West Virginia's head coach Rich Rodriguez appeared ready to jump ship last night to Alabama after he was offered 2 mil a year plus incentives to coach the Crimson Tide. Changing his mind, Rodriguez decided to skip the most overrated college coaching job in America in favor of staying with the Mountaineers and the ability to make a national title run next year.Smart move Rich. Smart move.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jon_Vilma @ Dec 8 2006, 03:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>West Virginia's head coach Rich Rodriguez appeared ready to jump ship last night to Alabama after he was offered 2 mil a year plus incentives to coach the Crimson Tide. Changing his mind, Rodriguez decided to skip the most overrated college coaching job in America in favor of staying with the Mountaineers and the ability to make a national title run next year.Smart move Rich. Smart move.</div>First Saban turns them down, now Rodriguez.Who are they going after now?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BigMike23 @ Dec 8 2006, 02:42 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jon_Vilma @ Dec 8 2006, 03:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>West Virginia's head coach Rich Rodriguez appeared ready to jump ship last night to Alabama after he was offered 2 mil a year plus incentives to coach the Crimson Tide. Changing his mind, Rodriguez decided to skip the most overrated college coaching job in America in favor of staying with the Mountaineers and the ability to make a national title run next year.Smart move Rich. Smart move.</div>First Saban turns them down, now Rodriguez.Who are they going after now?</div>Once they realize that they aren't the premier job that they think they are and get realistic, maybe they can take on a former NFL coach like Mike Sherman (former Packers Head Coach who has a Superbowl ring). Something that seems high profile hire, but actually isn't.
Who wants that job?? I said it before, I'm gonna say it again. Bama has no national recruting base, and Auburn owns the state of Bama
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jon_Vilma @ Dec 8 2006, 01:54 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Once they realize that they aren't the premier job that they think they are and get realistic, maybe they can take on a former NFL coach like Mike Sherman (former Packers Head Coach who has a Superbowl ring). Something that seems high profile hire, but actually isn't.</div>Sorry, but you're an idiot if you don't think Alabama is a premier job in NCAA. They have double-digit National Championships in the NCAA and a rediculous amount of SEC Titles in their History. Their level of success has been Yankee-Like over the years despite struggleing as of recently. Rich Rodriguez turned them down because the money they were offering him sucked and Nick Saban apparantly wants to stay in the NFL.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (AdropOFvenom @ Dec 9 2006, 07:26 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jon_Vilma @ Dec 8 2006, 01:54 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Once they realize that they aren't the premier job that they think they are and get realistic, maybe they can take on a former NFL coach like Mike Sherman (former Packers Head Coach who has a Superbowl ring). Something that seems high profile hire, but actually isn't.</div>Sorry, but you're an idiot if you don't think Alabama is a premier job in NCAA. They have double-digit National Championships in the NCAA and a rediculous amount of SEC Titles in their History. Their level of success has been Yankee-Like over the years despite struggleing as of recently. Rich Rodriguez turned them down because the money they were offering him sucked and Nick Saban apparantly wants to stay in the NFL.</div>Oh, all that rich history certainly makes them a premier job. Anyone who thinks they are a top tier job i a moron.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jon_Vilma @ Dec 9 2006, 11:56 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Oh, all that rich history certainly makes them a premier job. Anyone who thinks they are a top tier job i a moron.</div>Nice Comeback. Way to come up with a halfway decent arguement against it. :whistling:
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (AdropOFvenom @ Dec 9 2006, 04:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jon_Vilma @ Dec 9 2006, 11:56 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Oh, all that rich history certainly makes them a premier job. Anyone who thinks they are a top tier job i a moron.</div>Nice Comeback. Way to come up with a halfway decent arguement against it. :whistling:</div>I touched on this in the Saban Topic, but here we go:More Media Pressure than 99% of college football teamsPoor In-State Recruiting (Auburn #1)Worse out of State Recruiting (LSU, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Tennessee, Florida, Florida State, Miami, Arkansas, and South Carolina all have the surrounding states covered. What's their saving grace? No great teams in Mississippi? Yeah, I think LSU, Arkansas, and Auburn all pick that one clean)Fanatics that do such things as Burn couches on your lawn after a win, egg your house after a loss, and take pictures of your wife in sweatpants in the grocery store and run articles about how she should have more class.8th highest "Prestige" in the conference. (SS makes USC higher)What's the positive?A little bit more money and the great "history" that they were good decades ago? Right. Sounds good, sign me up!
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jon_Vilma @ Dec 9 2006, 11:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>More Media Pressure than 99% of college football teamsOnce the winning starts, the pressure stops.Poor In-State Recruiting (Auburn #1)Only an idiot couldn't recruit for a team like Alabama with a history like theirs. The Recruiting will improve the second they get a Halfway decent coach in there........Worse out of State Recruiting (LSU, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Tennessee, Florida, Florida State, Miami, Arkansas, and South Carolina all have the surrounding states covered. What's their saving grace? No great teams in Mississippi? Yeah, I think LSU, Arkansas, and Auburn all pick that one clean)See the point above that.Fanatics that do such things as Burn couches on your lawn after a win, egg your house after a loss, and take pictures of your wife in sweatpants in the grocery store and run articles about how she should have more class.Welcome to College Football. Stupid shit like that happens everywhere. With Rutgers, Brian Leonard's car would get egged after each loss and now he's considered God-Like there. Success changes all of that.8th highest "Prestige" in the conference. (SS makes USC higher) Yeah....okay....A little bit more money and the great "history" that they were good decades ago? Right. Sounds good, sign me up!Rich Rodriguez got 1.75 million a year for the next 8 years or so to stay in WVU as opposed to being offered 2 million a year for 6 years in Alabama. Such a minor pay increase isn't worth starting over for. If he was offered just half of the pay Nick Saban would have gotten he probably would be their head coach right now.</div> :thumbsup:
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (AdropOFvenom @ Dec 10 2006, 10:49 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jon_Vilma @ Dec 9 2006, 11:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Poor In-State Recruiting (Auburn #1)Only an idiot couldn't recruit for a team like Alabama with a history like theirs. The Recruiting will improve the second they get a Halfway decent coach in there........<u>They have Auburn to compete with is the problem. If they were the only team in state, then yeah, obvious choice. But believe it or not most blue chip 17 year olds don't care how great the team used to be, they care about who is great now and who will give them the best chance to go Pro</u>Worse out of State Recruiting (LSU, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Tennessee, Florida, Florida State, Miami, Arkansas, and South Carolina all have the surrounding states covered. What's their saving grace? No great teams in Mississippi? Yeah, I think LSU, Arkansas, and Auburn all pick that one clean)See the point above that.<u>See the point above that only to an even greater extent</u>Fanatics that do such things as Burn couches on your lawn after a win, egg your house after a loss, and take pictures of your wife in sweatpants in the grocery store and run articles about how she should have more class.Welcome to College Football. Stupid shit like that happens everywhere. With Rutgers, Brian Leonard's car would get egged after each loss and now he's considered God-Like there. Success changes all of that.<u>The SEC, and Bama in particular are worse. People think college football fans are crazy in general, SEC fans make Big 10 fans look sane.</u>8th highest "Prestige" in the conference. (SS makes USC higher) Yeah....okay....<u>Good Point</u>A little bit more money and the great "history" that they were good decades ago? Right. Sounds good, sign me up!Rich Rodriguez got 1.75 million a year for the next 8 years or so to stay in WVU as opposed to being offered 2 million a year for 6 years in Alabama. Such a minor pay increase isn't worth starting over for. If he was offered just half of the pay Nick Saban would have gotten he probably would be their head coach right now.</div> :thumbsup:<u>If he were offered more than 2 and a half times the money, then it would be the personal decision of "is the money worth everything that comes with it." For Rich it probably would be, you're right. But they didn't offer him the Saban deal.</u></div>
