Almost like TB should have retired in April
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There will always be a new hot crop come March Madness
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And proly have to start promising playing time in some form it seems
The elephant in the room?
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This year’s crop of new coaches might prove to be the 1983 NFL Draft of college basketball hires. Usually I don’t think it matters but yeah it’s looking like last spring was a really good time to have an opening.
We would have probably had Byington right now my guess. But who knows. May have chased Dusty May or Kyle Smith. They were considered the bigger gets I think.
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@HoozGotNext made the point that I think I said on post game pod yesterday. Changing starting line ups etc mess with guys heads. Little things like that can lose guys essentially IN season
Where my dawgs at!
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Read between the HGN lines. He has told us miltiple times hoo the next coach is gonna be if it is not Ron Sanchez
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Yeah that’s an unmitigated disaster then. Thanks CTB
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Love that analogy… a year later…
In 1984, Boomer Esiason was the 38th overall pick and was the NFL MVP in 1988 and 4 time pro bowler and led the Bengals to the Super Bowl - individually playing well enough to beat the 49ers.
I would take that level in a heartbeat as our next coach!!!
Let’s go Hoos!!!
P.s. and Boomer won as many Super Bowls as the entire 1983 QB draft class before 1996.
Also drafted in 1984 was Jeff Hostetler who actually won a Super Bowl as a starter and another as a backup.
Poll time.
For our next coach would you rather him have the career of:
- Boomer Esiason
- Jeff Hostetler
- Ken OBrien
- Tony Eason
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Warren Moon
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If you want Jeff Hostetler over John Elway, Dan Marino, or Jim Kelly, well, that is certainly a way to live life. Maybe not the best way, but certainly a way.
They aren’t available… remember Tony hadn’t retired yet when they were drafted …
Then why is your poll two dudes drafted in ‘83 and two dudes drafted in’84?… 
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I kinda think Sanchez would have had a better chance to get hired in that situation. I have no info to prove that, just the observation that retiring HCs of Tony’s stature tend to get the succession plan that they want. It’s easier for them to not do that now that they can point to what things look like with Ron in charge.
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Harder to imagine given the Colorado State debacle and ACC Tournament meltdown. Not a lot of lingering good feelings last March/April
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Loved Ken O’Brien.
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Boeheim’s last Syracuse team was awful and they still hired Autry.
Apples and Oranges. See what I did there?
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Good point - I can edit … just shows even that draft was a 50/50 proposition on great players and even then none of them won it all while in their primes… though 9 Super Bowl appearances is great!
I would say only Esiason, Hostetler and Kelly were competitive in the Super Bowls in their primes though… and Elway won 2 late late when Broncos basically cheated the salary cap.
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Sanchez would have almost certainly been the coach, only for a much longer time.