A Sea Of Red

Follow

Hustle Belt
‏@HustleBelt
Turner Gill to Western Michigan? Probably not, but rumors are fun. http://sbn.to/QS0Aye

Indiana State head coach Trent Miles
Liberty head coach Turner Gill
Towson head coach Rob Ambrose
Notre Dame defensive coordinator Bob Diaco
Syracuse defensive coordinator Scott Shafer
Kent State offensive coordinator Brian Rock

from USAtoday

http://www.usatoday.com/story/gameon/20 ... t/1711775/

Here we go again...

He isn't going anywhere this year but 3 or 4 years from now if he has Liberty making noise again then don't be surprised. He never said this is where God wants him for life or anything close to that like another former Liberty coach. Liberty is a stepping stone school, its how it is for schools like us. We aren't so special to be immune to that.

Yeah. i dont believe he is going anywhere. Plus its western Michigan

Can't help but laugh at this.

thepostman wrote:He isn't going anywhere this year but 3 or 4 years from now if he has Liberty making noise again then don't be surprised. He never said this is where God wants him for life or anything close to that like another former Liberty coach. Liberty is a stepping stone school, its how it is for schools like us. We aren't so special to be immune to that.

I agree completely. I think it'd be naive to think that a coach with the name recognition of Gill will stay at LU long term if we stay in our same position, unless we show him the money and get ourselves into a better position for success (i.e. FBS) then he'll take the first good job out of town. We can't expect a coach at his level to stay in FCS for long. I'd love nothing more than for him to stay here long term, but the realities of CFB tell me otherwise. He won't go somewhere like WMU, but say a Louisville, Kentucky, USF (just examples) or any other second or first tier college football program comes calling, he'll be gone.

...and rumor has it Donald Trump wants to buy Liberty and coach the football team. He also wants to move the Miss America pageant on campus...

He's not going, but Western Michigan isn't a bad program at all.

He won't be leaving in this offseason for a MAC school. Turner Gill may be using Liberty as a stepping stone or even an intermittent gig, but I can see him as a potential long term fixture. If he experiences success on the field and enjoys recruiting Liberty players, he may choose to make Lynchburg his home.

ProudPapa73 wrote:...and rumor has it Donald Trump wants to buy Liberty and coach the football team. He also wants to move the Miss America pageant on campus...

You say that like its a bad thing!

thepostman wrote:He isn't going anywhere this year but 3 or 4 years from now if he has Liberty making noise again then don't be surprised. He never said this is where God wants him for life or anything close to that like another former Liberty coach. Liberty is a stepping stone school, its how it is for schools like us. We aren't so special to be immune to that.

Tell that to our AD.

IMHO Coach Gill is not leaving. But if Coach Gill did in fact leave for Western Michigan (with former LU coach Karcher at Eastern Michigan), we'd pretty much have all of Michigan covered from east to west.