I'm Hearing

[Alouha27]

Still in a holding pattern with Saban. This is not dragging out, we're just now entering the time frame where I think an answer goes down - now through tonight and possibly tomorrow morning.
Charlie Strong - relax, this is a back up plan. Yea, he has impressed, but a back up plan still. If Strong were the leading candidate, he'd already be announced and hired. Saban, Harbaugh, and Fisher have all got to say no before we talk seriously with Strong.

Only question in my mind is the order of Harbaugh-Fisher. It looks pretty close to me right now, not sure which is in front of the other. I do know that should Saban say no, things have progressed with Harbaugh enough that we could immediately begin talking numbers and contract with him.

I'll share anything I hear, not holding back today.

As of right now, Nick Saban is the only candidate who has been offered the job. We have not received an answer yet.

Awesome news SHL! You just put me and a lot of people on here at ease with this! Thanks Buddy!

 

[ATX_Horn]

Still in a holding pattern with Saban. This is not dragging out, we're just now entering the time frame where I think an answer goes down - now through tonight and possibly tomorrow morning.
Charlie Strong - relax, this is a back up plan. Yea, he has impressed, but a back up plan still. If Strong were the leading candidate, he'd already be announced and hired. Saban, Harbaugh, and Fisher have all got to say no before we talk seriously with Strong.

Only question in my mind is the order of Harbaugh-Fisher. It looks pretty close to me right now, not sure which is in front of the other. I do know that should Saban say no, things have progressed with Harbaugh enough that we could immediately begin talking numbers and contract with him.

I'll share anything I hear, not holding back today.

As of right now, Nick Saban is the only candidate who has been offered the job. We have not received an answer yet.

Appreciate the update, Sirhornsalot...so much is floating around right now.

 

[orangeflow]

My concern wth Harbaugh is that his heart has always been tied to coaching at Michigan...SO would Texas be a stop-gap temporary gig with him going to Michigan after a year or two. With Fisher we have all read Texas would basically double his salary and he woud be close to MD Anderson which specializes in the illness that his son has. Also like the staff he has at FS.

 

[Nakona Horn]

If it is Strong, what's going to make or break him is the coaching staff he assembles. Needs to have an elite OC as well as war daddy recruiters with some ties to Texas.

What's the word on his S&C coach?

 

[Vigil]

Still in a holding pattern with Saban. This is not dragging out, we're just now entering the time frame where I think an answer goes down - now through tonight and possibly tomorrow morning.

I'm not saying your source is in anyway incorrect, just curious what reasons Saban would have to delay answering? There's no tactical benefit of waiting until tomorrow and he doesn't seem like the type to be afraid to pull the trigger, especially with almost a month to think about it.

 

[Nakona Horn]

I'm not saying your source is in anyway incorrect, just curious what reasons Saban would have to delay answering? There's no tactical benefit of waiting until tomorrow and he doesn't seem like the type to be afraid to pull the trigger, especially with almost a month to think about it.

Lot of reasons. Wants tell his assistant coaches and players first? School admins, BMDs, etc?

 

[WacokidII]

Word, Storng it is!

 

[GARCH]

I'm not saying your source is in anyway incorrect, just curious what reasons Saban would have to delay answering? There's no tactical benefit of waiting until tomorrow and he doesn't seem like the type to be afraid to pull the trigger, especially with almost a month to think about it.

Maybe he hasn't decided yet and is thinking it over.

 

[JMagana]

Tell me if I'm wrong..... isn't it stupid for someone to not take a 2-4 MILLION RAISE? Coaches Like players coaches have a peak when it comes to their earning power. Jimbo would be crazy not to take Texas Job... Saban I understand, Harbaugh I understand but Jimbo would be out of his mind.

Obviously family should be a huge factor but still....

 

[Vigil]

Maybe he hasn't decided yet and is thinking it over.

Look, he might be waiting to tell his players or something like Nakona said but the offer has been on the table for at least 1-2 weeks according to posters on this site.

There's no way he's still ambivalent at the 11th hour.

 

[utparothed]

Some guy named the gopher on twitter is saying strong is it....but I'm going with the HS fam!

This guy? Never trust a rodent...

 

[PDX Horn]

Echeese,
Those are some pretty selective statistics for Offense, and I was including 2012 as well not just the one year.

There are much better stats out there to judge a teams offense and defense. Efficiency ratings on footballoutsiders.com is the best IMO. Looking at just yards and scoring doesn't tell the whole story.

Louisville was a top 25 offense across the board in offensive efficiency in 2013 and top 30 in 2012.

Click on the link if interested. The ones to look at are "S&P+ Offense" and "FEI Ratings Offense". Here is a description of each:

The S&P+ Ratings are a college football ratings system derived from the play-by-play data of all 800+ of a season's FBS college football games (and 140,000+ plays). There are three key components to the S&P+:

Success Rate: A common Football Outsiders tool used to measure efficiency by determining whether every play of a given game was successful or not. The terms of success in college football: 50 percent of necessary yardage on first down, 70 percent on second down, and 100 percent on third and fourth down.

EqPts Per Play (PPP): An explosiveness measure derived from determining the point value of every yard line (based on the expected number of points an offense could expect to score from that yard line) and, therefore, every play of a given game.

Drive Efficiency: As of February 2013, S&P+ also includes a drive-based aspect based on the field position a team creates and its average success at scoring the points expected based on that field position.

Opponent adjustments: Success Rate and PPP combine to form S&P, an OPS-like measure for football. Then each team's S&P output for a given category (Rushing/Passing on either Standard Downs or Passing Downs) is compared to the expected output based upon their opponents and their opponents' opponents. This is a schedule-based adjustment designed to reward tougher schedules and punish weaker ones.

The S&P+ figures used in the tables below only look at the plays that took place while a game was deemed competitive. Garbage-time plays and possessions have been filtered out of the calculations. The criteria for "garbage time" are as follows: a game is not within 28 points in the first quarter, 24 points in the second quarter, 21 points in the third quarter, or 16 points in the fourth quarterhttp://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/ncaaoff

The Fremeau Efficiency Index (FEI) considers each of the nearly 20,000 possessions every season in major college football. All drives are filtered to eliminate first-half clock-kills and end-of-game garbage drives and scores. A scoring rate analysis of the remaining possessions then determines the baseline possession efficiency expectations against which each team is measured. A team is rewarded for playing well against good teams, win or lose, and is punished more severely for playing poorly against bad teams than it is rewarded for playing well against bad teams.

OFEI: Offensive FEI, the opponent-adjusted efficiency of the given team's offense.

OE: Offensive Efficiency, the raw unadjusted efficiency of the given team's offense, a measure of its actual drive success against expected drive success based on field position.

FD: First Down rate, the percentage of offensive drives that result in at least one first down or touchdown.

AY: Available Yards, yards earned by the offense divided by the total number of yards available based on starting field position.

Ex: Explosive Drives, the percentage of each offense's drives that average at least 10 yards per play.

Me: Methodical Drives, the percentage of each offense's drives that run 10 or more plays.

Va: Value Drives, the percentage of each offense's drives beginning on its own side of the field that reach at least the opponent's 30-yard line.

OSOS Pvs: Offensive Strength of Schedule to date, the likelihood that an elite offense (two standard deviations better than average) would have an above-average OE rating against each of the defenses faced thus far.

OSOS Fut: Offensive Strength of Schedule remaining, the likelihood that an elite offense (two standard deviations better than average) would have an above-average OE rating against each of the defenses remaining on the schedule.

http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/ncaaoff

 

[irishfred]

Jimbo did accept a $2.5 million raise. On Tuesday. He signed for 5 yr/$21 million.

This UT coaching search has made every coach in the NCAA worth anything a rich man...

This process could be on repeat for the next decade unless they land the right one...

 

[Lord Vader]

So I can play around with a bunch of guys who may not have the best interests of UT at heart, or I can hire a guy out of Louisville who wants to be a Longhorn and will likely kill himself making this place a titan again?

Get the Longhorn guy in here. #TexasStrong

 

[PDX Horn]

Hearing about how Strong being unorganized has me very concerned about his ability to be the HC at Texas. I just cannot get excited about him as HC. He has done reasonably well, so who knows maybe he will kill it here. Just not excited at all if it is Strong.

Is there any evidence this is true? Just because it is posted on the internet doesn't mean it is reality.

 

[texasfight4468]

So I can play around with a bunch of guys who may not have the best interests of UT at heart, or I can hire a guy out of Louisville who wants to be a Longhorn and will likely kill himself making this place a titan again?
Get the Longhorn guy in here. #TexasStrong

I agree with this! I'm in on Saban, but I think Strong with a great OC could be special

 

[Juan]

...... things have progressed with Harbaugh enough that we could immediately begin talking numbers and contract with him.....

Be still my beating heart.