From Herm Edwards to Chad Morris, ranking college football's 15 worst coaching hires of the past decade

[vailhusker]

 

[Irv]

This writer seems to be going by the results and not what was available at the time of the hire.

And that being the case, there is literally no argument that Riley’s tenure was worse that Frost’s.

Riley made bowl games. Riley won nine games. Riley had a winning season. Frost had the worst individual season.

Moreover, the delta between the “promise” of what a Frost regime was supposed to be and, in fact, actually was, is probably greater than anybody on that list. Nobody expected a ton from Ryan Walters or even Jimmy Lake. But the college football world thought Frost was can’t-miss genius material.

This guy needs to give Frost his due and make him number one. He went out there every week and fucking earned it.

 

[SoCal_Corn]

From Herm Edwards to Chad Morris, ranking college football's 15 worst coaching hires of the past decade

Whether bad in hindsight or right from the start, these coaching moves are memorable mistakes

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frost 13
riley 7

discuss

Been a while since Football's been in the Top 20.

#WeBack

 

[Quint]

This writer seems to be going by the results and not what was available at the time of the hire.

And that being the case, there is literally no argument that Riley’s tenure was worse that Frost’s.

Riley made bowl games. Riley won nine games. Riley had a winning season. Frost had the worst individual season.

Moreover, the delta between the “promise” of what a Frost regime was supposed to be and, in fact, actually was, is probably greater than anybody on that list. Nobody expected a ton from Ryan Walters or even Jimmy Lake. But the college football world thought Frost was can’t-miss genius material.

This guy needs to give Frost his due and make him number one. He went out there every week and fucking earned it.

I'll bite on Riley being the 'Oddest' hire of the last ten years, but Frost and Walters are really the two worst IMO.

 

[vailhusker]

Expectations vs damage done? Frost #1 all day, everyday.

 

[2010sarenevercomingback]

Expectations vs damage done? Frost #1 all day, everyday.

So many possible methodologies for this list. Frost was the most spectacular failure, Riley was the absolute botch job of a coaching search who was the most transparent miss and obvious bad hire from the outset.

Mel Tucker similar to Riley, especially with MSU paying through the roof for him, even with no real history of success.

Those 2 were the biggest WTF hires to me in recent memory.

 

[Stan Raymond]

This writer seems to be going by the results and not what was available at the time of the hire.

And that being the case, there is literally no argument that Riley’s tenure was worse that Frost’s.

Riley made bowl games. Riley won nine games. Riley had a winning season. Frost had the worst individual season.

Moreover, the delta between the “promise” of what a Frost regime was supposed to be and, in fact, actually was, is probably greater than anybody on that list. Nobody expected a ton from Ryan Walters or even Jimmy Lake. But the college football world thought Frost was can’t-miss genius material.

This guy needs to give Frost his due and make him number one. He went out there every week and fucking earned it.

Frost, by far, was a bigger failure than Riley was. Frost really sunk the program as well, his lack of OL recruiting and terrible job recruiting QBs really stick out, besides the fact that he never had a winning season.

When you start looking into the stats and things, Frost was just an epic failure, really really bad.

 

[Flabio]

The real story here is that Nebraska’s AD has sucked since Bill Byrne left. That’s been the major problem. Current AD seems good but I have no idea on him.

 

[betsch]

I vacillate between thinking he’s going to set the Tar Heels up like an NFL franchise, attract great talent and surprise the shit out of all of us to thinking he’s kind of just looking for something to do, is a lot out of his element and with a 50 years his junior piece of ass leading him around by his partially deflated manhood, he’s going to flame out spectacularly.

Either could still be spot on.

I don't understand what he's doing. He shouldn't need the money. He doesn't need it for his legacy. Ride of into the sunset banging your girlfriend dude.

 

[huskerj12]

Am I remembering right that Eichorst orchestrated the Banker firing/Diaco hiring with the longterm plan of having Diaco take over for Riley as head coach someday?

 

[doublewing]

I don't understand what he's doing. He shouldn't need the money. He doesn't need it for his legacy. Ride of into the sunset banging your girlfriend dude.

I'm guessing it is mostly for setting up his son as the next HC.

But agreed, he could remain football adjacent on TV, spend time with the GF, and not have to deal with teenagers in the circus era of CFB. I think he's going to struggle there and be gone after one season.

 

[Quint]

Am I remembering right that Eichorst orchestrated the Banker firing/Diaco hiring with the longterm plan of having Diaco take over for Riley as head coach someday?

I never heard the ‘Diaco as long term HC’ part of the plan, but Eichorst definitely had a man crush on Bob.

 

[SOHusker11]

Am I remembering right that Eichorst orchestrated the Banker firing/Diaco hiring with the longterm plan of having Diaco take over for Riley as head coach someday?

"Best coach on campus."

-----SE

 

[huskerj12]

I never heard the ‘Diaco as long term HC’ part of the plan, but Eichorst definitely had a man crush on Bob.

Maybe that was just some insider rumblings at the time or something. What a debacle hahah

 

[Bulldog10]

 

[Pepe Silvia]

What a pussy, he can't even take responsibility for that one decision, let alone everything that followed.

He has a chance to get on this list twice in a few years

 

[Quint]

What a pussy, he can't even take responsibility for that one decision, let alone everything that followed.

He has a chance to get on this list twice in a few years

I guess I didn’t read that that way.

Having said that, if he genuinely didn’t want the job, he should have stuck with ‘No’. He stays at UCF and he might actually be a little less hated.

Maybe.

 

[BradWesley]

Expectations vs damage done? Frost #1 all day, everyday.

What’s sad is that ~ 95% of fans approved of the hire. 😞

 

[Kinish]

What’s sad is that ~ 95% of fans approved of the hire. 😞

brother

95% of college football approved that hire.. it was regarded as the best hire of the cycle by about everyone

 

[BradWesley]

brother

95% of college football approved that hire.. it was regarded as the best hire of the cycle by about everyone

Agree. Moos did a lot of shit wrong, but in that case, he did what the entire state, and country expected him to do.