Brian Kelly
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Rutgers could use a douche like Kelly as Head Coach. It's time to win. Doing it the Schiano way gets us no where.
Kelly is too old. We need a younger douche.
Small complication. Rutgers is under a hiring freeze effective July 9, 2026.
You think they are not going to fire coaches and hire replacements?Small complication. Rutgers is under a hiring freeze effective July 9, 2026.
That would be the MOST Rutgers reason for remaining stuck with GSSmall complication. Rutgers is under a hiring freeze effective July 9, 2026.
Two different things. Anyone can fire whomever they want to fire. If they want to hire, they have to jump through several hoops to get approval to hire. Hiring a very expensive head football coach while paying a $18M buyout is going to go over real well with the engineering and med school professors looking to hire post docs and others for conducting funded research that is actually MAKING money for the university.
If anything like with large corporations, it's likely a general freeze, but exceptions are always considered.Small complication. Rutgers is under a hiring freeze effective July 9, 2026.
For this reason, Zinn has to be praying that we somehow look a bit better against USC. There are multiple reasons why it would be better and cleaner to wait until after this season ends. But if we keep getting embarrassed that won’t be possible.
Football is the chief revenue driver for athletics. I’m sure the bottom line will look better if donations, sponsorships and other revenue drops because they didn’t move on from Greg. This is being penny wise and pound foolish. They stand to lose more in the long term by doing nothing.
Nobody said do nothing.
Fire, sure. Play with interim coach. Don't rush to hire new HC.
No HC is coming midsession to coach a team they didn’t put together.
If someone is named before the season is over they will assemble a staff, do some HS recruiting & prep for the portal.
Maybe we agree more than we think.
If GS is fired, fans need to be patient on timing of hire. There is no great hurry to have someone in place right away.
If he’s fired. Can’t imagine anyone would be hired until at least a week after our season end. Roughly 1st second week of December at the earliest.
Do people not watch CFB, I can’t even think of a mid season hiring where a coach took over the current team.
Large majority of coaches after being hired don’t even take over for bowl games either. At most is they’ll be in the sidelines of their new team but not involved. Some exceptions are Brian Kelly (Cincy) and Sonny Dykes (SMU) for the bowl game but that’s very unusual.
The mid season firing has more to do with getting your own house in order and lining things up to go out and look for a coach. That’s all easier and cleaner to do without a sitting head coach.
Large majority of coaches after being hired don’t even take over for bowl games either. At most is they’ll be in the sidelines of their new team but not involved. Some exceptions are Brian Kelly (Cincy) and Sonny Dykes (SMU) for the bowl game but that’s very unusual.
The mid season firing has more to do with getting your own house in order and lining things up to go out and look for a coach. That’s all easier and cleaner to do without a sitting head coach.
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I would guess that before the season ends the AD would have a good idea of who they wanted and through third parties have gauged their interest in interviewing
Absolutely. Like I said in another post don’t fire without a plan. And part of the plan is knowing who the hire is going to be. Reach out and confirm they are willing and able to sign the contract when presented.
I think usually there's something in the offset language around any subsequent jobs they take having to pay market rate salary, or at least within reason for the general going rate for the job, to avoid an extreme version of that scenario. However, in Kelly's case I think he could take a job, even as a P4 HC, that pays significantly less than what he made at LSU and still fall within that "reasonable" realm.
Unless they go with someone that is currently not coaching like Brian Kelly as some want. I think the guy checked out at LSU and won't be good here. But that's a different convo.
Very different conversation and very low probability. Even if it is someone that is not currently employed. Someone would not be “hired” prior to end of season.
Several schools have done it recently including VT last year with Franklin. It's also a way to drum up more funds if the fan base is excited to get behind the new coach. That said, I don't see them going that route either. Just wondering which G5/FCS hot shot it will be.
I could envision an unlikely scenario of the interim coach turning the season around and maybe he is hired, but that seems unlikely. Do I need to say again that this is unlikely? It's possible. But unlikely. Unlikely. There.
Maybe I should remember this... what other coach candidates were considered during the last hiring process? Had any been a head coach with an impressive record? I'm guessing not.
Bret Bielema- yep
Al Golden-nope
Lance Leipold-nope
Butch Jones- big nope
Jason Candle-was discussed here, he just started as UConn HC. Doubt he would leave there.
Best candidates?
No particular order
Jason Eck
Ryan Carty
Billy Napier
Charles Huff
@rutgersguy2 has his finger on the pulse of this.
I wonder what candidate Hobbs went after and were interested but had reservations about the job and support they expected which ended Hobbs interest in him because that candidate wasn't going accept what Hobbs was offering and the candidate wasn't going to nitpick over the things he felt would help him succeed at Rutgers..
Remember Schiano made demands and Hobbs said no, ending the conversation .
Then later conversation started up again and Schiano was given a lot of what he wanted while accepting a little less than he was asking for.
Other candidates might have felt the Rutgers job wasn't worth fighting for , while Schiano knew it was his only chance to be a HC again and was willing to put up with Hobbs trying to give the minimum support during the second round of negotiations.
Hobbs had the boosters on his back to hire Schiano because no one thought to be better would come with what Hobbs was offering and those candidates didn't have the fanbase up in arms demanding they be hired.
They might have wanted to come and would have accepted the job, but weren't offered because Hobbs didn't want to give them what they felt needed to make Rutgers a winner
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