UC Coaching Search Official Thread

[RedRocker]

This is assuming WE are interested in HIM. We may not be. Because if we were interested, I have an extremely hard time believing that he'd be talking to Marshall, which is a lateral in-conference move.

Umm....Marshall is in C-USA.

[bobestes]

I know that this is a stupid analogy, but I'm going to make it anyway.

Xavier loses coaches in basketball like we lose coaches in football. Sucks, but it's true.

They have been relatively successful and have built their PROGRAM by replacing quality with quality, and fearing not for quality coaches to leave. By doing that long enough, prospective recruits can believe in the fact that if they aren't playing for Thad Matta by their senior year, they'll be playing for someone equally as impressive.

So, I'm in favor of throwing the "will he leave" question out the window. We're losing coaches to freaking Notre Dame, not Harvard.

IF we keep up with quality hires and infrastructure improvements, I really see us being the Miami (FL) of the new big east. They had no history before they became a program.

[bobestes]

Umm....Marshall is in C-USA.

My bad. I thought they were in the MAC for a while. Same thing, though.

[shaunsimpson]

Marshall is offering him double the money.....or as i like to look at it probably half of what we are offering.

[udonkey]

I hate to have an arrogant attitude about it, but if UC offers, I can't see how he'd pass up more money + BCS to go to Huntington, WV.

[bearcatbret]

The Houston Coach worries me because he played at Purdue and would probably leave for there if the job came open. Coaching at UC would allow him to establish a recruiting tie to the Cincinnati/Ohio/Indiana fb market.

[ralph1950]

Urban Meyer returns to coach his Alma Mater because his wife, also a UC grad, wants to be closer to her family. Mike Thomas meets with him in New Orleans before the Sugar Bowl to work out the contract details.

[mikep]

The Houston Coach worries me because he played at Purdue and would probably leave for there if the job came open. Coaching at UC would allow him to establish a recruiting tie to the Cincinnati/Ohio/Indiana fb market.

That scrares you? Really? You can play that game with anyone.

[Cordon]

Urban Meyer returns to coach his Alma Mater because his wife, also a UC grad, wants to be closer to her family. Mike Thomas meets with him in New Orleans before the Sugar Bowl to work out the contract details.

I need some of what this guy is on.....

[#41]

The Houston Coach worries me because he played at Purdue and would probably leave for there if the job came open. Coaching at UC would allow him to establish a recruiting tie to the Cincinnati/Ohio/Indiana fb market.

You're focusing too hard -- Sumlin is a bad hire because his teams are too inconsistent.

10/03/09 -- #12 Houston loses to unranked UTEP
11/14/09 -- #11 Houston loses to unranked UCF
12/05/09 -- #18 Houston loses to unranked ECU

I don't want a guy who can't keep his team up to play when they're facing inferior competition.

Hiring Sumlin is asking to go 8-4 every year.

[JohnFrancis]

I know that this is a stupid analogy, but I'm going to make it anyway.

Xavier loses coaches in basketball like we lose coaches in football. Sucks, but it's true.

They have been relatively successful and have built their PROGRAM by replacing quality with quality, and fearing not for quality coaches to leave. By doing that long enough, prospective recruits can believe in the fact that if they aren't playing for Thad Matta by their senior year, they'll be playing for someone equally as impressive.

So, I'm in favor of throwing the "will he leave" question out the window. We're losing coaches to freaking Notre Dame, not Harvard.

IF we keep up with quality hires and infrastructure improvements, I really see us being the Miami (FL) of the new big east. They had no history before they became a program.

I think you should look up the history of Miami (FL) football on Wikipedia or something like that...no history? are you kidding me?

[Deaf_Bearcat]

MT needs hire an interim coach Kerry Coombs or one of BK's assistants immediately, then secretly talk with UM about the permanent UC HC job from now before the announcement of UM as the new UC HC on Jan. 1st after the Sugar Bowl game.

[BearcatSig]

Yup. Old and unmotivated. We need:

- Young. Mid forties.
- D1 HC experience. No coordinators or high school coaches.
- Offensive minded. No 3 yards in a cloud of dust.

Rich Rod??

[2kirkalypse]

You're focusing too hard -- Sumlin is a bad hire because his teams are too inconsistent.

10/03/09 -- #12 Houston loses to unranked UTEP
11/14/09 -- #11 Houston loses to unranked UCF
12/05/09 -- #18 Houston loses to unranked ECU

I don't want a guy who can't keep his team up to play when they're facing inferior competition.

Hiring Sumlin is asking to go 8-4 every year.

You are basing your opinion all on 1 year?? Maybe his team was not very talented and he did a great job coaching them but they just play poorly a couple of games. To ask any coach to go undefeated every year and be pumped to play every game is asinine. If there was a college coach out there that could do it, he wouldnt be coaching college, he would be winning SBs every year in the NFL

[norwoodbearcat]

http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_/id/15660/cincinnati-to-interview-houstons-sumlin

UC set to interview sumlin