Interesting. My immediate reaction was the opposite. His Florida connection and his recruiting upside would be better leveraged in Tampa vs Boulder IMO. Just my thoughts.
Wish he'd go to Colorado! Heard that was an option. Prolly hates the cold! Man, I'd love to see that program get some momentum. Love the Buffs. That was my other school choice for college. Glad I picked UF. Colorado is still the Number one party skool. Ha! Go Gators.
Fantastic move for Deion. Low pressure G5 school. Will recruit the hell out of second level Florida athletes and land a 4 and 5 star kid every other year. He can hone his coaching skills for his eventual move to FSU. Will help them build their new stadium. The house that Deion built. USF can dominate the AAC with UCF and Cincinnati moving to the Big12 next year.
These are the schools that will be in the AAC The University of Alabama at Birmingham – Birmingham, Alabama Florida Atlantic University – Boca Raton, Florida The University of North Carolina at Charlotte – Charlotte, North Carolina The University of North Texas – Denton, Texas Rice University – Houston, Texas The University of Texas at San Antonio – San Antonio, Texas The six universities will join the nine continuing members – East Carolina, Memphis, Navy (football only), South Florida, SMU, Temple, Tulane, Tulsa and Wichita State (basketball and Olympic sports only) - to bring The American’s membership to 15 schools. The American will compete as a 14-team league in football and in men’s and women’s basketball, among other sports.
I'm gonna let the rumors play out first because he may stay where he's at but leaving for USF should hurt his integrity after all his "who is SWAC" bit and 60 minutes interview. Now he was open about entertaining offers when bigger schools come calling but I think it would make him seem pretty damn disingenuous if he were to leave this early into his coaching career to make that jump.
To be fair, this is a bigger school/program/market and outside of FSU he wont get many offers from a big time program. I think this is a smart move. USF should never be this bad and he will probably look like the next Scott Frost when he turns them around.
Did you watch his 60 minutes interview? That doesn't really matter when you claim you are trying to bring HBCUs to light and not give in to the established universities. I would agree with your assessment if he was just a coach moving up the ranks but that isn't how he marketed himself.
