Bill Snyder apparently likes his son more than Jim Leavitt

[GaUSFBull]

On 11/16/2017 at 7:12 PM, Brad said:

I'd prefer Leavitt get the UCF gig or something else in Florida.

Are my eyes deceiving me here?

[bowman1]

On 11/16/2017 at 5:53 PM, BrassBulls12 said:

All considered, I believe he got the job because of his last name not his merit. 

Never seen this happen before in college football . . . (cough, cough - Lane Kiffen, cough, cough - Skip Holtz)

[BrassBulls12]

24 minutes ago, bowman1 said:

Never seen this happen before in college football . . . (cough, cough - Lane Kiffen, cough, cough - Skip Holtz)

Both of those examples had better quality resumes before getting anything remotely close to a Power 5 HC job than Sean Snyder

[bowman1]

9 minutes ago, BrassBulls12 said:

Both of those examples had better quality resumes before getting anything remotely close to a Power 5 HC job than Sean Snyder

I will concede on Holtz since he did work his way up and did reasonably well at UConn and ECU prior to coming to USF

Kiffen bombed out on several head coaching jobs (Oakland, UT, USC) with no rational explanation as to why ADs kept hiring him, other than the family name.

[BrassBulls12]

2 hours ago, bowman1 said:

no rational explanation as to why ADs kept hiring him, other than the family name.

1997–1998	Fresno State (assistant)
1999	Colorado State (GA)
2000	Jacksonville Jaguars (OQC)
2001	USC (TE)
2002–2004	USC (WR)
2005–2006	USC (PGC/OC)
2007–2008	Oakland Raiders
2009	Tennessee
2010–2013	USC
2014–2016	Alabama (OC/QB)
2017–present	Florida Atlantic

 

Lane worked his up way too. He played QB and made the decision to start coaching during his senior season at Fresno. While the OC at USC the Trojans were 23-3 and averaged over 40 points per game. That counts for something.

The key difference for me is that no point was Monte the Head Coach giving Lane a job. They didn't even work on the same side of the ball. Here Bill has clearly used his position to clear the way for his son. 

I would feel better about the KSU hire if Sean had some experience working for someone other than his father and spent some time coordinating anything other than special teams.