His NFL team is favored to win the super bowl.
QB whose career is just beginning. I see Harbaugh retiring in Baltimore.
If Kelly were to depart at this time. Somewhat ironic because I generally am not so enthusiastic about NFL coaches moving to the college level. Just because they are in the NFL doesn't make them ipso facto a better hire on the collegiate level. I did really want us to go after Tom Coughlin, but he had shown that he was an excellent college coach.
Chiefs fan here, so there's that opinion
as far as your question, maybe he should ask his brother that question. Your question is a fair one...I remember reading a story about Gruden and when asked about college he responded, "I want to coach the best players...and I do that in the NFL"
leaving the NFL to return to college. Saban doesn't count since he was a failure at Miami, neither does Bobby Petrino he was 3-10 when he quit in Atlanta.
Pete Carroll was out of the NFL when USC hired him, he did win a division title at New England. But you couldn't really consider him a successful NFL Head Coach at the time he came back to college.
He went 9-7 in his first year and played good football once they got Ricky Williams back from suspension. Then his star back was suspended for the 2006 season. Then they traded for a washed-up Culpepper instead of Brees, and they went 6-10.
He wasn't forced out or deemed to be a failure at the time. Miami still wanted him.
Although we beat ourselves that day.
He had 1 good season at Stanford.
Maybe John Robinson but he was fired after 2 poor seasons with the Rams.
Both had deep connections to those schools. Harbaugh is not leaving the Ravens so he can watch his kid play lacrosse.
I completely agree, and LaMar Jackson is the kinda QB whom you or I could coach - from what I remember, some of the folks here thought Harbaugh may have been unfairly been on the hot seat before they clicked, but now they look very well set up for the next decade. As a slight follow up to your point, it is also mind-boggling to see Petrino bring in guys like Jackson and Bridgewater to a mid-major, especially when their powerhouse home-state schools have essentially been Tebow, Winston, and nothing else despite having an incredibly deep talent pool.
With that said and paraphrasing here, Saban had a comment to the effect of "at Miami, I get 1 first round pick a year. If I do my job correctly at Alabama, I get 20 (4-5 star recruits) and can stack the deck in my favor." As it relateds to ND and what I think the OP was inferring is that we have enough talent to simply overpower the derpy teams like Duke, and to our credit we aren't losing to the likes of them and Southern Florida or Tulsa recently, but we also don't have the firepower to take down Alabama and Ohio State back to back. Clemson is actually the intriguing one as I think our average recruiting classes were pretty close, but they had the dynamic difference makers like Lawrence, Ross, and the DL depth.
Related, I think the playoff system is going to be a bit of hindrance going forward. We've played good teams like UGA close twice (perhaps due to Kirby being overly cautious too?), but other than the LSU bowl win, we aren't winning the elite games, and the throttling by a middling Michigan team that I believe was handled easily not just by a very good OSU team but also by PSU/Wisconsin teams that we are competing with was a massive red flag. We theoretically should have had a small opening with our rival approaching Davie-Weis-Willingham levels and both OSU & OU replacing HOF coaches with kids who've literally never coached, but the latter look to be humming along and are firmly established in the playoff tier. In the near future, it looks like Alabama, Clemson, OSU are firmly established, OU and perhaps LSU/UGA just behind, and us in the batch with Florida, Oregon, PSU/Wisconsin. Barring having a Manti/Jaylon difference maker both on defense and QB, we aren't going to simply out-talent the first batch like we could a BC or NC State, so my guess is our best bet is to get a lucky draw with one of the latter ones or a rollercoaster like Texas and then hope OU/UGA/Florida take out one of the heavyweights in the other semi. We had awful luck with (a very good & deserved NC) Alabama backing into the 2012 game rather than K-State or Oregon, so I have no problem wishing for good luck.
I get it, but he's a .615% coach at the NFL level, under contract for 2 more years, and they have a franchise QB. He was COTY last year. He won the division the past two years, and Lamar is going to obviously be there long term. I would love it, but I don't see it.
The 49ers told him that he would not be returning. I suppose he could have looked for another NFL job. I think it’s a little different than John’s situation and coaching career.
That 4 years was also his only NFL experience. John hasn’t coached in college since 97.
I would agree that Jim's temperment is better for college. John seems like such a good football coach that he'd be good either way.
Or maybe even next year.
...Kelly, and Edsall.
would be the opportunity of a lifetime to learn from the 36 year and running Master of What Constitutes an Elite Coach.
...the wits nor the collective pouch to make such upgrade.
Our next coach will be Tom Rees, or Bobby "McDreamy" Diaco. Brian Polian is a wildcard here, but still very much in the mix.
Huge-ass rendering of Crossroads on the front.
Polyester, because just about everything about the ND program is plastic right now.