Predicting every Power 4 football program’s head man in 2030

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Kind of a ridiculous idea, but something to talk about in March. Heupel at SMU. Will Stein at Tennessee.

Tennessee​

Current: Josh Heupel (Year 6)
2030: Will Stein, Kentucky head coach

We are bullish on Stein at Kentucky.

SMU​

Current: Rhett Lashlee (Year 5)
2030: Josh Heupel, Tennessee head coach

Heupel has done a great job pulling Tennessee out of a ditch, but expectations are sky-high throughout the SEC. SMU is a great spot for a successful coach to reset his clock.

www.nytimes.com

Who will be coaching your school in 2030? Predicting every Power 4 football program’s head man

The idea: Project the head coach for each Power 4 school, plus Notre Dame, in 2030. A truly impossible (but very fun) task.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
 
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Yeah, Josh and our run reminds me of Cali in/around the mid-2000’s. That coach started off fire hot then just melted away. No doubt CJH is a QB whisper but he’s our Mark Richt.
 
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My lord this article is so ridiculously lazy lol. Half these entries don’t even have any detail, it’s just “this coach will be gone by 2030. We won’t explain why. He just is. And he’ll be replaced by his OC.” What the hell happened to the Athletic it used to be so good
 
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HeuperDrive said:
My lord this article is so ridiculously lazy lol. Half these entries don’t even have any detail, it’s just “this coach will be gone by 2030. We won’t explain why. He just is. And he’ll be replaced by his OC.” What the hell happened to the Athletic it used to be so good
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Glcould be mistaken but think it got bought by NYT.
 
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What a giant nonsense article. It reeks of "say a whole lot of nothing to look like you did something." Five bucks and a sack lunch says they prompted AI software to make all the choices and write up the reasons, and then they came back and smoothed down the edges in editing.
 
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That is a big ol pattie of "off season but I've still got a deadline for an article" BS right there.

Nice work if you can get it, I guess, getting paid to toss this out there.
 
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#1fulmerite said:
Yeah, Josh and our run reminds me of Cali in/around the mid-2000’s. That coach started off fire hot then just melted away. No doubt CJH is a QB whisper but he’s our Mark Richt.
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So the third best coach in our history? Richt was knocking on the door. You know the difference between Richt and Kirby? Donor support. Richt got in trouble with the NCAA for paying assistant coaches bonuses out of his own pocket. Crazy as hell.
 
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Freak said:
Kind of a ridiculous idea, but something to talk about in March. Heupel at SMU. Will Stein at Tennessee.

Tennessee​

Current: Josh Heupel (Year 6)
2030: Will Stein, Kentucky head coach

We are bullish on Stein at Kentucky.

SMU​

Current: Rhett Lashlee (Year 5)
2030: Josh Heupel, Tennessee head coach

Heupel has done a great job pulling Tennessee out of a ditch, but expectations are sky-high throughout the SEC. SMU is a great spot for a successful coach to reset his clock.

www.nytimes.com

Who will be coaching your school in 2030? Predicting every Power 4 football program’s head man

The idea: Project the head coach for each Power 4 school, plus Notre Dame, in 2030. A truly impossible (but very fun) task.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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Further proof… NY Times don’t know jack about sports.
 
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#1fulmerite said:
Yeah, Josh and our run reminds me of Cali in/around the mid-2000’s. That coach started off fire hot then just melted away. No doubt CJH is a QB whisper but he’s our Mark Richt.
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He's such a great QB whisperer he benched Hooker for Milton. He has a lot of great qualities you want to have in a coach a QB Whisperer he's not. By the way were you perhaps talking about Tedford at Cal?
 
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#1fulmerite said:
Yeah, Josh and our run reminds me of Cali in/around the mid-2000’s. That coach started off fire hot then just melted away. No doubt CJH is a QB whisper but he’s our Mark Richt.
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I wish CJH was as good as Richt. CMR one a championship. We aren't close right now, IMO.
 
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Freak said:
Kind of a ridiculous idea, but something to talk about in March. Heupel at SMU. Will Stein at Tennessee.

Tennessee​

Current: Josh Heupel (Year 6)
2030: Will Stein, Kentucky head coach

We are bullish on Stein at Kentucky.

SMU​

Current: Rhett Lashlee (Year 5)
2030: Josh Heupel, Tennessee head coach

Heupel has done a great job pulling Tennessee out of a ditch, but expectations are sky-high throughout the SEC. SMU is a great spot for a successful coach to reset his clock.

www.nytimes.com

Who will be coaching your school in 2030? Predicting every Power 4 football program’s head man

The idea: Project the head coach for each Power 4 school, plus Notre Dame, in 2030. A truly impossible (but very fun) task.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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Wow SMU lol---all this "reset clock," stuff is gonna have to give. Yeah its the NIL era but who will we, or any program, replace their coach with? Another guy who will get you the same results- and need to burn time to ramp up to do it? Everyone wants to win but cmon firing guy every 5-7 years to replace him with a guy who will give you the same or worse results is silly.

Lastly, TN has no leg to stand on regarding being impatient. I can see Alabama, GA, or LSU having that mentality but unfortunately we arent there. Not saying we should accept mediocrity or losing but we need to remember where we came from.
 
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#1fulmerite said:
Yeah, Josh and our run reminds me of Cali in/around the mid-2000’s. That coach started off fire hot then just melted away. No doubt CJH is a QB whisper but he’s our Mark Richt.
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stop it. we dont know that yet.
 
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Remy said:
He's such a great QB whisperer he benched Hooker for Milton. He has a lot of great qualities you want to have in a coach a QB Whisperer he's not. By the way were you perhaps talking about Tedford at Cal?
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Think Milton would have made it to the league had he stayed at Michigan or, went anywhere else?

Without looking, Tedford name sounds about right. Didn’t he also have a QB to make a boneheaded last play of the game as well? After that, seems Cali faltered and he was gone.
 
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volfanhill said:
So the third best coach in our history? Richt was knocking on the door. You know the difference between Richt and Kirby? Donor support. Richt got in trouble with the NCAA for paying assistant coaches bonuses out of his own pocket. Crazy as hell.
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Who’s the third best coach in our history?
 
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Freak said:
Kind of a ridiculous idea, but something to talk about in March. Heupel at SMU. Will Stein at Tennessee.

Tennessee​

Current: Josh Heupel (Year 6)
2030: Will Stein, Kentucky head coach

We are bullish on Stein at Kentucky.

SMU​

Current: Rhett Lashlee (Year 5)
2030: Josh Heupel, Tennessee head coach

Heupel has done a great job pulling Tennessee out of a ditch, but expectations are sky-high throughout the SEC. SMU is a great spot for a successful coach to reset his clock.

www.nytimes.com

Who will be coaching your school in 2030? Predicting every Power 4 football program’s head man

The idea: Project the head coach for each Power 4 school, plus Notre Dame, in 2030. A truly impossible (but very fun) task.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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Will Stein will be an unmitigated disaster at Kentucky. It’s one thing to be an average play caller at Oregon with a wealth of talent. It’s quite another to be an average play caller at Kentucky with average talent in a very difficult conference
 
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Tennessee has (with the exception of Butch Jones) always consistently hired a coach with six letters in his last name during the modern era: Dickey, Battle, Majors, Fulmer, Kiffin, Dooley, (Jones), Pruitt, and Heupel. And after Jones setting a world record for saying individuals (sometimes more than once per sentence) I am convinced that they are going to stick to coaches with six letters in his last name. So Stein? No way.
 
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#1fulmerite said:
Yeah, Josh and our run reminds me of Cali in/around the mid-2000’s. That coach started off fire hot then just melted away. No doubt CJH is a QB whisper but he’s our Mark Richt.
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Richt and Heupel won games which is a lot more than anyone can say about Jones and Dooley. Plus Heupel has way more resources at UT than they ever had at Cal. By the way, Jeff Tedford was a really good football coach at Cal
 
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