Jeff Scott is expected to be named USF head coach today. Is this a good move by USF? I personally wanted Taggart back. I felt he could recruit well and would stick around this time. I feel like Scott will use us a stepping stone in 2-3 years.

Good hire?

Charlie Strong will be 60 next summer. We've likely seen the last of him.

(12-09-2019 11:07 AM)BullsFanInTX Wrote:  Jeff Scott is expected to be named USF head coach today. Is this a good move by USF? I personally wanted Taggart back. I felt he could recruit well and would stick around this time. I feel like Scott will use us a stepping stone in 2-3 years.

Good hire?

I would have welcomed Taggart back too, but rationally, how often does coming-back thing work? Clemson has all the magic right now so maybe some rubs off down here.

Bottom line is, we WANT our coach to be a 'stepping stone', because that means he made us GOOD and thus attracted P5 attention. Look at Memphis and UCF, they lost their coaches because those coaches won conference championships and took them to NY6 bowl games.

We could use some of that at USF.

(12-09-2019 11:20 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(12-09-2019 11:07 AM)BullsFanInTX Wrote:  Jeff Scott is expected to be named USF head coach today. Is this a good move by USF? I personally wanted Taggart back. I felt he could recruit well and would stick around this time. I feel like Scott will use us a stepping stone in 2-3 years.

Good hire?

I would have welcomed Taggart back too, but rationally, how often does coming-back thing work? Clemson has all the magic right now so maybe some rubs off down here.

Bottom line is, we WANT our coach to be a 'stepping stone', because that means he made us GOOD and thus attracted P5 attention. Look at Memphis and UCF, they lost their coaches because those coaches won conference championships and took them to NY6 bowl games.

We could use some of that at USF.

I understand all that. I just wish we could hang on to our good coaches more than 2 or 3 years to build continuity. I felt like Taggart would have been around at least 5 or 6 years due to his quick departure last time.

(12-09-2019 11:20 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  Bottom line is, we WANT our coach to be a 'stepping stone', because that means he made us GOOD and thus attracted P5 attention. Look at Memphis and UCF, they lost their coaches because those coaches won conference championships and took them to NY6 bowl games.

Exactly. The alternative to your coach winning a lot of games and possibly cashing in somewhere else is your coach not winning a lot of games and getting fired with your boosters paying him a fat buyout.

(12-09-2019 11:10 AM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote:  Charlie Strong will be 60 next summer. We've likely seen the last of him.

Strong will probably turn up as someone's DC.

(12-09-2019 11:20 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(12-09-2019 11:07 AM)BullsFanInTX Wrote:  Jeff Scott is expected to be named USF head coach today. Is this a good move by USF? I personally wanted Taggart back. I felt he could recruit well and would stick around this time. I feel like Scott will use us a stepping stone in 2-3 years.

Good hire?

I would have welcomed Taggart back too, but rationally, how often does coming-back thing work? Clemson has all the magic right now so maybe some rubs off down here.

Bottom line is, we WANT our coach to be a 'stepping stone', because that means he made us GOOD and thus attracted P5 attention. Look at Memphis and UCF, they lost their coaches because those coaches won conference championships and took them to NY6 bowl games.

We could use some of that at USF.

Agreed. Always better to look forward than in the past. The AAC has absolutely become a launching pad for young coaches to get a P5 opportunity, and the league should definitely embrace that. Since its organization, the league has seen coaches like Scott Frost (Nebraska), Mike Norvell (Florida State), Tom Herman (Texas), Justin Fuente Virginia Tech), Willie Taggart (Oregon), Matt Rhule (Baylor), Chad Morris (Arkansas) and Geoff Collins (Georgia Tech) not just take average P5 head coaching jobs, but top-30, even top-10, positions. It is only a matter of time before Josh Heupel and Luke Fickell inevitably take a job like that as well.

The "trick" for AAC programs is to continue momentum through coaching cycles and make their job bigger than any one coach - so that it will continue to attract young, up-and-coming, coaches to put their own stamp on it. I think UCF and Memphis hit a grand slam in their Frost/Heupel and Fuente/Norvell hires, and those two programs should be the blue print for the league moving forward. Sustained success is the objective, and there is always risk in new coaching cycles.

I do think the AAC can improve on holding on to these coaches for a little bit longer, IMO. 5 years should be the desired length before taking a bigger job (right now it is barely three seasons for the top AAC coaches).

The AAC has established itself in the hierarchy to the point where it can pick and choose either elite coordinators at SEC/Big 10 schools, or take good HC's from the Sun Belt, MAC, CUSA, and potentially the MWC.

Scott wanted the USF job when y'all hired Strong.

He's one of the best recruiters in the country.

He's reportedly going to bring along his dad Brad Scott. Brad is a USF grad and after retiring from an on the field role as Dir of Football Player Development. It's reported that Jeff wants Brad to take a role like the one Woody McCorvey has at Clemson, Asst. AD for Football Administration.