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Here is why Willie would be an idiot to leave Eugene:
He can recruit a Top 5 class every year.
The demand is much lower than any SEC school.
In the Pac-12 there will be one program with the talent comparable to what he is recruiting and they almost always fuck up their coaching hires.
The SEC has four programs with USC type talent and a fifth that has it about every third year. If aTm ever makes a good hire that would make seasons where half the conference is loaded. The demand on success for the coaches is crazy as well.
The playoff is going to go to 8 teams sooner rather than later. It would be pretty easy to be 10-2 from Eugene on a yearly basis and get in there most years. As UW moves closer and closer to Boise State level and Stanford lays on everyone with one skill kid the Pac-12 is the easiest road in the business. The money will be there if you win no matter where you are.
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I know it's fun to call him "Mediocre Mike" around here, but he'd be either the best or second best coach in the league if he were coaching in the PAC now.
He's mediocre compared to Kelly, but so is everyone else in this league and most of college football save Saban or Urbz.
Skippy was better than Mike. At least he won a Rose Bowl (while MB was coaching) in a stint at Washington that was less than half of Bellotti's tenure as 0U coach.
DNC - your better than that.
He became dependent on his coordinators and ultimately had some knee operations that just didn't allow him to physically coach anymore.
His one true flaw in Eugene was he didn't believe you could recruit to it, which is being proven wrong.
Illinois and Minnesota are jelly.
If we go back a mere 27 years we have 5 which isn't much but better than most