Interesting topic on Mike & Mike this morning that came up in the context of LSU deciding to keep Les Miles.
The idea was brought up that - directly because of Nick Saban’s incredible MAINTENANCE of success at Alabama year after year – it has shortened the “shelf life” of the average college football head coach. The idea being, “if HE can do it down there, why can’t we find our own version of that guy?” So when a coach doesn’t win after about two years or so (give or take), he’s considered a failure….NEVERMIND that, at that time, he’s likely still playing with another coach’s players and hasn’t even had the time to implement his OWN recruits in his system yet (honestly, he may not even have had the time to implement HIS SYSTEM fully yet, at that point).
Personally? I think A LOT of these school THINK that their football head coaching jobs are “elite” when they really aren’t. We (Nebraska) experienced that. Texas, I think, went through that. Hell, USC went through it, too (though they are in a much better position prestige-wise than the two aforementioned schools). These schools be living off past glory, talmbout “what coach WOULDN’T want this job?”, not realizing that most coaches UNDERSTAND that their window of opportunity to win at a school where you are EXPECTED TO WIN is very short, so why leave where I’m at to go someplace where if I don’t win in two years they’ll fire me?
(Also, while I realize how unpopular Mike & Mike are on this forum, don’t come at me sideways for watching them when you dudes not only watch but LAUD that sorry racist Colin Cowherd
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The idea was brought up that - directly because of Nick Saban’s incredible MAINTENANCE of success at Alabama year after year – it has shortened the “shelf life” of the average college football head coach. The idea being, “if HE can do it down there, why can’t we find our own version of that guy?” So when a coach doesn’t win after about two years or so (give or take), he’s considered a failure….NEVERMIND that, at that time, he’s likely still playing with another coach’s players and hasn’t even had the time to implement his OWN recruits in his system yet (honestly, he may not even have had the time to implement HIS SYSTEM fully yet, at that point).
Personally? I think A LOT of these school THINK that their football head coaching jobs are “elite” when they really aren’t. We (Nebraska) experienced that. Texas, I think, went through that. Hell, USC went through it, too (though they are in a much better position prestige-wise than the two aforementioned schools). These schools be living off past glory, talmbout “what coach WOULDN’T want this job?”, not realizing that most coaches UNDERSTAND that their window of opportunity to win at a school where you are EXPECTED TO WIN is very short, so why leave where I’m at to go someplace where if I don’t win in two years they’ll fire me?
(Also, while I realize how unpopular Mike & Mike are on this forum, don’t come at me sideways for watching them when you dudes not only watch but LAUD that sorry racist Colin Cowherd
)
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