Bacon's Plan A, Plan B and Plan C. You Won't Like Plan B.
John U. Bacon on the Huge Show this afternoon, offering his updated assessment:
- Plan A is (in no order) Jim Harbaugh, John Harbaugh or Les Miles.
- Plan B is Greg Schiano. Dan Mullen was part of Plan B, but he's fading.
- Plan C is another Brady Hoke.
November 25th, 2014 at 8:34 AM ^
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November 24th, 2014 at 8:33 PM ^
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November 24th, 2014 at 6:25 PM ^
He would be a latteral move, at best. He had one great year at Rutgers, and has been living off of that ever since. There was more scandal in Tampa than was ever reported in the national media about him being a tool, and his assisstants had their own version of concusion-gate. In fact, I hate both Plan B, and Plan C,and would rather take a wild chance on an unknown with an upside, then status quo losing or hiring another sub par coach.
November 24th, 2014 at 8:02 PM ^
Same here. In JUB's scenerio Plan B and Plan C end up being the same thing.
November 24th, 2014 at 7:38 PM ^
November 24th, 2014 at 6:10 PM ^
November 24th, 2014 at 6:10 PM ^
I'm about to have a John U Bacon sammich.
November 24th, 2014 at 6:31 PM ^
is why I love you.
I like my Blue like my Chocolate...Darker.
November 24th, 2014 at 6:41 PM ^
I like my coffee like my women... Black and bitter.
My wife (being nice and Italian) doesn't like it much.
November 24th, 2014 at 6:45 PM ^
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November 24th, 2014 at 6:50 PM ^
I like my subs like I like my women -- hot and Italian.
November 24th, 2014 at 6:58 PM ^
You had hot Italian subs. It was crazy.
November 24th, 2014 at 6:11 PM ^
Fuck bacon, he does not tell me what i want to hear.
November 24th, 2014 at 6:13 PM ^
Jon Bacon is not even worth listening to at this point. He is basically the same thing as Sam Webb, and has no actual info.
Honestly, he loses a lot of credibility by even entertaining the idea of keeping Hoke in option 3.
November 24th, 2014 at 6:26 PM ^
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November 24th, 2014 at 6:27 PM ^
November 24th, 2014 at 6:14 PM ^
If this program gets stuck with another loser HC that runs things into the ground even worse, we are officially ND.
November 24th, 2014 at 6:18 PM ^
November 24th, 2014 at 6:22 PM ^
I think we can stop pointing and laughing at ND. They're miles ahead of what we are, currently. We're worse than the caricature of ND that is so despised around here.
November 24th, 2014 at 6:25 PM ^
I would agree with this.
November 24th, 2014 at 6:29 PM ^
That's not true. We're at worst where ND was during the Weis years, if not a little ahead. They had Willingham-Weis, and we had RR-Hoke. That's pretty comparable, I'd say. The thing is, at least we had Carr before that who had some very good teams at the end - they had Bob Davie and the whole O'Leary disaster.
November 24th, 2014 at 7:03 PM ^
Bob Davie??
November 24th, 2014 at 6:25 PM ^
Notre Dame pre-BK maybe. The current ND was in the NC game (albiet flukily) 20 months ago, and, despite a hilarious last three weeks, is bowl eligible with a much harder schedule than ours.
We can only dream of being ND right now.
November 24th, 2014 at 6:16 PM ^
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November 24th, 2014 at 6:18 PM ^
about Plan C, either, chief!!
November 24th, 2014 at 6:22 PM ^
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November 24th, 2014 at 6:56 PM ^
November 24th, 2014 at 6:20 PM ^
Between Plans B and C.
Would way rather have a hotshot coordinator like Herman at that point.
November 24th, 2014 at 6:34 PM ^
I would have hope for the future with a hot shot coordinator. Schiano would feel like getting one of the multitudes of retread coaches that circle around in the NBA. It would inspire no confidence what so ever!
November 24th, 2014 at 7:25 PM ^
Coordinators for Meyer/RR are basically assistants offensive coordinators as the offense itself is the product of the mind of the head coach.
November 24th, 2014 at 9:15 PM ^
The problem with that statement is Herman is a hotshot coordinator this is only his third year as OC under Meyer. He was a very succesful OC before Meyer hired him at OSU and is hardly a product of Urban Meyer's offensive mind. He may have benefited from learning under Meyer, but he was a hotshot coordinator before OSU, which is why Meyer hired him in the first place.
In addition, the last OC to get hired from under Meyer seems to be doing pretty good for himself (Mullen). Herman may be a terrible head coach or he may be the next greatest coach in college football but to say he is not a hotshot coordinator or simply a product of Meyer is just false.
November 24th, 2014 at 6:21 PM ^
Definitely not a fan of Schiano. But man, there doesn't seem to be a whole bunch out there right now that excites. If we whiff on the Grade A prospects, this could be ugly.
November 24th, 2014 at 6:26 PM ^
resigned to Miles as best case, who'll likely make them competitive again and recruit well but utimately won't be a Bo or Tressel-like game changing hire. I guess I'd be fine with that, given the some of my worst fear alternatives.
November 24th, 2014 at 6:28 PM ^
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November 24th, 2014 at 6:22 PM ^
Greg Schiano. is a joke. hoke pt2. people would roit
November 24th, 2014 at 6:53 PM ^
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November 24th, 2014 at 6:26 PM ^
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November 24th, 2014 at 6:30 PM ^
I would take Plan C before considering Plan B. They will lose me just as fast with Schiano as they did with Hoke.
Going back to my previous comments, would they really consider a guy who couldn't beat RR while they were in the Big East? Really? Another .500 career coach, who got thrown out of Tampa?
Please tell me that is John U. Bacon talking and not someone from inside the Athletic Department.
If your are going outside, why would this guy be your bold choice?????
November 24th, 2014 at 6:35 PM ^
John U. used to be pretty connected... but my understanding is that he isn't as tied into things as he used to be. I could be wrong on this, but I think the perception inside the AD is that he was taking Rich Rod's side in "Three and Out." Frankly, he doesn't paint the prettiest picture of internal University know-how in that book... I think it's a fabulous read, myself.
November 24th, 2014 at 6:29 PM ^
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November 24th, 2014 at 7:31 PM ^
this guy