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November 29, 2007

Navy's Johnson to be hired at SMU?

From the Department of Never in a Million Years....

Dennis Dodd is reporting that SMU is close to hiring Navy HC Paul Johnson to be the Mustangs next head coach.

The announcement of his hiring could come as soon as early next week. Officials at both schools are thought to want to wait until after Saturday's Army-Navy game.

What? Huh?

Johnson's name has been tied to nearly every vacant head coaching job in the country over the past three years. He is one of the hot names in coaching circles. If you have a BCS job opening, Paul Johnson is somewhere on your list... period. Hot! Hot! Hot!

In other words, he is everything that SMU is not.

The Ponies have produced nothing but an awful string of losses since the NCAA shut down the Mustangs program. Since 1991, SMU has had just two seasons at or above .500 and have never won more than six games in any season. The Mustangs have had four different coaches in those 17 seasons, but the only constant has been the losses.

So... Paul Johnson... and SMU? You could have given me eleventy billion guesses and I never would have come up with SMU. But -- if this goes through -- it may turn out to be the single greatest hiring in the history of college football.

Posted by Kevin Donahue

 

Comments:

  1. gatorhippy Author Profile Page said:

    posted on November 29, 2007 4:34 PM — 209.16.115.5 — link — abuse?



    Damn...

    I was hopin' Coker would end up there...

  2. TampaGator said:

    posted on November 29, 2007 5:34 PM — 64.12.116.136 — link — abuse?



    What a waste.

    Congratulations to SMU...

    ...my condolences to Paul Johnson and family, for the inevitable demise of this brilliantly promising career...

    ...so young...so unexpected...

    ...I at a loss for words...


    GO GATORS!!

  3. Rammer Jammer said:

    posted on November 29, 2007 5:39 PM — 199.89.170.92 — link — abuse?



    What on earth is Paul Johnson thinking?

    Of all the places he could call home; he chooses SMU??????

    Somebody, anybody, please tell me this is a joke.

  4. Tom Blogical Author Profile Page said:

    posted on November 29, 2007 5:40 PM — 24.95.77.153 — link — abuse?



    I betcha he thinks it's the ultimate coaching challenge.

  5. Spartacus Author Profile Page said:

    posted on November 29, 2007 5:41 PM — 72.25.84.228 — link — abuse?



    Please!

    Say it isn't so. I can't beleive this guy goes here.

    Tommie Trojan

  6. BigWarEagle said:

    posted on November 29, 2007 7:29 PM — 68.209.249.179 — link — abuse?



    He will do ok at SMU but he could do great at so many other places. He must be very anxious to jump ship to head to the Mustangs.

  7. FanoftheGame said:

    posted on November 30, 2007 5:27 PM — 198.211.223.194 — link — abuse?



    I must have been giving Paul Johnson way too much credit for being one of the top coaching minds in college football. If he does in fact take the head coaching job for the Mustangs then he can't be too bright.
    SMU is where coaches go to end their careers---not launch them! In order for SMU to become a national power several things need to change other than just getting a good coach.

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