Monthly Archives: December 2006
The more I’m thinking about this Mike Stoops thing, the more I am liking everything about it. A few days back I blogged about Bob Stoops, his run at Oklahoma and how Miami needs a coach in that mold.
If we can’t have Bob, give me Mike. Seriously. It has to be the next best thing. I’ve seen what he’s done at Arizona…
Not too much on the coaching front the past 48 hours. On Monday, Miami and Greg Schiano decided to go separate ways and that evening Paul Dee supposedly sat down with Mike Leach and things were supposedly moving fast. Tuesday we find out, that’s not the case.
What’s changed? I’m not sure but I do know that two days ago a lot of folks…
Latest reports coming out of New York are that Miami has not only met with Mike Leach, but Randy Shannon is in town and has been brought into the discussion.
The pitch is to bring in Leach as Miami’s new head coach and to promote Shannon to assistant head coach, while giving him a big time pay raise.
I don’t know about you,…
Mike Leach to Miami? We’ll see. But it’s definitely the latest stop in Rumorville.
Word is Paul Dee met with Leach this evening in New York. Both are in town for the National Football Foundation’s College Football Hall of Fame event. Several coaches are in attendance, so Miami is making the rounds.
Word on other sites is that things could move quickly here. One…
ESPN reported that Greg Schiano officially turned down Miami today, deciding to take the $20M Rutgers offered and run. You go, Greg. $2M a year for 10 years is hard to turn down. Plus, you were NEVER going to see a ten year commitment out of The U. Not after one good year at Rutgers.
I’ve received a ton of emails from…
