Would you be in favor of hiring a rival coach for Head Coach?
Pretty straightforward question (and pretty hypothetical because this doesn't seem like a legit question to have to answer this time around).
If a rival coach of the caliber of a Kelly, Dantonio, Meyer or one of their capable coordinators (like a Naduzzi) showed interest, would you be in favor of this for the HEAD COACHING job at Michigan?
Also, does anyone know of some examples of this happening before? Recent example would be USC hiring Sarkisian from Washington, although not the same level as aformentioned rivals.
Personally, I wouldn't have a problem with it - even Tressel or someone - as long as we win. If we didn't win, the world may end. Our (arguably) beloved GMatt has had stops at both UM and ND, and was embraced again by the UM community a few years ago, as a DC though, obviously.
Thoughts?
EDIT: In case anyone was confused about which position I am referring to, it would be our J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Head Football Coach.
October 20th, 2014 at 3:56 PM ^
October 20th, 2014 at 4:37 PM ^
...unless he continued cheating.
October 20th, 2014 at 9:53 PM ^
His players bartered some of their stuff for free tattoos. How does that help them win on the field?
October 20th, 2014 at 11:09 PM ^
October 21st, 2014 at 11:38 AM ^
It doesn't. But Sweatervest lying to keep them eligible to play does.
October 25th, 2014 at 2:01 AM ^
October 21st, 2014 at 1:12 PM ^
you arent trying hard enough
October 20th, 2014 at 4:37 PM ^
I've been backing Tressel throughout "the process" or whatever hell we all currently occupy with Michigan, the AD and any potential coaching search. People talk about how the next coach needs to be elite, an excellent recruiter, a national level hire etc. Tressel ticks all the boxes.
And for people who question the guy's ethics vis a vis tatgate its pretty obvious that he was the one who paid the penalty for what was clearly an institutional level compliance problem. Gee walked, Smith actually consolidated his power and tOSU moved on to Meyer. Pretty sure the NCAA would scale down his penalties.
Jim Tressel is a hell of a football coach. Period. People talk about second chances and redemption. I'd say taking over as the Ira and Nikki Harris Head Football Coach at Ann Arbor would be a start. Also, he could fire Brandon.
October 20th, 2014 at 4:44 PM ^
LOL +1 for the Tressel firing Brandon bit.
October 20th, 2014 at 4:50 PM ^
Tressel comes with a "show cause" bonus.
October 20th, 2014 at 4:58 PM ^
But only to 2016. One would think given his "cooperation" with the NCAA and "exemplary" behavior as an administrator etc. added to his connections that this is window dressing in front of a potential hire.
October 20th, 2014 at 8:56 PM ^
And no bowl game?
Hire him now and we wouldn't even feel the penalty.
Hire Tressel!
October 20th, 2014 at 6:55 PM ^
So would that mean that the Buckeye dufus who looks like Tressel and used to dress up like him at OSU games would have to transfer and become a Michgian fan?
October 20th, 2014 at 8:54 PM ^
He's a great football coach. He's a big name. His hiring would generate SO much buzz around our program and a LOT of kids would be confident of a Michigan resurgence and want to be part of that.
Tressel and Jim Harbaugh are the only real home runs out there.
For all of the confusion and fear it would cause the Buckeye nation, my first preference would be Tressel. His hire would be GLORIOUS.
October 20th, 2014 at 11:04 PM ^
October 21st, 2014 at 4:04 AM ^
I am not that close to selling my soul yet, but I would settle for one of his former assistants.
October 21st, 2014 at 1:05 PM ^
luke fickell
October 21st, 2014 at 1:26 PM ^
Or perhaps you could snake oil Darrell Hazell out of Purdue.
October 20th, 2014 at 3:56 PM ^
Not Tressel, given his shady dealings and issues with lying, but I'd be cool with Narduzzi or a similar coordinator.
October 20th, 2014 at 4:21 PM ^
say what you want about Tressel being a sleaze ball - but I don't buy it for one single second. He was the fall man for the university and he did take the bullet for OSU.
Tressell was a class act, and I still believe it to be so. He was a guy with high character and class, and that was what made it so damn hard losing to them because unlike Dantonio, Tressell was a good man and not a douchy dick.
Tressell is a great man of good character and was made a fall man for the Ohio State University's greater good.
Would I want him as our coach? maybe. Boy would that be something.
October 20th, 2014 at 4:37 PM ^
I'll get right on that. Happy Easter!
October 20th, 2014 at 5:38 PM ^
"Go Bucks!"
October 20th, 2014 at 6:53 PM ^
Well played sir/ma'am
October 20th, 2014 at 4:46 PM ^
October 20th, 2014 at 6:28 PM ^
Elaborate please, if you would be so kind...
October 20th, 2014 at 9:25 PM ^
October 20th, 2014 at 10:37 PM ^
This is correct. I can't remember where I read it either, but this is what I was referring to. I think it was part of that "big" Yahoo expose that had very little new information other than that.
October 20th, 2014 at 11:33 PM ^
It was written by George Dohrmann in SI:
October 21st, 2014 at 10:42 AM ^
And didn't Youngstown go on probation after he left?
October 20th, 2014 at 5:06 PM ^
right?
October 20th, 2014 at 5:16 PM ^
He lied. Publically. During an inquiry. I have no idea how that wouldn't be a character fault.
October 20th, 2014 at 5:38 PM ^
As opposed to Coach Joke and his "family issues" comment regarding Gibbons.
October 20th, 2014 at 5:48 PM ^
Yeah, that was just as bad and Hoke was rightfully crucified for it on this board once the truth came out. In no way does that make it okay for someone else to do it.
October 20th, 2014 at 8:58 PM ^
I guess Tressel's contemporaries in honesty would be Urban Meyer (heart issues never returning to coaching), James Franklin (rape investigation), Joe Paterno (pedophile defender/facilitator), Bobby Petrino (something about girlfriends and Harleys), Nick Saban (that whole injury thing, never coaching at Alabama etc.) and on and on.
Look, the coaching profession isn't full of ethical guys. Except Lloyd Carr, perhaps...and he would have been run out of Ann Arbor on a rail in 2007 had he not walked away.
October 20th, 2014 at 6:02 PM ^
October 20th, 2014 at 5:41 PM ^
just because the guy wore a sweater vest, claimed to be pious and said the right things, does not mean he was a "great man of character..." He cheated for almost his entire career.
October 20th, 2014 at 7:43 PM ^
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October 20th, 2014 at 9:36 PM ^
I'm guessing you don't remember that Tressell had the same exact thing happen under his watch at Youngstown State in 1994...
October 20th, 2014 at 3:58 PM ^
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October 20th, 2014 at 4:03 PM ^
October 20th, 2014 at 3:59 PM ^
If Tressel wants to get back into coaching in 2016 I'm sure he'll have a long line waiting to hire him, but Michigan shouldn't be in that line for any reason.
October 20th, 2014 at 4:48 PM ^
At what point do we stop moralizing as a fan base so we can have nice things? James Franklin rape case cover up, Joe Paterno covers for a now convicted pedophile, Brian Kelly puts a kid in a tower in 50 mph winds to film practice but the school "apologized", Mike Leach locks kids with (alleged) concussions in sheds, Nick Saban oversigns and his players get strange injuries causing them to end up at Colorado State...so does Auburn etc. etc.
Tressel was clearly a player in a very signfiicant institutionally approved series of violations over years. He was also an exceptionally good coach. He was also the coach who took the fall for that school. Not the president, the AD, compliance...nobody. Well, TP, perhaps.
The elite ones (Miles, Meyer, Harbaugh etc.) they all come with moral/ethical/behavioral issues. Why not redemption? Can we not also have nice things? Or does our "moral compass" come first. Dave Brandon could have written that last line.
October 20th, 2014 at 5:12 PM ^
we're going to have to agree to disagree. Tressel the head coach at Michigan?
NO WAY.
I...no, I can't even bring myself to imagine it. Even in my head I can't get the red off of him.
October 20th, 2014 at 6:14 PM ^
Ohio State canned the guy for serious ethical violations. What is Michigan football if that's the new standard we all need to accept, and what makes it different than Miami football or FSU football?
October 20th, 2014 at 8:33 PM ^
Those programs win games...is the difference.