Did he do great ? Massively underachieved in 2012. 2013 and 2015 were complete train wrecks.
baloney... yes.. GS shares blame as HC.. ultimately it was his responsibility.. but again, with Gleason in GS2.0 and with Cubit in GS1.0, we see cases where GS just gives the OC (or CO-OCs) too much rope.
Well, in 09…while at diner at Steakhouse 85 with the entire OL- I asked them how Flood was doing as Co-OC…they all laughed and said he is doing the same thing as 08/07/06- just coaching us.
What did Rice do in those first 5 games in 2006? Why doesn't anyone seem to remember how mightily the offense struggled until.. what was it.. the second half of game 5 at USF? We were 4-0 strictly based on defense... GS' defense.. which he had invested in since the day he arrived. We lost games we easily could have won because GS was training the defense to play as it would need to to beat good teams. UNH might have not been one of those because of the pure genius of the OC (Chip Kelly).. but Buffa-Nova? We could have shifted toa straight-up read-react defense and won those games. Instead, GS kept his D shifting, stunting, blitzing despite the ball being out in 3 seconds and so on. The 80-7 vs WVU.. GS didn't care about the final score back then.. just cared to train his defense.. and it paid off in future years.
You sure this wasn't at Subway?
he won the conf with Greg's kids. Did Greg do that?
wow.. the hate for greg is strong.
So you would prefer Flood 2.0 here instead of Schiano 2.0??
He was OC in title only- everything you just stated is on the real OC at the time..,
That was not a stupid question.. your assessment of it is stupid.. nice try at avoidance
That's a stupid answer since this is your quote "the hate for him is surreal considering it SHOULD be directed at Greg and the school."
He accepted the title. He has a responsibility. Claiming he has no responsibility for the offense simply because his OL says he did nothing as an OC... really.. how weak is that. I still hold it against GS that he tolerated that and allowed it continue into 2010. He's a DC type HC and he should have scouted his own team. Same for this year. But this was on Flood too. He doesn't get to avoid responsibility because his title was "in name only". Do you think his obviously "in name only" title of OC for Texas would innoculate him if Texas put up poor offense in the CFP? No.. he would have taken the axe for Sark.
Are you seriously just being dense. Greg hired his choice of OC and gave all OC responsibilities to him. Greg loved Flood as one of the best OL coaches in the nation and in order to keep him, he had to be creative in getting him a raise.
I will assume you are correct. But if that's the case.. and GS made a change after the failures on offense in 2010 (and that would explain why Flood became "associate head coach" then as he was in 2008) why would Greg re-hire the OC that failed him in 2010? Is there an assumption that he has learned from his mistakes?
You have a good source and not sure why anyone would question it lol
Don't get me wrong.. it does not innoculate Flood from criticism regarding that offense. "He was just taking orders"... come on now. He is coaching an OL who is being put in a very bad spot in terms of generating offense and protecting the QB and he does nothing because he is not "really" the co-OC? Still deserves criticism even if the story is 100% true. Everyone shares blame... GS probably the most.
Even back with McNulty in 08…Greg did tend to get involved where he shouldn’t. It was GS’s idea to put his soon to be 2 NFl OL stacked on the left side instead of being bookends. He had just lost Rice so he hoped he could protect the QB blind side and run pretty much everything to the left. Both Flood and McNulty battled him and lost until the Pitt game when the finally moved Kevin out of LG and put him at RT…
You made a great point often missed. 2013- the year after all our defenders went to the NFl- that DB room was pretty bare.
Very interesting.
That’s crazy for Sarkisian off one playoff appearance. Just look at their rivals to see how costly a premature raise and extension can be off short term results. Fisher finished #5 one year and then didn’t sniff it again. Texas is a top job with tons of resources, where the heck is he going to go that’s better. To me that a consistent championship level salary not a one time appearance in the playoffs out of the B12 salary.Flood racking up the $$$$$. Making more than he made as HC at Rutgers in 2015, when they paid him peanuts and they got what they paid for.
Sarkisian will receive a raise from $5.8 million to $10.3 million for the 2024 season. His salary will increase by $100,000 every year until 2030, the final year of the contract.
Longhorns offensive coordinator Kyle Flood had another year tacked on to his contract, taking him through the 2026 season. His 2024 salary of $1.325 million and his 2025 salary of $1.4 million will not change. He’ll be paid $1.475 million in 2026.
We agree totally. What other industry or job category does one get rewarded with a near doubling of salary and an extension for one good year of performance. Texas (A&M too) and Oklahoma are delusional when it comes to football. But think about this- Sark was making less than Greg Schiano before this raise. I like Greg as our head coach. But when one lesser coach gets a raise, all the agents stir up the ADs to stir up more money for their client coaches (and themselves), and ADs can't seem to hold the line and tell them to piss off. It's weird.
True, but it's a good story about rehabilitation and redemption. Nice to see him come back strong. Some people never come back and die in a death spiral.
Their TE coach is making over a million. That is crazy.Flood racking up the $$$$$. Making more than he made as HC at Rutgers in 2015, when they paid him peanuts and they got what they paid for.
Sarkisian will receive a raise from $5.8 million to $10.3 million for the 2024 season. His salary will increase by $100,000 every year until 2030, the final year of the contract.
Longhorns offensive coordinator Kyle Flood had another year tacked on to his contract, taking him through the 2026 season. His 2024 salary of $1.325 million and his 2025 salary of $1.4 million will not change. He’ll be paid $1.475 million in 2026.
Here's a thought. Maybe it wasn't so much Flood--it was Rutgers and the lack of support they provided to him in a coaching salary pool, facilities and a dingbat DEI AD hire that hamstrung him and the entire athletics department multiple times. Couple that with Flood not being ready to be a HC, not having a good mentor by his side, and then cutting corners and doing some dumb crap- and that explains his tenure as HC at Rutgers.
...you probably just described half of the coaches in college football; it's also why when people throw Flood's name around for HC spots at programs like cuse and/or BC I kind of shake my head. What you're basically saying is that if Flood has near-perfect program conditions he can possibly be a successful HC.
No, the point went way over your head, and you cherry picked what I wrote. He was not ready to be a HC. And he was not given the resources to succeed as a first time head coach. He got shafted on salary, salary pool, facilities and a got a worthless AD who made headlines multiple times, embarrassing the university.
Actually nothing went over my head...and maybe it's *you* with "some sort of different narrative" ('Flood=ultimate victim of circumstance'...which is also 'ok'). Re-read what you wrote and tell me what point I missed. What I'm saying is that even with everything you've outlined you're basically saying that with near-perfect conditions at a blue-blood program Flood would be a good HC...the overwhelming majority of college football programs do not fit that bill.
Nope, not what I am saying at all. Maybe Evelyn Wood's reading dynamics could help out.
...then what are you saying? I'm really not interested in exchanging lame veiled insults with you.
This is tiresome. First of all, it was a cute move to quote only the second paragraph of what I said, and used that to try to change what I said. Context matters, and here's the whole of what I said, and I have bolded the parts that are important for context. I have color coded what I originally said below in bold and matched it up to what I said, versus what you changed what I said. I'm not mad, and I don't want to exhange insults either. I realize fans and people have different views of Flood's tenure at Rutgers. But it was really small potatoes and happened 10 years ago, and what happened then does not disqualify him from another opportunity to be a head coach and possibly succeeding.
