šŸˆ Football 2024-2025 Head Coach Wishlist

But would we be? A coach who comes in, let’s be real probably brings in his own guys to play, does decent (let’s be real again, UVA isn’t winning a title or anything remotely close) and jumps to say an SEC job and guts the program to take his guys with him on the next stop.

Extremely counter productive to getting donors bought in on the program to pay for a roster that bolts with the coach. Getting uva bought into football is tougher than most other places, would be much better suited with consistency than a one off winning season. Bronco had that and still couldn’t raise funds and money is far more important now than it was when we were in the Orange Bowl…

2 Likes

He would be terrible here. He is propped up by their brand and their bags. Befuddled gameday coach.

I agree that we would be better suited to have a consistent winner. But we have a long history of not having consistent winners. So to me Ryan Day is preferable to whatever replacement will look like (likely bad)

1 Like

Honestly, I was mostly just shitstirring. He’ll take a year or two as an OC somewhere at a big time school or, more likely, the NFL, and come back as an HC somewhere. I’m not too fond of him personally, but I think he would be a good hire if he were an option. Still a pretty good offensive mind and has done a good job hiring assistants IMO.

I’m so despondent about Elliott coming back for this year I have a hard time seeing faults in other options. Anyone new would do it for me at this point (this will not be the case when we do move on, I will have many opinions then. Long live Jeff Monken.).

2 Likes

My opinion of the Chip Kelly hire would beg to differ.

I do get where you’re coming from and desiring change. That is very justified.

They haven’t all worked, but I thought the Chip Kelly hire was great at the time. Jim Knowles was a good hire and promoting Brian Hartline (and being able to keep him around) are pretty good decisions too imo. Retaining Larry Johnson when I bet every school in the country would like to hire him isn’t too shabby either.

Absolutely zero chance. But solid effort by you to generate speculation.

We would be real dumb to pass on Ryan Day. He is 66-10 as a head coach and has won two BIG10 Championships and has a national coach of the year award (in 6 years). So there’s that.

But it’s a non-issue because he wouldn’t consider it anyway unless his whole family went here or something like that.

3 Likes

Ryan Day, the head coach of Ohio State, has a record of 1-4 against Michigan.

Do we really need another coach who can’t beat their rival?

Love you Havs and know your ties to OSU. But my loyalties are a bit further north, where schools and administrators aren’t SAWFT.

Who the F is Ryan Day?

4 Likes

We would kill for 1-4

6 Likes

Ryan Day has a 36 mil buyout if he gets fired and he makes almost 10 mil a year and he’s been the HC at OSU for 6 years. He’ll be pushing 100 mil in career earnings.

He’s complained about people harrassing his kids at school and his family in public. I doubt he ever wants to coach in college again and I don’t see an NFL team hiring him as an OC when he doesn’t even run his own offense.

I can see him taking a few years off, maybe doing some consulting or TV work. He doesn’t need to work for the money, that’s for sure.

2 Likes

Ryan Day would never in a million years coach UVA. Don’t know how this got started hahaha

1 Like

Because I was bored and thought it would get reactions

3 Likes

I mean he used to run his own offense, and he’s pretty good at it. I could definitely see him taking time off, but I think NFL OC would be a really good fit for him.

should be an LRA drinking game.

4 Likes

I think Al Golden is the guy for us if he can win over the anti-Groh crowd.

4 Likes

Been hammering that drum since November, and there are several alumni and former players who played for Golden who are all in on it as well.

4 Likes

Yeah I like Golden a lot. I’d take either ND coordinator tbh.

I worry they’ll try and lock in on a lower level HC this time though since the coordinator didn’t work out. That’s the wrong move, but I see why they’d do it. I think the trick is to just hire a coordinator that his previous fanbase will be sad to see leave.

2 Likes

Golden has head coaching experience is the difference

6 Likes