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(11-28-2018 10:38 AM)TubaCat Wrote:  I see Neal Brown at Troy and Scott Satterfield at Appalachian State as much more proven than BDF at this point. Those guys have gotten their programs punching well above their weight now for 4-6 years. Fickell, by comparison, has conducted a fast rebuild but has otherwise just gotten Cincinnati to where we expect to be most years, given our rich talent & resources (relative to the G5) and this year's light schedule.

Fickell deserves a lot of credit for being a year ahead of schedule, but if I were an AD, his track record isn't as proven yet as some like Brown's and Satterfield's. I'd want to see what Fickell's system looks like in another year or two, with more of his own recruits, against better competition. That would give me a better idea of what Fickell brings to the table.

Unless we start winning NY6 bowls, I'm not concerned about losing Fickell anytime in the next few years to anyone but MSU... not in the slightest. I just hope we can increase the staff budget substantially to hold onto guys like Freeman.

See, this is where I can't figure out why the hell ECU isn't moving on Satterfield (in particular) at this point. Yeah, I get where they still have "a game" remaining in their season, but why not simply announce that Montgomery isn't coming back next year but let him finish out (no way ECU wins against NC State anyway...), and jump on Satterfield before someone else does. But they'll dick around until after New Year's, the few good candidates will be gone or signed to decent contract extensions, and they'll end up either keeping Montgomery on or hiring some retread who's desperate to get back into the game (like Butch).

I know I'm not happy about sharing a conference with dregs like Tulsa and Tulane, but ECU is a real disappointment. At one time they had a good football program to offset their miserable basketball team. But they don't even have that anymore.