Jon Gruden Rumors: 4 SEC destinations tailor-made for former coach
There’s Talking Season and then there’s Grumors Season, which really should become a thing anytime Jon Gruden pipes up.
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Lebby would have to leave on his own accord. We can’t fire a coach after two years or less for the third time in six years.
We can if he sucks, especially if we already have a replacement (almost certainly not Gruden) lined up.
If we fire Lebby after the 2025 season, we'll probably have to overpay for a coach with no other SEC head coach opportunities. We're better off sticking with Lebby.
Depends on whether he sucks or not. Hopefully we go to a bowl this year and make this question moot.
If we're 2-10 again, we have no choice but to fire him. Remember that college football coaches almost all have big egos and think they win more than others. Some G5 coach will jump at the chance to take our job.
When he says he’d like to coach in the SEC he doesn’t mean the poverty programs.
If we don't pay $7.5 to $8.5 million we ain't getting a good coach period. If Lebby follows 2-10 with 2-10 or 3-9, we cannot AFFORD to keep him. It's a new day in college football. With complete roster changes every two years now due to NIL and the Portal, nobody can afford to give a guy 3 years if the first two are utter failures! 4 wins would be bad but probably give him another year. 3 wins or less and you cannot wait to see if he gets to 4 wins in 3 years! There IS no rebuilding in this new Era (or Error if you prefer) of college football!
Exactly. If Lebby can't win this year, why would we expect him to win in a future year? Either he can flip a roster in one offseason using the portal or he can't.
I could see a scenario where we look a lot more competitive this year at 5-7 and convince ourselves that he can win more with Kamario (assuming we lock him down) and give him one more chance to get to a bowl, but at 2-10 we HAVE to fire him.
if he wins 2, then he has to be fired. If he wins 3, there will be a decision to make, win 4 or more and he's safe.
Gruden was asked his opinion of Starkville and he said hates it. I doubt $10 million would get that guy and even if it did he would hate it and just stick us for the $10 mil for one year!
If he wins 3 & we dint fire him we’re not serious about competing in college football. And I’m not convinced we are.
Concur.
If we beat the three non cons and keep it close with ASU, Ark, Missouri and a couple of other conference games, I would be surprised if we fire him though.
We proved we weren't serious about football when our Prez.wouldnt hire an AD before promoting another Damn Coordinator, and followed it up by hiring another coordinator.
I say we fire him if we miss the bowl game. Hire another coach and if he doesn't get us to.a bowl game fire him. Hire another coach and if he doesn't get us to a bowl game fire him. Continue on. That proves we are serious
I think we should fire Lebby today, hire someone else tomorrow, and then fire that guy the day after that. It doesn’t get more serious than that.
Of course we can hire a G5 coach. The question is how far down the barrel do we have to scrape to find a coach willing to take a chance on the Mississippi State job.
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Every time we find ourselves needing a new coach, the casuals say "good coaches will crawl over broken glass to take an SEC job." And every time we have multiple coaches who tell us no thanks.
I say line em up outside the door and fire them each hour if that is what it takes. Who cares that we have to pay them for 4 years after we fire them. We need to let them know we are SERIOUS
I don’t think you have to stick with somebody that’s losing. You’re paying him good money to win games. IF you have already identified that this isn’t going to work out.
The majority have spoken and it’s not even close. MSU fans want unlv’s head coach. And the rumor is Dak would be willing to pay the money to make it happen.
The majority have spoken and it’s not even close. MSU fans want unlv’s head coach. And the rumor is Dak would be willing to pay the money to make it happen.
Perhaps the discussion should be more centered around whether there is any evidence for Gruden to be more qualified than Lebby in this current environment than whether Lebby can be fired (he can).
My answer is a resounding “no”. He’s freaking 61 years old, has tons of PR / ethics baggage, has never had an on-field role even as a position coach at the P5 level, and has been out if the college game entirely since 1989.
Hard, hard pass….regardless of what happens with Lebby.
My answer is a resounding “no”. He’s freaking 61 years old, has tons of PR / ethics baggage, has never had an on-field role even as a position coach at the P5 level, and has been out if the college game entirely since 1989.
Hard, hard pass….regardless of what happens with Lebby.
I think Gruden would pick any of the other 16 SEC schools (I'm counting Vandy twice just for effect) at half the salary we'd pay him before he'd coach for us.
Somewhere between "good coaches will crawl over broken glass to take an SEC job" and settling on a bad coach with an unimpressive resume is the truth here. We can hire good coaches here. We've done it before several times. We just have to not be lazy and stupid, and it always helps to have a little luck. But sticking with a coach who clearly isn't working is never the right answer.
