Who Do You Want to Go After.....Skies the Limit
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Did yall see where the guy from 11.7 said this was gonna happen a few weeks ago. Godwin will be the msu coach.
my choice would be Bakich but I know he’s a Clemson guy or Jarret, but he’s also at his alma mater
If I was Selmon I would set up shop in DFW and make Saarloos and Heefner tell me no.
Then I’d take a stab and see if Mitch Canham would be willing to leave Oregon State given their precarious place in the college sports landscape.
If they all say no, I would make Chris Pollard from Duke say no.
I feel like our floor should be Elander or Coggin, highly coveted assistants that are part of elevating other SEC programs from mediocrity to legitimacy.
Then I’d take a stab and see if Mitch Canham would be willing to leave Oregon State given their precarious place in the college sports landscape.
If they all say no, I would make Chris Pollard from Duke say no.
I feel like our floor should be Elander or Coggin, highly coveted assistants that are part of elevating other SEC programs from mediocrity to legitimacy.
This made me laugh out loud. I imagine Selmon at two old rotary phones. Calls Godwin on one. Hangs up and calls Heefner.
I was about to toss Erik Bakich out there myself. Obviously among a few more but not sure they would leave their current jobs. I think we could likely get Bakich but not sure.
Boone was my first thought as well. I’m sure he’s ready to move on. We’ve have a more recent championship than his current gig. Just don’t think you can win there anymore. Plus, he’s already accustomed to losing key pieces in the portal.
Some of yall need to get realistic. Link Jarrett is not coming here. He coaches at his Alma mater, a program that has the second highest winning percentage of all time and has been to Omaha 24 times.
He’s not leaving. Expectations need to be tempered. The last hire was a relatively unknown coach from the Big 10 and the hire before that was a young assistant from LSU. Neither were splash hires. Let’s get real here.
Agree on Jarrett. If I were the AD, I’d certainly ask if he’s happy at Florida state, but I’m sure he is. We could have hired him away from Notre dame and he probably would have left us to go to Florida State. There are a handful of coaches I think are just off limits and he’s one of them.
If this man was still alive................ Lou Brown!!!!!
At least offer and make him say “No”. Too often I feel like we limit ourselves by saying “well they’d never come to Mississippi State” so we don’t even ask.
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
BTW......for what its worth.........talked to a couple of UT fans in Memphis and they both told me the one team that worried them with a head coach opening would be Miss. State. Both said that the UT Admin. better follow through with Lindsey Nelson stadium improvements and not waver on one single detail or Vitello might become interested in looking our way. I say Hogwash on this, but I guess you never say never. Why not open up a big checkbook and offer him Tim Corbin+ type money. Heck, make him tell us "NO".
Bakich signed a massive deal last offseason and is under contract thru the 2030 season. We aren't about to fork out for an $8+ million dollar buyout.
2025 $1.275 million
2026 $1.325 million
2027 $1.375 million
2028 $1.425 million
2029 $1.475 million
2030 1.525 million
All I know is if anyone ANYONE from the University of Oklahoma gets the job we need to put our differences aside and do what Tennessee fans did when they tried to hire Greg Schiano
Nick Saban was only a disciplinarian if you weren't a big time contributor. Take for example Tim Williams. Failed (in his own words at the combine) "Many drug tests" while at Alabama. Not kicked off the team or even suspended. Ended up being a 2nd round pick.
Take Cam Robinson as another example. Got arrested for misdemeanor drugs and what would be felony illegal gun possession. The DA didn't prosecute because "I'm not going to ruin some young man's future who spent his childhood outside when other spent theirs indoors in air conditioning." You could say that about any drug pusher or gang banger out there, but I bet the DA doesn't for them. Cam Robinson wasn't kicked off the team or even suspended. Early 2nd round pick
Need another example? Courtney Upshaw. He got arrested for domestic violence against his girlfriend. Kicked off the team? Nope. Suspended? Not one second. Future first round draft pick.
You can try to defend some of these. I've heard people say Cam Robinson wasn't found guilty of a felony. That's true, but only because he wasn't prosecuted. And remember - Saban is a massive disciplinarian, right? He won't put up with this, right? So why did he keep putting up with it?
I didn't go back to look at the exact comment you quoted, but I believe I followed that up with Bakich would likely use State's interest in him to get a bigger deal at Clemson. I think he is a guy you have to at least kick the tires on. Most likely it's a quick no, but crazy stuff happens all the time.
He has a pretty personal connection to Clemson and Jack Leggett beyond serving as a Clemson assistant early in his career. That makes it even more unlikely to happen.
Bring Buck Showalter home!***
If the sky is the limit, we have to have Schlossnagle and Link Jarrett as the first two phone calls made.
If the sky is the limit, we have to have Schlossnagle and Link Jarrett as the first two phone calls made.
Don’t know about Vitello but I’ve seen a couple of UT fans online say they were worried about their asst coach/hitting coach Josh Elander. They say he turned down other offers but they feel like ours would be one he’d take.
