SEC Championship Game (and other news and notes) discussion
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Br@ssknux
Pretty much a regular
A few thoughts:
The hubris Kifiin has shown in his expectation to have his cake and eat it too and coach Ole Miss through the playoffs is remarkable. Not surprising but still remarkable. He's not just leaving, he's leaving for Ole Miss's hated rival, and they are supposed to just trust that he of all people will have Ole Miss's best interests at heart during this next month when it's probably the most important 30 days in setting up his team for success next year? This is not complicated.
I hate to be negative but this Ryan Silverfield hire at Arkansas is a total disaster. The guy has been the coach at the easiest place to win in the American, with exponentially more resources and he's never even made the title game. He's been beaten out by places like Army, UTSA, Tulane, North Texas. He probably would have started next year on the hot seat at Memphis. His stated mentor and guiding light is Mike Norvell. If you're an Arkansas fan, you can't even start the clock on being good again until after he's gone. At least that's how I see it.
Can't say I'm optimistic about Golesh either. USF is right behind Memphis in the "should be good" pecking order in the American and he hasn't done shit either. He's a salty guy who likes to pop off, which is refreshing, but his primary coaching influence is Tim Beckman. That should be a disqualifier. He hooked on with matt Campbell when Campbell got the Iowa State job which might have laundered some of the Beckman stink off him, but he hasn't really accomplished a thing.
Jason Eck would have been miles better than both of those if he was interested. Kentucky probably made the best hire of all of them if Will Stien is indeed the pick for them.
The hubris Kifiin has shown in his expectation to have his cake and eat it too and coach Ole Miss through the playoffs is remarkable. Not surprising but still remarkable. He's not just leaving, he's leaving for Ole Miss's hated rival, and they are supposed to just trust that he of all people will have Ole Miss's best interests at heart during this next month when it's probably the most important 30 days in setting up his team for success next year? This is not complicated.
I hate to be negative but this Ryan Silverfield hire at Arkansas is a total disaster. The guy has been the coach at the easiest place to win in the American, with exponentially more resources and he's never even made the title game. He's been beaten out by places like Army, UTSA, Tulane, North Texas. He probably would have started next year on the hot seat at Memphis. His stated mentor and guiding light is Mike Norvell. If you're an Arkansas fan, you can't even start the clock on being good again until after he's gone. At least that's how I see it.
Can't say I'm optimistic about Golesh either. USF is right behind Memphis in the "should be good" pecking order in the American and he hasn't done shit either. He's a salty guy who likes to pop off, which is refreshing, but his primary coaching influence is Tim Beckman. That should be a disqualifier. He hooked on with matt Campbell when Campbell got the Iowa State job which might have laundered some of the Beckman stink off him, but he hasn't really accomplished a thing.
Jason Eck would have been miles better than both of those if he was interested. Kentucky probably made the best hire of all of them if Will Stien is indeed the pick for them.
Br@ssknux
Pretty much a regular
I'm kind of undecided about that one. Probably a high floor because he's a solid guy. He was awesome at Troy but his Tulane tenure was kind of a mixed bag IMO. Quite a few questionable moments. Granted, I might be a bit unfair because I had really high expectations from his time at Troy, but I was expecting more of him at Tulane.
gps_3
Head of Alabama Department of Decision-Making
Golesh is an interesting one to me. On the surface it sounds good, but like you mentioned, USF has underachieved relative to expectations given their situation. Add to that the difficulty in recruiting NFL minded offensive players to that system, and you may just get a middle of the road SEC team, which is not what they want at AU.
Inspekdah
Quiet, Piggy!
Yeah, it's hard to predict who will succeed with the massive step up in competition. If FLA isn't continuously getting top 5 recruiting classes then it won't matter how solid he is. I read they have a new GM? That is now more important than the actual coaching. It's a big reason why everyone has caught up to Bama.
Inspekdah
Quiet, Piggy!
Yeah spread read option draws over and over vs. Rice and UTSA that go to the house doesn't typically work well in the SEC.
gps_3
Head of Alabama Department of Decision-Making
It was plenty successful when Golesh was at Tennessee in 2022, but I think defenses kind of caught on. Also, there will be a tremendous amount of negative recruiting focused around the lack of NFL success of QBs from that system dating back to Art Briles and Baylor. WR have had some better success, but Golesh hasn't adjusted like Heupel has, and their route tree is very minimal and can keep most receivers in that system from being drafted high, other than absolute freaks. I don't know what's going to happen at AU once the portal is open, but you can bet the phone of a bunch of players' agents have been ringing
twinkie13
In transit, arriving late.
There is a part of the Tulane base that isn’t all in on Sumrall. At all.
Bama is slated to make the playoffs now. If Bama were to lose to Georgia and then not make the playoffs, then I say abolish conference championship games. Just decline to participate.
bones
Sic Semper Tyrannis!
Sadly true.
UTSUX
Old-timer
Two Utes
Manual Toothbrushes FTW
What about BYU? If they lose the ccg their only two loses are to highly ranked TTU.
Not comparable to Bama. Bama beat Georgia. BYU beat…Utah. BYU needs to win its conference championship to get that impressive win