Ross Should Make a Run at Jimbo Fisher

[Daytona Fin]

From Mike Bianchi of the Orlando Sentinel

Leave it to the wayward, woebegone Miami Dolphins to mess up their coaching search before it even begins.

During this holiday season, the Dolphins are dreaming of a Jiminy Christmas except they seem to be dreaming about the wrong Jiminy.

Or should I say the wrong Jimmy?

All indications point to the Dolphins and owner Stephen Ross again making a futile run at fellow Michigan man and San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh when, really, they should be targeting Florida State head coach Jimbo Fisher.

Now don't get me wrong, I don't believe Jimbo will or should leave FSU, but if I were Ross, I'd take a bunch of that money he annually contributes to his alma mater — the University of Michigan — and contribute it to the Jimbo Fisher coaching fund instead. Offer Fisher $8 million a year — double his salary at FSU — give him full control of personnel and try to convince him to coach at the sport's highest level and turn the perennially mediocre Dolphins into champions.

"I never had an urge to go to the NFL," Jimbo told me earlier this week. "I like college kids. I don't think you ever say never in this business – I've learned that – but I don't have a drive to go to the NFL; that's not an ultimate goal. I like the interaction of recruiting and then developing these college kids when they're 18-22 (years old). It's fun. It really is."

I'm convinced Fisher would be an amazing pro coach. He's an innovator and a motivator who possesses the single-minded obsession with "coaching ball" that all the great NFL coaches have. And it's not like he doesn't have experience in dealing with and massaging the massive egos he would encounter in the NFL. He recruits the premier athletes in the country and has somehow convinced them to buy into FSU's team concept and "we're a family" philosophy.

"In a four-year term, they (FSU) have put together one of the best prescription models of impact (GPS) data across all sports," sports scientist Gary McCoy told the Sentinel's Brendan Sonnone. "I'll walk into NFL clubs and they'll ask who's doing it better than anybody. I say, 'Florida State University.' "

Are you listening, Stephen Ross?

You better be.

Your franchise is falling further and further into the abyss of irrelevance.

Personally, I think Fisher would be a fool to leave FSU, but the Dolphins would be even bigger fools if they didn't try to convince him to do just that.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/spor...lphins-mike-bianchi-1218-20141217-column.html

 

[Phinatic8u]

no.

 

[Hayden Fox]

No thanks.

 

[BahamaFinFan78]

Don't pay enough attention to them, can someone run down the pros and cons?

 

[Hayden Fox]

Joe will come back anyways.

 

[andyahs]

No

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[Hayden Fox]

I did not have him on my initial list, but Gary Kubiak could a very solid hire. It would put Tannehill into a new offense, but I think Kubiak could coach the kid up.

 

[Bumpus]

This idea smells like the Saban debacle 2.0

Coach loves the college game ...


Move along, nothing to see here.

 

[DefensiveEnd76]

He doesn't have the drive to go to the NFL. That's all you need to know. Stay away from him!!!!

 

[Bob512]

No

 

[Vaark]

This type of column epitomizes "The Infinite Monkey Theorem." (wiki it)

 

[BlueFin]

He doesn't have the drive to go to the NFL. That's all you need to know. Stay away from him!!!!

"Never say never he said".....remember, these high profile College coaches have to be careful what they say publicly as it can greatly effect his recruiting if he is viewed as possibly leaving.

Did any of you really expect him to say something like this?................"Well, ultimately the Pro's is where I want to be.......I'm just waiting for the offer and I'm outta here"

Of course not......you'd have to be naive to think that.

 

[mahmacoat]

---------- Post added at 06:36 AM ---------- Previous post was at 06:35 AM ----------

At LSU he helped to develop a number of outstanding college quarterbacks, including Josh Booty, Rohan Davey, Matt Mauck and JaMarcus Russell.

impressive list

 

[cash]

No drive no urge, no dream of coaching in NFL. He likes to recruit, he likes college kids. Yet we should take him out of all of that and make him our head coach. Typical fin heaven logic

 

[Perfect23]

I did not have him on my initial list, but Gary Kubiak could a very solid hire. It would put Tannehill into a new offense, but I think Kubiak could coach the kid up.

The thought of that makes me nauseated.