BrewingFrog
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The Comeback: CFB world reacts to questionable TCU hire
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RollToad
Baylor is Trash.
I'm just glad they have their frogs right. Far too often lately I'm seeing this weird three-pronged claw thing.
Limey Frog
Full Member
Pretty much.
ftwfrog
Active Member
Guess I’ve got to hate Kaz for life also.
Ephesians 9:32
Thou shall forgive… especially when one’s flock is trying to return to the CFP.
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No. You are dead wrong here. The difference is CSD wouldn’t have enough goodwill to make this hire.
I hope all the CSD/KB defenders are right & this works out. This is definitely a high risk/high reward play.
Frog-in-law1995
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I don’t understand how it’s high risk. We stole a highly-coveted OC from the SEC.
Mean Purple
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I like full ride, but Childers is orange line stupid at times in what he says. Including what you reported him saying and other things. He was ready to call the win for Michigan the next biz day after we were named for the CFP.
Mean Purple
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A. He aint that highly coveted.
B. The articles blasting us show the risk. PR can be a pain in the neck.
Frog-in-law1995
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A. You’re fooling yourself if you don’t think he’s very much in demand.
B. The articles - mostly from our own people - show disagreement. What are we risking?
Mean Purple
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As others have mentioned, other schools that hired him were not so criticized. And you do have to be foolish to think this is not in part about "keep the little guys down and protect the blue bloods" agenda. We saw that when ESPN handed Herbstreit a line about how we could not hang with the BIG 10 and we had just beat their champs a week earlier. Kirby's face when he realized what they were priming him to say and how it was against recent facts pretty much revealed it.
Those other schools hired him also when they did not have as many wins. So they were not being viewed as much as we have been this year. TCU Admin should have kept that thought in mind. Maybe they did, maybe the did not.
Regardless, those who say it won't be a pr hit are not paying attention. The very fact that articles are being posted showing folks critical of the hire, shows it is a PR hit. Now we have to ride that out and not compound it. Perhaps the photo of tapefingers on a jet was not a good social media strategy.
Those other schools hired him also when they did not have as many wins. So they were not being viewed as much as we have been this year. TCU Admin should have kept that thought in mind. Maybe they did, maybe the did not.
Regardless, those who say it won't be a pr hit are not paying attention. The very fact that articles are being posted showing folks critical of the hire, shows it is a PR hit. Now we have to ride that out and not compound it. Perhaps the photo of tapefingers on a jet was not a good social media strategy.
Mean Purple
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Some of the articles are major news outlets.
nwlafrog
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High risk/high reward is basically defining CSD and his coaching style. Seemed to work well this season.
TCURiggs
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I think some of you don't realize how little most people outside of TCU and FW care about TCU. Y'all see blowback and a PR hit because we look at all things TCU, but most CFB fans don't care (or even know) about this. This is a blip on the radar at the national level and a group of our own fans are the only one's that are making a big deal out of it. It'll get a little coverage and be done with.
Like other's have said, KB is/was pretty highly coveted as an OC and lots of schools (and their fan bases) wanted to hire him. Hell, my neighborhood OU buddies have been talking about how great of a hire it is, Arkansas fans wanted to keep him, Miss St fans wanted to hire him, etc...
Like other's have said, KB is/was pretty highly coveted as an OC and lots of schools (and their fan bases) wanted to hire him. Hell, my neighborhood OU buddies have been talking about how great of a hire it is, Arkansas fans wanted to keep him, Miss St fans wanted to hire him, etc...
Mean Purple
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meh, our kids never giving up and pulling off heroic come from behind wins worked well. now some of that is his coaching, but his style put us in some serious holes in quite a few games. how much of the comebacks where also due to his style v the kids ballout mentallity, well, I guess we'll see over the next two seasons.
Mean Purple
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a lot of arkansas fans wanted him gone. they had some games where there was just some screwy play calling. not that those games would have been won, but ark fans were not as behind him as some here want to claim. I spend a lot of time up there. It was getting to circle the firing squad vs the wagons time up there. (which is not a new thing for that fanbase). The Buzz became unlistenable due to those calling in. It was like they highjacked finebaum callers ... from when he was local in Bama.
Prince of Purpoole II
Reigning Smartarse
These people will wring the clicks out of this story in a few days. Soon the only folks who give a damn will be on this board, whipping our arses with the stuff long after everyone else has moved far, far along
Prince of Purpoole II
Reigning Smartarse
The only risk is job performance. If he somehow turns out not to be a good OC TCU will let him go and hire someone else. If they decide SD is the problem, same
Frog-in-law1995
Active Member
They went from 120 in total offense before he arrived to 65, 28 and 15 (12 spots high than us) in his three years in Fayetteville. The only Arky fans that wanted him gone are the REALLY stupid ones.
The only thing we are risking is possibly not having a very efficient offense. Would have been the case with anyone we would have hired.
