my guess is Matt Luke will be 'Interim HC' until the end of the season since we already know there won't be a bowl...I would then expect Mississippi to swing for the fences with Les Miles. If Les says 'no thanks' then someone like Blake Anderson at Ark St seems like a natural choice. Perhaps Neal Brown if Troy has another solid season.

(07-23-2017 11:32 AM)UofMemphis Wrote:  my guess is Matt Luke will be 'Interim HC' until the end of the season since we already know there won't be a bowl...I would then expect Mississippi to swing for the fences with Les Miles. If Les says 'no thanks' then someone like Blake Anderson at Ark St seems like a natural choice. Perhaps Neal Brown if Troy has another solid season.

Spot on.

(07-23-2017 11:32 AM)UofMemphis Wrote:  my guess is Matt Luke will be 'Interim HC' until the end of the season since we already know there won't be a bowl...I would then expect Mississippi to swing for the fences with Les Miles. If Les says 'no thanks' then someone like Blake Anderson at Ark St seems like a natural choice. Perhaps Neal Brown if Troy has another solid season.

Of course Luke will be interim HC this year. Did someone really think Ole Miss would make a permanent new head coach (and new staff) hire just days before summer practice starts?

(07-21-2017 10:13 AM)KNIGHTTIME Wrote:  I think we got Frost around $2.5 million per year with no state taxes. Ole Miss could afford it at $5 million plus buyout money, but not a lock he would even leave for Mississippi.

I know it is SEC, but they are going to be under sanctions and lose schollies. Other than a young guy wanting to grab some quick cash or an old dude running out the string, why would anyone want the gig.

I wouldn't want that mess today, in 2 years yes.

I doubt Frost would leave for Ole Miss but there is a price for everyone. I would think if he can be successful at UCF the next two years he could land a much better offer than Ole Miss. Frost is smart enough to know that too.

(07-22-2017 11:11 AM)TripleA Wrote:  

(07-21-2017 07:51 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  Memphis must have one of the highest turnover rates in head coaching. Have they ever fired a coach or has everyone left for a better job?

You need better research. Fuente was the second football coach to ever leave Memphis for another job. The other was Fred Pancoast in the early 1960s.

yup. We had like 7 out of 8 fired head coaches before Fuente. And the 8th coach died in a plane crash/

Porter
West
Scherer
Stobart
Bailey
Dempsey
Dockery(so sad)
Williamson

(07-21-2017 09:42 AM)Tiger1983 Wrote:  http://bleacherreport.com/articles/27229...ball-coach

My Schadenfrude about Ole Miss' troubles is tempered by the possible targets to replace Freeze.

Media and fans always go flailing about blindly whenever a job opens up reasoning that 'it just makes sense'. They have as much clue as you and me.

(07-24-2017 05:54 AM)KnightLight Wrote:  

(07-23-2017 11:32 AM)UofMemphis Wrote:  my guess is Matt Luke will be 'Interim HC' until the end of the season since we already know there won't be a bowl...I would then expect Mississippi to swing for the fences with Les Miles. If Les says 'no thanks' then someone like Blake Anderson at Ark St seems like a natural choice. Perhaps Neal Brown if Troy has another solid season.

Of course Luke will be interim HC this year. Did someone really think Ole Miss would make a permanent new head coach (and new staff) hire just days before summer practice starts?

yeah, Mississippi fans...

of course I'm sure they also think Saban will crawl to Oxford to coach them. It's how they are.

personally, I think High Freeze will be a great future OC for Saban at Bama.

(07-24-2017 07:24 AM)goodknightfl Wrote:  

(07-21-2017 10:13 AM)KNIGHTTIME Wrote:  I think we got Frost around $2.5 million per year with no state taxes. Ole Miss could afford it at $5 million plus buyout money, but not a lock he would even leave for Mississippi.

I know it is SEC, but they are going to be under sanctions and lose schollies. Other than a young guy wanting to grab some quick cash or an old dude running out the string, why would anyone want the gig.

I wouldn't want that mess today, in 2 years yes.

because it's an SEC job paying 5 million per year...

(07-24-2017 10:42 AM)TxTiger79 Wrote:  

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This is, in fact, not the case. I'm told Les is extremely interested and has made that known to Ole Miss money folks. https://t.co/gLpZL1G5om

    — Dan Wolken (@DanWolken) July 23, 2017

Its exactly what Les wants. A respectable SEC job with no expectations where he can sit on his butt and make make 5 million a year and blame the bad results on NCAA sanctions. Les is tired. Supposedly he is showing up for interviews unprepared with a binder put together by his assistants back at LSU. He doesnt really want to work anymore. He's just fine collecting LSU paychecks---but if someone wants to pay 5 million for minimal effort on his part---he will probably take it.

(07-24-2017 06:29 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(07-24-2017 10:42 AM)TxTiger79 Wrote:  

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This is, in fact, not the case. I'm told Les is extremely interested and has made that known to Ole Miss money folks. https://t.co/gLpZL1G5om

    — Dan Wolken (@DanWolken) July 23, 2017

Its exactly what Les wants. A respectable SEC job with no expectations where he can sit on his butt and make make 5 million a year and blame the bad results on NCAA sanctions. Les is tired. Supposedly he is showing up for interviews unprepared with a binder put together by his assistants back at LSU. He doesnt really want to work anymore. He's just fine collecting LSU paychecks---but if someone wants to pay 5 million for minimal effort on his part---he will probably take it.

yup, like what better job is Les Miles going to get? him and Mississippi just make sense IMHO.

(07-21-2017 08:15 PM)chess Wrote:  Fans react. Here language can be rough. Warning.