I really like him, but JMU fans donāt seem to as much. It sounds like he gets a little cute on offense against teams they have more talent than.
I think he will do alright, but it would smack of them trying to save a buck. Franklin and Mullen should be the targets if theyāre serious imo.
I think Chesney would do well at UVa to be honest. When VT came open Feldman mentioned off hand that Chesney had gotten a lot of smoke for our job if things hadnāt worked out with Elliott this year.
Yeah in hindsight it isnāt clear how much of a real candidate Dex actually was. I donāt think there is bad blood. He knows how the world works. He wasnāt ready yet.
Thatās my feeling. There was more smoke than fire to it. Dex landed in the best possible spot for him. A high P4 job as a coordinator he got to recruit and work with high level talent, coach on the big stage. Those are the experiences he needs to set himself up for success in the future. Not trying to rebuild his schoolās program and possibly flaming out and be out as an HC for anyone in 5 yrs.
I always could, I just chose not to.
Thatās a power move I learned from my 5 yr old
Itād help if Dex were actually a DC and not just a co-DC whoās been passed over for the lead DC job 3 times in the past 4 years, first to Manny Diaz, then to Tom Allen then to Jim Knowles.
Very true.
Why Iāll hammer home I want Dex to go be a HC at some smaller school get some experience and not on the job at UVa
In the hypothetical that south Carolina poaches Elliot, head coach Golden would be co-dc with point Dexter
I figure Arch Manning is definitely not an air raid QB
I see no world where the Gamecocks would hire Elliott for the record.
Thereās going to be more job openings than good coaches to fill them. If youāre lower on the pecking order and your candidate pool is picked over or youāve gotten a few rejections, you could talk yourself and your fan base into Elliott. Now, if Iām Elliott, I donāt want to take a lower P4 job like South Carolina where itās even harder to win than at Virginia, but if I feel like Iām being disrespected by my bosses at Virginia and I can get myself another 3-4 years worth 15-20 mil guaranteed vs coaching for my job again next season, Iām out.
Thatās the kicker to it all. If UVa wants to play hard ball, thereās a potential escape route for Tony. Also if someone is looking to lock him up at 5 for 5 or something north of that. I donāt blame the man one bit for taking it
Most wouldnāt consider South Carolina as a ālower P4ā.
Itās a tough conference and theyāre probably 10th in spend within the SEC which makes it difficult, but itās still a Top 25 funded program in the country. Their fans would riot if they hired Tony Elliott.
Outside of Jimbo and Elko what other ACC coaches have been hired away?
I know many of you have wondered and I just want to make it public here first: I will not be leaving my current school for any of the head coaching opportunities.
Thank you for your attention.
Now to call my agent and see if this raises the asking price by the other schools.
Kiffin could be setting up the biggest Beamer of all time.
Good question. Now that Iām thinking about the ACC is usually the home of old coaches. At least when it comes to successful ones.
Key the best opportunity for one to jump ship? (I donāt think heās going to). I imagine Diaz will at some point.
If Elliott gets poached, we wouldnāt miss a beat. We will back up the Brinks truck and get what we need.
Maybe lower tier P4 job was overstating it, but I donāt think South Carolina is an upper half P4 job either. We can call it a solid mid tier P4 job, which is above our job, but still a hard place to win given the conference competition.
Thereās 68 P4 schools including ND. Theyāre at best 13th or 14th in the SEC ahead of Mississippi State and Vandy, maybe Arkansas and Missouri, but those schools are the only P4s in their states. Ahead of Northwestern, Purdue and Rutgers, maybe about on par with Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, Maryland, UCLA in the B1G except those schools mostly have significantly larger student populations and alumni who are potential donors? Probably behind Clemson, FSU, Miami and UNC in the ACC. Maybe ahead of the entire Big 12 except possibly TTU and BYU (I have no idea how to evaluate BYU). Behind ND.
I concede the point on coaches moving up out of the ACC. Besides Elko and Jimbo, Satterfield took a lower job to beat the mob, Hafley left to be an NFL DC, Narduzzi, Clausen, Doeren and Cutcliffe probably had chances over the years to go elsewhere if they felt uncomfortable where they were.
Iām not saying Elliott with be highly sought after or anything. Just saying that a school on the lower end of the job search totem pole wonāt have their choice of candidates and could do worse than Elliott, so if weāre inclined to give Elliott the green light to leave, weāre then the school on the low end of the totem pole with no guarantees we get our choice of candidates and weāre still going to pay the new guy 4-5 mil a year, same as we wouldāve paid Elliott and we probably have a down year or 2 from all the resetting weād have to do.
Iām just thinking back to August and believing that if some P4 school came calling for Elliott everyone would be laughing. Funny how things change.
Tyranny of the moment makes everything feel catastrophic.
Shane Beamer to Hokies and Dabo retirement would have two schools possibly pushing to poach (holy alliteration) Elliot