(09-22-2021 06:35 PM)franklyconfused Wrote: [ -> ] (09-22-2021 12:51 PM)GoodOwl Wrote: [ -> ]...he's currently a defensive analyst on the #2 ranked Georgia coaching staff as well as their Special Teams Coordinator. Would it have gone better hiring Will than we are doing now? Could we? Should we?
He's special teams coordinator? Despite his Florida Gators getting regularly gashed on special teams fakes? That seems ill suited.
Hasn't seemed to stop him from helping the team he's currently coaching at keep on winning, and their defense has been a big part of it, especially after losing all those players to the NFL last season, but keeps right on rolling.
Georgia is again #1 ranked, heading back to the SEC championship, this time against LSU tomorrow, and a very likely CFP participant again even if they lose tomorrow. Muschamp can't stink all that bad for that to happen two years in a row with him as the co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach at the University of Georgia.
Rice needs to go outside the box a bit when it comes to choosing coaches, especially in today's environment. Taking a chance on a guy too soon, or one that's got a football rep that has been damaged and wants another chance to redeem is okay. If it doesn't work, that is okay as long as Rice is willing to move on sooner rather than later. Problem is partly that Rice holds on to the bad ones too long, and when they have a good one, they don't often want to double down to try to keep them here as long as they can. In fact, almost the opposite of those seems more true sometimes.
Look at Liberty. Did they have any illusions that Freeze would stay forever if he had success there? No. Did they nevertheless double down to try to keep him as long as possible, and by doing so, show that their job was still desirable to anyone else after? Yes. Now they are allegedly after the Coastal coach, who's has great success down the road from them. Why can they seemingly handle this better than a University that is supposedly "smart"?
As for Muschamp, say what you will, he has winner contacts, has done both well and not so well in past and was at one time designated Texas' "head coach in waiting." after Mack Brown, if you remember? He is the co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach at the still #1 and defending national champions University of Georgia. He served as head football coach at the University of Florida from 2011 to 2014 and the University of South Carolina from 2016 to 2020. Maybe he'd like another shot? If someone like him did, why would a school like Rice (or more specifically, Rice) not want to give it to him?
We either need to give a coach a chance that others aren't ready to, or spend a lot more money than we are and hire a guy with built-in recruiting like a Deion Sanders, who two years ago some people were making fun of as a college head coach possibility. Heck try RU Owls for three years and see what happens. At least it will be entertaining and generate some national headlines. There's just Got to be better candidates out there than Bailiff and Bloomgren, but we act like there aren't. I strongly disagree with those who who that sentiment whether fans, former players or admin-types. I'd expect DesRoaches to know better, but maybe he's already been subsumed into the Rice Way of loserdom...or maybe it's the Rice Swamp.