Hope they don’t go after Jimbo. Me thinks Brian Kelly will be getting some more calls now.

I just don’t see Auburn going after him. Do you have any links that list him as a candidate?

they mention the following “prominant” candidates: Muschamp, Leach, Paul Johnson, and Jimbo.

they mention potential candidates: Spurrier, Kelly, Tim Brewster, Turner Gill.

  1. I think Iron Bowl wins may become few and far between for the Tigers. Tough to have much success as a head coach if you can’t beat your ultra-hated rival with some consistency.

 2. In-state recruiting will dry up, if it hasn’t already. The state of Alabama doesn’t produce enough talent to support two elite programs, and Saban is a top three recruiter in the country. There’s plenty of talent in the area outside of Alabama, but you’re still competing with Alabama, Georgia, Florida, LSU, FSU etc. for these players.

  The resources versus expectations calculus just isn’t very favorable.

no doubt he’s contacted Auburn. Leverage, leverage, leverage. The more the merrier for his client and him.

I know FSU is not the best school at the moment and the ACC is not the (Best)cof., but after this year I think Jimbo need to look at a few things.
1) His Off can and will work in the ACC.
2) He can win the ACCCG game next year and /or after that when he gets someone on the Def that can stop the rest of the ACC.
3) He can turn FSU into the USC of the ACC.
Now if he tries to go back to the SEC look at all he has to fight agenst. Bama, UGA, LSU, UF thats to start off. Hes at a school now that he can make a bigger name for himself if he can get BB and MA to step down. Once he takes over FSU should step up and make some space between the other schools. FSU might not beat UF but I think winning the ACC is the first step right now. We need to make it to the OB and get back to being a top 15-10 team again. I pray the boosters see this and pull the plug on BB. FSU needes to keep Jimbo hands down If the Booster cant see this something is down right wrong here. We lose him and we lose everything we have lost everything FSU has worked so hard to get.

There is a serious feeling that it will take bowden 2 – 3 more years to retire.

Reasons -

1. Auburn is not that great a job. (recruiting will be difficult, the location is not that great, the expectations are emmense – especially considering the history of the school, the state can’t keep two programs going and Auburn is not a true national program.

2. FSU – will always be a great potential recruiting school….even if we take a dive, someone good can come in and put us right back on the map. There is to much talent in the state and surounding areas not to. Also, It would take another decade of DUMB to remove us from the national landscape….kids still want to go to FSU.

3. Our boosters won’t let this happen….worst case senario, Jimbo interviews, scares the crap out of them, and gets the deal he really wants – head coach now with higher/fire ability. PS his agent is known for this kind of up selling….and that’s not really bad for us!

I want Jimbo to stay and be head coach, but I won’t lose sleep if he doesn’t, as long as we still clean house and hire an up-and-coming young coach who can recruit.

We just need to take it one step at a time…
Step 1: Inform Bowden that he will be fired if he doesn’t announce his retirement before the bowl game.
Step 2: Inform Jimbo that the job is his as soon as the bowl game is over, and tell him he has X amount of dollars to rebuild the defensive staff. Put the head coaching contract in front of him, and ask him if he still wants to flirt with Auburn.
Step 3: If Jimbo doesn’t sign the contract and wants to flirt with Auburn, throw the contract away, and go find a young head coach who can recruit, whether he’s from the pros or not, and tell him the job is his and he can assemble the staff as he pleases.

I was more referring to just moving on regardless (i.e. taking bowden out of the equation). This is all hypothetical because I seriously doubt Fisher is a legit candidate for Auburn.

Plain and simple: Leverage for Jimbo is leverage for FSU fans. Auburn’s a terrible job, and there’s no way the admin would call his bluff. Work ’em, Coach.

Clemson hired Dabo Swinney when they could have had Tuberville a couple of days later. Poor Tigers.

This could be a blessing or a curse to long suffering FSU fans. It is time Jimbo put some heat on them. Thinking it over I have to believe the administration, boosters and trustees are more savy than to let Fisher leave.

Do they really want more people selling their tickets to gators, more fan grumbling, in short go back to square one, lose recruits and most likely have Trickett leave with him? I don’t think so. Please tell me they have a better handle on it than this.

It is time for BB to head for Panama City. I don’t care if he has 400 wins. He would have been out front on the record long ago without hiring Fredo. One half mil was more important than records so why the heck is anybody else worried about it.

FSU has become to complacent. It is time for the night of the long knives people are tired of this.

I don’t believe Auburn would have eased Tubberville out the door if they had not already had a nod agreement with somebody through agents. They may go through the interview process but I would say somebody has already been hired for all practical purposes.