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RE: New Head Coach PREDICTION Thread
(11-30-2022 11:57 AM)BearcatMan Wrote:  
(11-30-2022 11:21 AM)OKIcat Wrote:  
(11-30-2022 10:28 AM)Edgebrookjeff Wrote:  
(11-30-2022 09:08 AM)BearcatMan Wrote:  
(11-30-2022 08:43 AM)Edgebrookjeff Wrote:  When was the last time it worked for us hiring an established coach?

Brian Kelly and Butch Jones

They were fast rising "up & comers) making the jump from DII to the MAC and then UC. I'd rather have the big name assistant from a proven program. You have a chance of getting a dud no matter which route you take. Let's just wait and see. It seems like the AD knows what he's looking for and isn't unprepared for this process.

Bolded, the risk there is someone who may be a brilliant a functional specialist who can't hire, inspire, and lead a large coaching staff. Case in point? I respected what Rick Minter did for UC and his loyalty through some lean years but my observation was that he was poor at delegating authority and trusting his assistants, hence a lot of assistant coach turnover every season yielding inconsistent results.

Alternately, my understanding is the other finalist when Minter was hired was Jim Tressel who had demonstrated leadership as a national championship head coach at Youngstown State.

Great assistants can become great head coaches, but the degree of risk is likely higher.

The other risk is that most of the "Big Name Assistants" that people are clammoring about seem to be people who don't call plays or don't recruit...or both.

I get the recruiting emphasis, but I'm not sure I get the clamoring for avoiding a "Big Name Assistant" who doesn't call his own plays. I haven't studied it in depth, but I'm guessing most P5 coaches don't call the plays - that's partially why they have an OC. And if it isn't a majority, it's certainly a sizeable number and it in no way impedes a HC from being successful (e.g. Fickell at UC.)

(Apologies for taking this thread even further off its original intent, but I guess it was inevitable...)
 
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RE: New Head Coach PREDICTION Thread - Bearhawkeye - 11-30-2022 05:00 PM
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