The Dismantling of a Football Program

by MSKYO on Oct 26, 2009 4:03 PM EDT Comment 7 comments

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that UL football is in the crapper. BUT, what UL fans need to be worried about is what happens next. As I write this blog, Tom Jurich had better have a short list of very high profile coaches that he is in contact with about the coaching job at UL next year. I say high profile because right now, anything less could mean the total destruction of the program for 5-10 years.

Here's why. Even with a high profile coach like a Gruden or Tubberville, it will take at least 2 years to get things back on a winning track. It will take two full years of recruiting classes and two full years of players learning a new system before anyone can expect to see real improvement. That's with a high profile coach who can immediately recruit top talent. Think Lane Kiffen at UT. If Jurich goes after another up and coming mid-major coach, regardless of how good he is, its doomed. The chance for that was with Kragthorpe, and we know how that turned out. Now is the time to pull out the wallet and pay the big bucks cause that's what it will take to succeed in turning around the program.

If he hires a Boise State, TCU, BYU type of coach, turn in your season tickets and wait for basketball season to roll around cause otherwise you're going to be watching 2-10 seasons for the next few years. Let's just hope that Jurich learned his lesson and does what needs to be done to move past this terrible black eye on UL football.

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High Profile...not always the right answer

Stop me if I’m wrong here but former Utah Coach Urban Meyer has done well from Day 1 at Florida after Ron Zook was exiled to Illinois. I’d say he’d fit the bill as the BSU, TCU, BYU type coach that you mentioned prior to his stint at UF.

Up-and-comers are ok with me as long as they’re vetted properly. Everyone says now that Kragthorpe was a “slam dunk” hire back in 07 but I just remember most of us fans saying “who?” and “from where?”. Must’ve been a slow coaching year.

Most college football fans recognized what Urban Meyer was doing at Utah before Florida hired him and even though I’d prefer an established coach who has recruited well in the South before, just b/c he coached at TCU or Boise State, it wouldn’t be an instant dealbreaker.

by UL is my hot hot sex on Oct 26, 2009 5:56 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I have to say that with the right coach good things will happen.

It will take several good or better recruiting classes, but I think that the right coach can take the currnet palyers and make them MUCH better. We have such a low energy level. It’s not just fundamentals it’s belief in the techniques. 18-20 year olds are looking for proof in the system. When they experience losses on the field it affects their belief in the system. No matter how hard they prctice, if they don’t BELIEVE it will work, they won’t execute properly. They will simply go though the motions. Much like our last several games.

Once the other team exerts their game plan, we collapse. The assistant coaches are irrellevant since they are under the control of the head coach. Plus they are in such flux that there is no consistancy.

Needless to say, I am not happy wih UL football. Krapthorpe needs to go.

Thank god for BasketBall.

JustCards

by JustCards on Oct 26, 2009 7:34 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

ISN’T THAT A WONDERFUL FEELING JUST FROM 3 YEARS AGO IN MIAMI?

by RedHotCard on Oct 29, 2009 5:57 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Petrino

He wasn’t high profile either. Nor was John L. and other than how they both left they sure improved the program. The key isn’t high profile, it’s high quality.

by cbcard on Oct 31, 2009 9:02 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

No way

Gruden takes a college job IMO. He hates developing talent. Plus he is still collecting a paycheck for the Buc’s job this season as well as next. If he takes another coaching job he loses those millions. He will probably work in the booth again next year and be handed the keys to an unknown NFL team in 2011. Although the fans here in Tampa Bay rejoiced when he was fired, they are getting a harsh reality check now that he is gone. He got the most out of an average team, that’s for sure.

You get what you pay for.

by LeeCaz on Nov 2, 2009 4:19 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

kragth0rpe

looks like a little puppy out on the field

by tim592 on Nov 2, 2009 6:17 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

football

2 more years of kraggy. just than we wont even be talkin about football any more. and i wont be so enthuised to get onthe boards any more. sad just sad. t. j. have a pair fire this enepted coach so we can pack the stdium again

by tim592 on Nov 2, 2009 6:26 PM EST reply actions 0 recs