Toughest HC job among Power Conferences.

[asindc]

This was a topic of discussion on ESPN earlier today. Will Cain ranked his five toughest jobs among the power conferences. His five (I don’t remember the order):


Rutgers (Gets swallowed up by NYC area)
Nebraska (Middle of nowhere, no natural recruiting base, football school)
Washington St. (Middle of nowhere)
Penn St. (football school)
Northwestern (academics, lack of commitment)

At first, I was a bit chagrined that there were four B1G schools out of five on his list, but I can’t think of any others to replace them with. Personally, I think Rutgers has suffered from being a traditionally commuter school in a metro area that is pro sports focused. I also respect Northwestern for not selling its academic soul like a certain school in Durham, NC has. Penn St has to overcome its image as a football school. Nebraska is the program that is really up against it.

 

[IUgradman]

Nebraska has elite facilities and an administration fully committed to winning. Their arena is beautiful. It isn’t a bad job.

 

[Wiedersehen]

This was a topic of discussion on ESPN earlier today. Will Cain ranked his five toughest jobs among the power conferences. His five (I don’t remember the order):


Rutgers (Gets swallowed up by NYC area)
Nebraska (Middle of nowhere, no natural recruiting base, football school)
Washington St. (Middle of nowhere)
Penn St. (football school)
Northwestern (academics, lack of commitment)

At first, I was a bit chagrined that there were four B1G schools out of five on his list, but I can’t think of any others to replace them with. Personally, I think Rutgers has suffered from being a traditionally commuter school in a metro area that is pro sports focused. I also respect Northwestern for not selling its academic soul like a certain school in Durham, NC has. Penn St has to overcome its image as a football school. Nebraska is the program that is really up against it.

Hard to make a list like this without having defined criteria for what makes a job good or bad. I’d say Texas Tech, Arizona State, Oregon State, Colorado, Kansas State, Alabama, Auburn, Miss State, Ole Miss are all thought jobs. Hell, most of the SEC is probably a “tough job” as the fan bases are mostly concerned with spring football than March madness.

 

[asindc]

Nebraska has elite facilities and an administration fully committed to winning. Their arena is beautiful. It isn’t a bad job.

I think being a football school in the middle of nowhere with no natural recruiting base offsets the facilities to a significant degree.

 

[asindc]

Hard to make a list like this without having defined criteria for what makes a job good or bad. I’d say Texas Tech, Arizona State, Oregon State, Colorado, Kansas State, Alabama, Auburn, Miss State, Ole Miss are all thought jobs. Hell, most of the SEC is probably a “tough job” as the fan bases are mostly concerned with spring football than March madness.

I would rather be at a football school like Miss St or Auburn than Nebraska or Wash St. Having a natural recruiting base is more of an advantage than superior facilities, IMO, unless the inferior facilities are very sub-standard.

 

[birdforbogey]

Nebraska has elite facilities and an administration fully committed to winning. Their arena is beautiful. It isn’t a bad job.

Not sure how much traction it has, but Fred Hoiberg is mentioned as the front runner for the Nebby job.