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(01-24-2023 05:11 PM)58-56 Wrote:  

(01-24-2023 04:50 PM)busch Wrote:  I'm not saying he won't do well. Time will tell. But he has not won as a coach at every level. He won in high school. Now, he must prove he will win at the college level.

Now that we have FACILITIES (in remembrance of %^#$NBLAZER), a considerable investment, I doubt we had the resources to hire someone who's "won at every level." Not without some baggage - sexual, addiction, whatever - attached.

As I've ranted before, I think all college coaches/admins are highly overpaid. I can see paying Scarlett Johanssen huge dollars, because her value to a movie vs. an equally pretty, equally talented unknown can be measured quite accurately. Put her name on a poster, and that added value can be expressed as a known number.

That's not true in college football. I enter into evidence one Fisher, Jimbo. The difference is that there can always be one more hit movie, but football is by definition a zero-sum game. For every game won, there must be a game lost. That makes the investment in a coach far less solid than in an actress (or just about any other sought-after talent). Yes, the movie revenue pool has limits, but it can be stretched. The pool of wins cannot be altered.

When Charlotte Biffed their own hire, I thought them insane. Then I realized what they had done: unable to hire a "proven winner," unwilling to hire a second-tier talent or known drunk/pervert, they got weird.

I believe that we also needed to get weird. We have done that. Dilfer is pretty weird.

As for the agents and coaches not liking it, well, of course they don't. "People whose buddy/client didn't get a payday aren't happy" is not exactly a condemnation.

I am comfortable with our Weird Dude and his Weird Staff.

I agree about probably having limited resources this time due to recent facility projects and AAC start up costs. Knowing that, we went outside the box on a hire that potentially gives you a higher upside and more bang for the buck.

If it doesn't work out, we go back to the drawing board in 3-4 years likely with more resources than this go around.