Unlike other rankings, based on opinions of football writers and other self proclaimed "experts" , this one from Pete Thamel at Sports Illustrated is Based on interviews with agents, coaches, search firms and athletic directors. The link below provides the rankings. Since this one is based on actual input from those involved in hiring and filling these positions, it clearly holds a lot more water than any other ranking of this sort.
Some Excerpts from the Rutgers potential vacancy, which is listed as part of the lower tier jobs along with Syracuse, Purdue, Colorado and several others.. :
"This may be the most difficult job to project, as there's so much uncertainty and SO LITTLE INTEREST among accomplished coaches."
"With so many other low-tier jobs Power 5 expected to open, don't expect many hot coaches to jump at Rutgers, which is in the conversation with Indiana for the worst job in the Big Ten East. Rutgers also may be the WORST MAJOR CONFERENCE JOB ON THE MARKET. That could force the Scarlet Knights to go outside the box with a retread, FCS coach, obscure coordinator or below-the-radar coach. "
So many of you have your own opinions of why the RU job is more attractive than it is, but when it comes down to the people who are actually making the decisions and filling the jobs you can see from this article where the RU job really ranks. Whether it be with a new interim coach to replace Flood, or sticking with Flood, it's going to require many years of facilities improvement and steady increase in program stature before we will be able to lure any proven P5 coach that many of you think will come here just based on some big bucks we may be willing to throw at them . And some people have actually expressed the ridiculous notion that we would be able to lure someone like that right now, with the right amount of $$. Not even close. Sure looks like the interested candidates in this job, if it does open, are going to be slim. Very slim. No-one that is going to move the Richter scale of most Rutgers fans. Does the administration feel they should spend a lot more money now, to get a retread that they believe will only help us tread water for a few more years or stick with the current regime at no additional costs, continue to tread water, and hopefully show improvement. With hopes in the future when the money arrives and the facilities are in place... the job might rise to the lower echelon of the middle tier and be able to attract a little bit better quality candidate. Will be interesting to see what happens. Whatever it is, I'll be there weekly, rooting the guys on as I have for 30+ years. RU has been successful in steadily building the program from an Ivy League type level to getting the Big East to invite us, then steadily improving even further to interest the B1G in us. Now the hardest part is ahead of us. Doing something that so many schools in the lower tier of power 5 conferences have strived to do and rarely been successful. Move to the middle tier... then some day possibly 10 -20 years after that, perhaps we can build it up enough to crack the lower top of the top tier. But who knows if that will ever be able to happen. The whole fan base has to have much more patience. In the famous words of GS, "it's a process"
http://www.campusrush.com/al-golden...n-miami-usc-coaching-corousel-1423076703.html
Some Excerpts from the Rutgers potential vacancy, which is listed as part of the lower tier jobs along with Syracuse, Purdue, Colorado and several others.. :
"This may be the most difficult job to project, as there's so much uncertainty and SO LITTLE INTEREST among accomplished coaches."
"With so many other low-tier jobs Power 5 expected to open, don't expect many hot coaches to jump at Rutgers, which is in the conversation with Indiana for the worst job in the Big Ten East. Rutgers also may be the WORST MAJOR CONFERENCE JOB ON THE MARKET. That could force the Scarlet Knights to go outside the box with a retread, FCS coach, obscure coordinator or below-the-radar coach. "
So many of you have your own opinions of why the RU job is more attractive than it is, but when it comes down to the people who are actually making the decisions and filling the jobs you can see from this article where the RU job really ranks. Whether it be with a new interim coach to replace Flood, or sticking with Flood, it's going to require many years of facilities improvement and steady increase in program stature before we will be able to lure any proven P5 coach that many of you think will come here just based on some big bucks we may be willing to throw at them . And some people have actually expressed the ridiculous notion that we would be able to lure someone like that right now, with the right amount of $$. Not even close. Sure looks like the interested candidates in this job, if it does open, are going to be slim. Very slim. No-one that is going to move the Richter scale of most Rutgers fans. Does the administration feel they should spend a lot more money now, to get a retread that they believe will only help us tread water for a few more years or stick with the current regime at no additional costs, continue to tread water, and hopefully show improvement. With hopes in the future when the money arrives and the facilities are in place... the job might rise to the lower echelon of the middle tier and be able to attract a little bit better quality candidate. Will be interesting to see what happens. Whatever it is, I'll be there weekly, rooting the guys on as I have for 30+ years. RU has been successful in steadily building the program from an Ivy League type level to getting the Big East to invite us, then steadily improving even further to interest the B1G in us. Now the hardest part is ahead of us. Doing something that so many schools in the lower tier of power 5 conferences have strived to do and rarely been successful. Move to the middle tier... then some day possibly 10 -20 years after that, perhaps we can build it up enough to crack the lower top of the top tier. But who knows if that will ever be able to happen. The whole fan base has to have much more patience. In the famous words of GS, "it's a process"
http://www.campusrush.com/al-golden...n-miami-usc-coaching-corousel-1423076703.html
