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  • Mosster47
    Mosster47 Member Posts: 6,246
    If Jim Leavitt is retained I don't think the program trajectory between Willie and Mario will be any different. We were running Mario's offense by the end of the year so Taggart really was only going to be a recruiter/mascot going forward. I would rather have both Willie and Mario on the staff because they are both awesome recruiters, but overall to me they are the same person.

    For Mario's FIU stint they had no budget, just joined FBS and were under pretty heavy NCAA sanctions when he took over. He got them to their only two bowl games and their lone FBS conference championship. You don't reload at a school like that so there will be down times, but those aren't allowed in today's sports world.

    I am neither excited or disappointed by the hire. I think we basically swapped out a black guy for a Cuban and if Jim Leavitt stays on nothing actually happened.
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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855
    salemcoog said:

    IPukeOregonGrellow said:

    If they can keep Adrian Jackson, Shough, Stephens and Holland plus get Treshaun Harrison to re-up it's making the best of a bad situation. If they can keep Leavitt, that's the icing. If they can't, they better start thinking about who the DC will be.

    Leavitt Gone as per reports.
    He's the most valuable of the three. Where are these reports?
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  • IPukeOregonGrellow
    IPukeOregonGrellow Member Posts: 2,183
    salemcoog said:

    IPukeOregonGrellow said:

    If they can keep Adrian Jackson, Shough, Stephens and Holland plus get Treshaun Harrison to re-up it's making the best of a bad situation. If they can keep Leavitt, that's the icing. If they can't, they better start thinking about who the DC will be.

    Leavitt Gone as per reports.
    For that to happen, FSU is going to have to pay him top 5 coordinator money plus a $500k buyout. Possible. But not a given.
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  • Kaepsknee
    Kaepsknee Member Posts: 14,919
    dnc said:

    salemcoog said:

    IPukeOregonGrellow said:

    If they can keep Adrian Jackson, Shough, Stephens and Holland plus get Treshaun Harrison to re-up it's making the best of a bad situation. If they can keep Leavitt, that's the icing. If they can't, they better start thinking about who the DC will be.

    Leavitt Gone as per reports.
    He's the most valuable of the three. Where are these reports?
    Speculation on 750 da Game. It's just what they're hearing though, so don't twist.
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  • Gladstone
    Gladstone Member Posts: 16,425
    IDGAF (we've botraced Leavitt 2 years running) but FSU 247 folks have been convinced for a while now Leavitt is coming. This was part of the negotiations and was a huge stickler for FSU.
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  • Mosster47
    Mosster47 Member Posts: 6,246
    bananasnblondes said:

    To be fair, he did have one good year at FIU before being fired and then demoted twice by Bama

    The Bama thing just isn't really accurate. I've heard this from probably 15 different people. When Kirby left he had a ton of in-roads with recruits and high school coaches and that hurt Bama. Nick doesn't do much recruiting anymore and he didn't want this to happen again.

    He knew Lane would be the next one to take a head coaching gig so Saban took him off of recruiting his last 18 months or so on the staff. Mario and Tosh were his main two recruiters so he gave them both bigger titles and less responsibilities. Tosh was the "Co-DC" even though Jeremy did everything and Mario was the Assistant Head Coach, which means zero if Nick Saban is the head coach.

    That's why when Lane went to FAU there was no recruiting fallout because he wasn't recruiting anyone. You can see the obvious down turn in Bama's recruiting losing Kirby, Mario, and now Jeremy in continuous years. Tosh will more than likely get the DC job this year and be gone in a year or two.

    No one got demoted, they just got reassigned. Talent matters more than anything. Nick knows this.
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  • dongman
    dongman Member Posts: 2,384
    Mosster47 said:

    bananasnblondes said:

    To be fair, he did have one good year at FIU before being fired and then demoted twice by Bama

    The Bama thing just isn't really accurate. I've heard this from probably 15 different people. When Kirby left he had a ton of in-roads with recruits and high school coaches and that hurt Bama. Nick doesn't do much recruiting anymore and he didn't want this to happen again.

    He knew Lane would be the next one to take a head coaching gig so Saban took him off of recruiting his last 18 months or so on the staff. Mario and Tosh were his main two recruiters so he gave them both bigger titles and less responsibilities. Tosh was the "Co-DC" even though Jeremy did everything and Mario was the Assistant Head Coach, which means zero if Nick Saban is the head coach.

    That's why when Lane went to FAU there was no recruiting fallout because he wasn't recruiting anyone. You can see the obvious down turn in Bama's recruiting losing Kirby, Mario, and now Jeremy in continuous years. Tosh will more than likely get the DC job this year and be gone in a year or two.

    No one got demoted, they just got reassigned. Talent matters more than anything. Nick knows this.
    Saban can't be that stupid to put his eggs in one or two baskets right? Not that Alabama has trouble recruiting in any fashion...but every school sends position coaches as well as other coaches along side them for most visits, letters writing, hosting etc. for Defense usually a the DC, and position coach show up. Occasionally position, coordinator, and head coach. If Saban is so cocky that he leaves recruiting to 2 guys he's a moron and missing out on guys forsure.
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