Mizzou fires Barry Odom
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I have heard they are expecting to name a new coach on Monday. If that doesn't happen you gotta think everybody is telling them no.
Which frankly wouldn't surprise me. Coaches are going to look at the Taggart situation as having a really fast trigger. Yes, we all know how bad he was, but incoming coaches don't like to see their predecessor not having a chance to get their guys in and run with their own players. Makes them think they will get the axe quick as well unless they go great guns right away. Not to mention both the AD and President are on their way out. That means after a year you have new bosses that didn't hire you, so you aren't their guy.
It's just risky. Coaches are very risk averse.
This is all true. When you combine it with the fact that they’ve never won a damn thing there without cheating, dodging competition recruiting thugs who couldn’t get in anywhere else, it’s pretty clear that everything that’s happened there is all smoke and mirrors. Expecting to compete on a level playing field is impossible, and they know it. It’s why they’ve done everything they could to make sure the playing field isn’t level. The real tragedy is that it worked for so long and they were allowed to ruin several seasons of college football before it caught up to them
Normally I would say TERRIBLE move by a school to fire a head coach less than 2 years into his tenure. The golden rule being 3 years at minimum. What I will give FSU in this case is the fact that their LAST 2 head coaches won national championships at the position and this current coach was well on his way to not making a bowl game for the 2nd consecutive season. It is very easy to get across to potential head coaching hires that less than .500 has absolutely no place whatsoever on their team. There's one thing to be unhappy with Barry Odom and 6-6, but it's not quite as bad as someone who is so incompetent, he is on his way to back to back losing seasons since the 75-76 years for FSU.
Any rational person would look at that and agree that Taggart was in no way getting the job done, and was not likely to improve in any way with a 3rd year.
As far as Missouri, I think they are in for a serious let down on firing Barry Odom. They apparently weren't happy with not competing for the SEC under him. I will assume that they thought since the won the SEC East a couple years when they first joined the conference, they thought that'd be the norm for them. They are not taking into account that when they joined the SEC, the East was utter and complete garbage. Tennessee was and still is a dumpster fire. Georgia wasn't really doing anything well at all under Mark Richt, and Florida was in the midst of it's worst decade of football since the 1940's. Somehow they naturally thought superpower Missouri would easily be one of the favorites each and every year in the East. Sadly for them that is not true. Georgia is probably the best it's ever been in it's entire history, and Florida is waking back up now that it has a real coach again. Tennessee is still that dumpster fire happily burning along, but most of the East's superpowers are back on top. I don't care if you put Bill Bellichik in charge of Missouri, they aren't going to be winning the East.
TLDR: Missouri and it's fans think they are the Alabama of the East because they won the division their first two years, but reality says they are somewhere around Kentucky/South Carolina's level. Aspirations are too high and Barry Odom getting fired is a mistake for them.
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I'd be curious as to what Taggart is saying privately. You have to think anyone interested in the FSU job is going to call Tags and see what he has to say.
I know what he could say, however. He could say that he was forced to retain holdover staff he didn't want, that he was forced to fire staff he wanted to retain, that the administration was intrusive, that Bowden has too much influence with administration and boosters and interferes too much, and that he now understands why Fischer walked away.
I'm not saying any of that is true. However, if he said any of those things, they would be believed. And it IS human nature to try to shift blame away from yourself and onto "the other guy", so I can see him throwing shade.
Only so many good ones out there. With the new early signing period recruiting is going to suffer.
