O to the Saints...NOT SO FAST, MY FRIENDS...

------------------ · Sun Jan 27, 2008 9:30 pm

Was listening to Pete Cordelli's Sunday a.m. show on AM 730 out of Memphis on the way home from church, and he said there is a brand new rumor circulating that Coach O might not be going to the Saints after all. It is rumored that his name is in the mix for...brace yourselves folks...Defensive Coordinator at Arkansas.

bigtreydaddy · Sun Jan 27, 2008 11:39 pm

Wow. That would thicken the plot quite a bit... Does anybody else think that, pending the final standings next season (as well as the outcome of the game on 10/25), the events of the last three months forward could easily be made into a movie? Or maybe some sort of rock opera?? ...Maybe more of a soap opera...

OMNOB · Mon Jan 28, 2008 12:03 am

No way this takes place. Coach O would be huge for the Razorbacks in terms of recruiting, but snake or no snake, BP is smarter than this. Right?

D-Line Coach? Sure. Coordinator? No way.

JoeRebel · Mon Jan 28, 2008 4:59 pm

OMNOB wrote:No way this takes place. Coach O would be huge for the Razorbacks in terms of recruiting, but snake or no snake, BP is smarter than this. Right?

D-Line Coach? Sure. Coordinator? No way.

How can you be so sure that he want make a decent coordinator? He might do well. He also might not.

SECanyQUESTIONS · Mon Jan 28, 2008 6:19 pm

JoeRebel wrote:
OMNOB wrote:No way this takes place. Coach O would be huge for the Razorbacks in terms of recruiting, but snake or no snake, BP is smarter than this. Right?

D-Line Coach? Sure. Coordinator? No way.
How can you be so sure that he want make a decent coordinator? He might do well. He also might not.

Don't believe that will happen. Coach O had a clause in his contract that wont allow him to go to an SEC West team, right?

drock1313 · Mon Jan 28, 2008 6:54 pm

He was fired...so that means he can do whatever he wants.

OMNOB · Mon Jan 28, 2008 7:21 pm

JoeRebel wrote:
OMNOB wrote:No way this takes place. Coach O would be huge for the Razorbacks in terms of recruiting, but snake or no snake, BP is smarter than this. Right?

D-Line Coach? Sure. Coordinator? No way.
How can you be so sure that he want make a decent coordinator? He might do well. He also might not.

Well, Coordinator is one step down from HC and he certainly did not excel there.

In addition to his Head Coaching resume, I could be wrong, but I do believe that in his first season as HC , he was also his own DC, and as I remember, we were BAD.

Not that he wouldn't be a decent DC, but with that track record, I wouldn't hire him to do it.

Mon Jan 28, 2008 8:48 pm

OMNOB wrote:
JoeRebel wrote:
OMNOB wrote:No way this takes place. Coach O would be huge for the Razorbacks in terms of recruiting, but snake or no snake, BP is smarter than this. Right?

D-Line Coach? Sure. Coordinator? No way.
How can you be so sure that he want make a decent coordinator? He might do well. He also might not.
Well, Coordinator is one step down from HC and he certainly did not excel there.

In addition to his Head Coaching resume, I could be wrong, but I do believe that in his first season as HC , he was also his own DC, and as I remember, we were BAD.

Not that he wouldn't be a decent DC, but with that track record, I wouldn't hire him to do it.

Well, he could be a DC in the same sense that Nutt "uses" an OC, (according to some).

john_avery_fast · Tue Jan 29, 2008 12:36 pm

Actually in his first season as HC, are D was ranked in the top 30 in overall statistics if I remember correctly. But we were also blown out a few times that year as well.

BigTrev34 · Tue Jan 29, 2008 3:05 pm

rebelliousb wrote:
OMNOB wrote:
JoeRebel wrote: How can you be so sure that he want make a decent coordinator? He might do well. He also might not.
Well, Coordinator is one step down from HC and he certainly did not excel there.

In addition to his Head Coaching resume, I could be wrong, but I do believe that in his first season as HC , he was also his own DC, and as I remember, we were BAD.

Not that he wouldn't be a decent DC, but with that track record, I wouldn't hire him to do it.
Well, he could be a DC in the same sense that Nutt "uses" an OC, (according to some).

But petrino is an offensive guy. He has to get aguy in to know what hes doing when it comes to playcalling. He almost ignored the defense at L-Ville. He will call the offensive plays, but let me say one thing about petrino's playcalling. He can blow leads big time against a decent team. Check the 05 WVU game and I know you guys remember the 06 Rutgers game. He cannot hold leads and that should be a huge concern for Hog fans.

oxpatchreb · Fri Feb 01, 2008 3:27 pm

Found this on We are SC. Looks like there isn't a grain of truth to it though, at least with the Kiffin angle. Not sure about the O side.

http://wearesc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21777

oxpatchreb · Fri Feb 01, 2008 3:30 pm

No info to the contrary on the Saints site. Yet.

USCrebel · Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:21 pm

oxpatchreb wrote:Found this on We are SC. Looks like there isn't a grain of truth to it though, at least with the Kiffin angle. Not sure about the O side.

http://wearesc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21777

I don't think Lane would handle being one of three OC's on the Arky staff. Remember Petrino and his brother are also offensive guys.