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Post by brandon on Sept 8, 2020 19:22:05 GMT -6
Don’t know if Freeze would take Southern Miss. job? I think his next job will be for a power five school. Hard to tell sometimes... He will have to do a lot before he goes back to a P5 in my opinion. I've always thought Southern Miss as a sleeping giant in the FBS world. If the right guy gets in there, they could be like Boise State and UCF as far as a program. If you've never been to Hattiesburg, think of Florence and the Shoals area in about every way. It's kinda spooky how similar they are. And honestly, that's how I've always envisioned UNA.
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Post by roaringsince96 on Sept 8, 2020 20:01:00 GMT -6
I like the town. We stayed there as go between to New Orleans. Liberty campus is pretty amazing. I would think being back in Mississippi would be more of a distraction and just hard. South Carolina job will likely be open in a year or two...
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Post by tuna85 on Sept 9, 2020 8:56:58 GMT -6
Don’t know if Freeze would take Southern Miss. job? I think his next job will be for a power five school. Hard to tell sometimes... Falwell Jr. was a big supporter of hiring Freeze. Falwell Jr. is now on the outs with Liberty so, who knows how the landscape has changed around Freeze. Just as soon he stays put but, stranger things have happened.
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Post by unafied on Sept 9, 2020 10:50:51 GMT -6
Don’t know if Freeze would take Southern Miss. job? I think his next job will be for a power five school. Hard to tell sometimes... He will have to do a lot before he goes back to a P5 in my opinion. I've always thought Southern Miss as a sleeping giant in the FBS world. If the right guy gets in there, they could be like Boise State and UCF as far as a program. If you've never been to Hattiesburg, think of Florence and the Shoals area in about every way. It's kinda spooky how similar they are. And honestly, that's how I've always envisioned UNA. They had a pretty darn good coach in Jeff Bower and ran him off because he didn't win enough, I guess. And since then they have mostly struggled. But didn't you spend time at USM? I bet you remember him. As for Freeze, I think Auburn wouldn't hesitate to hire him if they get the opportunity. They had no problem hiring Bruce Pearl when he was finishing a show-cause with the NCAA.
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Post by roaringsince96 on Sept 9, 2020 14:30:34 GMT -6
This may be where Mississippi native Will Hall gets his shot?
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Post by brandon on Sept 9, 2020 15:24:29 GMT -6
He will have to do a lot before he goes back to a P5 in my opinion. I've always thought Southern Miss as a sleeping giant in the FBS world. If the right guy gets in there, they could be like Boise State and UCF as far as a program. If you've never been to Hattiesburg, think of Florence and the Shoals area in about every way. It's kinda spooky how similar they are. And honestly, that's how I've always envisioned UNA. They had a pretty darn good coach in Jeff Bower and ran him off because he didn't win enough, I guess. And since then they have mostly struggled. But didn't you spend time at USM? I bet you remember him. As for Freeze, I think Auburn wouldn't hesitate to hire him if they get the opportunity. They had no problem hiring Bruce Pearl when he was finishing a show-cause with the NCAA. Yeah, I was there very briefly. Lots of shady things going on in the athletic department back then, but that's neither here nor there. Freeze being an alum at USM I figure he would get the opportunity if he wants it. What I was getting at, as far as the similarities between Hattiesburg and Florence, both towns (on paper) are around 50k people, both metros around 120k people. Similar in the types of people who live there and both have similar vibes. USM has a good fan base and so does UNA. I would go as far to say UNA has a better fan base. USM has a 45k seat stadium............ UNA, if they would just do it, could market and easily have a 30k stadium. You cant say that USM doesn't have to compete with the SEC or Sun Belt or CUSA like UNA does, because they do. I believe the WAC and CUSA could do some rearranging and both conferences would be better off. Move the west part of CUSA to the WAC and reinstate football. The east could pull in UNA, Liberty, Chattanooga and whomever else. Let JSU join the Sun Belt if they could. My CUSA Liberty Old Dominion Marshall Western Kentucky EKU Charlotte MTSU Chattanooga KSU UNA UAB Southern Miss FAU FIU But that would never happen.......
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