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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/No_Safety_6803 on 2024-06-03 14:28:11+00:00.
The post about Harsin endorsing Napier got me thinking; who in college football has taken the biggest bag of nothing and just stuffed it with the most cash?
For me it’s Dennis Wayne Franchione. He had some success at TCU – particularly a Sun Bowl win over USC. But it turns out his success was really owed to Garry Patterson’s defense. He parlayed this success into multi-million dollar head coaching gigs at Alabama AND Texas A&M.
After fran left TCU he went 88-79 and his only post season win was a 1 point Independence Bowl victory over Iowa State. His departures from TCU and Bama set the standard for how to leave a program without any class. At A&M he kept trying to make the option happen despite having personnel ill suited to the scheme. He had a secret newsletter he was selling to boosters for $1,200/season that gave the administration the excuse to get rid of him – it contained injury information and even announced the firing of assistants before they were informed. We backed up the money truck for a guy who had absolutely nothing.
Who you got?