Just when it seemed like Miami was destined to settle for a second tier coach or a career assistant with the elimination of Spurrier, Schiano and Tuberville, a new name emerges. Frankie Frangie, Jacksonville's top radio host and well known Florida Gator insider reported on his radio program this morning that Bob Stoops would leave Oklahoma and take the Miami job if the money were right at UM. Stoops is currently the second highest paid coach in NCAA Football making close to $3 million a year and Miami probably doesn't have that kind of cash handy considering they must also pay Larry Coker close to $3 million. Frangie stated that Stoops' family is tiring of Oklahoma and that Stoops believes he could win multiple national titles with Miami's recruiting base. Also a factor is the excellent reviews Stoops brother, Mark the former DB coach at UM gives the program.
Personally, I would put the chances of Stoops leaving OU for any other college job at about 3% and the chances he leaves to come to Miami at about 1%. Oklahoma was ranked by Street & Smiths as the 3rd best program of all time behind Notre Dame and Southern Cal. While Miami was ranked 10th (for those curious FSU was ranked 14th and Florida 27th), I don't think anybody in their right mind would consider Miami a better job than Oklahoma. That's partly why Stoops didn't leave Norman for Gainesville either time he had the chance. OU is about the best job anywhere in College Football.
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Stoops Interested in Miami?
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That ranking id bullshit. Notre Dame, USC, Miami, Oklahoma, FSU, none of those schools would have won didly squat if they had played in the SEC. The schools that play in the weakest leagues and against the wimpiest opposition are ranked the highest. It figures.
I agree with you that the SEC is the best conference. By the way, I say it's by far the best conference.
Ohio St. would lose 2 games if they had Georgia or Tennessee's schedule.
I totally agree. Oklahoma won all those garbage championships when in the Little 8. Usually they'd play Miami who in thier pre Big East days did actually play a tough schedule and get exposed as a fraud. Yet OU would still go 11-1.
The SEC is the only truly balanced league where everyone can beat everyone else.
The dirty secret that the SEC faithful do not want exposed about the decline of their conference is the SEC doesn't play anyone out of conference. From 2000 through last season assuming a 12 team ACC, both conferences have won nearly the same number of non-conference games and are 18-18 head-to-head (hardly a statistic to support SEC dominance!). But, the SEC has played only 65 of its 189 non-conference games against the BCS conferences versus 121 out of 195 for the ACC. To bolster their records, the SEC has feasted on teams from non-power conferences - Sunbelt, WAC, MAC and Mountain West - racking up 61 wins. By contrast, the ACC counts only 17 victories from such pushovers.
Not only is the SEC playing inferior competition, the blatant truth is the SEC has made its living against sub-.500 teams piling up 78 victories against teams with a combined winning percentage of 36.7%, including 66 against teams with 7 or more losses. Against non-conference opponents with a .500 or better record, the SEC has managed a record of only 53-50 while the ACC's record against such teams is 62-54.
Playing weak sisters is one thing, but of the SEC's 189 out-of-conference games, 140 were played at home while managing a paltry 22-27 record on the road. The only team in the nation that travels less is Duke's men's basketball team. The ACC plays a far more balanced schedule with 110 home and 85 road games, winning nearly as many road games as the SEC has played.
But, you whine, the SEC is so tough top-to-bottom, the teams deserve a break. Wrong, yet again. The easiest games of all are against the bottom three teams in the SEC who have amassed a dreadful 5.0% winning percentage (5-95!) against teams in conference with a .500 record or better. The bottom half of the SEC only managed to win 16.0% against the top half. This is less than the bottom three teams in the ACC managed (16.7%) against the winning programs in conference. Except for Duke, there are no automatic ACC wins. Eleven ACC teams have been to a bowl game and won (yes, even Wake Forest) as compared to only nine SEC teams. Clearly, the ACC is toughest top-to-bottom
The third Anonymous said that the SEC is the only balanced true balanced league where everyone can beat each other, but the Big East did the same thing and SEC fans said that the Big East was weak for doing the very same thing the SEC does and thats beat up on each other, that's why WVU and Rutgers lost a chance @ a BCS game
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