re: The AD and HC ordeal at South Carolina just keeps getting worse

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Sir, this is Wendy's.

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There was also a large gap between Ole Miss and LSU, during which Orgeron got more experience, worked under several coaches, and was also a pretty successful interim coach.
Neither Belichick nor Carroll were bad coaches in their first gigs with the Browns/Jets.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that it isn't just luck...there were tangible reasons to believe these guys could succeed.

I regret making fun of Tennessee’s shitshow a few years ago. We are even worse

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Auburn's Jetgate back in 2003

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First thing that popped into my head while reading the OP.

And hey, that worked out pretty damn well for Auburn the next year as we went undefeated.

My alma mater is an absolute embarrassment right now. We hire a bumpkin baseball coach as our AD. He then engages a coaching search in 2015 that results in us hiring someone who couldn't win at Florida. This is after we had a 2-month head start on every other program to find a coach.

Next, that same AD and the influence-peddling pieces of shite on the BOT give said coach a ludicrous $22 million buyout when nobody else in their right mind wanted him as a head coach.

After this debacle, the university has to hire a new President. After paying a consulting firm $250k to name 4 finalists, of whom Robert Caslen is the presumed choice, the university reopens the process. Governor McMaster then intervenes and calls a BOT vote over the objections of the faculty and some of our biggest donors. Caslen is approved in a 10-8 vote.

A divided university. A pissed off fanbase. An incompetent administration. There isn't a bigger dumpster fire right now in the P5 than the University of South Carolina.

Ole Miss folks say “hi.” They conducted a national search (well, not really Ole Miss, but the higher education board) for a new chancellor and hired the guy they paid to be a consultant, meanwhile leaking the names of candidates who were supposed to be kept confidential, and with no input from university constituencies. Needless to say, the candidates were pissed. Likely no one outside will ever apply to be chancellor when the current chancellor leaves. No one in their right mind would trust the board to keep names confidential. By the way, the new chancellor has no experience in administration at a four year university, though he was former head of the higher education board and a community college president. And they just hired their interim AD after a “national search” as the permanent AD. I expect the Ole Miss family feels your pain.