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Coaching changes: coaches hired and fired, comings and goings

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Abenaki;2059465; said:
You had me at "cool mustache".
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MaliBuckeye;2059470; said:
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right there with ya'...
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NOT right there with ya.

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Joe Schad's wrong again? Maybe he can blame Craig James' PR firm.

http://arizonastate.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1304079

Southern Methodist University coach June Jones told his staff in a Wednesday morning meeting that the final details were being ironed out in a deal that would make him Arizona State's head coach.

However, Wednesday afternoon, a source close to the situation said a meeting involving Arizona State athletic director Lisa Love was called. The result was that the deal with Jones may be called off due to the displeasure expressed by several parties about the potential hire.

ESPN's Joe Schad reported on Twitter that "Arizona State is preparing to announce June Jones as its next coach."
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CHU;2059494; said:
Joe Schad's wrong again?
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The way I read that excerpt, Schad may have been right at the time, but the deal may have fallen through.

There's something to be said though for reporting on something like this before it becomes official. I know it happens with pretty much every hiring and firing, but these things sometimes fall apart or turn out to be smokescreens.
 
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CHU;2059494; said:
Joe Schad's wrong again? Maybe he can blame Craig James' PR firm.

http://arizonastate.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1304079
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Sounds more like Schad was right at the time but ASU reneged on the offer.

WOTS is that Jones had already pulled his staff off the recruiting trail, asked some to be on his new staff, told SMU administration, players and recruits.


Kind of an awkward situation. Maybe tomorrow he'll be:

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808 Buck;2058950; said:
During an interview after the news conference, UH's AD slipped verbally and said resign instead of retire. No one picked up on it, but it pretty much tells you what really happened.
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My neighbors who watched the UH games with me this year and I all agreed right after the BYU debacle that he was as good as gone. With the difficulties in recruiting caused by shitty facilities and the distance from the mainland, it's going to be tough getting a decent replacement soon.
 
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TooTallMenardo;2059299; said:
Right? The Big Ten has respectable, GOOD coaches. The Pac has a snake oil salesman, a pirate who locks players in sheds, and June [censored]ing Jones. :slappy:
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All of whom (at least the snake oil guy's wife) are entertaining as hell. Pac-12 football is going to be more fun than a barrel of bonobos for the next few years.
 
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It looks like ex-Vols coach Phillip Fulmer is interested in a coaching job somewhere. Wouldn't he be a great hire for Arizona State or UCLA? He went 152-52 at Tennessee and won the world's first BCS NC. Plus he was single-handedly responsible for Peyton Manning's development as a QB.

Yeah he's 61 but I think he would be a better hire than Charlie Weiss or June Jones.
 
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Bobby Hoying;2060537; said:
It looks like ex-Vols coach Phillip Fulmer is interested in a coaching job somewhere. Wouldn't he be a great hire for Arizona State or UCLA? He went 152-52 at Tennessee and won the world's first BCS NC. Plus he was single-handedly responsible for Peyton Manning's development as a QB.

Yeah he's 61 but I think he would be a better hire than Charlie Weiss or June Jones.
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1. He'll be 62 next year, so he's no spring chicken, you're lucky if you get 5-6 years from him. ASU just fired a dinosaur that couldn't get the job done.
2. UCLA has a better option in Jim Mora.
3. His record is very front-heavy. He was just 29-21 (18-14 SEC) his last four years, including disastrous 2005/2008 seasons despite strong recruiting. His last BCS bowl was in 1999.
4. Fulmer was hardly "single handedly" responsible for Manning's development as a qb. David Cutcliffe was had much more to do with that. Fulmer was an OL guy, not a qb guy. Cutcliffe was a big reason Eli went to Ole Miss.
5. He'd probably be pretty similar to Weis, not as good as June Jones.
 
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