Rumor is that Urban Meyer is interested in Notre Dame

[cyrocksmypants]

I think you are right on with your post! Regardless...at the minimum he will feign interest and get a ridiculous deal to stay at Florida. But I think he might see this as the right time to take on the challenge at ND.

Kind of like Ferentz. All he has to do is not deny a rumor about a pro job and Iowa throws an extra five years onto his contract.

I do think Meyer will seriously consider it. Notre Dame is his dream job, and what better time to leave? They may win another NC this year, but then the workhorse Tebow is gone and you likely are going to take some kind of a step back. Why not go now, if it really is your dream job?

[San Francisco Cy]

They are going to finish dead last in the Big 10. While they may give him one more year he will not be there long term. The fan base has not embraced him at all. I don't see them being much better next year. They expect 9-10 wins a year at Michigan and no way they win 10 next year after winning five this year. It would be best for both RichRod and Michigan to just end it now.

Fans don't embrace coaches that lose immediately. I'm sure they will embrace him when he starts winning. It's not like he forgot to coach all of a sudden. It's also not like WVU was immediately on the national scene. I would be shocked if he doesn't have Michigan winning 8-9 games next season. His style of offense will wreak havoc with the ridiculously slooooow Big 10...

[Bobber]

There is a fine line between challenge and suicide. Florida is a recruiting haven. ND is not. Tough academic standards, cold weather and being in a state of hicks makes Notre Dame a tough place to get quality talent.

Iowa, Ohio State, Nebraska would tend to disagree....

[Scott34]

Fans don't embrace coaches that lose immediately. I'm sure they will embrace him when he starts winning. It's not like he forgot to coach all of a sudden. It's also not like WVU was immediately on the national scene. I would be shocked if he doesn't have Michigan winning 8-9 games next season. His style of offense will wreak havoc with the ridiculously slooooow Big 10...

I totally agree with you. I will put a guarantee down and say Rich Rod isn't going anywhere. He has only had 2 years to get things going there and he already has things slowly going the right direction. And when he got there, it wasnt great to begin with.Rich Rod will recruit speed and this will certainly tear up the big 10. He started his years this same way in West Virginia. He had 2 losing seasons before he turned things around. I will go on record and say that he has Michigan back in the National Title hunt in 2-3 years.

[cyclonenum1]

The Notre Dame job clearly looks like it will be open. If they canned Davie and Willingham for what they did then they need to give Weis the boot as well because his winning percentage is worse. They do have a pretty young and talented team but they have played very poorly on defense this year. Weis will get a pro OC slot in a heartbeat.

As for the replacement, ND needs to get a proven guy (Meyer, Stoops) and not an up-and-comer (Kelly). The ND job is a really tough one if they continue to be unwilling to lower academic standards. I caught a stat as I was flipping channels yesterday that ND lead the country in graduation rate with 96% of the FB players graduating (I believe they tied with Duke). Most other schools are just trying to keep kids eligible and not get whacked by the APR...ND actually wants to graduate kids.

They will probabaly end up paying the right guy $5-6 million. I laughed at Lou Holtz on ESPN talking about the most he ever made at ND being $135,000. It is really incredible how the coaching salaries have escalated in just a few short years.

As for Michigan, they would be foolish to run off RR right now. I think they are close to having the players and system to run roughshod over the slow and plodding beast that is currently Big 10 FB. However, if they do run him, they can have Miles. Miles is just not that good of a coach...certainly not one deserving of the $4 million he makes. The game management at the end of the game yesterday against Ole Miss was pathetic.

[Bobber]

The Notre Dame job clearly looks like it will be open. If they canned Davie and Willingham for what they did then they need to give Weis the boot as well because his winning percentage is worse. They do have a pretty young and talented team but they have played very poorly on defense this year. Weis will get a pro OC slot in a heartbeat.

As for the replacement, ND needs to get a proven guy (Meyer, Stoops) and not an up-and-comer (Kelly). The ND job is a really tough one if they continue to be unwilling to lower academic standards. I caught a stat as I was flipping channels yesterday that ND lead the country in graduation rate with 96% of the FB players graduating (I believe they tied with Duke). Most other schools are just trying to keep kids eligible and not get whacked by the APR...ND actually wants to graduate kids.

They will probabaly end up paying the right guy $5-6 million. I laughed at Lou Holtz on ESPN talking about the most he ever made at ND being $135,000. It is really incredible how the coaching salaries have escalated in just a few short years.

As for Michigan, they would be foolish to run off RR right now. I think they are close to having the players and system to run roughshod over the slow and plodding beast that is currently Big 10 FB. However, if they do run him, they can have Miles. Miles is just not that good of a coach...certainly not one deserving of the $4 million he makes. The game management at the end of the game yesterday against Ole Miss was pathetic.

Nice well thought out post...

I agree it will be short sighted for Michigan to let RR go this early. I agree that offense with the right players could run all over the Big 10.

Les Miles is a risk taker. That works some times, but it's kinda like playing the slots in Vegas.

[ajk4st8]

Nice well thought out post...

I agree it will be short sighted for Michigan to let RR go this early. I agree that offense with the right players could run all over the Big 10.

Les Miles is a risk taker. That works some times, but it's kinda like playing the slots in Vegas.

He is a risk taker, but not calling timeout on third down last night and then having his team not ready to kick a field goal or take another quick shot to the endzone was pretty bad.

[becrisgreg]

If Meyer goes, Florida hires Shanahan in two seconds. THe Florida AD, Jeremy Foley and Shanahan are very good friends.

Why not Charlie Strong? You seem to advocate him for every other job, why not Florida?

[hursts]

I totally agree with you. I will put a guarantee down and say Rich Rod isn't going anywhere. He has only had 2 years to get things going there and he already has things slowly going the right direction. And when he got there, it wasnt great to begin with.Rich Rod will recruit speed and this will certainly tear up the big 10. He started his years this same way in West Virginia. He had 2 losing seasons before he turned things around. I will go on record and say that he has Michigan back in the National Title hunt in 2-3 years.

RichRod does not have another 2-3 years to get in the National Title hunt. Remember, we are talking about Michigan, the winningest program in NCAA history. This is two years in a row without a bowl game and the first time they have finished last in the Big 10 since the 1930s. It may not be fair but IF he gets another year, it is next year or bust for him in Ann Arbor.

[LutherClone]

The Notre Dame job clearly looks like it will be open. If they canned Davie and Willingham for what they did then they need to give Weis the boot as well because his winning percentage is worse. They do have a pretty young and talented team but they have played very poorly on defense this year. Weis will get a pro OC slot in a heartbeat.

As for the replacement, ND needs to get a proven guy (Meyer, Stoops) and not an up-and-comer (Kelly). The ND job is a really tough one if they continue to be unwilling to lower academic standards. I caught a stat as I was flipping channels yesterday that ND lead the country in graduation rate with 96% of the FB players graduating (I believe they tied with Duke). Most other schools are just trying to keep kids eligible and not get whacked by the APR...ND actually wants to graduate kids.

They will probabaly end up paying the right guy $5-6 million. I laughed at Lou Holtz on ESPN talking about the most he ever made at ND being $135,000. It is really incredible how the coaching salaries have escalated in just a few short years.

As for Michigan, they would be foolish to run off RR right now. I think they are close to having the players and system to run roughshod over the slow and plodding beast that is currently Big 10 FB. However, if they do run him, they can have Miles. Miles is just not that good of a coach...certainly not one deserving of the $4 million he makes. The game management at the end of the game yesterday against Ole Miss was pathetic.

And they shouldn't lower their standards. It's a university first and foremost.

[Scott34]

Im not saying that he wont be winning next year. He will be bowling next year and will prolly be looking at winning the big 10 as well.

[Cydkar]

If Brian Kelly goes to OU.....look out. We'd be in for more trouble than we already are in with Stoops there.

We never beat OU with Stoops so we could only do better.

[Cydkar]

He is a risk taker, but not calling timeout on third down last night and then having his team not ready to kick a field goal or take another quick shot to the endzone was pretty bad.

That was a blunder, not a risk.

[ISUAgronomist]

IF Urban wants to move to a new job this would be the "best" time with Tebow leaving but I certainly wouldn't want to step into the Notre Dame job right now. If he does I agree with the OP that some other very big name guys are going to move around. Lot's of stressed out AD's and players.

[06_CY]

Notre Dame will be losing Jimmy C to the NFL after this season, so that will really hurt whomever takes over. I can also see Golden Tate leaving for the NFL if Chuck gets canned and Jimmy moves on.