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re: Coordinators who didn’t work out.
Posted on 10/26/26 at 3:40 am to SOBmustpay
Posted on 10/26/26 at 3:40 am to SOBmustpay
Jimbo Fisher 2007 at FSU. His offense was as bad as anything Jeff Bowden crayoned. Outside of one magical year he's been arse his whole career as an OC and playcaller
Posted on 10/26/26 at 7:02 am to SOBmustpay
tOSU coordinators:
Ed Wariner (2015 OC…maybe the worst hire of all time)
Kerry Coombs (2020 DC)
Ed Wariner (2015 OC…maybe the worst hire of all time)
Kerry Coombs (2020 DC)
Posted on 10/26/26 at 7:08 am to VaeVictus
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He was a coordinator that has done jack shite since moving up to hbc.
What's the criteria?
The man is 96-30 as a head coach. He has had 2 top-5, 4 top-10, and 6 top-15 finishes. 5 of those ended in a New Year's 6 (3) or CFP (2) game.
Is he overhyped as a head coach? Sure.
Is he bad? No one would rationally suggest that.
Posted on 10/26/26 at 7:32 am to mdomingue
From coordinator to head coach probably Norm Chow
From position coach to coordinator Sal Sunseri 2012 at Tennessee might be worst all time.
From position coach to coordinator Sal Sunseri 2012 at Tennessee might be worst all time.
Posted on 10/26/26 at 7:40 am to SOBmustpay
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Coordinators who didn’t work out.
80% of winning in football (at any level) is talent acquisition. You can be an X’s and O’s savant as a coordinator, but if you don’t have the charisma and salesmanship to bring in the studs, it’s not going to matter. And if you can reel in the big fish and hire good assistants to do the actual coaching and be a good enough leader to keep the car on the road, then you can get away with being unremarkable on the technical side.
At the end of the day, being a coordinator and head coach at the college level are two very different things. It’s hard to predict what you’re getting when a coordinator sits in the big chair. But if I were an AD hiring, my first inquiry would be how good of a recruiter Coach X might be. If he’s just some Rainman who knows ball from A-Z but has the personality of a cardboard box, it’s not going to work.
Posted on 10/26/26 at 8:23 am to SOBmustpay
Kellen Moore
Posted on 10/26/26 at 8:33 am to ElRoos
Dennis Allen
Posted on 10/26/26 at 11:10 am to SOBmustpay
Adam Gase
Posted on 10/26/26 at 4:30 pm to SOBmustpay
I mean, most coaches don’t work out. A list of coordinators that did work out would be shorter.
Posted on 10/26/26 at 4:35 pm to boston vol
ernie zampesi
Posted on 11/2/26 at 10:19 am to SOBmustpay
Joe Moorhead at State. On paper it was a great hire for us, but he turned out to be shite
Posted on 11/2/26 at 11:42 am to VaeVictus
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He fled ou when they joined a real conference, and has done jack sh*t at usc.
He also fled thinking he was going to be in the Pac-12 but the summer after he joined, they moved to B1G.
Posted on 11/2/26 at 12:49 pm to Porter Osborne Jr
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Taggert was a head coach at a few stops before FSU
Yep, he took USF from a 2 win team to a 10 win team in four years and then spent one year at Oregon before FSU.
Have a hard time saying a 10 win coach didn't work out.
Posted on 11/2/26 at 12:50 pm to SOBmustpay
Will Muschamp
Pruitt
Pruitt
Posted on 11/2/26 at 12:51 pm to SOBmustpay
Muschamp has to headline this list.
If we're talking pro coaches Josh McDaniels has to be at the top with Kevin Gilbride. Both amazing coordinators and awful HCs.
If we're talking pro coaches Josh McDaniels has to be at the top with Kevin Gilbride. Both amazing coordinators and awful HCs.
This post was edited on 11/2/26 at 12:53 pm
Posted on 11/2/26 at 12:52 pm to bamatrader
quote:was a G5 coach at Colorado St, did relatively well there. Well
Jim McElwain
Enough for Jeremy Fooley to justify discount diving for another G5 coach
Posted on 11/2/26 at 12:52 pm to Porter Osborne Jr
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Tough crowd around here. I am not a fan but he’s done better than Jack shite
He’s a Caleb Williams hamstring injury away from a playoff berth at USCw
Posted on 11/2/26 at 12:56 pm to theCAW
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was a G5 coach at Colorado St, did relatively well there. Well
Enough for Jeremy Fooley to justify discount diving for another G5 coach
He did take Florida to back-to-back SEC title game appearances, not elite teams but, certainly not bad. Coached another bunch of years at Central Michigan as well.
Posted on 11/2/26 at 1:03 pm to RolltidePA
quote:He wasn’t great but wasn’t that bad. He recruited well enough to prop Mullen up for 2 years esp with Kyle Pitts and trask
He did take Florida to back-to-back SEC title game appearances, not elite teams but, certainly not bad.
He just mentally couldn’t take the pressure imo and once he made up the death threats that was it.
But it would’ve been nice to give him an extra year to find a better replacement. Hiring Dan Mullen was really the moment the Gator program started going into a rapid decline.
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