Different situations, but I’m just making the point that saying no many times before saying yes certainly didn’t impact Saban’s ability to be successful there. So, it doesn’t dim my desire to have Gruden here.
Fair. I just don't want us to waste our time and never get a yes. Both parties should know by now whether this is has a snowball's chance in hell of happening.
Yeah, definitely feels more about warm feelings of nostalgia than winning. You can see that with everyone still referring to Fulmer as “coach”.
I can’t believe so many are enthused about a coach who got fired a year ago because he clearly could no longer do what we want to do.
With some of the names I'm hearing, I'd rather just get Les. It's settling completely, but would take over Chad Morris, Kevin Steele, etc
At LSU Miles had two 8 win seasons, 08 and 14 -- those were his worst. He also had two 9 win seasons. The rest of the years were 10+ wins. Looking at lifetime W-L records of SEC coaches against ranked teams as of 2016: Saban .630 Miles .628 Sumlin .520 Botch .140 His win trajectory was 10-8-9-2(fired). He had top 10 recruiting classes every year except 2012, including several top 5. That's a strong resume and stronger than most of the other names being mentioned. Having said that, going forward is what matters for UT and I think there are a lot of important questions re his age, motivation, AD relationship, etc.
So tired of the constant "never should have fired Fulmer" claims, as if canning a coach that had a losing record against damn near ever coach in the conference was a bad idea. Now it seems like that's been accepted as reality and it wasn't the idiotic hires after Fulmer that caused us to suck, but getting rid of Fulmer. We're about to go for a Fulmer 2.0 and see how he fares against the coaches of 2018. Huzzah.
