That is all well and good. He has still taken a UCF team that was consistently bad and got them to a BCS game and won.
Was consistently bad? They still are. Looking at previous seasons, this 12-1 season is an anomaly. They have a losing season, a couple of 8-4/5 winning seasons, another losing season, one winning season, a losing season, etc. O'Leary is not showing that he's a good coach who is consistently improving the team; he's just having sporadic success in a shitty conference. Connecticut also went to a BCS bowl once, but that doesn't make Edsall a high profile coach that should be considered for an SEC HC position.
Remind be when Vandy made it to a BCS game?
The SEC is a completely different animal from the AAC. Put Vandy in the AAC and UCF in the SEC. I honestly don't see how you could argue that O'Leary would have the same success, and thus deserves a position in the SEC.
I get that you are upset that Franklin left, I would be too. I just find it somewhat laughable you were dogging the man a few threads back. I wouldn't be so quick to thumb my nose at the likes of an O'leary. You better hope that David Williams is as good as you think.
I appreciate what Franklin has done, but at the same time, he lied. Call it coach speak or whatever term you want to in order to put it a spin on it, but he lied. Like Snags said, he spoke of Vandy and the challenge that came with Vandy as if it were a dream job for him. Then he drags us along for the better part of a week before leaving. There's nothing laughable about respecting what he did while he was here yet also recognizing that what he previously said was, in light of recent actions, a lie.
Maybe you've got some sort of weird fetish for O'Leary, but he's not a good coach in my opinion. Not horrible, but not good. There's a reason why he was once considered as being on the rise but then was relegated to UCF; no one's been scrambling to get him for years. I'm not under the illusion that Vandy is suddenly a powerhouse, but I do know that we deserve better and can get better than O'Leary, a coach that's had his own past issues with lying and an inability to build a consistent football program in the AAC.