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Destination jobs: SI's top 12 Coaching gigs

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jwinslow;1416113; said:
Urban Meyer wouldn't consider leaving Florida for PSU. ND on the other hand...Most of the best coaches come from the midwest :wink:
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Crap - I have no idea where to find this, but didn't Urban Meyer turn down the offer from Notre Dame, and went to Florida instead? That may have just been a rumor, of course.

Edit - Nevermind. Thanks IronBuckI.
 
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Zurp;1416151; said:
Crap - I have no idea where to find this, but didn't Urban Meyer turn down the offer from Notre Dame, and went to Florida instead? That may have just been a rumor, of course.
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He had already accepted the Florida job. In a head-to-head, considering the wording in his contract at Utah, he would have gone to ND.
 
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BigWoof31;1416091; said:
. A coach from the midwest would be more likely to take a midwestern position...etc (with the exception of Urban, Les...etc).
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Tressel - Ohio/Ohio St.
Zook - Ohio/Illinios
Stoops - Ohio/OU
Meyer - Ohio/Fla
Miles - Ohio/LSU
Pelini - Ohio/Neb

Seems to me that a coach from Ohio will take about any damn job he wants. :biggrin:
 
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jwinslow;1416113; said:
And yet it's still not a top-2 job in the conference. Do you disagree with that?

I agree PSU is a very good position, I just think it's tough to say it belongs ahead of UM/ND, even with their current struggles.

Urban Meyer wouldn't consider leaving Florida for PSU. ND on the other hand...Most of the best coaches come from the midwest :wink:
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what is the #2 job in the b10? five years ago it was in ann arbor. today i do not know. likely there but i really dont... ill say um, then id have the one in state college, wisc (nope) iowa (no) illini (maybe) msu (lil bro in its own state) behind. im serious... i dont see a clear cut two today...

MililaniBuckeye;1416130; said:
Joe Pa hasn't been as dominant during his time in the Big Ten...
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he also has been 10 years past retirement age with his time in the b10... i think in the right hands psu is a slumbering power. (can you say that about a school with two titles in the past 4 years?)
 
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BUCKYLE;1416165; said:
Tressel - Ohio/Ohio St.
Zook - Ohio/Illinios
Stoops - Ohio/OU
Meyer - Ohio/Fla
Miles - Ohio/LSU
Pelini - Ohio/Neb

Seems to me that a coach from Ohio will take about any damn job he wants. :biggrin:
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I thought Saban / Carroll both are from Ohio...aren't they?
or Do they have Ohio connections?
 
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IronBuckI;1415971; said:
Despite my hatred for them, I can't say that I agree with Michigan or Notre Dame being any lower than Platinum.
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jwinslow;1415984; said:
In no world are UGA and PSU ahead of those two.
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RugbyBuck;1416053; said:
What this list doesn't take into account is that tOSU isn't platinum for everybody. Yeah, it is on paper, but it could easily be as much a nightmare for the wrong guy as it is a the dream job for JT. Alabama was a disaster for Bill Curry although he posted some really good numbers. On the other hand, uga is a better job for Richt (and, therefore, looks better overall) than it was for his many inept predecessors.

Hopefully, DickRod is so out of sync with scUM culture that the experiment will be a failure, but not so much of a train wreck that they actually go out and get someone else until we spend another decade feeding them their own excrement.
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And there's the rub.

Problem is, most of these are dream jobs for the guys who have it now precisely because they made it that way.

Was Ohio State platinum at the end of the Bruce Era?

Is Michigan above Georgia if they trade coaches?

Question to me is, what are the best jobs if the current guy leaves?

I'd say there's a pretty serious argument against Notre Dame in that they've been troubled since Holtz left. Maybe its bad luck, but, are they attracting the best coaches on the market? They're on a losing streak... and its not just this one guy, so something there is the problem too.

The argument that maybe Michigan is better than Georgia, for the moment is that Michigan's problem may be primarily Dick Rod, and Geergia's success might be due to Richt. There's an argument to be made that the current state of affairs are the exception- in recent history-- for both, so overall, yeah, Michigan might be a better job then Georgia is for--- the next guy.
 
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AKAKBUCK;1416316; said:
The argument that maybe Michigan is better than Georgia, for the moment is that Michigan's problem may be primarily Dick Rod, and Georgia's success might be due to Richt. There's an argument to be made that the current state of affairs are the exception- in recent history-- for both, so overall, yeah, Michigan might be a better job then Georgia is for--- the next guy.
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A great argument. You're right that there is so many different ways to look at this. With current crop of players, With current facilities, removing the coach, removing the players and have the coach build his ideal team, total budget, total school...etc

By your logic, PSU does lose some desire points since nobody really wants to carry the burden of replacing JoePa -same with Whisky, Alvarez was a monster to follow.
 
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