runandshoot

January 24th, 2024 at 8:09 PM ^

"No!  The program is in shambles. We haven't won a game in more than two weeks!  I looked out my window just now and there are wet droplets of the sky falling to the ground!  THE SKY IS LITERALLY FALLING!"

This made me literally laugh out loud - needed that today!

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Sione For Prez

January 24th, 2024 at 9:18 PM ^

I don't think Michigan will hire him but acting like Leipold being 17-21 at Kansas is bad is wild to me. That program had not won more than 3 games in a season since 2009(!) before they won 6 in 2022. 

Took a Buffalo program that had 2 total bowl trips in its history, and he managed to be bowl eligible in his last 4 of his 6 years. 

And that doesn't even mention him going 109-6 at Wisconsin-Whitewater and winning 6 DIII national championships in 8 years and losing in the National championship game in one of the two seasons he didn't win it. 

That dude can flat out coach and I think he would be very successful if he were to be hired to a major program. 

EDIT: Ah I see you've edited your comment where you were disparaging Leipold's record at Kansas. 

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BlueHenBlue

January 24th, 2024 at 9:35 PM ^

He's 59. Most of his career was in D3. Sure, he turned around Kansas last year, but that's one year. And how does he even fit in to the Michigan narrative??? It's silly even seeing his name put out there.

As an AD making a hire like this, LL would be a big WTF to have to explain to the fanbase, bigger than RichRod. Hardly anyone will have heard of him.

"Oh but he was a big winner at Wisconsin-Whitewater bumfuck nowhere 10 years ago!"

 

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1VaBlue1

January 25th, 2024 at 8:21 AM ^

Leipold's record isn't trash - it's actually pretty good.  But Moore represents stability within a program that just won the National Championship.  He proved himself on gamedays in bigger games than Leipold has ever coached in at Kansas.  The players, staff, and recruits know him - and by all accounts love him.  The schemes remain the same - the same schemes that just won a National Championship.  The players and recruits know they still fit the schemes that the defending National Champion uses.  The culture that brought the players and schemes together to win a National Championship will stay without changing.

Leipold - and any other big name off the street - would bring new schemes, new staffs, a different culture, and new recruiting targets that better fit the new schemes.  None of which have won the National Championship.

So question - would you rather mostly keep the outfit that won the National Championship together for another run, or toss it all into the bin and start over from scratch?

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JMo

January 24th, 2024 at 7:39 PM ^

Jeff Brohm is a Louisville guy. He played there. When they signed him this past year there was a huge deal made about his coming home, etc.  We obviously aren't doing a search. But if there was one, Jeff Brohm wouldn't be on the table. It'd be the equivalent of Georgia saying "We should hire Jim Harbaugh" in 2016.

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JMo

January 24th, 2024 at 9:14 PM ^

Hence the metaphor about Georgia in 2016, one year after Harbaugh was hired at Michigan. 

Yes, something bigger and better could come along. Hell, Jeff Brohm could win a National Championship in 8 years and have a chance to "home" to San Diego, his first NFL team.

But the idea that someone could come along 12 months after he was hired by his alma mater, a school and fanbase that has coveted hiring him for years, after so much excitement by the alumni and fanbase and a 10 win season this year... it's not happening. He's not picking up the phone for any job, even the reigning National Champions. Just like Georgia wasn't going to hire Harbaugh for "something bigger" in 2016, one year into JH's tenure at Michigan.

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MgoHillbilly

January 24th, 2024 at 7:03 PM ^

If sherrone would just grow his beard out naturally without doing those weird shave lines in it, he'd be my choice. I can't stand that look.

Lovie Smith knew what he was doing in the facial hair department.

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Cam

January 24th, 2024 at 7:03 PM ^

Not Moore, not Moore, and not Moore. I guess I'm in the minority, but I think elevating Moore would be a huge mistake. Like a Juwan 2.0 mistake.

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ThadMattasagoblin

January 24th, 2024 at 7:06 PM ^

I think there would be a ton of transfers if it isn't Moore. He doesn't have a ton of experience but hopefully they are more willing to go in a different direction if things aren't working out with him than they are with Juwan. Hopefully, he learned from Harbaugh and is a great head coach.

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BeatIt

January 24th, 2024 at 8:21 PM ^

Bama  has had 30 transfers after hiring one of the best available head coaches. There are always transfers when there’s a coaching change. When Urban Meyer took over OSU (a proven championship coach) OSU had 35+ transfers in his first 2 years. That was after the NCAA sanctions. With multiple NCAA investigations looming it could be worse I’m afraid. 

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