M Club wrote:I'm not ignoring his success as a defensive coordinator,
Of course you are. You didn't even mention it until I brought it up and even now you're trying to minimize it by ignoring my key point which was the fact that he had had recent success as a defensive coordinator
at Auburn. That is the reason Auburn took a shot on a guy with a losing record as a HC.
though tell me: have you ever seen a wildly successful coordinator not do so well as as a head coach?
Of course. Have I ever blamed any organization for taking a shot at such coordinators? The answer is no. In fact, I have stated my personal hiring preferences if I were an NFL GM or college AD many times.
They won 10 games in 7 years of D-1A ball before Gill got there and were barely competitive in any of their MAC games. It took him two years to change that.
What exactly has changed? They lost somewhat fewer games than they lost before? He's coached one good game in his life. Buffalo was and is a shit team in a shit conference. He changed nothing. Anybody can get lucky once.
Kansas definitely played like Kansas while he was there, fair enough,
You mean they played like a shit team with a shit coach. Honestly, did you ever see any signs of intelligent life on the sidelines when he was there? Did anything at all happen that suggested to you that somebody somewhere was providing these players with adequate preparation?
but pretending like he didn't do a good job at Buffalo
Now
this is one of the most racist statements I've ever read on this forum. 20-30 is not a "good job" by any standard of measurement unless you are applying lower standards of achievement to black people. You could claim that he did a somewhat less shitty job than others at Buffalo but that's not saying much.
It's obvious you don't understand how CFB scheduling works so I'll just tell you there's an uneven competitive terrain and some teams have to schedule guaranteed losses just so they can keep their athletic departments afloat, while some schools just play tough OOC foes out of principle. But ja, that's how I see it going down.
You thought he was going to be great hire at Kansas. I told you he was a loser at Buffalo and would be a loser at Kansas and now you're trying to tell me that
I'm the one who doesn't understand college football because he's (surprise, surprise) losing at Liberty?
The scoreboard says 25-53.