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No way in hell. If Petrino was still poison a year after his Arkansas scandal, Strong would be just as toxic fresh off of this one. Woolard wants to run a clean program so I'd be surprised if they'd pick him up. Moot point anyways IMO. Don't see that Strong is being investigated for anything so they'll probably wait for the lawsuit to hash out anyways.

Unless he's a masochist in which case he'll be an awful quarterback.

Nevermind, I see what happened. He was at The Citadel this year, didn't get any playing time, and is coming back down. Originally said he was going to transfer to Florida Tech. His highlights look good, good balance and vision, but I don't think it was a high level of competition. Boy, The Citadel had a brutal schedule this year. Played 3 top ten FCS teams and at NC State.

Is this the same Brent O'Neal or someone different? I was under the impression he was in high school. http://www.tampabay.com/hometeam/blog/canterbury-alum-brent-oneal-transfers-citadel-flor/14302/

Probably trolling. Sounds like he's talking about Hillsborough High's QB but he's a sophomore who's thrown more INTs than TDs this year.

Oh, I thought Arkansas was still looking for a DC. I can't see why he'd go to Arkansas for that unless Ash is a season or two away from leaving and Bielema promised Shannon the DC job. Other than that, I think it'd be a mistake for him to go.

How would the USF DC job be better than almost any SEC DC job? SEC generally rules the roost when it comes to defense. I'm sure he'd love to come back "home" to Florida and he's very familiar with recruiting the area, but our advantages end there. We can't compete with Arkansas when it comes to facilities, pay, conference stability, and professional opportunities. Kids just want to play in the SEC. I'm more worried about it since they haven't named a DC yet.

Any reason why this would make a difference? Unless it's out of loyalty to the program I don't see why. It's not like he's the HC or this is the national title game. Plenty of coaches leave before their team's bowl game. It'd be helpful for recruiting to get him on staff as soon as possible. We could just as easily be waiting until after the Pizza bowl to hire Guidry. Got my fingers crossed so far for Shannon it hurts.

I never said Taggart was a good hire. It's nine months until his first game. Nick Sheridan developed one quarterback into a Sunbelt honorable mention. Collectively, I think we want to see USF in the ACC or B12 in a few years so I'm not sure if Sheridan can develop a quarterback capable of competing in those conferences.

What if Holtz got another year? Let's say he fires, among other people, Peter Vaas. Holtz determines that B.J. Daniels' progression was not satisfactory and we need to go in another direction with this position. He knows that the committment status and development of future quarterbacks, arguably the most important (or at least visible) position on the field, rides on this hire. Rumors circulate that Chris Weinke and maybe Marquel Blackwell or Matt Grothe are interested in the job. A week later, he introduces Nick Sheridan as quarterbacks coach. How would you feel about it? This board. Would have. A freaking. Meltdown. Realistically, Holtz probably wouldn't go after Sheridan since he has no connection to him and might have tried to poach Lincoln Riley from ECU, who is arguably more qualified but roughly parallel (young guy, a few years experience at the position) or someone similar but you get the idea. Look, Holtz was...just awful and Blackwell or Weinke may not have ever been in play in the first place. There may have been money issues or the like preventing us from landing someone else. You need to understand my skepticism, though. After living through the Holtz nightmare, I cringe every time I see a WKU coach come here. The last thing I want is to see a transplanted staff.

How many college quarterback coaches can you name? How many teams make a "splash" by hiring a quarterbacks coach? You make a "splash" by hiring a coach whose qualifications speak for themselves. If I was a QB prospect, I'd want to know what my potential coach accomplished on the field and/or while coaching so I can make a guess as to what my development is going to be like. Weinke won a national championship, played with the Panthers, and directed the IMG Madden football academy. Marquell Blackwell guided USF (the program the recruit would be playing for ) to a 29-12 record, led us to our first ranked win, and practiced with the Jets. Sheridan threw the ball 148 times at Michigan, coached college QBs for two seasons, and helped JaWaun Jakes to an "honorable mention" all-Sunbelt season (i.e. would probably be considered the 3rd best QB in the conference). Kids want to hear about what you did the best or what you helped other kids do the best. I'm not saying Sheridan can't do the job, but compared to the other possibilities, it's dissapointing. Taggart was a QB himself and so I have to trust that he knows what he's doing but on the surface it just feels like a hire suitable for SunBelt. As for how many college quarterback coaches can I name. I could use the internet and tell you the name of every one, same as any recruit would do. You can't go based on name alone because most of these kids are too young. When I hosted recruits at RJS 6 or so years ago, they had never even heard of Lee Roy Selmon before.

The Nick Sheridan hire is very concerning to me. Was hoping for a Blackwell, Weinke, or similar hire. He threw 148 passes in college and has only two-years experience with college QBs. Not someone I feel that the QB recruits will be flocking to play for. Granted he had success with Kawaun Jakes but I was crossing my fingers for a splashier hire. I'm going to have to reserve judgement though. I'm so jaded from the Holtz New Dark Era that every time Taggart announces another one of his WKU guys joins the staff, I cringe. I'll have to 'Trust in Taggart' I guess.

Sentimentality, I guess. How much of it was him and how much of it was Skipthorpe Kragholtz's regime? He did have success with Buie, McClain, Pierre-Paul, and Selvie. Has Coach T visited this kid, yet? It's not hard to see why he might have second thoughts if his only link to the program is gone. If he's already been visited by Taggart, then you're right. Nothing has changed about the facilities, etc.

Really sad we got rid of him...

The stadium cost $750,000 to build in 1913. That is $17.4 million adjusted for today's dollars. But does that necessarily mean that the same undertaking today would cost the same amount of money? I dunno much about it, but I get the feeling it's going to cost significantly more than that.

Good for him. I wish him success.

Not familiar with this construction method, could someone enlighten me? Is the field technically below ground? If so, wouldn't we have problems hitting the water table? It sounds like a maintenance nightmare, especially during hurricane season.

Let's take that a step further and call ourselves the AAAA Conference so we can be listed first in the phonebook, too.

It will be interesting to see where WKU is in 2-3 years versus us under Taggart. Might give us an inkling of what may had happened if we had hired Petrino.

Wow, instantly be the biggest guy on the team. Get that guy and a smashmouth RB to run behind him.

SJSU had a good team this year: wins over BYU, Navy, Louisiana Tech, losses to #21 Stanford (by a FG) and 10-2 Utah State. Team's been steadily improving (from one win to 10 in 3 years). He got some accolades as DC at Duke before this job and has some NFL experience. Don't know what kind of ties he has to Florida, other than his dad was the DC at Tampa back in the day. We'd probably be behind some in recruiting unless he can get someone really familiar with the area. He's not awful, but not someone I'd be overly excited about.

Well deserved. Probably our best kicker ever.

Same. I literally have someone sitting talking to me and everytime they look down or away, I glance at the computer.

Let's assume we get Taggart. On a state-wide scale, is Davis a bigger catch for FIU than Taggart for us? Wondering if he'll end up out-recruiting Taggart and ends up a better coach.

so does that mean L3 would stay home Interesting comment; sure would love to have 'All the Way' III in our secondary.