Coaching Hire Grades

[Stallion]

only 2 A+ grades-Harbaugh at Michigan and Chad Morris at little ole SMU

http://www.lostlettermen.com/article/gr ... hing-hires

[Stallion]

SMU and Morris get A along with Oregon St (Anderson), UH (Tom Hermann), and Michigan (Harbaugh)

http://www.bflo360.com/2015/01/2015-col ... ousel.html

[StallionsModelT]

Chad Morris is the best fit and hire of all the coaching hires made this year including Harbaugh. I honestly cannot believe he's here and the immediate impact it is already having on this program. My only hope is that we (the fans) support the program by going to games and that he is truly as happy here as he seems to be. I'd love to get 3 or 4 years of Chad Morris and see where our program is at that point. I never had the feeling of a brighter future under June Jones. With Morris, there is a tangible vibe around this program that he is going to get it done and won't take no for an answer. I will be shocked if we are not the top non P5 program in the country by 2017.

[PonyTime]

The best hires were heavily in the American Conference...SMU...Houston...Tulsa. The AAC will be fun to watch these next few years.

[bubba pony]

what I also like about our coach is he is a math major. I view that as he is smart and thinks logically.

[Pony Fan]

what I also like about our coach is he is a math major. I view that as he is smart and thinks logically.

Versus June as a poi chef major?

[No Quarter]

what I also like about our coach is he is a math major. I view that as he is smart and thinks logically.

Versus June as a poi chef major?

Just a thief.

[PlanoStang]

I never had the feeling of a brighter future under June Jones.

Then you're a 12 year old IDYUT who didn't see 3 victories in 4 bowl games in a row, and didn't go through 25 years or so of futility

[03Mustang]

No, he was right

[lwjr]

No, he was right

Ditto!

[photopony]

Funny how HireSabin isn't running his mouth about this post.

[Harry0569]

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/colle ... -rankings/


The dust has begun to settle on the annual college football coaching carousel and — brace yourself for the shock — it’s been another banner winter for middle-aged white guys, who are a perfect 14-for-14 in filling available FBS openings. In order to help you distinguish one receding hairline from the next, we’ve put together this handy, highly scientific ranking of the new hires, from the most likely to succeed to the least. Remember: Success is defined differently at Nebraska than it is at, say, Tulsa, and all hires are graded according to that curve.


2. SMU

Everything that could have gone wrong for SMU in 2014 did go wrong, pretty much right from the start. But if Chad Morris isn’t right for this job, it’s possible no one is. Like Baylor’s Art Briles, architect of one of the sport’s all-time overhauls just down I-35, Morris is already familiar to Texans as a longtime high school coach, having won state championships in 2008 and 2009;1 also like Briles, Morris was an early adopter of the up-tempo/no-huddle system that has subsequently overtaken the college ranks, and successfully adapted his system to the FBS level as Clemson’s offensive coordinator.


The last coach to leave SMU with a winning record was Bobby Collins in the mid-’80s, on whose watch the program was temporarily nuked by the NCAA; since suffering the “Death Penalty,” the Mustangs have lost at least five games every year, giving them one of the worst winning percentages in the nation. But there’s more than enough talent in Texas to go around for a coach who knows the backroads, and the guy who changes SMU’s fortunes will climb to the next rung on the career ladder — possibly in Austin when the Longhorns run out of patience with Charlie Strong? — in short order.