Comments on: MrSEC.com’s Hot Seat Rankings: At 5-7, How Much Trouble Would Your Coach Be In?

By: manashi12

manashi12 — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 16:27:05 +0000

That’s a good thing. It’s also a bad thing. Bulldog fans have bought into the program. They want to see MSU take another step forward. http://www.coachhire.uk.com

By: sojourner

sojourner — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 02:54:05 +0000

i rest my case. what kind of idiot would hire a sub .500 coach from the bush leagues and give him a 5-6 million dollar buyout?

By: BillRauhuff

BillRauhuff — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 01:26:00 +0000

Tennessee is in a bad spot because Derek Dooley has to get them to at least 7-5 and be competitive. On the other hand Tennessee does not need to have a fourth coach since 2008 and they still owe Fulmer 125,000 a month until Jan 2013 and had a almost four million dollar short fall last year and DD buyout is 5 million and drops to 4 million next year.

By: bradleygator

bradleygator — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 17:36:54 +0000

@John at MrSEC I’m generally for four years too. Zook was arguably premature at three years, but you just got the sense that he didn’t have his stuff together enough to progress beyond a 7-5 or 8-4 coach. I like Muschamp, but UF is not a place to learn on the job period.

By: John at MrSEC

John at MrSEC — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:49:08 +0000

@bradleygator

Difference of opinion, I suppose, but I still believe in a world where a coach is hired and he gets the opportunity to bring in a full team of his own players — which takes four years.

Check the history books and the number of legendary coaches who would have been fired in today’s game after their first three seasons is eye-opening. It takes time to put a stamp on a program. But with the price of tickets in a world with instant food, instant communication, instant information… there’s no such thing as giving a coach time anymore.

That’s why in my view, it probably wouldn’t be fair to oust a guy after three years. But I’m a realist. Which is why I said Muschamp would indeed be on a hot seat in Year Three. And you seem to have proven my point.

Thanks for reading the site,
John

By: bradleygator

bradleygator — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:37:34 +0000

Why wouldn’t it be fair for Muschamp to be on the hot seat at 5-7? I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect to see improvement over last year. Meyer maybe didn’t leave him with the exact guys to run his system, but he left him with a senior quarterback, the no. 1 high school qb (driskel was a Meyer recruit), two backs and a receiver that have been making plays in the NFL preseason, and everybody on that defense. How many $2.75 million paychecks does Muschamp get to cash before Gator fans can start expecting something out of this team?