I’m quickly warming up to him
As far as the timing of firing Gundy….the NCAA football calendar is terrible. The season ends and during championship week is national signing date. Then bowl games then portal and then the old national signing date that almost no one uses any more. When signing date was the first week in February it was still tough to fire a coach after the season, have him hire his staff and recruit an entire class in less than 2 months. Today, if you fire a coach at the end of the season, you put the program in a terrible position to hire a coach before signing period is over. NCAA football just needs to look to the NFL for some guidance on a calendar.
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Yes…..:so hold onto a 58 year old man that’s complacent, didn’t try to recruit, while being a top 15 paid coach in America. Tell me how that worked out for us?
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I agree. I like Morris a lot
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You’re a smart man! 
Yet you didn’t and couldn’t bring an example of a successful NFL HC who moved onto CFB and did well. 
I like Kinne, but I like Eric Morris a bit better!
My top 3 in no particular order would be Alex Golesh CJ Kinne Zac Robinson.
OU had 6 ex quarterbacks that started in the nfl last weekend. I want a coach that can find or make a quarterback.
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IMO what Chad and new Prez should’ve done is gone to Gundy and say, Mike, we appreciate everything you’ve done, blah, blah, blah, but we’re gonna make a change. We would prefer to do it at the end of this season. Here’s your choice, if you don’t accept then we will have to let you go now. We would love it (to butter up his ego) if you would remain HC the rest of this season, but regarding the buyout, we’re only going to offer you $3 million. Please take some time to consider it, we’ll reconvene after the Baylor game to learn of your decision.
The 3 mill is the bottom, he might’ve come back and said, ‘make it 5 and done deal’…
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Do you see Golesh leaving USF???
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A successful NFL head coach isn’t coming back to college.
Now watch me punch dumb, nonsensical holes in that;
Bama had Jalen for 3 years first. OU gets no credit.
Baker started off at Tech.
Rattler wasn’t worth a ■■■■ until he went to South Carolina. OU deserves no credit.
Caleb Williams followed Linc to USC.
Kyler played most of his time at Texas A&M. OU gets no credit.
Gabriel started at Hawaii. Finished at Oregon.
They were basically developed at other schools, transferred out and then developed, or were simply a product of Linc’s offense. And he left. Fk OU. They get zero credit. 
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What they should have done is fire him after Shrum left.
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My top three in order would be:
- G.J. Kinne
- Eric Morris
- Alex Golesh
Kinne for me is simply because his win-loss column is better than the other two. His teams also rarely get blown out. I wouldn’t mind going with a G5 coach that can win his conference more than once every 20 years either. Trying to be realistic here because I doubt Zac would take the OSU job, and more than likely the administration will want to go with a younger coach familiar with NIL and the college ranks.
Then why do we see almost no NFL coordinators taking college jobs with the exception of those that have basically failed out of the NFL? There are guys like Matt Patricia who no one seems to want anymore, but that’s it.
There are no successful coordinators coming from the NFL to college. Harbaugh went NFL HC to college HC, but he was fulfilling a bucket list item and also waiting for a good job to open up in the NFL.
It wouldn’t surprise if he was waiting on something like the Florida job to open, but it doesn’t hurt to ask.
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Good point - when Frost left Florida recruiting and returned to NU, it didn’t go well.
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That still puts OSU in the timeline crunch. The last game is 11/29 and National signing day is 12/3. I think OSU needs a HC in place as many days before the signing period as possible.
I don’t think Gundy would have accepted your proposed deal either. Why leave millions on the table? TCU tried a similar tactic with Gary Patterson and he said no and they fired him.
" Then why do we see almost no NFL coordinators taking college jobs with the exception of those that have basically failed out of the NFL?" I dont think its exclusively that a NFL Coordinator doesnt want a HC gig in college and vice versa. Its that you tend to offer those to guys that are excelling at their current level. If an NFL HC was having success, he can get a college job if he wanted. If a college coach is having success, he can get an NFL job. Its not the norm to jump back and forth in most of the sports. Basketball probably has had a few more that I can recall. But again, its not that guys wouldnt or dont want to do it.