Even though the Del Rio option sounds like a flyer he is far from Price. Del Rio is a proven head football coach and defensive coordinator at the highest level over the better part of the last two decades. He would double our current recruiting production just by walking into the living room and saying āI am going to teach you how they do it in the NFL.ā
A new name that just became in need of a job is Mike Stoops. While he was just fired he has been a head coach with some bowl appearances. He hired Seth Littrell (North Texas) as an assistant. He is not my first choice but it is a name.
Realistically our next coach just has to find a way to win one FCS game a year and go 5-6 verse FBS schools and the fan base will be happy for a while going to a bowl. Expectations here arenāt unreasonable.
In Hillās interview he answered the basketball opening by saying you find the right guy. He said that might be someone with HC experience it might not be. How having the right attitude and fire was most important and mentioned firing Jim McElwain at Florida because he wasnāt a fit.
I think we can look at how he went about hiring Sanchez. He is going to throw the book open and find who he thinks is the right guy. I donāt think he will get too caught up with HC experience honestly. I think he is going to look for strong recruiting ability though.
Seeing what Bill Clark has done at UAB after having his team decimated by the forced 2 year pause, I think he might be a good choice to rebuild (build?) our program. Admittedly it might be hard to get him away from UAB after the fans stood up for him and his program, but put him on my list of maybes.
Hereās a name I donāt see tossed around much but could be an interesting hire, Tee Martin. He played at UT (won the national title in 1998) is currently the OC at USC. Initially looking at that it might appear he is a little out of our reach financially but he did interview for the Georgia Southern job in 2017 http://footballscoop.com/news/update-georgia-southern/ and if he would coach there why not here?
Heās a dynamite recruiter and stylistically USCās offense is one that I would love to see here. Fuller spent a lot of time at UT, and with Hillās deep SEC ties I would imagine they would be acquainted as well.
Satterfield has a new contact that has not been made public from what I was told by an App booster. The new buyout is nearly $8m and new contract runs through 2022 or 23
Thanks 2k. App would have very little leverage to get Satt to agree to anything he didnāt want to. I canāt see him signing a deal that makes it hard for him to leave App when he is ready, and App doesnāt have the resources to incent him to do so.