macktheknife
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Wherever you see Florida on this thread, insert UNC. Every advantage Florida has and is DFL in the ACC. Clawson ain't going to State U. He's too fucking smart.
For fans at a school like Florida to get ok with someone like Clawson, he has to do something flashy and shiny. Like the Houston guy. You gotta get Wake into the top 10 by starting 10-0 or whatever and beat some top teams and get into a big time bowl game. And you have to score score score while you're doing it.
A couple times over .500 I don't care where you do it isn't going to interest ANYONE at a big time football school. No athletic director is going to think he can get a fan base behind that.
End of story.
Maybe given the issues with their program PSU fans were more OK with the Franklin hire? Because he was basically couple times over .500 dude before they hired him
Again, Franklin had Vandy 9-4 two years in a row. I think Wake has won 9+ games twice ever (2006 & 2007).
Vandy hadn’t had a 9 win season since 1915.
The criteria just seems dumb to me. If Wake had played Rice instead of ND this year and went 9-3 is Clawson all of a sudden a more acceptable candidate? Can you not reasonably project forward regarding the level of success Clawson would obtain at Wake next year?
I think you'll find that the one thing that has generally worked out is hiring dudes who have won in multiple places. Makes sense -- they've proven they can different situations and scenarios and would be up to yet another new challenge
Doesn’t count if it happened before WW2, no one denies this!
Also Gene Stallings wouldn’t have been the coach if Bear didn’t exist.
Clawson is already the best coach we have ever had in the modern era. Everyone forgets Grobe was left with some decent talent by Caldwell. Clawson was left with near zilch and will go to two straight bowls 100 % on his own effort. A third straight bowl would seem a near lock.
ATS has significantly softened his stance since the first page of this thread. Good enough for me
I stand by my first post on this thread.
I still don’t want Clawson at UF. And he won’t get a look because he hasn’t accomplished anything at Wake that would make an elite program excited to hire him. That was all I was saying.
I stand by my first post on this thread.
I still don’t want Clawson at UF. And he won’t get a look because he hasn’t accomplished anything at Wake that would make an elite program excited to hire him. That was all I was saying.