Yeah, I just became a huge Mike Riley fan.
The excitement in Orlando seems to be extreme. It's a much flashier hire than anyone was expecting. Apparently UCF made an offer to Schiano and he let it expire to see what Miami did, probably thinking that UCF would wait for him. As much as Schiano is a proven commodity, I don't think he has the same ceiling that Frost potentially has. So I'm good with our approach...all the players and recruits have reacted really well. Hope he is able to hit the trail tomorrow and start getting us some athletes.
Also, re: Coach O, told my buddies that they misread what I was typing. When I said Orgeron, I meant Oregon.
I was honestly (with my USF rooting interests) hoping they would go 'retread' with a Coach O or Randy Shannon type. To me that would assure them hovering around 5-7 / 7-5 for a while. Instead they took a daring gamble, the type I was hoping USF would take had Taggart not given up on his knockoff Harbaugh offense, swallowed his pride and opened things up. Most coaches would rather lose their way than win trying something else, so I guess kudos to him. The OL was very senior laden though, so I am a bit bearish on their prospects next season when they could very well be a lot of pundits' pick to be the non P5 big bowl invite.
Back on topic though, there really isn't another Florida school running an up tempo style offense. FSU never really needs to, since for whatever reason they get every big name pro-style QB and OL they want. But for schools who aren't UF or FSU, you'd think they would try to take advantage of that in-state speed and go up-tempo, since OL don't really grow on trees down here like they do in Wisconsin (and the few that are that good go to FSU/UF)
Yeah, there's a chance Frost bolts if he has success, but if he leaves the program in better shape than he finds it, so be it.
And seriously, if UGA doesn't already have a handshake deal with Smart that will become official after the SEC CG, then there really was no reason to fire Richt. Hiring away Houston's coach or someone like Mullen won't really be an upgrade. I love UGA, but they seem, like Nebraska, and Tennessee before them, to have an over-inflated sense of how relevant they really are. And if they don't nail this hire, they could be about as irrelevant as Tenn for the next decade.