One guy that noone has mentioned, but was mentioned in regards to the Southern Miss. opening is Chris Hatcher. I live in Valdosta, GA where Chris got his start under Hal Mumme as a QB playing for VSU. He won the Harlon Hill trophy for D-II (Heisman for D-II) his senior year. He then coached under Mumme as his OC at Kentucky before Mumme got stupid with the NCAA. Hatcher then came back to VSU and did this:

Hatcher was 76-12 at Valdosta State, winning the Division II national championship in 2004

This year at Georgia Southern he went 7-4 beating App. St., who beat Michigan, while GA southern was only 3-8 the previous year. He runs a wide open offense passing the ball 60% and running 40% and even when he runs it's with 3 wide receivers to disguise the pass.

Hatcher will be a big time D-1 coach in the near future. He also is rumored to be in the running for the GA Tech job

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Posted by Suntiger

BR or somewhere else

Member since Feb 2007

32983 posts

Posted on 11/30/07 at 12:05 pm to tigerz3030

I don't want an old has-been coach, but LSU hiring this guy would be like robbing the coaching craddle.

Little more experience please.

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Posted by ps101

Shreveport

Member since Aug 2005

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Posted on 11/30/07 at 12:07 pm to tigerz3030

If you would look at an off the radar coach then think of Bobby Wallace. He was the coach of University of North Alabams. He won 3 consecutive national championships there. He left for Temple which is a grave yard for coaches (no recruiting base). He was an excellent coach at UNA and would make a good D1 coach. He now coaches at West Alabama.

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Posted by zcd1976

Austin, TX

Member since Oct 2007

121 posts

Posted on 11/30/07 at 12:16 pm to ps101

Fug it...if we're going to throw out some really far fetched suggestions, why not just go after the Charlotte Independence HS coach Tom Knotts. I mean he coached them to 109 straight wins before they lost to Elder High School (Cincinnati, OH) earlier this year.