Worst hire in college football history

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Woody Widenhofer should at least get honorable mention for his tenure at Mizzou.
 
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oldsmokey67 said:
shula or dubose should have been higher.
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Dubose, maybe. But I think Shula gets a bit of a bad rep. He wasn't a good head coach, but he took over the worst situation imaginable, and left the program much better off than when he inherited it.
 
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If this was a list of the worst exits, Kiffin would be #1. The timing was as bad as it gets and created the Derek Dooley hire.
 
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bamawriter said:
Dubose, maybe. But I think Shula gets a bit of a bad rep. He wasn't a good head coach, but he took over the worst situation imaginable, and left the program much better off than when he inherited it.
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I agree. He at least deserves credit for righting the ship to a degree.

I do think that Mike Price should've made the list purely for comic relief.
 
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GAVol said:
I agree. He at least deserves credit for righting the ship to a degree.

I do think that Mike Price should've made the list purely for comic relief.
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I was really surprised that Price wasn't on there. How much worse can you get than a guy you have to fire before he coaches a single game?
 
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GAVol said:
If this was a list of the worst exits, Kiffin would be #1. The timing was as bad as it gets and created the Derek Dooley hire.
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Point taken. However, we know that there were better options like Sumlin, in spite of the awful timing. There is no way I believe Dooley was the best option possible, even though the timing was horrible. If Cutcliffe was in the fold (as some have said), how do you take Dooley over him? I know there are many on here who would have hated a Cutcliffe hire, but if you would rather roll the dice with Dooley rather than hire a proven yet boring coach with a boring staff, I don't know what to tell you.
 
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GAVol said:
If this was a list of the worst exits, Kiffin would be #1. The timing was as bad as it gets and created the Derek Dooley hire.
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This is a good way to put it. I think the Kiffin hire was worse, but that is more due to the circumstances. His early exit left UT grasping for both a coach and at trying to maintain its status. His one signing class was a disaster. And don't get me started on his mouth or his shadiness. His failure at talent-rich USC leads me to believe he wouldn't have succeeded here either.

Of course the biggest problem was timing. His exit, at that time, made Hamilton desperate. We know where that went.
 
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TNRazor said:
I felt like I was gonna throw up when I heard who the hire was. I still don't know how you hire a coach who had never been a coordinator and had a losing record as a head coach. It was the worst hire in UT history in an sport.
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I'd rank the hiring of Mike Hamilton ahead of hiring Dooley. Hamilton oversaw the complete destruction of the football, basketball, baseball, and men's track programs. Biggest idiot in SEC Sports History.

The NCAA should use Mike Hamilton as punishment for habitual offenders. Making programs hire him would be more punitive than the Death Penalty.
 
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OrangeInKy said:
Point taken. However, we know that there were better options like Sumlin, in spite of the awful timing. There is no way I believe Dooley was the best option possible, even though the timing was horrible. If Cutcliffe was in the fold (as some have said), how do you take Dooley over him? I know there are many on here who would have hated a Cutcliffe hire, but if you would rather roll the dice with Dooley rather than hire a proven yet boring coach with a boring staff, I don't know what to tell you.
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I've heard everything from Cutcliffe was ready to take the job to Cutcliffe flat out said no. Hard to know in a coaching search. There are always rumors about rumored rumors.
 
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oregonvol said:
Yep. Why anyone expected differently with his resume when hired, I don't know. But alot of you did, that's for sure. Why is it that after the introductory press conference, 90% of volnations' ability to think critically about a coach goes out the window?

Also, Dan Hawkins is far too low on that list.
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There's a difference between expecting a different outcome and hoping for a different outcome. The hire was made, and not a single person on this board had any say in it.

People look for bright spots in dark situations. I don't know why that's so shameful these days.
 
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OrangeInKy said:
Point taken. However, we know that there were better options like Sumlin, in spite of the awful timing. There is no way I believe Dooley was the best option possible, even though the timing was horrible. If Cutcliffe was in the fold (as some have said), how do you take Dooley over him? I know there are many on here who would have hated a Cutcliffe hire, but if you would rather roll the dice with Dooley rather than hire a proven yet boring coach with a boring staff, I don't know what to tell you.
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I think whoever took the job was doomed.
 
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I would put Bill Battle somewhere on that list. Youngest head coach in CFB at the time (28) and clearly too inexperienced to run a big time program like Tenn had become under Dickey.
 
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I don't understand why they say that LSU wasn't a nationally prominent program until Saban. They had some great teams in the '80's and the Dinardo hire was bizarre. He never had a winning record at Vandy and lost his last game 65-0 to Tennessee in '94 (and we had a very young team that year)....One name they didn't mention was Foge Fazio at Pitt - that was a top ten program from 1976-1983 and he ran them into the ground in record time.
 
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I'm sorry, but mike price wasn't on there. That is the worst hire ever. He didn't coach a game and never even coached a game before he was fired.
 
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