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Destination jobs: SI's top 12 Coaching gigs

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Is Florida the platinum characteristic, or the coach? Is it platinum without a meyer/spurrier?

Nd still has cache after decades of failure. Could you say the same about uf if that happened?
 
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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.

Edit - Nevermind. Thanks IronBuckI.
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IronBuckI;1416154; said:
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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Urban Meyer Jilts Irish, Heads to Florida - General - redOrbit

Wrong. He thought about it, got advice from numerous people he respected, including Kirk and Earle Bruce as I remember. It was not a done deal to UF Iron. He weighed them and picked us. True, we were in a day earlier, but no ink was signed.

Here is a good one about his love of Ohio and how he was influenced by his time at tOSU.
http://florida.scout.com/2/606969.html
 
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Gatorubet;1416655; said:
Here I was, watching Dark Knight with the family, when I hear my name...

What's the subject? How can you have simultaneous Basketball and Football MNCs and not be a Platinum? :biggrin:
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Hey, it's the only guy in Louisana that can spell "simultaneous"!

FL is for sure moving up towards the "platinum" category. But a big part of being platinum has to be long-term excellence and tradition.

Historically, Alabama would have to be the highest rated "destination job" in the SEC. I'm a little surprised they aren't still placed Platinum in this ranking. UF might pass them soon, however.

Penn State, otoh, how can it be rated at all in this thing, since the current HC has held it for 137 years? their next HC probably hasn't been born yet. There are giant redwood trees that won't live as long as Paterno. He will be the first guy to coach posthumously. The phrase "I'll bet Joe Paterno is spinning in his grave" - they will actually be able to confirm that, as he will be encased in glass on the sideline.
 
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jwinslow;1416668; said:
Is Florida the platinum characteristic, or the coach? Is it platinum without a meyer/spurrier?

Nd still has cache after decades of failure. Could you say the same about uf if that happened?
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I think so. At least with recruits. Florida has the second longest streak of non losing seasons in college football (beginning in 1980. Some team I can't recall started their streak in 1977:p)

Not for your life or my life, but for the life of the current players and high school kids watching, we've always been a big dog. The only reason I think we will have staying power is the fact of the recruiting base we are blessed with. Nebraska was good forever, but they had to bring them in from elsewhere to the middle of nowhere Nebraska. Take away the Big-12 titles and shots at the MNC and they cannot get kids to go there. We will always have talent, and now we are successful enough to get the premier coaching.

No, we are not Notre Dame and I am not saying we are. But we are a new commodity that looks like it has a brand with staying power. With the basketball success, we have a little cache ourselves. Now - I am living the dream, and at the apex, with nowhere to go but down, but it has been a good ride for me.
 
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Gatorubet;1416676; said:
Urban Meyer Jilts Irish, Heads to Florida - General - redOrbit

Wrong. He thought about it, got advice from numerous people he respected, including Kirk and Earle Bruce as I remember. It was not a done deal to UF Iron. He weighed them and picked us. True, we were in a day earlier, but no ink was signed.

Here is a good one about his love of Ohio and how he was influenced by his time at tOSU.
Scout.com: Urban Meyer Interview In-Depth
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Sorry for writing accepted, instead of "accepted" (I swear I did air quotes when I wrote it:) ). Florida was talking to Meyer for longer than one day before ND, and Meyer signed a contract two days after Notre Dame was in Salt Lake. That tells me that Florida was in the day before, with the interview process over, and a deal in hand. Florida was in much earlier than ND, and then ND fired Willingham trying to make up ground in a race that was already lost. Sure it was still a tough decision for him, but it wasn't wrong to say that he was already on his way to Florida, before Notre Dame ever entered the game.
 
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jwinslow;1416734; said:
So then you're saying fsu and da u are platinum destinations too, right? :p
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Nah. Miami struggles even owning Dade County. Both of them have facilities and financial resources issues. I mean, FSU has to pick up USF games to get people to come to the staduim. They have always lacked fan support that way, and the only way they made their stadium any better was to use state money to build "classrooms" around the erector set. Many Gators buy cheap FSU season tickets just to get the UF game every other year, while we have to pay thousands for the right to buy Gator tickets. UF is much more like tOSU in that regard than FSU.

FSU may go the way of Nebraska for a few years before a bounce back, if they get hammered by the NCAA. The delay in announcing it makes many think that they got a supplemental LOI. Hell, they are two O linemen injuries away from a losing season as it is, let along being hit with possible scholarship sanctions. But the good news for them is that a pop on the nose by the NCAA may finally get Bowden gone, which would be a shame. :sad:
 
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IronBuckI;1416800; said:
Sorry for writing accepted, instead of "accepted" (I swear I did air quotes when I wrote it:) ). Florida was talking to Meyer for longer than one day before ND, and Meyer signed a contract two days after Notre Dame was in Salt Lake. That tells me that Florida was in the day before, with the interview process over, and a deal in hand. Florida was in much earlier than ND, and then ND fired Willingham trying to make up ground in a race that was already lost. Sure it was still a tough decision for him, but it wasn't wrong to say that he was already on his way to Florida, before Notre Dame ever entered the game.
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You said in a head to head he would have gone to ND, but he had already accepted. He still had the opportunity to sign with ND, and they were in the mix before the deal was done with UF. In this article

USATODAY.com - Utah's Meyer to pick Florida over Notre Dame today?

Meyer's dad is quoted in the article as having given his son advice about which job offer to take, which to me indicates a head to head choice, and not a done deal already accepted. I assume that his agent would have known better than to stop a juicy bidding war from happening. :biggrin:
 
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BigWoof31 said:
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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joe pa>barry. by a mile.

penn state has also gone since ww1 with 5 coaches. its a place of long lasting, tenured coaches.
 
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Gatorubet;1416832; said:
UF is much more like tOSU in that regard than FSU.
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and jorts :banger:
FSU may go the way of Nebraska for a few years before a bounce back, if they get hammered by the NCAA. The delay in announcing it makes many think that they got a supplemental LOI. Hell, they are two O linemen injuries away from a losing season as it is, let along being hit with possible scholarship sanctions. But the good news for them is that a pop on the nose by the NCAA may finally get Bowden gone, which would be a shame. :sad:
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Keep your head up. There are plenty of incompetent fish in the sea.
 
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