Listen to Dan Patrick of FOX Sports Radio's The Dan Patrick Show discuss ESPN college football host Paul Finebaum's suggestion that Deion Sanders should supplant Lincoln Riley as the next head coach at Southern Cal, as Dan wonders if Deion is going to be the next Kliff Kingsbury of football, as the charismatic enigma who keeps upgrading jobs despite underachieving results.
Check out the segment above as Dan says it's time for Deion to simply prove he can win at a high level in college football, and for the mainstream media to stop projecting him to take every top job in the country while having little on his résumé, and coming off an embarrassing 4-8 season at Colorado in which the team lost eight of its final nine games.
Dan Patrick on ESPN’s Paul Finebaum saying Deion Sanders should be the next head coach of USC:
“Paul Finebaum doesn’t like Lincoln Riley. So now, instead of criticizing Lincoln Riley, he’s promoting Deion Sanders. I don’t know if he truly believes it. I respect Paul. He has a way of getting headlines and he certainly did. I wanna see if Deion can coach. I don’t think that’s asking too much. How about he goes through a recruiting class. Maybe at least three years, maybe four years. You got your son to go there, Travis Hunter went there, but you were at Jackson State when you got them. Now you gotta go out and recruit. Now you gotta go up against everybody else. Do I think him at USC in Los Angeles would be interesting? Absolutely. I just wanna see if he can coach, recruit, strategy in a game... Because last year they were subpar. This year the over/under is 5.5.
Would I have brought in Lincoln Riley? No. Would I have brought in Helton? No. Would I have brought in Lane Kiffin? No. They’ve make a lot of mistakes but you still gotta pay out Lincoln Riley, and I’m gonna guess that’s a pretty big buy-out there. I don’t think USC is in the business of ‘JUST WRITE A CHECK, HE’LL GO AWAY, AND WE’LL BRING IN DEION!’... I don’t see that happening.
Let’s see how Deion does this year. What if he ends up with five wins this year? Are people going to be clamoring for a coach who won four games and five games in back-to-back years?
The Big 12 is not ‘Murderers Row’, you can win these games. Let’s see if they can get past North Dakota State to open the season. How about they get eight wins? How about getting bowl eligible?? Let’s start there. But I’d like to get eight wins out of him.
Is he just gonna hop around? He got there to Colorado and told us he’s there for the long haul.
Paul Pabst: “Deion Sanders feels like he could get a bigger job without winning his way to it.”
Todd Fritz: “Sort of the Kliff Kingsbury effect. He could somehow lose everywhere and keep getting promoted.”
DP: “That’s kind of fair. ‘HEY, A LOSING RECORD AT TEXAS TECH! YOU WANNA BE OUR HEAD COACH!?’
Fritz: “Yeah, but it was a ‘GOOD’ losing record!”
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