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Quit checking me out.
So Tressel was fired and then they hired Meyer?
What did I miss?
Urban quits at the end of 2010, Tressel gone in May 2011, Urban hired in Nov 2011 after a year with ESPN.
So Tressel was fired and then they hired Meyer?
Yea, you got me there. But even UM isn’t stopping to the level of hiring Oregon retreads. Oregon brings on the coaches we fire.
The crazy thing is — FSU fans are happy about it.
What did I miss?
Urban quits at the end of 2010, Tressel gone in May 2011, Urban hired in Nov 2011 after a year with ESPN.
Fickell in the middle.
He still is technically right. Meyer was announced as HC in Nov 2011 while Fickell was still finishing the season
Heaven forbid. At least we went to the Power 5 school...instead of the direct tie-in to San Diego
State and Ball State.
While going 9-2 with a MAC schedule is a tremendous accomplishment — I’m going out on a limb and saying winning a BCS bowl and finishing top 5 in the country is SLIGHTLY better.
And as I said — Saban is a great coach in the SEC. He left and immediately came back because he found out what a level playing field looked like in the NFL and he ran back to the SEC.
Outside the SEC — he is a solid coach, but nothing special. Which is why I said — what Urban Meyer has done, winning N.C. in two different conferences, as well as going undefeated at Utah in a season. That is winning no matter where you go. Saban has only won in the SEC.
I didn’t realize Taggart worked as an assistant at FSU for 7 or 8 years before going off to coach at WKU and South Florida.
Fickell in the middle.
He still is technically right. Meyer was announced as HC in Nov 2011 while Fickell was still finishing the season
I just figured him as being an interim coach who coached the season only due to timing. Didn't even remember the guys name if I'm being honest.
I just figured him as being an interim coach who coached the season only due to timing. Didn't even remember the guys name if I'm being honest.
You would have had to get by Nebraska. They had a nail biter that year in the CCG against Wisconsin.Yeah he was never going to be named HC. Just a spot holder. I am glad Meyer retained him on his staff tho. Bama fans can remember that season as the one Ohio State helped them win a natty. Had Ohio State just taken a bowl ban that season when they were 6-6 the belief is they wouldn't have had a postseason ban the following season when they went undefeated and Bama crushed ND. Obviously, Alabama was better than both teams but I think an undefeated Ohio State would have gotten in over Bama with one loss
He was born in Bradenton. He's a Floridian. I suspect you already knew that and are just
trying to salvage some sort of respect in a debate that you lost many threads ago.
What does his birthplace have to do with qualifications to be HC at FSU? Are they that afraid the HC is going to leave again, that birthplace is at the top of their list of must haves?
I’d think a school like FSU would attract a lot of coaches attention — Taggart has only held a coaching position of any kind at a P5 school for 3 years (2 years as a RB coach, 1 year as a HC)
Yet FSU just handed him the HC job.
I would say it was a stop gap measure. Very possible that it was done with either Meyer
in mind or with Meyer already agreeing to take the job the following year.
Yeah he was never going to be named HC. Just a spot holder. I am glad Meyer retained him on his staff tho. Bama fans can remember that season as the one Ohio State helped them win a natty. Had Ohio State just taken a bowl ban that season when they were 6-6 the belief is they wouldn't have had a postseason ban the following season when they went undefeated and Bama crushed ND. Obviously, Alabama was better than both teams but I think an undefeated Ohio State would have gotten in over Bama with one loss
Lol, I could care less about what Saban did at LSU, much less outside the SEC.
What is clear is that Jimmy Jam might have been a good coach elsewhere, but he is devolving into a mediocre coach at Michigan. So much so that you are left with pimping out your biggest rivals coach in an argument about the greatness of my coach.
Birthplace has nothing to do with it.
I had made the comment earlier that we went and brought him home. You responded that you didn't
know he had been an assist at FSU for 7 or 8 years. I was just correcting you or shaming your
lame ass attempt of mocking.
We could have gone and waited on others, if we had wanted to. Michigan would have been safe.
Who in the hell would want him? But, we needed to make a move quick and we had been compiling
a list since the 1st week of November. Willie was at the top of that list. So was Fuente at VPI
and Kiffin was also on the list. Innovative offensive minds that can recruit. Frost equally was on the list
but our search committee was informed early that Frost was already signed and sealed for NU.
Unlike, every where else Taggart has been he doesn't have to rebuild anything. Just simplify our offense
and get our skill people in place. He can hit the ground running here...and he will.
You used Hoke as an example. If you didn’t know — he was an assistant coach at UM for 7 or 8 years, hence why I said I didn’t know Taggart was an assistant at FSU for 7 or 8 years.
And if FSU is happy with the hire — that’s all that matters. Who needs experience coaching in major programs anyways.
He'll have more than 1 QB at FSU.