I don’t know that there’s a plan to move on. He may wind up staying. But he’s definitely weighing his options.
At this point I hope that he stays but Florida breaks UM keeping Kiffin. UM might go all in to keep him just to keep their image. With a harder schedule and less money, Kiffin luster might fade. The fact UM is use to winning at their current level and if he doesn't reach that, well it could work in our favor as Lebby continues to build and Kiffin continues to shop each year.
His agent and creativity with the MS contract restrictions. He is not going anywhere. I don’t see why this is so hard to fathom.
There’s nobody coming after Cignetti. He’s old as hell. The Indiana comparison just doesn’t hold water.
He's 64 and has 6 to 8 years in him. And he's got a nobody team in the playoffs and the program gets noticably better every year. You act like he's Bozo Bill at UNC.
He's in the middle of the season with a potential playoff team bud. No one knows if there's a "plan to move on" or not. This is Kiffin and Jimmy Sexton 101, to a script. He might go to Florida after the season ends, but some of ya'll are dumber than a box of rocks on this stuff (as in: desperate)
Give me a #5 final ranking at a Mississippi school every day of the week and twice on Sunday.
Miami Dolphins. The roster already has the players to run his offense.
Back at you. It's not like they just put this into law. Haven't yall said for years how they already have a work around.
Neither of them will win a championship where they currently are. That's just a cold hard truth. This isn't a made for TV Disney movie.
I can promise you Cignetti could have gotten one of the bigger jobs. There’s a lot of them open & very few big coaches to fill them. It’s not uncommon for coaches to coach onto their 70s. These schools know whoever they sign is not likely to be there more than 6-8 years anyway. If he was 68 yeah age would be a deal breaker. But not at 64.
or if the Giants part ways with their coach.
I hope he leaves. This wish that he’ll”break them” is just wishful thinking. Winning generates money. If he stays whatever they pay they’ll make up in additional revenue. We dont win much these days because we dont invest in a good coach. We Larry Templeton it & we get 1980s results.
Because it would be a really rare occurrence. Name the last college head coach to be content at a non-blue blood when he was highly desired by blue bloods? Beamer is the closest I can come up with, but he never was the hottest name that I can remember. Maybe that's because programs knew he wouldn't leave.
That may be true and it may not be. But even if it is, that doesn’t make Cignetti more appealing at his age and at the buyout he already had it it place. And if it is true, then Cignetti isn’t that interested in winning a title or else he wouldn’t have signed mid-year extensions at IU in back-to-back years.
It would take nearly $100 million in buyout money for Penn State, LSU, Florida, or Auburn before they even started to pay his salary. It wouldn’t happen for a 65 year old coach who still doesn’t have any true marquee wins.
I keep seeing you post this, and I just dont get it. I dont know if he will leave or not, but to think he won't get offers seems crazy to me. He is a really good coach getting results at a school that is not a "blue blood", he is young, he is a media darling, he is one of the hottest names out there, etc etc. He checks a lot of boxes, but the biggest box he checks is that he falls into the category of "might leave". He has been the first name mentioned for the FL job and LSU job at the very least, and I think he would get a look from an NFL team (MIA). What you keep pointing out as negatives used to be valid, but that is water way under the bridge at this point.
He’s a MSU fan and a USC Trojans fan who thinks that Kiffin is damaged goods that “nobody wants”.
I think one thing that's been proven is money is not an issue for these schools. If they hired a 64-year old coach and he made the playoffs the next 6 years and won a national title before retiring, they'd all consider that a huge win. Indiana didn't immediately extend him for more money if he wasn't going to be a strong target for these jobs.
I think it is an insult to compare Kiffin to Mullen at this point. Kiffin’s worst conference win total is 4 and is 30-17 in conference. Mullen was 33-39 in conference at State, won fewer than 4 conference games 4 out of 9 years, and only finished higher than 4-4 once. Kiffin is more like Chris Peterson than Dan Mullen.
Not for nothing, but the more this gets talked about, the worse it is for Ole Miss and their team and their fans. Reminiscent of the Merlinz annual whorefest, which we hated at the time.
Except nobody is going to be capable of doing that, save for maybe Ohio State and/or UGA, and they both already have NC winning coaches (one who is about to get another one). Everyone else is a big fish in a big pond (SEC teams with mid-level / unproven coaches), a small fish in a small pond (ACC/B1G), or a mid-sized fish in a pond with a great white shark in it (every B1G team besides Ohio State).
