How legitimate does he have to be for today's athletic directors to cut loose with a new contract?
OU has zero interest in a coach like Beamer. They are not going to gamble going into the SEC gauntlet. We are only the only school who would have did this.
Those are the types of names I'm hearing...Leach, Kiffen, etc. I haven't heard Beamer at all other than those 2 journalists out there that really liked Shane when he was out there.
I can't see why Kiffin would leave at this point. Ole Miss can pay him. The Stoops plan would kill recruiting. There are no second acts in CFB. But Mack Brown is trying.
Believe what you want. Beamer isn't a candidate.
They always gamble in their coaching hires.
Oh please. Nobody of Oklahoma's stature will give Shane serious consideration unless he produces Spurrier-like seasons (Top 10 teams) here. Regardless, South Carolina is Shane's "dream job". Remember?
Would not surprise me. He is only one year older than Spurrier was when he came here.
Given the hires to date and the number of coaches choosing to stay put, that transition plan makes a lot of sense. If I'm Mike Leach, I would go to OU if given the opportunity.
Trolling, no way. Just creating sports discussion. Not sure why there always has to be an ulterior motive.
Yeah, just like Notre Dame.....Notre Dame......would never promote an assistant coach all of 35 to head coach. Oh....wait....
Well they actually hired a coach that has been a coordinator and not the tight ends coach or was it special teams coach? Get back coach? Hell I forget
Exactly. That's the point. You take a look at this past season and you can't point to one head turning win by Shane. And I like Shane. But, beating, mediocre, struggling, down Florida and Auburn teams at home are not going to convince a school like Oklahoma that he can get the job done. And that's especially when the other 4 wins were struggles against mid-majors East Carolina and Troy, lowly Vanderbilt (might as well call them a mid-major, too) and one blowout (but against a FCS school). As I said, I like Shane. I hope he proves to be here a long, long time. I gave him a solid B grade, thus far, on another thread. But, let's not pretend he turned the college football sports world on its head and shocked it by what he did this season. He didn't. I believe a few Gamecock fans are going overboard and need to get real.
Must people don't know what trolling actually means, and practically no one over 50 it seems. People think disagreeing with them as fervently as they disagree with you. In truth actual trolling is intentionally saying something you don't believe to get an arrogant and self assured person to show their ass in a context that they won't make a difference and if ultimately you take the bait and feed a troll it usually says more about you. There are some in here that are borderline in how they keep pushing things regardless what is argued back but I doubt they aren't just earnestly crazy.
And a ST coach that several in the profession says had a future as a HBC for years that just did a killer job in his first year as head coach and that the powers that be in Oklahoma know well and trust.
I like how you put zero context in that. Is it his recruits or did he lose with someone else's roster? What did the prognosticators predict this season? Are we better or worse than last year and what we were expected to do this year? Have sports commentators floated his name for SEC COTY? Did you think he'd get bowl eligible season one? Is it really that big a deal to you that he was fighting for TDs instead of doing the sad face saving move of going for a chip shot field goal? How many times would we have been shut out of games if Muschamp chose to try for TDs over field goals over the last few years? Stop treating the whole season like it exists in a vacuum. We got beat by an offensive line that gelled and a really good RB. Honestly given that anytime Clemson played a defense with a pulse Etienne had 3.0ypc or less Shipley may price to be more capable against anything but the scrubs. You're just pissed we didn't choose your guy. Who did you want? Did you want Chadwell who a year later has been linked to no P5 openings? And we're supposed to take that we're the first P5 offer Beamer got as an indication we're the only ones dumb enough to want him, well it seems no one is dumb enough to think the spread option would work in the SEC and frankly we knew that already from every time Oregon's almost dynasty played an SEC defense the most exciting offense in CFB consistently hit a brick wall.
Do you really not see the difference in that and in what we did? Seriously? Dude, you are definitely trolling. I won't wade into the alternative .
