10-14-2025, 07:09 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-14-2025, 07:23 PM by jacket3ree.)
(10-14-2025, 09:29 AM)msqueri Wrote: brobdingnagian splashes to announce ourselves as big boys and seize the attention of the sport: Nick Saban, Dabo Swinney, Chip Kelly, Urban Meyer
College retreads worth considering: James Franklin, Jimbo Fisher, Dave Clawson, Dan Mullen, Bronco Mendenhall
Buying low but still very expensive on a big-time coach (depending on coming weeks some could become retreads): Swinney, Mark Stoops, Steve Sarkisian, Mike Norvell, Billy Napier, Luke Fickell
Going big to throw resources around and try to poach a big-time coach: Matt Campbell, Lance Leipold, Curt Cignetti, Jonathan Smith, Bret Bielema, Scott Satterfield, Dave Doeren, Kenny Dillingham, Willie Fritz, Chris Klieman, PJ Fleck, Mike Locksley, Fran Brown, Barry Odom
NFL guys: Kelly, Brian Daboll, Doug Marrone, Doug Pederson, Mike McDaniel, Jerod Mayo, Greg Roman
Top G5 Coaches: Jon Sumrall, Alex Golesh, Ryan Silverfield, Charles Huff, Mendenhall, Mullen, Ricky Rahne, Jason Eck, Sean Lewis, GJ Kinne, KC Keeler, Eric Morris, Bob Chesney, Eddie George, Jason Candle, Jim Mora, Lance Taylor, Jimmy Rogers, Blake Harrell
Top Coordinators: Will Stein, Glenn Schumann, Andy Kotelnicki, Corey Hetherman
Very Stanford Thing to Do But Less Appealing: Tavita Pritchard, Troy Walters, Mendenhall, Ken Niumatalolo, Jeff Monken
My call list would prioritize back channel feelers for the first four categories (I especially love the fits for Swinney, Stoops, Leipold, Klieman, and Smith) and among G5 coaches Silverfield and Huff are my favorite fits but lots are plausible. My backup plans would be Lewis, Mendenhall, and Pritchard.
Interesting list. Will Stein was the guy I was thinking of. I don't see Miss Terry moving to California; is your top line nothing more than pie in the sky dreaming? Beyond that I don't know I'd want any of those and I'm almost certain none of them want the Stanford job. Too much work and chance of ending your career as a failure or maybe they'd just collect a crap ton of cash and not care, so that does no one any good, either. The second stint of Bill Walsh should be a warning that the unicorn coach may not work out, without insinuating he was just collecting a check for three years. I think he wanted it to be his bliss, but forgot about the less blissful details. Like you need real assistant coaches.
Getting Sark to leave football mad Texas for somnambulant Silicon Valley? Seems unrealistic along with most of the retread list, even if they are or were big names. Doeren is probably on the hottest of seats in Raleigh. Chip Kelly is done with head coaching. Tech all but hired Willie Fritz until stumbling over details of coaching Tulane's bowl and the guaranteed buy out. Pretty clear he was looking for that final push into his bank account. They 'settled' for the local interim guy and so far it's working out. At least we are worried about poll positions, playoff possibilities, and having him poached soon rather than how much of his buyout we're now on the hook for if we dump him now or the end of a lost season.
So who is the next Leipold or Cignetti before someone on the ever-expanding list of openings finds him? That's the guy we want.
Hopefully Luck is really looking hard, right now through all the right backchannels.
Greg Roman. The guy we supposedly should have hired instead of Shaw according to some. Harbaugh the Younger's OC in LA after being told to move along by Harbaugh the Elder in Baltimore. His name pops up occasionally on this board. He's 53 and has never been a head coach although he his probably being paid now at least what Taylor was. Itinerant 30-year career like many coaches. Topped out as coordinator. What do we make of this?
95-01 (7 years) OL assistant with Panthers
02-05 (4 years) TE and QB coach with Texans
06-07 (2 years) OK assistant with Ravens
08-08 (1 year) OC at Holy Spirit High School in New Jersey
09-10 (2 years) Associate Head Coach at Stanford
11-14 (4 years) OC with Niners
15-16 (2 years) OC with Bills
17-22 (6 years) varies duties including 4 years as OC with Ravens
22-23 (2 years) gap years. Applebees?
24-25 (2 years) OC with Chargers
As a blind resume people would be apoplectic if we hired this guy as HC.