Robbie Caldwell Resigns
by KingJamesIV on Nov 27, 2010 12:19 PM EST
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PrintNews just came out that Vice Chancellor David Williams and Vanderbilt Commodores head football coach Robbie Caldwell have agreed that it would be in the football team's best interests for Robbie to resign, effective after the Commodores' game with Wake Forest later today.
Earlier this week I received an email from a source that asked to remain anonymous that the Board of Trust had met and that they decided that Robbie Caldwell would be let go, and that their preference would be to bring in an experienced D-I coach regardless of cost, and that the only assistant to be considered would be Gus Malzahn.
I was unable to verify the rumor through some contacts that I have and trust. Whether or not the Board of Trust actually has met, the first portion of that email has come true. After tonight, Robbie Caldwell will no longer be the head football coach at Vanderbilt.
Let's hope we can say the same for the second half of the rumor.
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Let the wild coaching rumor mill begin!
I read a piece last week about Minnesota hiring Leach — they interviewed him and he repeatedly mentioned his graduation rates and his ability to build a program up from nothing. There are not too many places that care about both of those points.
Peace through Speeches
by My real name is Dick Whitman on Nov 27, 2010 12:53 PM EST reply actions
that should be
Minnesota maybe hiring Leach; the reporter interviewed him, not the university. Sorry for the ambiguities.
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by My real name is Dick Whitman on Nov 27, 2010 12:58 PM EST up reply actions
More unusual timing for coaching decisions...
I understand that this will play a factor in motivation…but why release this today when it’s going to get widely swept under the rug thanks to a huge slate of games today? Why not just tell the players/staff privately to motivate them, then break this tomorrow where it could actually get some coverage?
…Unless they want to sweep the Caldwell era under the rug…
by Christian D'Andrea on Nov 27, 2010 1:13 PM EST reply actions
Gus Malzahn
Chris Low reporting that VU already inquiring into Gus Malzahn
http://espn.go.com/blog/sec/post/_/id/17259/malzahn-at-top-of-vanderbilts-list
I would be beyond excited if this happened.
Um...
High school to SEC head football coach in 5 years? Not sure I think that’s a step in the right decision. We all know Vanderbilt isn’t going to attract the Cam Newtons or the Mitch Mustains (!) of the world…
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by My real name is Dick Whitman on Nov 27, 2010 2:54 PM EST up reply actions
He may be the hottest thing going...
…but I don’t think I want somebody making this his first head coaching stop. Either he’ll go HUGE and be gone in three years, or he’ll be ghastly and we’re back to square one.
Known goods only. At least this time around.
"Well, if that ain't a show, I'll kiss your ass." - Gov. Jim Folsom Sr. (D-AL), 1948-52
Sad to see
I like Robbie, but I don’t think it was going to get any better. The real shame is, it seems like he was a pretty good o-line coach. But he and all the staff got their extra year out of it when they probably would have been history if we had a chance to hire one.
I hope we don’t lose Hand out of this. It would be a real shame to have had him for a year and really not gotten much chance to let him do anything. Of course, if we got Malzahn, I imagine he’d keep his old pal Herby around as O-Coord.
This will definitely be interesting.
Any suggestions of possible “experienced” D-1 coaches that might actually come here? I’d imagine it would have to be someone from a non-BCS conference or currently unemployed like Leach or Fulmer(not saying that should happen).
I’ve heard Tommy Tubberville’s name thrown around as well as Tommy Bowden’s. Not sure how much stock to put into these, but those are some big names I’ve heard thrown out there.
Pleaugh.
Two guys who caught lightning in a beer bottle one year each at Auburn? And have been mediocrities everywhere else? Thank you kindly, but if they can’t win at a place throwing six figures at quarterbacks, how are they going to break four wins at a place where the players have to spell CAT without being spotted the C and the A?
Add this to my rant below: unless it’s going to wind up with us in a Sugar Bowl, NOBODY with any history WHATSOEVER of NCAA trouble. If we have to take this thing as far as it can go, and wind up vacating a national championship, well, maybe the two years in between would be worth it, but I don’t see that happening. The last thing we need is to catch probation on account of some jackass who coaches ’em up to a whopping 4-8.
"Well, if that ain't a show, I'll kiss your ass." - Gov. Jim Folsom Sr. (D-AL), 1948-52
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I think you have to roll the dice and go for a young up and coming coach. Kevin Sumlin at Houston would be a good place to start looking.
by ATLVANDY on Nov 27, 2010 3:56 PM EST via mobile reply actions
I just love that after 6 hours
we have 10 posts here. GO APATHY!
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by My real name is Dick Whitman on Nov 27, 2010 7:11 PM EST reply actions
Sadly, 10 posts is an unqualified success here. View are great, comments are usually restricted to a dedicated few. Its gotten better lately though, especially for basketball.
Great to have you on board, by the way
by Christian D'Andrea on Nov 28, 2010 12:46 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
Sigh.
First off, ave atque vale, Robbie Caldwell. You handled twenty pounds of feces in a ten pound sack with class and grace, between the circumstances under which you took the job and the carnage on the injury front. Best of luck going forward.
Now…
I don’t want to hear any more garbage about “Navy’s offensive coordinator” or some up-and-comer from East Roast Beef or anything like that. We were on the verge of turning a corner two years ago and instead we dropped off a cliff. Meanwhile, Stanford is on the verge of a BCS bowl. Northwestern is playing in bowls on or around January 1 lately. Everyone else somehow figures it out.
Now hear this: It’s 2010 and our athletic teams are respectable-to-competitive-to-fearsome pretty much across the board, with one exception. It’s time for the trustees and the big-money donors to get out the checkbook and put together the money to go out and get a KNOWN GOOD BCS-CONFERENCE HEAD COACH. Somebody with a track record and a winning history, and if it takes $5 million a year? Consider it an investment in the credibility of a program that just lost to the 110th-ranked team in Division I football. At home.
No rush hires, no longshots, no rolling the dice – take the time and spend the money and GET THE RIGHT GUY. I’m sick to death of being a laughingstock, of being the odd team out when TEN OTHER TEAMS in the conference are going to bowls, of beating our “rival” once every quarter-century, of sitting around on Saturdays wondering “how are we going to screw it up this week,” of being the cautionary tale for my wife and her other Cal alums of “it could be worse.”
I don’t want excuses. I want WINNERS. And it has to start at the top. Now.
"Well, if that ain't a show, I'll kiss your ass." - Gov. Jim Folsom Sr. (D-AL), 1948-52
by VandyImport on Nov 28, 2010 1:37 AM EST reply actions 3 recs
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It’s on the Board of Trust. They have the money. Hell, the Ingrams alone have the money. Zeppos and Williams answer to them anyway.
If they make a great hire, I’ll be singing their praises. If it sucks, don’t blame Zep and DW. Blame this bunch.
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