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I'm OK with Sumlin, just not happy with the way this was handled. Sherman had a really good recruiting class committed. Sumlin should be able to keep that intact and maybe add a UH recruit or two. Anxious to see who is on his staff.
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Mora to UCLA. Sumlin to A&M. I think that's a good hire for A&M, not so much for UCLA.

 

That's a polite way to put it. Thankfully there will be a new AD when Mora is let go in 4 years.

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I do not follow the NFL that much. Why is Mora Jr a bad hire? Is it just because he was not good at the NFL level or is there some other thinking? Was it just not a sexy enough hire? I can think of a couple of coaches who flopped at the NFL level who were good college coaches. I am not saying that Mora will succeed but I am not sure what the thought process is that he will be unsuccessful.
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I do not follow the NFL that much. Why is Mora Jr a bad hire? Is it just because he was not good at the NFL level or is there some other thinking? Was it just not a sexy enough hire? I can think of a couple of coaches who flopped at the NFL level who were good college coaches. I am not saying that Mora will succeed but I am not sure what the thought process is that he will be unsuccessful.

 

I'm not intimately familiar with Mora Jr, but lack of success in the NFL + lack of CFB experience is probably a big chunk of it.

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I do not follow the NFL that much. Why is Mora Jr a bad hire? Is it just because he was not good at the NFL level or is there some other thinking? Was it just not a sexy enough hire? I can think of a couple of coaches who flopped at the NFL level who were good college coaches. I am not saying that Mora will succeed but I am not sure what the thought process is that he will be unsuccessful.

 

I'm not intimately familiar with Mora Jr, but lack of success in the NFL + lack of CFB experience is probably a big chunk of it.

 

Correct. Since UCLA was finally opening up the checkbook, I really wanted a coach with good CFB experience.

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Sure is nice of the NCAA to bring the hammer down on OSU by letting one set of coaches coach and Urbie and a second set of coaches recruit. Seems to be really hurting the program.

 

Yep, he's already locked down a few recruits including a 4-star that switched from MSU. OSU also must be getting just a slap on the wrist for Tatgate and the Pryor stuff with Urban taking over so quickly and recruits willing to commit without finding out the penalties.

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Doesn't make a lot of sense to me, either. ASU was willing to pay Freeze $500k to keep him from going to Ole Miss. Malzahn made 1.3 mil as OC for Auburn. Either he took a huge pay cut, or they really extended their budgets to get him.
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Doesn't make a lot of sense to me, either. ASU was willing to pay Freeze $500k to keep him from going to Ole Miss. Malzahn made 1.3 mil as OC for Auburn. Either he took a huge pay cut, or they really extended their budgets to get him.

 

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Doesn't make a lot of sense to me, either. ASU was willing to pay Freeze $500k to keep him from going to Ole Miss. Malzahn made 1.3 mil as OC for Auburn. Either he took a huge pay cut, or they really extended their budgets to get him.

 

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Still a big paycut. Maybe Gus just wants to be able to start head coaching in a low-pressure environment where he already has some recruiting pull?

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Todd Graham bolts Pitt for ASU, tells his players in a text message. How nice.

 

If we have not learned anything, it is that college coaching has low ethical standards

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Todd Graham bolts Pitt for ASU, tells his players in a text message. How nice.

 

Told his director of football operations in a text message and told him to show the players. This guy is Houston Nutt if Houston Nutt were worse at coaching.

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Eh, wasn't he like the 3rd fallback hire after their initial choices blew up in their faces? And the program is in complete limbo with all the conference nonsense. I don't have a problem with him turning around and leaving after 1 year, and I'm also a little hesistant to believe initial stories about how it was done. It either comes from emotional football players or administrators that have a tendency to paint the departing in a bad light before welcoming in the new guy.
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It's his 4th head coaching job in 6 years. There was also a story that he was waxing poetic about the meaning of the word commitment at an event yesterday.

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