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I appreciate the goal. I didn't comment until it popped up on multiple of my news feeds. Standing by

So, we still have no coordinators, the rumor mill on Caddy (and other coaches?) is gaining steam and crime dog is coming back....maybe. is that where we are? Busy month on coaching hires/fires. I did not expect this much off season drama.

And I would offer that this model works for the most successful teams in CFB. Throw in, as many have mentioned, that the HC job has gotten a lot more complicated in the last 5 years with the Transfer portal and NIL. An SEC West job today is not Liberty or Ole Miss 7 to 11 years ago (where he averaged 5 losses a year and got the program in trouble). I don't get that HF couldn't get aligned with his OC. Part of a leaders job is teaching. If he didn't like what the OC was doing, them teach him how to do it better or how to do more of what you want. That is what practice and scrimmages are for. I never hired a leader for a role that I didn't spend a significant amount of time early on getting aligned on strategy/expectations and how do do things. It's a basic of leadership. Now, if the person just won't learn or has a different philosophy; assuming they've been taught (which is doubtful in this case for the obvious reason that HF's response is just to do the OC role); then you get rid of them. No issue with that. But you don't then turn around and admit you can't lead well enough to find a top quality coordinator that can implement your strategy. This is pure Jimbo Fisher bull**** and what got him fired. He had his nose in play sheets and couldn't see the forest for the trees. Many on here loved Derrick Mason...he pulled that nonsense at Vandy and it's what got him fired...he took over the defense after he fired his DC after the 1st year and it was all downhill from there (he was run ragged and the defense actually never got better with him running it). The overall team certainly got worse. He's made his bed. I hope I am wrong. He's certainly not going with the odds.

So which one did I get wrong? Let's see: -- Admitted he's in over his head already by inability to manage games and recruit.... something every other major successful coach does - check -- made bad hires...and is having to piss away in excess of $3m to pay at least one off - check -- fired both coordinators - check -- taking over duties of fired OC - check -- unless he just invented more time in a day, he's now in a spiral. He was already struggling with time management, he just made it worse - check When you do someone else's job you aren't doing your own. It's an unmutable law, like gravity. No one is immune .

So he can't recruit and game plan at the same time, so the fix is fire OC, fire DC and become the OC and be permanently responsible for game planning and play calling ...genius. The failed HC playbook. Get in over your head. Make bad hires. Blow several million as a result. Inability to manage at the new level. Fire coordinator and takeover their role. Get in more over your head........

I think it's called disarray

This is some major rationalization. Replace HF name with Kirby Smart or Nick Saban and then say those two sentences. Does it make sense? Would anyone believe it? Of course not.

Kiffen....Elite...in the words of Inego Montoyoa The real reason I don't like the Freeze hire (his past and coaching shortcomings aside) is because there was never an actual coaching search. The admin zeroed in on him immediately and that was it. The admin screwed us, again; and here we are in half-assed land, again. All the while ALA and UGA move farther and farther away and let's throw TX and OK into the SEC mix now on top of that. Having a bad season while something is building is tolerable; this ain't that.

He was hired to be head ball coach. Head ball coaches hire elite staffs to manage elite programs (see the teams in the playoffs and those that were nearly in the playoffs). Like his predecessors, he was a poor choice as he is not a program builder. He's already demonstrated poor abilities at hiring assistants. Firing your OC after year 1 is telegraphing trouble. If you can't attract elite assistants, align with them on their role and job, and then let them execute under supervision, you have no business in the job. The notion that the solution to our offensive woes is to have HF call plays is absurd. He's already admitted to being unable to manage all dimensions of the programand you want to add play calling to his plate. A head coach has to manage the program: 1) game planning and game management; 2) roster, recruiting, Transfer portal and NIL 3), building, managing and developing a staff of elite assistants; and lastly 4) manage the donors and administration. I'll say it again, "if you're doing someone else's job, you're not doing yours".

Then he will fail.

If you're doing someone else's job you aren't doing your own.

Firing a coordinator after year 1. Priceless.....

Thanks Fifty! Happy new year by the way!

"Executive decision"...professional clue; this is not how executives make decisions...ever

This ^^^^^...there are only 12 games a year...13 if you're lucky. This isn't MLB or NBA, etc. Fans give a damn about every game. It comes from spending 4 years (or more for some :-) ) of your life there when you're young. For some, it had the addition of having worn an Auburn Hutch football uniform playing in your backyard since your earliest memory. Or at 8 years old watching your brother wearing #45 walk from the old field house thru the North End Zone (before it was closed in) at 'Cliff Hare' stadium as he got ready to play for A-Day. The pageantry around games leaves a lasting impression....you just love it. Then you grow up and want your family to feel about it like you do. Then some overpaid half assed university employee who could give two-sh**s for your nostalgia, feelings or history comes along and phones it in and just tosses it all aside with a throwaway comment to the press that he thinks will deflect blame. Some coaches (like Saban and Smart and Dooley and Bryant) appreciate it all and understand (like Dye and Jordan - can you imagine Shug Jordan saying I was too busy to prepare my team?)...and give it their all...this one doesn't.

OK, this last one hit a little too close to home!

I agree that you can't do it the way Dye did it; but you can still do it. Saban does. Do you think you can play and miss meetings in his program? Of course not...there have to be standards; non negotiables that must be met to get on the field; or now even before getting paid.

All well said. I find it interesting (sad really) a coach, or any leader, after a year, would still be complaining about culture. Who owns setting the culture? The leader. Pat Dye's 1st year, on the field, was poor. But he damn sure changed the culture that year.

This times 1,000,000 One item of interest...Michigan's last 4 recruiting classes: 2023 - 20 2022 - 12 2021 - 13 2020 - 12 Coaching matters

Ass whipping in the trenches

You mean like a poorly thrown interception? That kind of momentum?

Why is PT still in the game?

WTH