Re: Imagine that you are chosen to fix the Coots' football program.

Judge Keller® · 2024-02-05T17:29:18.392Z

It's an unenviable task, I know. But you're supposed to make it a consistent winner to contend for conference championships and hopefully be a participant in the 12 team playoff. As we know, the program has an overall record of around .500 throughout its history, just one conference championship decades ago, and a division title in 2010. You are in charge of a football program that is typically mediocre to bad, in a conference with several football powers, at a school best known for women's basketball and equestrian (though a rabid football fan base). More success in football is desired, and you have been tasked to fix it. How do you do it?

who isn't afraid of a program's poor history, or the ho hum condition it is currently in, and has the belief and chutzpah to go out there and make it happen, knowing their skills and leadership will make a difference because of how impactful excellent coaching is. SCar's program is well enough resourced in their field and conference to allow for success with the right components, similar to the state of Clemson's basketball program. See Spurrier, and Holtz before him.

Then when that HOF coach starts showing signs of petering out, have someone other than your former baseball coach who knows little about running a major athletics program make a replacement hire accordingly.

For example, Brad's program has a Top 40 budget yet averages a 75th-place national finish each season. Clearly a significant underperformance that happens like clockwork. His recruiting is decent with classes averaging in the 30's, yet he continues to produce seasons that are twice as low as that in final rankings.

Dabo on the other hand, even in a miserable horrible no good season like we just experienced where we were barely Top 20, his worst finish since 2010, with only a Top 25 program budget continuously and relentlessly produces a winning product year in and year out that performs better than its weight and enters every season in the running for championships.

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I would start by doing SOMETHING.

Feb 5, 2024, 2:52 PM

The last thing I think I would do if I were the Gamecock's AD and the mandate came down to improve the performance of the football program is to fold my arms and say "Well, Beamer hasn't given me any indication...over a long period of time...that he has the ability to improve the performance of my football team...but other options I could try also might not work...and people can point out reasons why they won't work...so I'll just accept where I am."

That seems like a recipe for disaster.

Personally, I'm a big fan of the "up and comer" hire...in my opinion, it's got marginally less chance of success as a hall-of-famer hire (a la Lou Holtz), but comes at a significantly lower cost, with more runway, and a coach who might have a sense of appreciation for the opportunity such that they won't jet if they have a couple strong seasons (assuming you then pay them after those good seasons, of course). That's what we did, and now we have a 15-year tenured head coach who is the winningest coach in Clemson history, with two national titles, eight ACC Championships, and 12 post season wins...who could be our head coach for another 20 years. That's amazing. Compare that with UNC's hiring (er...re-hiring) of Mack Brown. Undoubtedly he's doing well (by their standards) there, but no one thinks he'll be the coach there in four years.

Anyway...one of the interesting things about sports fandom is it isn't necessarily all about wins...sometimes it is about hope. As a Gamecock fan, you'd have to get tired of watching years and years of the same thing with the same results. You'd want SOMETHING to give you hope...a new hire...anything. Someone with great recruiting skills or who looks fired up on the sidelines. Someone who goes toe-to-toe with Saba...er...Smart...Maybe someone who comes in with a unique culture that the Gamecocks can latch onto.

So yeah...that's what I would do. (For the record, I'm not saying that Beamer can or can't get them there...I guess I'm operating on the premise that they have years of mediocrity with him and it isn't changing.)

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Imagine that you are chosen to fix the Coots' football program.

Simple. FIRE BRAD BROWNELL AND HIRE A BETTER COACH.***

Re: Simple. FIRE BRAD BROWNELL AND HIRE A BETTER COACH.***

Re: Simple. FIRE BRAD BROWNELL AND HIRE A BETTER COACH.***

Rick didnt accomplish that much here.

Barnes took us to 3 NCAATs in 4 years

Dang

Re: Simple. FIRE BRAD BROWNELL AND HIRE A BETTER COACH.***

I hope that they never fix it. I'd love to see them go 0-12 again.***

Drop down to FCS level

keep hiring until I found the right coach.***

SCofU is actually a perfect example of what can happen when you make the

Nobody cares to see the posters on your bedroom wall.

Perfect storm of in state talent and SEC East being unadulterated trash.***