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I love the hire. I posted this on Saturday right before Louisville lost to Syracuse, but I don't care; I still like him and he is going to be a winner in the SEC. If we don't hire him, we will be sitting around saying "he could have been our coach, now we can't beat him".

If you want to be ky in football go hire strong. He has a 70+ ranking recruiting class at loiusville and has barley won some games they should have had there way with and got pummled by a bad syracuse team. Omg are you guys serious!

I like the idea of hiring him though he's not the "home run" hire we may need. He has had success at a place like Louisville, which isn't the easiest, and more importantly is a defensive-minded coach with years of experience in the SEC. I don't know how well HE recruits, but it seems he's pulled some 4 and perhaps 5 star guys at Louisville. Even if he's not the best recruiter, he can surround himself with great recruiters who are also great coaches.

He's my first choice based on all the names I've heard, including Gruden, but I'm not paid to make that call.

The guy we got now is doing so much better!! Lol!!

He has a pretty good reputation and may be interested in the position. I don't know that much about him. Can he compete in recruiting in the SEC out of the gate?

I haven't seen many Louisville games, but they seem to be playing a lot of mediocre teams close even though they have more talent.

Obviously he would be an upgrade over Dooley, but long term I don't know if he gets us back to a championship level.

Omg let me see that is so hard i realize that might be diffcult for you but lets see Dan Mullen msu coach has actually recruited pretty well in the sec and that is a conference just a little tougher than the daunting Big East. You red

So I'm red? And yet you are the one responding without even understanding my post or giving any factual information to refute my arguements? Instead you just resort to name calling because you can't actually form a logical thought in that sad excuse for a brain that you have? I said find me a coach that could recruit at LOUISVILLE better than Charlie Strong that isn't one of the top 10 biggest names in college football. You can't compare Mullen's recruiting at MSU to Strong's recruiting at L'ville. Two completely different animals. Mullen is recruiting to an up-an-coming SEC school in a state that has better in-state talent while Strong is trying to get kids to come play for a basketball school in the Big East with worse in-state talent than Tennessee. By the way, Mullen's recruiting class rankings both nationally and amongst SEC programs according to Rivals:
2009- 25th overall, 10th in SEC
2010- 38th overall, 9th in SEC
*2011- 44th overall, 10th in SEC
2012- 30th overall, 9th in SEC

Not exactly what I would call "knocking it out of the park". And 2011 was coming off of a 9 win season with a bowl win against Michigan.

Just for fun, let's look at Strong's recruiting at L'ville: (Note: he was hired at L'ville 2 months before NSD in 2010)
2010- 48th overall
2011- 29th overall
2012- 42nd overall

Call me "red" if you want, but I don't see a whole lot of disparity between the two coaches in recruiting, yet Strong is doing it at LOUISVILLE.

So before you go all half-cocked, talking out of both sides of your mouth and calling people names, why don't you take a second, collect your thoughts, and try and form a logical thought in your brain before jotting it down on a message board without any stats or facts to support your claim. And one more thing, it's called punctuation. You should try it sometime in your posts. It would really help all the "reds" like myself understand you "intellects" a lot better. My Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Tennessee didn't help me to understand jibberish.

First quote that defeated your argument, and second quite that defeated your argument.

Sorry bud, but the Big East is still a basketball-first conference. The "competition" is neither relevant, nor equal. Given, Louisville is decent. They did destroy UK and squeaked by UNC. Those are decent wins, but not the quality of major SEC opponents.

And, "better than Gruden" just made me laugh.

Good luck with that argument.

Strong may end up having success in the SEC one day.. I'm not gonna sit here and say he won't, but I don't think he is close to being a slam dunk hire. His defenses were good at Florida, but when was the last time Florida DIDN'T have a good defense? His defense now (in his 3rd year gainst weak competitition) is ranked 46th.

His record prior to this season was 14-12. That's not to dismiss this seaon. They've certainly had a good year, but five of their wins have been by 7 points or less, including one to Florida International and they did just get beat by Syracuse. Yes, Louiville is 9-1. So is Rutgers, in the same conference, yet you don't hear anyone campaigning for Kyle Flood to be our coach. Why? Because everyone knows their conference is terrible so nobody pays them any attention. Why is Charlie Strong so much of a better HC candidate, because he was once able to make Florida's defense as good as the defenses before him AND after him? His defense right now is ranked 46th, in his 3rd year, in the the Big East. I'm not impressed.