Who would you pick that's a reasonable choice? Matt Campbell at Toledo would be the first guy I would call. I just want you guys to move on from Flood and hope it happens at the end of this season.
Pick your next Head Coach
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Schiano, Fleck, Brock, Ruhle or the rich guy from Coastal Carolina
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Lane Kiffin or someone from the Bill Belichick coaching tree or Rick Neuheisel. Kiffin would be perfect for recruiting California and the Midwest and the South, especially Florida. Recruiting NJ would not have to be primary His brother is the DL coach at Ole Miss. Father-in-law is one-time Florida QB John Reaves. Kiffin played at Fresno State, raised in Minnesota. Kiffin and Neuheisel would be perfect working with QBs. Neuheisel is media savvy. Both have stature that goes way beyond NJ. Their staffs would be interesting. Rutgers needs to move beyond the provincial hiring it too often sticks with.
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Just going to post unreasonable guys (so no Hermann or Fuente. They're off to the SEC openings at USCe or Missouri.)
1.) Rhule
2.) Babers - Like him because he's 55 and as an added bonus... if he came and was successful after a few years, he would probably want to coach for a long time and not uproot again at 57 to 58.)
3.) Campbell
1.) Rhule
2.) Babers - Like him because he's 55 and as an added bonus... if he came and was successful after a few years, he would probably want to coach for a long time and not uproot again at 57 to 58.)
3.) Campbell
Realistic guys? Any MAC not names Fleck. Could live with Golden or Schiano but don't want pro set o
Did you seriously say Lane Kiffin?
If RU brought in Kiffin I'd predict that at the end of his tenure (my guess 3 years) the school would choose to deemphasize football and move to what used to be called I-AA.
So you want another repeat of 11 years no conference championships, leaving a week team,
recruiting down hill after his 2006 team, 11 years of blaming it on
Shea's empty cupboard,,in his 10th year he lost to 0 and 11 Syr., couldn't handle
quarter backs, A man that is not well thought by most NFL and college teams.
A man that is thought of as a joke of a field coach. You gotta be kidding, Your
not that desperate already, at your young age?
WAY too much love for Schiano. Short memory of obstinate stubborn offense (R,R,P, Punt...repeat) and arrogance in general (which does help in recruiting).
Realistically, Robb Smith. I'm surprised he's only been mentioned once. He fits the Rutgers bill perfectly: cheap, familiar with the program and has NJ ties.
He's also a good defensive mind, which is valued in the Big 10.
He's also a good defensive mind, which is valued in the Big 10.
never been a head coach
hates recruiting
someone posted his stats at Arky yesterday and they ain't to great.
I'm not sold Rutgers is going to fork over the money that it's going to take to snag someone who is already a HC. Even someone like Rhule, or some of the higher level MAC guys, will require more money than Rutgers is likely to want to part with. Throughout the past 30 years, Rutgers has taught me that if it's going to do something, it'll be on the cheap. I'm (unfortunately) not expecting that to change.
Schiano: 68- 67, SOS = -0.53
Fleck: 15 - 20, SOS = -4.18
Brock: 16-18, SOS = (couldn't find it)
Rhule: 16-18, SOS = -3.54
Moglia: 40-11, SOS = (couldn't find it)
Schiano's a big fat NO for me. Great program builder. Good D-coord. Not a good head coach and rarely won the big game (and Big Ten East is almost all big games).
Fleck is interesting for having turned thing around quickly. Rhule is interesting for the same reason. In both cases, the SOS is not great so prior performance isn't necessarily indicative of future results.
Moglia is interesting although pretty big gambles, IMO. Moglia only had two games against D-I competition and acquitted himself well on offense, but poorly on defense:
v Nevada: 56-73 L
v Hawaii: 63-74 L
Not understanding why Brock is even under consideration, TBH.v Hawaii: 63-74 L
The names likely interested based on Rutgers financial constraints,media hostility and recruiting woes in NJ aren't likely to excite most fans.The reaction will be anybody other than Flood is acceptable but a year later the same complaints will be stated by disgruntled fans.It always comes back to money which Rutgers will lack until 2021.
Grand Slam - Kyle Wittingham (sp)
Budwiser long shot - Rich Rodriguez or Lane Kiffin
Show bets - Randy Edsall or Matt Rhule
At the end of the day this is Rutgers and while I pray I'm wrong they might keep Flood for another season and I believe he may have a legit shot at 7-5 next year. If a change is made you're looking at Edsall or Rhule. While I like Rodriguez he needs a special kind of kid to play for him. If he gets those kids we start beating Wisky, PSU and Nebraska. Remember guys at Rutgers the HC and AD only has so much clout, it comes down to the Administrations will to pony up enough
money to win. I will remain cautiously optimistic.
Budwiser long shot - Rich Rodriguez or Lane Kiffin
Show bets - Randy Edsall or Matt Rhule
At the end of the day this is Rutgers and while I pray I'm wrong they might keep Flood for another season and I believe he may have a legit shot at 7-5 next year. If a change is made you're looking at Edsall or Rhule. While I like Rodriguez he needs a special kind of kid to play for him. If he gets those kids we start beating Wisky, PSU and Nebraska. Remember guys at Rutgers the HC and AD only has so much clout, it comes down to the Administrations will to pony up enough
money to win. I will remain cautiously optimistic.
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RU was going to pay Cristobal $1.5 million/yr, so I'm sure they'll pay at least that....if not a little more.
I figure that's about right again but, is that going to be enough in this year's market? I guess time will tell.
we have no idea what the financial restraints are....people want to assume but it's just that
Outside of a few programs everyone has hostility. Is our worse? maybe but coaches expect it somewhat. How hard is it to say the media was hostile to Flood because he did x y and z
Any coach worth his salt won't care about what happened in the past and should think he will dominate NJ recruiting.
It's funny, I got ripped the last two years for saying it was stupid to fire Flood just to fire him(for me that changed with the report). Now people who wanted him gone regardless are already complaining how a new coach is going to set us back.
Ideal: Tom Herman (I think he wants this job more than Mizzou or South Carolina, just a gut feeling)
Long Shot: Rich Rodriguez
Diamond In The Rough/Up & Comer: Mike Sanford, Notre Dame OC
Long Shot: Rich Rodriguez
Diamond In The Rough/Up & Comer: Mike Sanford, Notre Dame OC
Rod Carey fellas. Watch Northern Illinois play. He really knows what he is doing. Win or lose - he always puts his players/team in position to succeed
schiano left RU with a program we could all be proud of. he took over one of the worst D-1 football programs in the nation. he turned it into a program that brought a lot of excitement to the fans and state. the block Rs were everywhere. Flood comes in and trashes everything schiano built. bring back schiano and watch what happens. if he came back there would be headlines everywhere. the recruits would be excited as would most of the fan base. it would be huge !!!!!!
Like I said, any MAC coach not named Fleck. BG, Toledo, UNI all very well coached.....heck, I'd even take a flyer on Chuck Martin at Miami OH. He's only 4-19 at Miami in year 3 of a huge overhaul but his career record is 78-26 with 2 National Championships. Man can coach.
Solely from names above
Rhule
Herman
Campbell
Babers
Bottom of list
Schiano
Golden
Kiffin
Fleck
Not even on list
Moglia
Rhule
Herman
Campbell
Babers
Bottom of list
Schiano
Golden
Kiffin
Fleck
Not even on list
Moglia