In reply to The Collective

CJS4715 said:

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Hopeful.

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this. we have a lot of young talent and good recruits. If we get the right guy, we can be good soon.

Not excited based on the "established" coaches mention here.
I'm more in the camp of an "up and coming" coach who is an understudy of Saban or like successful coach.

yep. id feel better with a younger "unproven" guy that is willing to take a contract accordingly. if it aint right- di it again in 3 or 4 yrs. Frank Wilson!

Are you kidding? Am I excited???

In reply to TAMU74

TAMU74 said:

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Not excited based on the "established" coaches mention here.
I'm more in the camp of an "up and coming" coach who is an understudy of Saban or like successful coach.

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Like Fisher...

In reply to Bone6

Bone6 said:

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Not Excited

I think it's a bad year for coaching candidates.

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Better than last year.

In reply to aggiehawg

aggiehawg said:

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peace said:

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Not excited, would rather see a couple or five, assistants fired, plus the OC.

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And try to hire someone with a HC who is on the hot seat?? That never works. Have to overpay for them and guarantee the salaries. Very well could end up losing money if he is then fired the next year anyway.

Face it. Sumlin was done with Texas A&M when he went public with the letter. or he miscalculated very badly.

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What Aggiehawg said - when the letter was posted to the public, it was over.

I'll commit after it's announced.

Not too excited. The masses will be calling for the new coach's head after the first setback.
We could hire Saban and the mentality wouldn't change.

Unbelievablly excited

Sure I'm excited. I was always excited when I bought a new car, too. Then the new car smell went away and I was still stuck with the payments. Then some time after the warranty went out things started to go wrong.

I guess I'm not really all that excited after all, lol.

Intrigued.

Not excited.

We haven't truly hit rock bottom yet and even with a new coach, I think that's the direction we're headed

Not. This seems like a big mistake.

Excited. Time is past due for the current regime.

However, I am discomforted by the apparent replacement.

I'm excited for the change. Not excited at the possibility of Jimbo Fisher. If we are going to try to hire a big name I would much rather it be Chris Petersen or Dabo Swinney (neither of whom are even remotely likely but I can dream a little...)

Not excited. Careful what you wish for.

Excited but wary of what they may come up with for a new coach.

Not excited

Not excited...

In reply to 85AustinAg

85AustinAg said:

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TAMU74 said:

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Not excited based on the "established" coaches mention here.
I'm more in the camp of an "up and coming" coach who is an understudy of Saban or like successful coach.

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Like Fisher...

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I should have been more clear...a coach who is not a current HC

Started watching Aggie Football in 98... Sumlin hands down was the best coach in my tenor (only counting post-98 RC), was a great hire and a great coach here. But it's best for our program and him to move on. He'll land on his feet at a good program in 2018 and get them to a nice spot. He's done what he can here... 8-5 3 straight seasons though and probably 7-8 wins this year again... definition of stagnation. He's capped out on what he can do here and we need a coach who offers up better than a toss-up vs. the Mississippi schools here annually.

Cautiously excited for a new coach... ecstatic if it is Jimbo. He's had a bad season this season, but if we want to compete consistently in the SEC West, we need to avoid going for some one side of the ball guru and go get a coach who can build a machine of a program. There's only like 4-6 coaches nationally who have shown the capability of building machines programs: Saban, Fisher, Kelley, Meyer, and maybe Shaw and Harbaugh. If we end up with one of those, we should all be really excited.

If we fire Sumlin for some up and coming coach though, that's a mistake in my opinion and the wrong move. We have talent here now... we don't need to bring in a coordinator or small program coach to learn how to coach with the talent we have for a year or 2. We need a coach that we know can take us to the next level now.

Not excited. I called and stopped my payments to the 12th Man Foundation.
As big of a mistake as firing R.C.

Not excited. Firing Sumlin is not the right move and there is no coach that is willing to come here that would be a definitive upgrade.

We will give major credit to the new coach when he exceeds expectations next year. Then when he comes crashing back down we will say that he only won with Sumlin's recruits and that he couldn't do it on his own.

Within 3 to 4 years, in order to prove college football wisdom, old threads stating why Coach ____ shouldn't be hired will be brought back up.

We have done this before.

a little indifferent to be honest. I don't think sumlin is as bad as we all think, but at the same time I get the results need to be better. Our basement (8 wins) has definitely improved under his watch.

Are we a coach away, or a QB away, another recruiting class away from being where we want to be?

In reply to peace

peace said:

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Not excited, would rather see a couple or five, assistants fired, plus the OC.

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How many OCs should we go through before the person who hires them gets the ax?

Excited but a tad disappointed that Sumlin didn't work out. I like him and thought he was going to do well. But if we hire Jimbo, then I'm super excited.

We go from Fran to Sherman to Sumlin to Jimbo. We keep getting better and better.

Fran set our program back a bit
Sherman taught us how to play real football again
Sumlin brought us swagger and helped our facilities become top notch and also helped us get rid of the cowtown college perception ( help from JFF)
Jimbo will take everything and get us over the hump and make us a national power (at least I hope)

In reply to Ian Neff

Ian Neff said:

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I know the rules here. I have been given two options. So I'll go with excited. But I'd like to make an addendum and an asterisk.

*Im sad to lose Sumlin. I'm sad that he can't manage a clock or a quarterback.
I, along with 99% of this board, would have loved for him to have been our guy for 20 years.
But he isn't. And it stinks.

But here's my hope:
We get Frost or Petersen.

And Sumlin goes to TN with Chavis. And they kick butt in the east. And we crush them like ceramic tiles in the SEC championship, beach.

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I totally agree with the first part, but I disagree on Frost or Peterson. I'm firmly in the Jimbo Fisher camp as a replacement.

UCLA

In reply to EKUAg

EKUAg said:

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peace said:

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Not excited, would rather see a couple or five, assistants fired, plus the OC.

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How many OCs should we go through before the person who hires them gets the ax?

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I think Saban has been through six OCs in his ten years at Bama, IIRC. Applewhite, McElwain, Nussmeier, Kiffin, Sark, Daboll.

It depends who we hire.

Not excited because I think it is "...here we go again."

I think it's time for Sumlin to go, but I'm reserving my excitement for after I see who we get to replace him. Unless by some miracle Nick Saban or the like comes walking through our door, I'm in wait and see mode.