1. While there doesn't appear to be a consensus candidate here--yet--you never know how these things will turn out. As I'm a Nebraska fan sometimes the consensus candidate for a job ain't all it's cut out to be. The consensus for Nebraska fans back when Bill Callahan was sent packing was Bo Pelini, which produced mixed results for someone who is as much a maniac as Petrino and with many of the same reasons for losing the overall support of the fanbase (i.e. family on staff when things soured somewhat). But they never got back on solid footing. Frost wasn't a clear candidate when Pelini was shown the door because he had just gotten the Oregon O.C. title. It wasn't until his success at Central Florida and the timing of the Riley collapse that he because a clear candidate. In the end it took a long time before Nebraska go the right guy. The folks at USC thought Pete Carroll was an awful choice, and he went on to unprecedented success; Auburn fans went insane and Gene Chizik gets them to a title within two years.
The point is...winning galvanizes. We don't have the resources of the three programs I mentioned, but relative to our peers in conference--and UK--there is only a gulf between us and Clemson. But the gulf with Clemson is league-wide and not exclusive to us. We can recover, with the right person in place.
2. ...which is what makes Brohm tough. I liken his situation to Nebraska's but also a little to UK back when Billy Donovan was winning SEC and National Titles and Tubby Smith was coaching UK. It's one thing to have lukewarm support, it's a whole other to have the Golden Boy that the fanbase wants beating you. The guy in place doesn't stand a chance with a faction of the fanbase and it just kills our program that in consecutive years high profile kids went to the college football equivalent of a frontier outpost in West Lafayette. Every time Rondale Moore touches the football it's like a knife to the gut. Not only is he not here as our coach, he is here with the full attention of what few recruits there are in this town.
3. Frankly I'm not surprised that Brohm didn't come back and there are a ton of reasons I can speculate on; as I said a couple weeks back, I think the fact that he would be so wired into the problems we have here was to our detriment. I consider myself to be a pragmatist, and if I don't have faith in our Board of Trustees and the relationship of that group through the Athletic Department...I suspect I'm probably not exceptional there. ANYBODY taking or interviewing for a job wants to trust their boss; when you are hired for a job and then the boss changes...you're on the clock. This to me isn't a Vince Tyra problem, this is a broken trust problem between what constitutes a fanbase and paying shareholders--which is what a season ticket is--and the parties that be at UofL. People have emerging trust with Chris Mack. People have grown to trust Dr. Benaputi and her ripping Schnatter out of the scene bought her alot of equity. People still aren't 100% sure what to make of Tyra because he sits between the trusted group and a group that has put a Firewall between themselves and I'd say the University as a whole, not just the Athletic Department. Grissom is still seen as somebody pulling strings behind the curtain which is a perception that I think he relishes.
...so if I'm Jeff Brohm, and I know or suspect all of that far beyond what any of the other potential candidates for the UofL football coaching position would know...I take a pass. Beyond that as just an alum who was there for the Foundation being laid, I'd want to kill every kid that took the field with a Cardinal on their helmet for the disgusting abandonment of the season. He seems to like his kids at Purdue and their Administration...can we really say the same thing about what we have here at UofL right now?
The point is...winning galvanizes. We don't have the resources of the three programs I mentioned, but relative to our peers in conference--and UK--there is only a gulf between us and Clemson. But the gulf with Clemson is league-wide and not exclusive to us. We can recover, with the right person in place.
2. ...which is what makes Brohm tough. I liken his situation to Nebraska's but also a little to UK back when Billy Donovan was winning SEC and National Titles and Tubby Smith was coaching UK. It's one thing to have lukewarm support, it's a whole other to have the Golden Boy that the fanbase wants beating you. The guy in place doesn't stand a chance with a faction of the fanbase and it just kills our program that in consecutive years high profile kids went to the college football equivalent of a frontier outpost in West Lafayette. Every time Rondale Moore touches the football it's like a knife to the gut. Not only is he not here as our coach, he is here with the full attention of what few recruits there are in this town.
3. Frankly I'm not surprised that Brohm didn't come back and there are a ton of reasons I can speculate on; as I said a couple weeks back, I think the fact that he would be so wired into the problems we have here was to our detriment. I consider myself to be a pragmatist, and if I don't have faith in our Board of Trustees and the relationship of that group through the Athletic Department...I suspect I'm probably not exceptional there. ANYBODY taking or interviewing for a job wants to trust their boss; when you are hired for a job and then the boss changes...you're on the clock. This to me isn't a Vince Tyra problem, this is a broken trust problem between what constitutes a fanbase and paying shareholders--which is what a season ticket is--and the parties that be at UofL. People have emerging trust with Chris Mack. People have grown to trust Dr. Benaputi and her ripping Schnatter out of the scene bought her alot of equity. People still aren't 100% sure what to make of Tyra because he sits between the trusted group and a group that has put a Firewall between themselves and I'd say the University as a whole, not just the Athletic Department. Grissom is still seen as somebody pulling strings behind the curtain which is a perception that I think he relishes.
...so if I'm Jeff Brohm, and I know or suspect all of that far beyond what any of the other potential candidates for the UofL football coaching position would know...I take a pass. Beyond that as just an alum who was there for the Foundation being laid, I'd want to kill every kid that took the field with a Cardinal on their helmet for the disgusting abandonment of the season. He seems to like his kids at Purdue and their Administration...can we really say the same thing about what we have here at UofL right now?
