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A Thought on Florida Hiring McElwain

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  • AtomicDawg
    AtomicDawg Member Posts: 7,359

    topdawgnc said:

    Makes me thankful UW can get Peterman and is a reminder that getting a big time coach can be tough. Florida is considered a better job than UW. McElwain was 22-16 at Colorado State, laughable compared to what Petersen did at Boise. McElwain doesn't even have close to the resume Urban Meyer had before going to Florida.

    Don't read too much into this.

    Remember this is the AD who hired Zook.

    Yes, he did hire Meyer ... but he also hired Zook and Muschamp.
    Both Zook and Muschamp were good hires at the time. When they started sucking, Foley wasted no time in kicking their asses to the curb. He's a great AD and it wasn't too long ago that they won the football and basketball national championships in the same year. I don't think there's a single AD in the country with a resume as good as his.
    Muschamp was never a good hire. Had a great agent though.
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855

    topdawgnc said:

    Makes me thankful UW can get Peterman and is a reminder that getting a big time coach can be tough. Florida is considered a better job than UW. McElwain was 22-16 at Colorado State, laughable compared to what Petersen did at Boise. McElwain doesn't even have close to the resume Urban Meyer had before going to Florida.

    Don't read too much into this.

    Remember this is the AD who hired Zook.

    Yes, he did hire Meyer ... but he also hired Zook and Muschamp.
    Both Zook and Muschamp were good hires at the time. When they started sucking, Foley wasted no time in kicking their asses to the curb. He's a great AD and it wasn't too long ago that they won the football and basketball national championships in the same year. I don't think there's a single AD in the country with a resume as good as his.
    Muschamp was never a good hire. Had a great agent though.
    Gotta admit I really liked Muschamp back in the day. He was #5 on my coaching prospects list in 2008. Here was the six guys I wanted.

    Mora
    Kelly
    Graham
    Wittingham
    Muschamp
    Patterson

    I'll admit I never expected Muschamp to do so poorly.
  • Mosster47
    Mosster47 Member Posts: 6,246
    Muschamp is the reality of why you don't give people meaningless titles. Mack Brown wanted him to stay at Texas but the AD wouldn't agree to paying a coordinator what Mack asked for, so they gave him the fake position on "Head Coach in Waiting" then all these other schools started that shit too and Muschamp became a super hot commodity because if Texas wanted him at some point then he must be great now!
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855
    Why would CSU accept less?

    Dude's a fucking genius for getting that big of a buyout in there in the first place.
  • AtomicDawg
    AtomicDawg Member Posts: 7,359
    edited December 2014
    dnc said:

    topdawgnc said:

    Makes me thankful UW can get Peterman and is a reminder that getting a big time coach can be tough. Florida is considered a better job than UW. McElwain was 22-16 at Colorado State, laughable compared to what Petersen did at Boise. McElwain doesn't even have close to the resume Urban Meyer had before going to Florida.

    Don't read too much into this.

    Remember this is the AD who hired Zook.

    Yes, he did hire Meyer ... but he also hired Zook and Muschamp.
    Both Zook and Muschamp were good hires at the time. When they started sucking, Foley wasted no time in kicking their asses to the curb. He's a great AD and it wasn't too long ago that they won the football and basketball national championships in the same year. I don't think there's a single AD in the country with a resume as good as his.
    Muschamp was never a good hire. Had a great agent though.
    Gotta admit I really liked Muschamp back in the day. He was #5 on my coaching prospects list in 2008. Here was the six guys I wanted.

    Mora
    Kelly
    Graham
    Wittingham
    Muschamp
    Patterson

    I'll admit I never expected Muschamp to do so poorly.

    justifiable at a lower level school or mid tier power conference school. For Florida though, that was a horrible hire to take on a coordinator.
  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    #MyHawks will be in big trouble if they can't kick field goals.