and I suspect he's permanently elevated their standing from a pretender to a team that can win a national title with a great QB (maybe Tyler Buchner in the future?).

Four. He tanked the program to pre-Schiano depths, and Schiano is now trying to resurrect it.

I had no idea Caltury was now at Pitt. I wasn't too impressed with him at Rutgers, but it was hard for anyone to do well with Ash running the program.

As of 2017, Hodges was his only protege. https://www.cleveland.com/osu/2017/06/ohio_state_football_looking_at.html

Pantoni's protege as of 2017 was Eron Hodges, who is now at Purdue. Was there another one who is currently at Pitt?