Oso planning to go pro
Venebles doesn’t recruit.
Going after Clemson coordinators, any of them, would be a prudent move. Brent Venables would be a slam dunk
He was Rivals top recruiter in 2016
Yeah I was thinking of someone else. My bad.
From what I can tell, Taggart's salary was $5M per season. That means that FSU will end up paying about $8 million for the time he was their coach (about a year and a half). Between paying him to go away ($17.5M), the Oregon buyout ($3M), and the remainder of the South Florida buyout they agreed to pay ($1.3), FSU will pay $21.8M total. That's about $30M for a year and a half of Willie Taggart.
ESPN said that boosters came up with $20 million.
Interesting
FWIW, FSU is denying that boosters came up with $20M.https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/27999505/florida-state-fires-willie-taggart
Willie Taggart our at Florida State.
Someone help me understand - why would they deny that boosters came up with the (new) money? That's the only way a public university paying that kind of money for that kind of decision is even remotely defensible.
They money was raised to support FSU athletics. They will use it to pay his buy out.Simply saying "we raised money to buy him out" may sound too much like a personal gift, which would call those deductions into question. They're likely simply being extra careful with their words.
Not a surprise. He just wasn't the white fit for that fan base.
While nobody is denying Taggart made a bunch of mistakes this year, people are overlooking that Taggart walked into a situation not unlike when Buzz left Marquette. Jimbo had a nice run, but he left for more than just money. He left a dumpster fire of a situation with recruiting lapses everywhere. Sure its FSU, but it was still a rebuilding job. Herm Edwards is doing "fine" at ASU, but he walked into a decent program that was just kind of flat lining with Todd Graham, it wasn't bottoming out. Sonny Dykes had been pretty terrible at Cal, but he was out of his element. Got back to the sort of Texas-centric scenario he had excelled at at Louisiana Tech, and he was back at it.If Taggart had gotten the same short leash at USF, he never would have turned the program around like he did. But FSU has to be careful what they wish for, provided they don't get Meyer, they are going to have far less marquee options than they think. Is this the big second chance for Lane Kiffin?
Fair points about what Taggart inherited, but after 2+ seasons he'd done little with recruiting or on the field to show progress, and was even regressing.I don't think they have a chance at Meyer, but I could be absolutely wrong about that. Matt Thomas would be a good fit there, or maybe PJ Fleck. But I don't know if those guys would be seen as too "small time" for the FSU fan base.
Do you mean Matt Rhule? Because I think he would be a great choice by FSU. He's won at places as different as Temple and Baylor.
OK, but I don't know who you mean by Matt Thomas.
This.Well, they did know he was black when they hired him.I do think I remember seeing data showing that black coaches in various sports are more likely to be sacked more quickly than white counterparts with similar records, but I am too lazy to look it up.
Matt Campbell.My bad.
Matt Campbell is an interesting, albeit not sexy, name. He was successful for a good period of time at Toledo and has been consistent at ISU, which isn't an easy place to win.PJ Fleck to me is still a bit of a fraud. He had a great season at WMU in 2016, but their best win was getting past a 7-6 NW team to open the season. The rest of the MAC was very soft, and he had the POY at QB and Corey Davis at WR, neither of whom he recruited. And in the 2 years prior at WMU, his best wins were against scuffling sub-.500 B10 schools. Now Minnesota, this season is completely a result of a favorable schedule. Their best win is...Illinois? They snuck by a .500 Fresno State team early in the year. PSU, at Iowa, and Wisconsin in the next 4 games will show, but at this point, he feels like a less accomplished Tom Crean of football. Great self promoter with his Row the Boat shctick, but very fortunate in his best years and light on results. Other than the Wisconsin win last season, which I really enjoyed, he doesn't have a single other impressive win at Minnesota in 3 years.
I know what you mean about Fleck's schtick, but I think you're underselling his accomplishments, especially at Western Michigan. He took over a program forever mired in mediocrity - even by MAC standards - and after one bad season led them to three straight bowl appearances, a conference title, an undefeated regular season and a major bowl in which they went toe-to-toe with a top 10 Wisconsin team. Not sure what more one can expect from a MAC program. If you're holding it against him that they didn't beat good P5 programs, then that's just not a realistic standard to measure a MAC coach by.As for Minnesota, you can only play your schedule - which is set years in advance - but I'd say beating a top 20 Fresno State team last year counts as an impressive win. They're definitely benefiting from an easy schedule so far this year, but it's not like they're eking out victories of late. Their last three wins against non-Rutgers opponents are by an average 30+ points. Three of their next four are against quality opponents, so we'll see if they're legit.