My meaningless opinion on Chad Morris and Vandy.

If I'm in Chad's shoes, I would think realistically about what I could accomplish in Vandy immediately. As one of the hottest OC's in football, you cannot take that job for the long term. It's potentially a dead end job where the whole "first HC job is your last" cliche could hold true.

Conversely, if you think the foundation is laid at Vandy for you to go in there and have a "huge" season (8 or 9 wins) within 2 years, then I think it would be a great stepping stone.

He needs HC experience (most likely) to land a major job. But, is it worth the risk going to a school like Vandy who has to play against more talented teams just about every week? I'm not sure. I think it comes down to whether or not he believes he can win immediately. Otherwise, stick it out here another year and see what happens next year in the coaching carrousel.

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Re: The problem with this is it doesn't appear

Jan 14, 2014, 4:37 PM

That's actually not true. He wasn't "passed over" so much as he "passed".

When he interviewed at NC State and Texas Tech last year, they were apparently taken quite aback by The Chad's demands - he apparently wanted a huge budget for hiring staff - not just coaches, but a bunch of additional support staff - and he alsowanted massive revisions to the AD and S&C. In short, he wanted a level of control over those programs they simply weren't willing to cede. And apparently The Chad did more "interviewing" of the NC State and Texas Tech reps than they did of him.

He wants an almost Nick Saban level of control over the program he takes over. NC State and Texas Tech were looking for employees.

Chad Morris wants to be a head coach, sure - but he apparently isn't willing to walk into a situation where he feels the elements aren't in place to build a consistent winner. Considering he's making $1.3 million - plus substantial incentives - to simply be an OC at Clemson and doesn't have to recruit much, be on the road, or handle a lot of the more political aspects of the job - it's a pretty sweet gig for him. Somebody is going to have to offer him the right situation before he takes it, and money doesn't appear to be the biggest concern he has going.

He'll get it - it's pretty much accepted he's the closest thing to Gus Malzahn out there - but I also think it could be another year. This year was particularly quiet in terms of HC vacancies in college football (only Texas, Southern Cal, and Penn State, among the major powers) changed HC's, which in turn caused a bit of shuffling underneath them as they raided Louisville, Washington, Vandy, etc, for coaches...but precisely because it was so quiet this year, next year is likely to be an absolute bloodbath. Start counting HC's on the hot seat who (somehow) survived this year...just off the top of my head in the SEC and ACC, I see Johnson (GT), Beamer (VT), London (UVA), Fedora (UNC), Doeren (NC State), Mullen (Mississippi State), Beilema (Arkansas), Muschamp (UF)...the list goes on and on. And of course, Richt at UGA always seems to be a bad year away from finally falling off the edge, and there's a bunch of others who don't have enough in the bank to survive a dreadful season - in particular Pitt and Syracuse are going to have to start showing (and soon) they can be competitive in the ACC or there's going to be changes made there. The Chad is also from Big 12 territory...and there's plenty of places, like TCU and West Virginia, where there's coaches struggling right now too.

If The Chad waits, he'll do a whole lot better than Vandy - as in, probably on the order of Arkansas, VT, or TCU, and I'm confident he knows that already.

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