Jim Leavitt

[Rocky Style]

1 minute ago, Brad said:

Try to utilize logic and reason instead, please.  

On the internet?  This is revolutionary.  

[BiggTipp]

11 hours ago, Brad said:

Things we do know

1. No hire is a guarantee of success
2. Pipe dreams likely include Deion Sanders coming here.

I'm all for being grounded in reality.  USF holds all the cards.  That's nice.  They can do with Leavitt whatever they want.  They don't have that option with Neon Deion or some of the other dream coaches.  And like Deion, here for a year and then a buyout and gone to greener pastures.  Wasteful.  We don't need that.  MK himself say we need continuity, consistency....there is a path to it.  His boss holds the key.

I'm all for "gone for greener pastures." That clearly means a winning product has been established and USF football is fun to watch again. I believe almost anybody other than Leavitt will leave after success. That method seemed to have worked really well for UCF. 

 

My two cents on Leavitt: 

He IS USF football. He was exactly the architect needed to build the team. He is loved for the foundation he created. First I would not want to taint that legacy. It would be terrible to see his come here and lay an egg. Y'all want a Leavitt statue or something renamed Leavitt field/stadium/facility/etc. ? Then don't bring him back as HC. 

Why is it he has not been a HC anywhere else? My thought is two-fold. He doesn't want to be a HC or no school wants to bring him on as a HC with the past being what it is (regardless of the truth).

 

[Rocky Style]

28 minutes ago, E.T. said:

I think he should at least be considered for Co-DC.

If we were talking DC, I would bring him in tomorrow for this season.  But is he okay with that?  And which coach would be okay with the ghost of CJL hanging over his shoulder?  The current guys would because they have no choice.

[Brad]

1 hour ago, hightechbull said:

I would say Willie Taggert did very well for himself.   He had a 6 - 2 and a 7 -1 conference record in his last two years as USF's head coach. 

Ah!  There we go!  And like Leavitt never won a conference championship.  Also had a record below .500.  Maybe two winning seasons?   Perfect.  He’s better than what we have now, but we’ve seen how he fails on a bigger stage.  Great recruiter.  

[Brad]

12 minutes ago, Rocky Style said:

On the internet?  This is revolutionary.  

Yeah, that's hopeless.

[Brad]

21 minutes ago, Jim Johnson said:

 

Jim Leavitt did it?

[Orlando Bull]

22 minutes ago, BiggTipp said:

 

Why is it he has not been a HC anywhere else? My thought is two-fold. He doesn't want to be a HC or no school wants to bring him on as a HC with the past being what it is (regardless of the truth).

 

I think it's option 2 here. I believe that he and Cristobal were the finalists at Oregon, but they went with Mario. I suspect anyone who were to hire him in this day of cancel culture just sees it as being too much of a hassle. USF is the place that can set that right. 

I believe that he absolutely wants another shot at being a HC, or at least did. Maybe at his age, if southwest south Dakota technical college called, he may turn it down, but I don't think he would turn USF down. 

If we're doing metaphors, we are all drug addicts, Leavitt is that friend who can help, who has tried to help, who can get us clean again, but we have shut him out, if we let him in, if we let him help us, we could beat this affliction and get our lives together. 

[Brad]

1 hour ago, hightechbull said:

He (Taggart) went into two disasters at Oregon and FSU.  With the offense he built at USF you knew schools with big money were coming for him.   Maybe USF should have offered him more money and see where that could have gone.  They sure wasted a lot of money and time with CCS and CJS

Old girlfriend?

 

[hightechbull]

5 minutes ago, Brad said:

Old girlfriend?

 

Hey I am not saying to rehire Taggart.   However people love to make Leavitt into a Joe Paterno style figure and think every coach after him sucked.

Taggart actually did something here that Leavitt never did.    USF knew that and did not give him an incentive to stay.

Even Strong got 10 wins with Taggart's players.

[Brad]

3 minutes ago, hightechbull said:

Taggart actually did something here that Leavitt never did.    USF knew that and did not give him an incentive to stay.

And Leavitt did a lot Taggart never did....