Nah... his 15 minutes of fame is old and tired.wifeisafurd said:
Wish Sonny the best, but it is time to move on.
Bobodeluxe said:
Looks like 7-0.
What have we learned from Sunshine's Head Coaching record? Evidence show he could be good at small-time schools like LT and SMU, but his only try at P-5 level produced misery, defeat, and NCAA record-setting putrid defenses. So, I wish our ex-HC luck at SMU, or any other G-5 schools where teams with no defense could still win. On the other hand, I offer my condolences for any P-5 program (Arkansas maybe?) desperately enough to retread Sunshine Dykes.sycasey said:
Dykes is a good fit at SMU, a mid-major school in Texas. He was not a good fit at Cal.
FremontBear said:What have we learned from Sunshine's Head Coaching record? Evidence show he could be good at small-time schools like LT and SMU, but his only try at P-5 level produced misery, defeat, and NCAA record-setting putrid defenses. So, I wish our ex-HC luck at SMU, or any other G-5 schools where teams with no defense could still win. On the other hand, I offer my condolences for any P-5 program (Arkansas maybe?) desperately enough to retread Sunshine Dykes.sycasey said:
Dykes is a good fit at SMU, a mid-major school in Texas. He was not a good fit at Cal.
Yes, he's from Texas and has little network in California. I could excuse Sonny for that and give him time to develop necessary recruiting pipelines in California, and rest of the West Coast, had he shown inkling of doing so. Instead, Cal fans hear he made little attempt to network Northern California, including some of the best programs in the Bay Area, programs like DSL. So, was the problem Dykes needed more time (than 4 years) to network in the West, or was it because he didn't really care to? I vote the latter.sycasey said:FremontBear said:What have we learned from Sunshine's Head Coaching record? Evidence show he could be good at small-time schools like LT and SMU, but his only try at P-5 level produced misery, defeat, and NCAA record-setting putrid defenses. So, I wish our ex-HC luck at SMU, or any other G-5 schools where teams with no defense could still win. On the other hand, I offer my condolences for any P-5 program (Arkansas maybe?) desperately enough to retread Sunshine Dykes.sycasey said:
Dykes is a good fit at SMU, a mid-major school in Texas. He was not a good fit at Cal.
And he's also from Texas and had no real ties to players or coaches on the west coast. He's better off staying close to home.
Good for him. If you subscribe to The Athletic you would have seen an article where Sonny himself talks about how lucky he is to have been the benefactor of 22 transfers (primarily P5 level players like his QB) via the Portal.MiZery said:
Old and Tired Sonny just beat his second ranked team of the year - and is now 7-0.
socaltownie said:
There are two posts I need to put into a save file someplace and just cut and paste. I have to repeat them early and often.
The first is why structural changes in the landscape of college football (and arguably professional sports) has created a "sellers market" for Furd for a certain sort of athlete looking for a particular college choice and why it is fools gold to compare us to them....when the right benchmark for us is really Washington, Michigan and Wisky.
The second is why Sonny/TFS does well in the G-5 and not in the P-5.
The reason is that the P-5 is LOADED with guys that will play on Sunday who play corner and safety. That allows teams to more frequently play either man to man or zone with man principals on the outside and not get burned. They have the athletes to defend all the junk that TFS and Sonny throw at people.
Now will you get yardage? Absolutely! You will also, occasionally, get a breakdown and hit a play that gains a lot of yardage. But you will have a dickens of a time stringing together 8-9-10 play drives that end in a score. Over the course of plays you will throw an incomplete, a holding penalty will be called, your QB or WR will not make the same read on the play and thus run the right route that options not off the play book but on the look. Just stuff "happens". And then you get a 3 or 4 and out and your defense, which had all of a 40 second blow, is right back out there.
You also recruit pass blocker and not run blockers. Not that important when you can flood the secondary and reliably pick up 3rd and 2. BIG TIME problem when you go against P-5 D lines that your guys can not move. If you watched Sonny at Cal OVER AND OVER we would fail to get third and short. Honestly the best thing teams could do against sonny was put us in running situations and then laugh at our ineptitude.
And all you needed to understand that is to watch how BADLY Sonny struggled against Shaq Thompson who simply laughed at everything the TFS threw at him. Now is Shaq an amazing player? Sure. But the fall off from Shaq to other top line P-5 secondary players is not that great.