Wake forest

[BGSUFanatic7]

Bring Lane Kiffin to BG.

[Ydfalcon]

Bring Lane Kiffin to BG.

While I'd support whomever we hire for the simple reason that I'll always root for BG, speaking as someone who has also grown into a Volunteer fan (BG is always #1 in my heart, but my wife is a Tennessee Alumnae and I now life in Knoxville), I would hate to see Kiffin coaching this team. In fact I still support the motion of the Knoxville City Council to rename the waste water treatment facility nearby campus the "Lane Kiffin Sewage Plant."

[kdog27]

Pretty sure he was kidding.

[doughash]

Check out the last several coaches at Wake. This is a great place for Clawson, they'll have the patience with him.

I see 1 coach with a winning record since 1937. Good ol' Coach Peahead.


1937-50 D.C. "Peahead" Walker 77-51-6 .597
1951-55 Tom Rogers 21-25-4 .460
1956-59 Paul Amen 11-26-3 .313
1960-63 Billy Hildebrand 7-33 .175
1964-68 Bill Tate 17-32-1 .350
1969-71 Cal Stoll 15-17 .469
1972 Tom Harper 2-9 .182
1973-77 Chuck Mills 11-43-1 .209
1978-80 John Mackovic 14-20 .412
1981-86 Al Groh 26-40 .394
1987-92 Bill Dooley 29-36-2 .448
1993-00 Jim Caldwell 26-63 .292
2001-2013 Jim Grobe 77-82 .484

Not much success there but 3 of those guys eventually became head coaches in the NFL. Mackovic with the Chiefs, Groh with the Jets, and Caldwell with the Colts.

[zete]

Coach finally got what he has worked so hard for. At BG he was making over 1000 dollars a day, 365 days a year. Now he is finally making the big money and coaching at a school with wonderful football tradition.

[Falcon137]

These are the names, I have seen floated around, already.

Pat Narduzzi - $500,000 at MSU
http://www.mlive.com/spartans/index.ssf ... t_nar.html

DJ Durkin - $490,000 at Florida.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/ ... aaf/coach/

Luke Fickell - $600,000 at OSU.
http://buckeyextra.dispatch.com/content ... ckell.html

Greg Studrawa - $525,334 in 2012...that is the most recent number I can find. It was also while he was the OC at LSU, before Cam Cameron.
http://footballscoop.com/news/8973-putt ... erspective

Stan Drayton - $275,000
http://buckeyextra.dispatch.com/content ... pfs-1.html

Mike Elko - ?

Mick McCall - ?

Get ready to open up those checkbook, boosters! Although, I think most of these guys would take either the same or less money, knowing if they succeed (and with the talent the next 2 years, they should) they get the mega BCS paydays.

[Schadenfreude]

[sarcasm]
Can't believe no one has mentioned this guy.



http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nc ... b/3697481/

Get the frickin chicken wings.
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[Flipper]

I think Durkin would be an interesting guy...he might be a bit more motivated given the situation with the HC down in FL. Assuming Elko would leave with Clawson, you could then hire Nick Monroe to stay on as DC. Monroe recruited FL and seems like a coach with a future...

[Falconfreak90]

Best wishes to Coach Clawson...he did a great job here and I will miss him greatly. I am pretty high on DJ Durkin...former Falcon and has the experience to make the jump to HC.

[Falcon137]

I think Durkin would be an interesting guy...he might be a bit more motivated given the situation with the HC down in FL. Assuming Elko would leave with Clawson, you could then hire Nick Monroe to stay on as DC. Monroe recruited FL and seems like a coach with a future...

Count me in the Monroe camp. He is a big time recruiter and the players love him. Not to mention he has coached a top 15 passing defense the past 2 years. If he's not the D coordinator here, he is going to be a hot name for a lot of other openings.

[Flipper]

Clawson didn't say he was staying as he walked out the door and Clawson didn't completely screw up a bowl game by interviewing for a new gig when he should have been coaching. He hung those kids out to dry.

[Falcon137]

Here are the numbers for BG coordinators.

Elko - $130,000 ($24,000 raise in 2013)
http://www.bgsu.edu/offices/president/file137945.pdf
Ruggiero - $129,000
http://www.bgsu.edu/downloads/president/file123355.pdf

[BillyLP]

I spent two years in Winston working (indirectly) under Ron Wellman. I hate to see him go but it is ultimately a wonderful school with respected leadership (despite some recent frustrations in basketball) and a GREAT place to raise a family. I think he will fit it really well there and they have a patient fanbase that will suit his rebuilding efforts well.

Best of luck to Clawson and thanks to him for taking BG back to the top.

[zete]

He hung those kids out to dry.

Nice guy.

[BGFalconfromCincy]

BG is going to have to significantly up its salary if it wants to draw in a top assistant coach. Coaching salaries at the major powers have gone up a lot since Clawson came to BG, so replacing him with someone from one of those schools will mean a big raise in salary for whoever they hire as a replacement.

I would hate to see BG "cheap out" because of this, especially given how much talent is in the bullpen waiting for the right coach to come aboard. With the right hire, there's no reason BG can't repeat at champions.

I don't think so, the chance of future rewards are enough for some of these guys to take a pay cut. I believe Malzaun did that when he went from Auburn OC to coach Arkansas St.

That's how I see things, if some of these guys want to be head coaches, especially at big time FBS schools they are going to have to take a pay cut for their first head coaching job. The big schools are going to hired an established winning head coach from another school, they rarely go the assistant route that the non power conference schools go. Now Malzahn was such a known name in the south that he likely didn't have to leave Auburn as OC to take the Arkansas State job to eventually get the Auburn HC job, but he credits that year at Arkansas State, learning what it takes to be a head coach, and credits it for helping get the Auburn job