Ghost of Hoke

October 25th, 2015 at 6:58 PM ^

Hoke will be coaching in the Power 5 this year with all these openings. It's going to be entertaining to watch.



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chatster

October 25th, 2015 at 7:22 PM ^

As of now, the openings for head football coaches for 2016 are at Central Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Miami (Florida), North Texas and the two USC’s, South Carolina and Southern California.
 
Other openings may arise at Hawaii, Iowa State, Miami (Ohio), Purdue, San Jose State and Syracuse, depending somewhat on how those teams finish.
 
Brady Hoke’s a wonderful man who deserves credit for having recruited reasonably well and making sure that his players graduated with a degree from Michigan, but his record as a head football coach is 78-70 in 12 seasons, only half of which produced winning records. Before Michigan, he generally experienced an upward trajectory in records at Ball State and San Diego State. His 31-20 record at Michigan is based substantially on the 11-2 season in his first year. He has a 2-3 record in bowl games.
 
As much as he’d like to be back coaching a Power 5 Conference team as a head coach, which of the Power 5 Conference schools with open jobs would be likely to have him on their short list of candidates?
 
Would he better off taking a position as head coach at a MAC or Mountain West school, or as a co-defensive coordinator with recruiting responsibilities at a Power 5 school, if he wants to be back coaching in 2016?

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Richard75

October 25th, 2015 at 7:55 PM ^

Highly doubt it

Willingham got another big-school shot post-ND because of what he did at Stanford. RR likewise because of WVU. Chizik got to Auburn despite his performance at Iowa State because of his connection there as a successful DC.

Hoke doesn't have any of that going for him. He doesn't have previous Power 5 success, and he has already been at the one big school that would overlook his record.

The only plausible situation is a Wake/Vandy type of school, someplace where winning isn't expected or the primary objective. Anyplace with a lively fan base wouldn't be happy. Think of it this way: As an AD, you're putting your own job at risk if your hire doesn't win, especially if no one thought it was a good idea in the first place.



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Perkis-Size Me

October 25th, 2015 at 7:00 PM ^

Miami would be a dangerous program if they could just find the right coach. They've just hired duds for the last decade or so. There's a stupid amount of talent in the Miami area, and obviously in the state of Florida as a whole. And what kid does not want to spend four years in Miami?

All they need is the right guy and there's no reason they can't compete for titles again.



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M-Dog

October 25th, 2015 at 8:09 PM ^

You need to think of "facilities" in a more holistic sense.

Honestly, if I'm a Miami coach conducting a recruiting visit, I'm taking the recruit to South Beach the entire time.  It would not even show him the campus, and especially the stadium.

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LSAClassOf2000

October 25th, 2015 at 7:10 PM ^

I was thinking about it a bit last night, and I had to believe that the talk about waiting until the end of the season probably went out the window a little after 3 PM EDT yesterday when Miami walked off the field having scored exactly zero points to Clemson's fifty-eight.

That, and it just seemed like Golden never got the traction that was expected even in the wake of the NCAA sanctions. Even in the 2013 season, when I think they won nine games, they still faltered in November and managed to get whacked by Florida State. 

This has been a crazy year in coaching. 

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DrAwkward

October 25th, 2015 at 7:15 PM ^

Miami is a mediocre private university with no natural fan base. They won a bunch of games back when cheating was OK. They will never contend for another NC no matter who they hire.

All of the good head coaches know this, so Miami's only chance is to hire an up & coming coordinator. Personally, I hope they instead hire Steve Sarkisian.

To hell with Miami.

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turtleboy

October 25th, 2015 at 7:21 PM ^

Am I imagining it, or are mid season firings getting more and more common? What are we, up to 10 now? I wonder how large of a percentage of the total firings this year will be mid season. I'd imagine were pushing 1/4 to 1/3 at this rate.

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