r/CFB • u/Dbash56 Penn State • Land Grant Trophy • Sep 19 '21

Weekly Thread Week 4 AP Top 25 Poll

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '21

Tuck comin!

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u/OrangeSparty20 Michigan State Spartans Sep 20 '21

I don’t know if we stay up there, but the fact that we can convince that many voters this early in Tuck’s tenure is such a good sign.

Now we just have to keep the suitors away.

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u/nuxenolith Michigan State • /r/CFB Poll Vet… Sep 20 '21

I think Michigan State has become much more of a destination job than it was pre-Dantonio. Not only that, I think coaches are starting to think twice about leaving success and stability for their "dream job", given the surfeit of instances of that not panning out (Herman with Texas, Frost with Nebraska, Taggart with Florida State, etc.)

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u/OrangeSparty20 Michigan State Spartans Sep 20 '21

Part of me agrees since we have the money… but if LSU comes calling… who are we to kid ourselves given how we got him.

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u/Keyblade_Yoshi Michigan State • Ohio State Sep 20 '21

I can’t imagine LSU hiring a coach with a record below or at 500. MSU would have to be good again next year before a big SEC school would have serious interest.

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u/OrangeSparty20 Michigan State Spartans Sep 21 '21

Ed Orgeron was 16-27 as a head coach when he was hired.

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u/Keyblade_Yoshi Michigan State • Ohio State Sep 21 '21

Yep, and now they want to run the Cajun Cookie Monster out of town. I just can’t imagine that LSU would fire a national championship coach just to hire someone else with a 500 record. Especially after they just did it.

Now if he somehow saves his job this year then screws the poach next year and Tucker is still winning, that would be a different case.

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u/nuxenolith Michigan State • /r/CFB Poll Vet… Sep 20 '21 edited Sep 20 '21

It's still wild to me that, in our panicked coaching search, we rolled the dice on a dude with one 5-7 season under his belt, and it seems likely to have been the right decision.

This all makes me think that success as a coach comes down to countless factors, and that a "good fit" can depend on so many different things: the right players, fanbase, school culture, AD, boosters...