Yep, OU doesn't have the personnel to compete in the SEC. Can't fire the team, so someone has to go. Venables is next and it could be at the end of the season. Some guys are just good coordinators, and not meant to be a HC.
Your original gripe is the idea that we need to up our NIL game to be any good while then listing a program ranked lower than us in the graph. Zero logic.
And for what it's worth, Navy and Army pay their head coaches significantly more than we do. Morris has a base salary of 900k and total compensation of about 1.3 million. Army's HC is at 2.0 million and Navy at 1.8 million. We'd also be undefeated with Army's schedule BTW. Take a look at it. Either way, NIL or not, we're not spending like the top AAC programs.
Smatresk and Wren deserve majority of the credit for modernizing the program. And leaving out Coach Mac is a big oversight IMO. It ended badly for Mac but he is the one that elevated expectations around here to fit the new stadium. Seth did his best to meet those raised expectations. So I disagree he elevated the program. He didn’t hurt it either. But also other coaches in our conference (and other G5s) operating with less over a shorter amount of time to build their programs routinely beat his teams.
The program has been bad but it not like he was recruiting to subpar training facilities, with an subpar budget and a Fouts Field beyond repair. He didn’t elevate us to mediocre we were already there.
Admittedly I have not. My question to you is how much of that falls on the teams they've played? We've seen what 2-5 looks like over the years. We know how bad a team has to be on all sides of the ball to go 2-5. They've played 4 teams who are 2-5, one who's 1-6 in UAB, and ECU who just fired their coach. We'd be undefeated with their schedule too.
Having gotten on campus in 2005, the run from 05-15 only saw one season I was proud of. That was so miserable. I didn’t get to experience the joys of the years prior and spent a decade in my favorite hobby’s hellhouse. I appreciate Seth for modernizing the program, giving us something to finally cheer about (before, apart from a solid 2013 and a handful of small wins here and there, there wasn’t much) and some hope for a while. So I would definitely say he elevated the program. Not to crazy heights but it was better than how he found it. I think Smatresk and Wren deserve a lot of credit for all of that elevation too.
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