Do retreads ever work out?

#27
#27
Frank Solich at Nebraska & Ohio.

3 times at Nebraska he finished 1st or tied for 1st in the Big12 (North).

He has finished 1st in the MAC (East) 3 times.
 
#31
#31
Vercingetorix said:
I am not seeing where Miami fired him. According to The Tome Of All Human Knowledge, Wikipedia, he went 10-2 in Miami in 1994 and then moved right into the Seahawks job in January 1995.
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I stand corrected. In the immortal words of Roger Clemens, "I misremembered". haha

I withdraw my submission.
 
#33
#33
vols-1 said:
Gene Stallings went on to win at Alabama after being fired
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Hey, here we go. An actual winner. Fired by A&M in 1971 (!), won a national championship 21 years later at Alabama. By the time he got back from the NFL college football had changed so much it was barely the same sport. But it counts.

I guess the upshot is that retread coaches almost never really work.
 
#34
#34
DD4ME said:
John Fox is doing ok at Denver

Petrino is akin to Calipari, little different
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If we're going the NFL route, Belichick and Coughlin are the most obvious ones, but that list could go on forever. Shanahan, blah blah. Not to mention Bill Walsh never got the Bengals job after Brown. (What could have been) Erickson wasn't really fired anywhere in college, he just left on his own accord. Same with Petrino and some others mentioned in this thread. Coker might be the next one of this note. His name is under the radar. O'Leary wasn't technically fired at Notre Dame, but his name comes to mind. Some other names out there, just would have to think.
 
#37
#37
Abe 'freakin' Lincoln....lost four elections and became president of USA


Jim Mora Jr is doing ok. He was fired.
 
#38
#38
Not asking for NFL. That's a completely different world. A .600 record is legendary, hall of fame stuff there. I'm talking about major conference college football. And there are no examples of this ever working out, save for Gene Stallings 40 years ago (and a 20 year gap between the firing and the championship)? Really?

And you guys still think a Tuberville or a Butch Davis would win big here?
 
#39
#39
oregonvol said:
Not asking for NFL. That's a completely different world. A .600 record is legendary, hall of fame stuff there. I'm talking about major conference college football. And there are no examples of this ever working out, save for Gene Stallings 40 years ago (and a 20 year gap between the firing and the championship)? Really?

And you guys still think a Tuberville or a Butch Davis would win big here?
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Yeah, I agree with your point. No to tommy and butch.

The thought was even crossed my mind on Gruden. He was fired. Does he still have what it takes.

I prefer a young one.
 
#43
#43
Pete Carroll, Steve Spurrier, Nick Saban, and Bobby Petrino are all, technically speaking, retreads.
 
#44
#44
I can see reading comprehension isn't a strength of posters on VN. So, once again...I am asking about college football, and specifically about major conferences in college football. Pro football is completely different. Lots of coaches are fired in pro football and go on to find success with another pro team or in the college ranks. So citing Spurrier, Gruden, Carroll, Saban (???), etc, has nothing to do with my question.

So far, I have two answers. And neither were fired in the last 25 years (and actually Holtz shouldn't technically count, because he wasn't playing in a major conference with Notre Dame, but I'll allow it on the basis of common sense).
 
#45
#45
Jackson_Harris said:
Yes, he was there for a couple years between arky and ND.

So we are looking for someone who got fired one place and won a NC at the very next stop?
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No just someone who got fired from a job as head coach in a major conference, got another head coaching job in another (or the same) major conference, and just won some kind of championship (conference or national) while he was there.
 
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