Hearing Barry Odom is a serious candidate and if true, what a disaster that would be. Nothing would say “ho-hum” more than that and I would seriously question the wisdom and leadership of the university.
Why fire Monty if Odom is the replacement?
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We were hearing GJ was a serious candidate, so I’m not thinking anything you’re hearing is correct.
With as many pixels as I've spilled talking up Brad, if this happens, I'm gonna feel like a ginormous douche.
Arkansas fan here. I totally get why’d you be disappointed in hiring Odom. Truly, I do. But I think you could do much worse than him. For a school like Arkansas that is usually devoid of crazy talent, we have played some really good defense on occasion.
Anyways, how realistic of a candidate is he for y’all?
Anyways, how realistic of a candidate is he for y’all?
I don’t think he is in the top three remaining candidates
He's like the freakish bastard child of Frank Haith and Keith Burns. Meh DC from Arkansas who got driven out of Missouri. If one of those is bad, and the other is bad, maybe if we do both at the same time, it'll be good! Like drinking tequila and hooking up with the crazy ex.
I’ll give you the info you need…it’s down to 4 candidates, interviews continue through the weekend, the top 2 candidates are Matt Wells and Brennan Marion.
Rick seems to have a thing for skinny pasty guys who were good but not great coaches at lower level schools. The man clearly has a type.
Yeah if it’s Wells, that would be extremely disappointing. Marion might be unproven but I think has a high ceiling. Wells has experience but is proven to be mediocre. Especially at Tech.
You're a massive douchebag. As Forrest Gump used to say.."That's all I have to say about that"
I don't even want to discuss what your type is.
If they look at Wells and say he's the perfect guy to get "it" done, then I'm honestly not sure what "it" is that we're trying to accomplish. I'm 100% in favor of guys getting rehab jobs to work their way back to the big time but I don't see us a rehab job for guys who flamed out at below average P5 schools. That's why God made the Sunbelt and CUSA. We should at least be rehabbing a guy who flamed out at a high level P5 school.
It's always interesting to see which posts really rile people up. That one was kind of crass but I honestly didn't expect it to generate such heat. Live and learn.
I was going to suggest Live, Laugh, Love - but I’m no Karen.
I’m going to make a wild uneducated prediction that it is going to be someone that has not been mentioned yet
Maybe you just need to think about it a little harder. IF, and that's a huge if, Wells is the guy, then I think my point is very valid. You might not like to admit it, or maybe you don't understand it, but people with enough insight will I think agree.
It’s a really tough call (and I’m glad I’m not the one who has to make it). I honestly see both sides of the argument for someone like Wells. He did pretty well at Utah State (had them rolling at the end of his tenure) and then couldn’t quite get it done at tech. He brings some good things to the table, but it’s hard to say if that’s enough to get us where we want to be.
Are you basing it off hires at other schools as well. Because 2 hires doesn't make it a type.
With enough insight is a 'nice' qualification, as if those who don't have it, aren't...
That's what I thought too but looking at it, Wells' record looks a lot like a higher end Monty. Monty won about 40% of his games, Wells won about 56%. It doesn't scream homerun hire to me but I'm no pro.
| 2013 | Utah State | 9–5 | 7–1 | 1st (Mountain) | W Poinsettia | ||
| 2014 | Utah State | 10–4 | 6–2 | T–2nd (Mountain) | W New Mexico | ||
| 2015 | Utah State | 6–7 | 5–3 | T–2nd (Mountain) | L Famous Idaho Potato | ||
| 2016 | Utah State | 3–9 | 1–7 | 6th (Mountain) | |||
| 2017 | Utah State | 6–7 | 4–4 | T–4th (Mountain) | L Arizona | ||
| 2018 | Utah State | 10–2 | 7–1 | T–1st (Mountain)[a] | New Mexicohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Wells_(American_football_coach)#cite_note-19 |
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Yeah 15-17 were a bit of a rough patch. But only one awful season. Again - tough call.
The fact that he was able to bring it back up to his initial success says something. I'm not advocating for him, but that is something he has over Monty.
This speculation stuff was fun for a while. Now reading this makes my brain hurt.
If it’s Wells, I would really like to see Marion as OC.
I thinks that combo could be successful with a decent DC.
I thinks that combo could be successful with a decent DC.
I just skip to the end. My mind cannot handle some of the stuff on here
My home run fire would be Gillespie as head coach with Marion as OC
If Kinne wasn’t a serious candidate then Marion probably isn’t either.
And if we do land Gillespie would he leave TCU before the playoffs. We might want to pull for K-State tomorrow.
