Lloyd was smarter than he looked

by JN, Seattle, Monday, December 13, 2010, 07:43 (5618 days ago) @ Kevin

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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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Lloyd was smarter than he looked