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Bull****. Coker could coach, but he had no coaching tree (later staffs were declining in quality) and he didn’t have the same mindset on recruiting that Butch had. We could have built an on-campus stadium and tripled every coaching salary, but if we continued to recruit off of Rivals/Scout and...

Historically, the College Football HOF has had bizarre requirements that has kept many people off the ballot. On the player side (and I'm not sure if this is still the case), an eligible player had to be named to a major "All-American" team. And many of the All-American teams were based on...

Agreed.

Completely true. And the real permanent downfall took root when Chud/Stoops left, and Coker reeeeeeally didn't have a tough-guy left on the staff to do iron-fist type stuff. Except for Kehoe/Soldinger, but they were more position coaches who were feared by their position groups, but not the...

Agreed. And I'm not a huge Coker fan or anything. I was fine when we let Coker go after 2006, but he managed to put together an amazing 5-year run. People tend to forget about that, and how close we were in 2005 to getting back to where we were in 2001-2002 (record-wise, because the...

This was the primary thing. The on-field coaching wasn't terrible. Through 2005, we were doing fine in the games themselves. Prior to The Seventh Floor Crew ****, we had managed to replace Chud/Stoops adequately, while only losing ONE game by more than 1 TD in five years. Prior to The...

No, this nonsense needs to stop. Coker was given one of the top-$ contracts right after he won his first national championship. Over the next couple of years, though, some of the coaches moved on. Chudzinski left after 2003. Werner for 2 seasons was not good, and then the Olson hire for...