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fedxdog

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hugh freeze/larry fedora/hudspeth/kirby smart...
rich rod gone...leach, no...
all i can say is the first attempt at bigtime hc is over...second tier coming in this weekend...
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He showed he could turn around a sorry football program in one year at ULL. While Ole Miss is sorrier than ULL, they could still pull the upset in next year's Egg Bowl.
 

Dawgfann1977

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The longer this search goes on for them and the more dominoes fall either coaches getting hired (Rich Rod), or more jobs come open I see Freeze and Fedora as the front runner for the Bears. I have met Hud several times, and he is just not the OM type, I could be wrong but I dont see Hud as a fit at OM.
 

RebelBruiser

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but I'm pretty confident that at least 3 of those names are among the 4 being interviewed over this weekend's period. I believe there will be other interviews as well, more than likely this coming week. Probably not a lot more though.

Personally, Freeze and Hudspeth are both on my top list, and both have moved up significantly lately. Fedora is near the bottom of coaches I would accept, and Smart is really not on my personal list at all. Maybe he'd work out, but I have a lot of questions about a guy who has virtually never left the Saban umbrella to work anywhere else and prove himself.
 
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Dawgfann1977 said:
, I could be wrong but I dont see Hud as a fit at OM.
For a 4 year, $14 million dollar contract, I could wear red pants, plaid bow-tie, drink from a Red Solo Cup, and be self-important and pretentious.
 

RebelBruiser

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and we're talking about fit in terms of personality? I don't think that's a big concern, as much as whether or not a guy "fits" in terms of understanding the challenges our program faces and how to address them while working in this area.

I don't know where contract numbers have come from. It's my understanding that we'd be willing to pay what it takes to get the best available, but if we end up with a Freeze or Hudspeth, given their experience, I expect we would hire them in at a similar range to where you hired in Mullen, 4 years and $5M or $6M or something like that, with the chance for that to increase significantly, as it has for Mullen, assuming success comes.

If we were able to pull some sort of coup and get some big time heavily coveted national name, then I'm sure the bigger numbers would come out, but I doubt we're going to be throwing around $3M a year for coaches that don't have the resume to command it yet.