Gus Malzahn at Vandy

All he really has to do to be a successful coach at Vandy is go 6-6 each year and make a bowl game. Anything over that, he goes in the record books as the best Vandy coach ever.
 
yellowphysics said:
Better hire than Muschamp, imo. I'd guess he's not coaching the MNC.
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I expect that you are correct on both counts. Though I would like to see Awburn beat Oregon and if he is gone I think that does impact their chances. I really think that post-Newton and post-Malzahn Cheez-nips may have a bit of a dropoff.
 
Diseqc said:
If the money rumors are true, I doubt he gives a **** about missing a potential MNC. He just hit the jackpot.

Building Vandy into a respectable program will be a much bigger accomplishment than winning one more game at Auburn that is potentially to be erased anyway.
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Ya...that's obviously not happening. Vandy doesn't even have an athletic department.

And again, losing a month of recruiting will not affect whether or not he build Vandy into a respectable program.
 
TechinItEasy said:
Ya...that's obviously not happening. Vandy doesn't even have an athletic department.

And again, losing a month of recruiting will not affect whether or not he build Vandy into a respectable program.
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and being the OC on MNC team won't either. What's your point?
 
PerfectOption said:
All he really has to do to be a successful coach at Vandy is go 6-6 each year and make a bowl game.
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Bobby Johnson is a great coach and he couldn't even do that. Vandy is a job where coaches go to die (or at least there hopes of coaching at a bigger program). This was a horrible move for Malzahn. Even if he is a great coach, it probably won't show at Vandy.
 
TechinItEasy said:
That winning an MNC as an OC is a lot better than a month of recruiting at Vandy.

Thought that was pretty clear.
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His future employer would be pretty pissed. I remember a lot of Tech fans, myself included, were pretty pissed that Gailey stayed in Miami for the playoffs instead of coming here to recruit.
If he is going to Vandy, his loyalty is there now. And two months of recruiting is much better than one.

For all the people wondering why he went:
I'm sure Malzahn could give you 2.5 million reasons he went to Vandy.
It's not a great job to win a championship, but it is a BCS program with low expectations. I didn't think Wake would ever be worth a ****, but Grobe has proved me wrong
 
what better way to recruit than to say you won a national championship with your offense? But yeah, I agree...Vandy probably doesn't want him coaching the bowl game.
 
yellowphysics said:
what better way to recruit than to say you won a national championship with your offense? But yeah, I agree...Vandy probably doesn't want him coaching the bowl game.
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All he is going to do is walk into a recruits house and say, "I was the person responsible for Cam Newton winning a heisman trophy. What can Malzahn do for you?"

He doesnt need the national championship for that...
 
GTLiebs said:
Wait, do we know Newton is gone? I thought he still had eligibility left. I don't really see how he projects to the NFL, I mean he is crazy athletic but unless he's taken as a QB he wouldn't be taken early. Then again, I might of said similar about Tebow (though still, some might say his oddly high draft was part of what knocked Denver's coach out).
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I've seen Newton projected as a 10-15 pick as a QB. He's gone.
 
GTLiebs said:
Kind of like Brian Kelly. Gave up a BCS bowl to recruit for ND. I'd say there are decent odds he's fired from ND before he gets a chance to sniff a BCS bowl there.
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Wrong. :hsnono:

Notre Dame just beat USCw for the first time in ages. Brian Kelly is a solid coach and should have the Irish back to respectability, imo.
 
Newton all but said he was leaving on the Fox pregame show yesterday. But who knows, Auburn has already out bid Miss St. Maybe they can outbid a middle of the road NFL team for a year too.
 
SMoney said:
All he is going to do is walk into a recruits house and say, "I was the person responsible for Cam Newton winning a heisman trophy. What can Malzahn do for you?"

He doesnt need the national championship for that...
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And if Auburn loses he can say "I got them to the big dance but they lost without me".
 
Malzahn is a great hire for the ACC, this would turn Vandy into what Wake is today, a program not strong enough to seriously content every year, yet good enough to take wins away from the big schools (UF,AU,UA,LSU,UT,UGAg) and degrade the top of the SEC thereby making the ACC's elite comparable. Vandy will no longer be an automatic Win.
 
Did Miami or any other school with a decent football program give Gus any serious consideration? I realize he's probably the best Vandy could get, but if he's as a good coach why isn't he getting attention anywhere else? There must be something about the guy that caused bigger schools to shy away from him.

His football career will die on the vine at Vandy, but at least he'll be cashing in.
 
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