on a scale of risk, grade these hires (at the time)

by Jay , San Diego, Sunday, December 12, 2010, 18:08 (5210 days ago)
edited by Jay, Friday, June 29, 2012, 13:51

On a scale of 1 to 5, with "1" being a total flier, or highest risk, and "5" being as safe as you can get in today's coaching carousel.

Try to grade them in terms of the hire at the time, leaving aside the benefits of hindsight.

Don't think too much about it -- just go with your gut, 1 to 5.

EDIT: when you're done, group them by 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, and 5s so it's easy to read.

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Florida hires Urban Meyer

Florida hires Will Muschamp

USC hires Pete Carroll

USC hires Lane Kiffin

Tennessee hires Lane Kiffin

Oregon hires Chip Kelly

Washington hires Ty Willingham

Washington hires Steve Sarkisian

Auburn hires Gene Chizik

Florida State hires Jimbo Fisher

Ohio State hires Jim Tressel

Michigan hires Rich Rodriguez

Nebraska hires Bo Pelini

Alabama hires Nick Saban

Ole Miss hires Houston Nutt

Stanford hires Jim Harbaugh

Georgia Tech hires Paul Johnson

Arkansas hires Bobby Petrino

Miami hires Randy Shannon

Miami hires Al Golden

Colorado hires Dan Hawkins

Michigan State hires Mark Dantonio

ND hires Charlie Weis

ND hires Brian Kelly

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on a scale of risk, grade these hires (at the time) - Jay, 2010-12-12, 18:08
- interesting exercise. composite ranking: - Jay, 2010-12-13, 09:36
  - nit - disagree on Sarkisian - JD in Portland, 2010-12-13, 19:56
  - awards - Jay, 2010-12-13, 09:39
    - Pete Carroll, winner of the Carr-Fulmer award. - Bryan (IrishCavan), 2010-12-13, 10:37
- Interesting that Alabama's hiring of Saban... - KGB, 2010-12-13, 09:10
- My attempt - Domer99, 2010-12-13, 06:52
  - I guess I don't see how Meyer rates higher than Kelly. - KGB, 2010-12-13, 08:01
    - A couple of thoughts - Domer99, 2010-12-13, 09:10
      - I think the perception of Kelly was similar a year ago. - KGB, 2010-12-13, 09:17
        
        I don't disagree. - Domer99, 2010-12-13, 09:50
        
        Along these lines... - MattyCinNYC, 2010-12-13, 09:39
        
        I desperately hope that Lane Kiffin turns into a poor man's - Domer99, 2010-12-13, 09:53
        
        I think the perception of Kelly a year ago... - Greg, 2010-12-13, 09:25
        
        I think there's a lot right in this thread - Mike (bart), 2010-12-13, 09:44
  - good read - Jay, 2010-12-13, 07:59
- taking a snab at it - Pat, 2010-12-13, 05:47
- A bit odd that - Pete, 2010-12-13, 03:37
  - Guess we're on the same wavelength. - KGB, 2010-12-13, 09:30
- Here goes nothing. - Pat (Moco), 2010-12-12, 21:45
- okay here goes - JD in Portland, 2010-12-12, 21:08
- The USC hire of Petey . . . - Glass, 2010-12-12, 20:21
- Mine - PMan, 2010-12-12, 20:19
- Hard to do this without hindsight - JRT, 2010-12-12, 19:41
  - I'm curious as to the high marks given to MSU for Dantonio? - hobbs, 2010-12-12, 20:00
    - I'm not sure how to explain his first two seasons - BPH, 2010-12-12, 20:12
    - Above average, or low risk? - JRT, 2010-12-12, 20:08
      - You're right - hobbs, 2010-12-12, 20:27
- mine - HumanRobot, 2010-12-12, 19:34
- Mine - DCT, 2010-12-12, 18:53
- It's tough to eliminate hindsight. - Slainte Joe, 2010-12-12, 18:44
- Mine - Jeff (BGS), 2010-12-12, 18:29
  - You think Meyer in 2004 was a better hire by UF - hobbs, 2010-12-12, 18:37
    - I really wasn't as sold on Saban - Jeff (BGS), 2010-12-12, 19:13
      - You aren't alone - Domer99, 2010-12-13, 06:57
      - If you include the risk of bolting, his risk quadruples. - JRT, 2010-12-12, 19:43
        
        Yes, but I think it was much less risky in that he - tex29, 2010-12-12, 19:46
        
        Not sure I agree - Domer99, 2010-12-13, 07:02
        
        You could be right, but I think Carroll is different. - tex29, 2010-12-13, 07:51
        
        Possibly - Domer99, 2010-12-13, 08:53
      - Fair enough. - hobbs, 2010-12-12, 19:27
- My scale goes to 11 (edited) - BPH, 2010-12-12, 18:27
- Mine - hobbs, 2010-12-12, 18:26
- I had too many threes to make my answers useful. - Kevin, 2010-12-12, 18:22
  - Curious why you think that about Rodriguez - BPH, 2010-12-12, 18:42
    - It's a close call, but Rodriguez had a longer tenure at WVU - Kevin, 2010-12-12, 18:47
      - I thought RR was a desperation hire, moreso that Meyer/Weis - Jeff (BGS), 2010-12-12, 19:18
        
        Agree. - KGB, 2010-12-13, 08:22
        
        It may have been - Domer99, 2010-12-13, 07:15
        
        I don't think Miles shunned them. - Kevin, 2010-12-13, 05:24
        
        Lloyd was smarter than he looked - JN, 2010-12-13, 07:43
        
        Sexist. - JRT, 2010-12-13, 07:52
        
        Is that wisdom or risk? - tex29, 2010-12-12, 19:39
        
        I didn't rank mine on risk - Jeff (BGS), 2010-12-12, 20:58
- risky business - Jay, 2010-12-12, 18:21
- ok... - irishoutsider, 2010-12-12, 18:21
  - you made me go back and bump up Urban - Jay, 2010-12-12, 18:24
    - Now that I'm back to stable internets.... - irishoutsider, 2010-12-13, 07:47
    - Yeah, but as Einstein would say, it's all relative. - tex29, 2010-12-12, 18:27
- Mine (edited) - tex29, 2010-12-12, 18:15

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