Coaches That Returned To Their Alma Mater

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Now that the Scott Frost era as Head Coach at Nebraska is over, makes me wonder if it’s better to go with a coach that has a connection with a university or not.

Who have been some of the notable hires in the past? And have they succeeded or failed?
 
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Based on our experience, you need to hire a coach with a specialty either offensive scheme or defensive scheme. Just hiring the next guy to do basically the same thing with different players is a long shot. Spurrier with the fun and gun, Urban with the spread, Huepel with the fast pace, Saban with recruiting, Kiffin with the play calling or Smart with the defensive schemes. I thought the Johnson hire at GT was a good fit because you didn't need 5 stars to run it.
 
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VOLtaism said:
Based on our experience, you need to hire a coach with a specialty either offensive scheme or defensive scheme. Just hiring the next guy to do basically the same thing with different players is a long shot. Spurrier with the fun and gun, Urban with the spread, Huepel with the fast pace, Saban with recruiting, Kiffin with the play calling or Smart with the defensive schemes. I thought the Johnson hire at GT was a good fit because you didn't need 5 stars to run it.
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I thought Nebraska should’ve hired Johnson for that reason.
 
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VOLtaism said:
. I thought the Johnson hire at GT was a good fit because you didn't need 5 stars to run it.
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The triple option is a deal with the devil
You can use it to routinely win about 8 games a year. Decent, not great. Maybe you get lucky occasionally and take down a great team. This is what GT did .

The catch-when you go away from it, your program is trash for a decade. Basically like coming back from the "death penalty". You have few if any players capable of execution of a traditional offense at a high level. Your recruiting is gonna suffer as the big time recruits (at QB and wr) still remember you running the triple option. You basically have to start from scratch. This is what GT is going through right now
 
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Shortly after helping Alabama win the 1964 national title, Stallings was named the head coach of his alma mater, Texas A&M, at the age of 29. He coached the Aggies for seven seasons compiling a record of 27–45–1. During his tenure, the Aggies won the Southwest Conference in 1967, Stallings' only winning season at A&M. At the end of that season Stallings led Texas A&M to a victory over Alabama and mentor Bear Bryant in the Cotton Bowl. With the university only recently going co-ed, its military focus and the ongoing war in Vietnam, A&M struggled to recruit against its Southwest Conference rivals. He was fired at A&M following the 1971 season.

Stallings not very successful at his alma mater
 
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VOLtaism said:
Based on our experience, you need to hire a coach with a specialty either offensive scheme or defensive scheme. Just hiring the next guy to do basically the same thing with different players is a long shot. Spurrier with the fun and gun, Urban with the spread, Huepel with the fast pace, Saban with recruiting, Kiffin with the play calling or Smart with the defensive schemes. I thought the Johnson hire at GT was a good fit because you didn't need 5 stars to run it.
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Just wanted to point out that Lane Kiffin’s success depends on his personnel and not his ability in any way, shape, or form, and neither his record nor his volnation worship will change that in any way.
 
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onevol74 said:
Is there a list of coaches who turned down their home school?
Vince Dooley
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That would be a good list. Dooley wanted to make is name for himself somewhere else. I’m sure it killed Auburn fans.

‘Another good list, who are coaches that were from the state of Tennessee, not necessarily went to UT that were super successful out of state, Spurrier comes to mind. Maybe Ohio State’s John Cooper.
 
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Another good list would be, have there been coaches that failed miserably at a big time program like Scott Frost come back and be super successful at another big time program?
 
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mad4vols said:
That would be a good list. Dooley wanted to make is name for himself somewhere else. I’m sure it killed Auburn fans.

‘Another good list, who are coaches that were from the state of Tennessee, not necessarily went to UT that were super successful out of state, Spurrier comes to mind. Maybe Ohio State’s John Cooper.
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Lloyd Carr born in TN too
 
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mad4vols said:
That would be a good list. Dooley wanted to make is name for himself somewhere else. I’m sure it killed Auburn fans.

‘Another good list, who are coaches that were from the state of Tennessee, not necessarily went to UT that were super successful out of state, Spurrier comes to mind. Maybe Ohio State’s John Cooper.
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Lloyd Carr, Steve Spurrier, Mack Brown an ice Tennesseans.
 
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mad4vols said:
That would be a good list. Dooley wanted to make is name for himself somewhere else. I’m sure it killed Auburn fans.

‘Another good list, who are coaches that were from the state of Tennessee, not necessarily went to UT that were super successful out of state, Spurrier comes to mind. Maybe Ohio State’s John Cooper.
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Wallace Wade
Steve Sloan
Roy Kramer
Jamey Chadwell
Bobby Dodd
Marino H. "The Godfather" Casem
 
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