Yeah, can't imagine LSU is real happy about playing Purdue in the Citrus Bowl. They were #6 in the CFB playoff ranking two weeks ago and controlled their own destiny and then inexplicably lost by 3 TDs to A&M and got their doors blown off by Georgia. Went from comfortably playing in a NY6 bowl to playing a middle-tier B10 school that 75% of their fan base couldn't locate on a map.
That’s my fear. When it comes time to hire a coach, you can be certain Bobinski won’t just offer an assistant on his way down the hall to the water cooler.
Can you? Sounds like JaMarcus Shephard is being strongly considered.
Congrats to him. PU was an 8 win team with a bowl game that could make it 9.
I'm reiterating that he's a serious candidate opposing a comment (that wasn't made to you to begin with) that Bobinski wouldn't hire an unqualified candidate with zero head coaching experience.
A Big Ten AD isn't going to hand over a bowl team to someone with zero head coaching experience at the college level. Well most of the AD's anyway.
Let’s see outside of Glass hiring Allen what other coaches were hired without head coaching experience hired by bowl teams. Off the top of my head.
Marcus Freeman had no head coaching experience prior to promotion to the ND position. While not the B1G, ND is still a pretty important position to be a head coach.
Good call.
Dolson must have taken Bobinski out on the town and spiked his drink. This is an IU move all the way.
Hey young man. Why are you hiring coaches half your age? I see you picked up Graham Harrell as your OC. He was in diapers when I retired.Hmmmm. No LEO or Coachspeak, let’s see more about this guy who was making $1.1M as a 35 year DC after 5 years as a Power 5 DC,
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Like GH hire.
Same budget they used for Brohm before he left. They probably called klieman, deboer, etc, but they weren't leaving. I'd rather have this guy than someone like Tyson Helton I think.
You don't think they could have gotten someone like Kane Womack who is having a great year at South Alabama? That move would have ticked off a lot of IU fans including myself. I was shocked PU went with a coach with zero HC experience. Same with ND last year.
Then the budget was a concern. HC with HCing experience would have had a honeymoon period asking and getting more just as JB enjoyed. Just how it works.
Ya, certainly could have. Maybe they interviewed him even? At first, I was pretty shocked, but the further from the hire we get, the more I like him and his philosophy on everything. I think they hired on potential more than anything. Speaking from present day, I love the hire, but, and it's a big but, I fully understand he might not win a game. Not sure we can take a ton from next year unless he wins 8 or loses 10 tbh. Risky for sure.
