Maryland has a HC job open
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Rumor is she loves crab cakes. She's currently eating one now while texting Todd. He'll be on the next plane out of AZ to MD. Players are shocked to show up to practice Monday with no head coach. He realized what a mistake it was to just send a text to Pitt players and learned from it. He takes the more classy approach this time and writes a touching personal letter left on the locker room wall which he hand signs himself!
He was supposedly coach in waiting under Friedg but jumped at the Vandy gig first.
Hope Pitt's staff is not interested, I like what we have! With the improvement on the D, Josh Conklin becomes a hot commodity!
Conklin has nowhere near the resume for a Power 5 HC job, and he's nowhere near ready for one. It took Narduzzi over 25 years as a coach and 10 straight years of being one of the best DCs in the game to get his shot. You think Conklin is ready now? Come on.
the only guy at Pitt that's qualified for a HC job is the HC.
Kinda like the USC offense Thursday night. BTW, Pat Haden is making Steve Pederson look like a discriminating judge of coaching talent considering the way his hoops hire is working out as well.
Haden had a chance with Peterson from BOISE I have read.
He then gave U Dub the gift of a lifetime by taking Sark and allowing them to get a really good coach.
Sorry to hear about Sarks problem
But both AD And coache should be removed asap.
UMD is a mess.
No matter who they bring in to coach, they are going to take yearly ass whoppins from the HUMONGOUS State U' s and cow colleges of the B 1G.
And it is hard to believe the BBALL fans are tickled with being ripped away from their original home.
Ok money. Money MONEY
Which they will just spend and be a crap bottom feeder of the B1G.
A player apparently told ESPN that Sark "showed up lit to meetings again today", implying of course that he had come to meetings impaired before.
It's funny, I was in Newport Beach at the time of the booster incident and the general feeling seemed to be that even if he got them to the playoffs Haden would give him the boot after the season. I had a bartender tell me that Bear Bryant was a drunk and that West Virginia currently had 2 drunk head coaches and the USC alums didn't care as long as he won. Well #1 is Morgantown is about as far away from LA as you can get, and #2 expecting great seasons from "7 win Sark" is unlikely.
Sarkisian wasn't a great hire to begin for a school like USC, who should be able to get pretty much anyone they want, not just a former player with a mediocre resume. The Kiffin hire was obviously a disaster as well. I expect them to go after a less dynamic but more accomplished coach this time. Haden's career probably depends on this next hire.
It's funny, I was in Newport Beach at the time of the booster incident and the general feeling seemed to be that even if he got them to the playoffs Haden would give him the boot after the season. I had a bartender tell me that Bear Bryant was a drunk and that West Virginia currently had 2 drunk head coaches and the USC alums didn't care as long as he won. Well #1 is Morgantown is about as far away from LA as you can get, and #2 expecting great seasons from "7 win Sark" is unlikely.
Sarkisian wasn't a great hire to begin for a school like USC, who should be able to get pretty much anyone they want, not just a former player with a mediocre resume. The Kiffin hire was obviously a disaster as well. I expect them to go after a less dynamic but more accomplished coach this time. Haden's career probably depends on this next hire.
Not only that but he also passed out drunk in the plane ride home from Washington state game. When your AD has to ban alcohol from the locker room you know it is a problem.
I am on record noting that Holgerson is immature, and his off field lifestyle and general personality bleeds into the program. But, I think he has the capacity to compartmentalize it, show up for work sober and do the job in that regard. Even some of these old timers probably had the capacity to do the same, though I am sure there are situations people could point to.
But, in this day and age, with social media and everyone with a cell phone wired up to relay a sneeze to the entire world, you have to have a REAL problem to do what he has done.
He does seem to do a good job keeping it together for the most part but it is a time bomb waiting to go off. Guy like him and to a lesser extent Tom Bradley aren't exactly what you want to be the face of your program. There is no doubt they are great assistant coaches. However can a parent trust a guy who continues to live like a college student spending most of their free in bars to help turn your boy into a man? I have a friend in college coaching who was an assistant for a hall of fame coach at a lower level. His biggest piece of advice was to get married and have a family. Many schools and athletic directors won't trust single coaches.
I figured that the stories would start to come out of LA once the leave of absence hit the media. So he passed out on a team flight? Man that's bad with the AD and all the other important people on those flights. He must really be a mess.
Agreed, totally. Lots of Pitt folks were pining for Holgy, but I wanted nothing to do with him for the reasons you noted.
IF he won big games, he could get away with it at WVU, because it is a lot more insular.
But, given how uptight Pitt supporters can be, his lifestyle would be a lot more glaring in the city, it would be really picked at here.
There is absolutely something about the being married thing in coaching generally, but specifically football.
Maryland is open; Illinois is open; Virginia probably will be; Miami may be. Southern Cal is going to be open too.
Lots of possible shifting to occur this off-season (as per usual).
Temple's HC will get a serious look on a few of these.
PJ Fleck possibly too and maybe Matt Campbell at Toledo.
Golden (if he and Miami part company could also be in the mix).
Also watch for possibly Herman from Houston.
Calling Greg Schiano....
Lots of possible shifting to occur this off-season (as per usual).
Temple's HC will get a serious look on a few of these.
PJ Fleck possibly too and maybe Matt Campbell at Toledo.
Golden (if he and Miami part company could also be in the mix).
Also watch for possibly Herman from Houston.
Calling Greg Schiano....
It's a shame but there is a type of discrimination against bachelors in college football. I think the NY times ran a piece on this a while back and said there are only 2 or 3 bachelors in Div 1. Which in a way doesn't make sense given the long hours the job entails....not conducive to family men and more suited to a single guy. Bradley, Holgy, etc, I think face some unfair discrimination because of it.
EOE rules be damned.. kind of ironic since coaching responsibilities are not conducive to having a family.. These coaches aren't home often for 6pm dinners, helping kids with homework or driving kids to soccer games on Saturday afternoons.. Single lifestyle is perfect for a coach at the D1 level, just not the "drinking at campus bars with teenage girls" part of it of course..
AND, it is a VERY transient job. I would say on average with the turnover with staffs the average coach/assistant is moving every 4 years or so.
NOW, the positive is that at the P5 level at least, the pay is good, and they lifestyle is pretty good. Lots worse environments to work in. But, it isn't ideal as noted, in terms of having a father around during the season or recruiting season.
Except that Maryland is now in the Big Ten so that "domination" would only go so far.
Agree with Pghfan, the job is best suited for a bachelor given the hours, except he will naturally want to get laid, which will almost inevitably lead to incidents given the high profile. ADs should mostly avoid guys like Holgy, Sark, and Bradley, who are known drunks.
I've figured it out.
At the end of the year, Franklin to MD (his 4 game losing streak to end this year will make him nervous); Graham to USC, Holgy to PSU (he probably has a sex scandal in his background, making him eligible); and Sarkasian to WVU. Led by Graham, all will say its their dream job.
At the end of the year, Franklin to MD (his 4 game losing streak to end this year will make him nervous); Graham to USC, Holgy to PSU (he probably has a sex scandal in his background, making him eligible); and Sarkasian to WVU. Led by Graham, all will say its their dream job.
Why would he leave Arizona State for Maryland? I'd say that's a step down. B1G is not that much better than PAC, and living in MD, I think MD is probably one of the worst situations in the B1G. they where never really that great in the ACC, their stadium is not that big, they don't sell out, I can't see them ever competing in the B1G in football, now hoops, yes, football no.
He had a drinking problem and was in rehab a couple of times. There's a lot of stuff people don't know about the Bear, good and bad. He had an inner circle that protected him and his secrets to the death.
Huge step down. However, it's pretty obvious who wears the pants in the Penny/Fraud relationship, so I guess anything is possible.
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