Potential Coaching Candidates

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Originally Posted by hookdown

Those guys will consistantly get you 8-10 wins a year and Bower at least, would stick around awhile. Might be hard to pry Leavitt away from the NFL. My main concern with them is that while consistant 8-9 wins, that was about their peak. The best Leavitt ever did was 9 wins and 3rd in the conference. Bower's best was 9 wins, but he did win the conference 4 times and tied once. They will have winning records and get us in a bowl, but can they get us into one of the big 6 bowls coming with the playoffs?

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.......as opposed to a bunch of OC's on our list that haven't proven they can win even 3 games a year as a Head Coach. Get real.

Most coaches don't get to feast on startup programs like Texas St and UTSA, and perennial losers like Idaho and NMSU. Nine wins a year is very, very good. I think you've lost your perspective.

We are at the point where do we sacrifice stability for ultimate glory or Vice versus. I would rather go through a few coaches until the stability issue is solved by A BCS bowl or two. The Utah approach.

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Originally Posted by KSDAWG

We are at the point where do we sacrifice stability for ultimate glory or Vice versus. I would rather go through a few coaches until the stability issue is solved by A BCS bowl or two. The Utah approach.

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We need to build a fan base, and just try to make back-to-back bowl games in our lifetime. 9-win seasons will do that for us. Guys like Leavitt and Bower can do that. They did it respectively at USF and USM.

I'd still like to see us talk to Scott Maxfield. He has a ton of experience and success as a head coach and his Henderson State team averaged over 50 points a game this year and finished their regular season undefeated and they ran the spread. He's a former Bulldog offensive lineman in his early 50's and he might stay longer than 3 years. He also was a DC at NSU. Henderson State never had much success until he became their coach.

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Originally Posted by WinstonWolf

stAte fan here - signed up just to compliment your reference. NICE!


now let the next coach battle continue . . .

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Thanks! :)

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Originally Posted by Brian96

Hi, Duckdog. Welcome to the board. You'll find that things will go smoother for you if you first look for existing threads on a given topic before posting a new one. There are already a couple of well-developed threads on this topic, with rich discussion about many of the candidates you propose.

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Dang, man...you think for someone that has posted nearly 12,000 (yes, thousand with a T) you would know that you could simply welcome him and send him a PRIVATE message instead of "Dogging" him on the board after his one and only post...

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Originally Posted by DONW

I'd still like to see us talk to Scott Maxfield. He has a ton of experience and success as a head coach and his Henderson State team averaged over 50 points a game this year and finished their regular season undefeated and they ran the spread. He's a former Bulldog offensive lineman in his early 50's and he might stay longer than 3 years. He also was a DC at NSU. Henderson State never had much success until he became their coach.

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What about Maxfield as OC or DC, whichever he is better suited for? He is a dual threat coach, do not see many that have both OC and DC experience. Seems like he is more offensive oriented these days.

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Originally Posted by hookdown

What about Maxfield as OC or DC, whichever he is better suited for? He is a dual threat coach, do not see many that have both OC and DC experience. Seems like he is more offensive oriented these days.

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May not be a bad idea. With out current trend, our next coach will be gone in 3 to 4 years. Perhaps he could the next coach haha. Gotta plan ahead these days.

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Originally Posted by DONW

I'd still like to see us talk to Scott Maxfield. He has a ton of experience and success as a head coach and his Henderson State team averaged over 50 points a game this year and finished their regular season undefeated and they ran the spread. He's a former Bulldog offensive lineman in his early 50's and he might stay longer than 3 years. He also was a DC at NSU. Henderson State never had much success until he became their coach.

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I thought maybe he'd already been hired when I saw this video; then I watched some of the other Henderson coach vids, and they all start by giving their name and then where they played college ball.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA-bUFgMmuE

The Hookdown Plan:


We hire a HC, perferrable Monken

He thens hires Maxfield as OC

Over the next 3 years Monken wins 9, 9, and 12 games

He then departs for greener pastures

Maxfield has 3 years to adjust to/learn the FBS world

Maxfield is named the new HC

Maxfield is an older guy and Tech alum, he continues Tech's success until he retires 14 years later

Maxfields stats at Tech: 152 wins, 30 losses, 6 "BCS" bowls, 4 "non-BCS" bowls, 2 playoff appearances, 9 conference championships, 1 national championship

This is simple: it all hinges on getting another good hire.That’s it!

Tech screwed up BIGTIME by allowing Bick to stay so long.The program wallowed in mediocrity for 8 years. Then, finally, we broke themold and got a good hire with Dooley. Not gonna distinguish between his successas HC vs AD. Point is, DD moved Tech forward. Then we got another good hire,who built on the foundation laid by Dooley. And so here we are…. Compare thecombined 6 years of Dooley & Dykes to the total 8 years under Bick. Wow! Whata HUGE difference.

IF we get another good hire, Tech FB will continue to moveforward. We have new opportunities moving into CUSA. Yes, even a depleted CUSA.The next coach will have advantages that neither Dooley nor Dykes had. But, itall hinges on not making a mistake on the next hire.
Tech will not do what USM just did. Yes, even with theBeightol example of firing him after just 10 games. In today’s contracts of guarantees and bigbuck$ Tech cannot afford to be paying TWO coaches at the same time. So, if weget a dud, we are stuck for 4 years. And a lot of damage can happen in 4 years.

The committee needs to hit a homerun. Better! A frickin’grandslam!! Right now….cuz I have no reason not to…I’m gonna adopt Champ’soverly optimistic stance. We are gonna land an awesome coach! We are gonna beso happy this time next year, as we prepare to go to a bowl after finishing agreat, great season. Book it!

I wonder if this guy would be interested in DC. Has done an outstanding job on defense at a smaller school.


http://www.iupathletics.com/coaches....&path=football


Top 20 in the country in the important defensive stats: passing defense, rushing defense, scoring defense, total defense, turnovers.

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Originally Posted by hookdown

I wonder if this guy would be interested in DC. Has done an outstanding job on defense at a smaller school.


http://www.iupathletics.com/coaches.aspx?rc=168&path=football


Top 20 in the country in the important defensive stats: passing defense, rushing defense, scoring defense, total defense, turnovers.

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I still think Randy Shannon should be given a look at defensive coordinator. He was an amazing defensive coordinator at Miami. He's known for his great recruiting classes, and he has always been absolved from any wrong at Miami (from what I've read). He is currently coaching linebackers at TCU. I think this could be a good gamble. He's one of the best defensive coaches in the nation, and I think the Miami "junk" got tossed on him despite his best efforts to keep things clean. We would have to act fast though since it seems FSU may be interested. (http://www.frogsowar.com/2012/12/7/3...-randy-shannon)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_shannon

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Originally Posted by rockdog

I still think Randy Shannon should be given a look at defensive coordinator. He was an amazing defensive coordinator at Miami. He's known for his great recruiting classes, and he has always been absolved from any wrong at Miami (from what I've read). He is currently coaching linebackers at TCU. I think this could be a good gamble. He's one of the best defensive coaches in the nation, and I think the Miami "junk" got tossed on him despite his best efforts to keep things clean. We would have to act fast though since it seems FSU may be interested. (http://www.frogsowar.com/2012/12/7/3...-randy-shannon)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_shannon

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it doesn't matter how fast we act, if FSU wants him they will get him.

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Originally Posted by hookdown

The Hookdown Plan:


We hire a HC, perferrable Monken

He thens hires Maxfield as OC

Over the next 3 years Monken wins 9, 9, and 12 games

He then departs for greener pastures

Maxfield has 3 years to adjust to/learn the FBS world

Maxfield is named the new HC

Maxfield is an older guy and Tech alum, he continues Tech's success until he retires 14 years later

Maxfields stats at Tech: 152 wins, 30 losses, 6 "BCS" bowls, 4 "non-BCS" bowls, 2 playoff appearances, 9 conference championships, 1 national championship

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It would probably work like mentioned in your post below.

For anybody who thought Franklin was not going with SD, I have some beachfront property and a bridge for sale..... :icon_wink: