(12-23-2014 09:00 PM)BandGrad Wrote: I don't see football coming back in 2015. When and if we can get football back, we will have to completely start over and what decent coach in their right mind would come here knowing what has just happened?
No way we could come back in 2015 since we've already been cut out of schedules, and a lot of people already left. An announcement in January that all the teams will be reinstated would be cool, though.
Once the university rids itself of people that don't have any good intentions and football returns, it'd be a team with real support and a blank canvas. Whoever comes won't be confronted with the same nonsense that existed before and there won't be any real expectations until way, way later. If the board attempts to tamper, it'd only lend more credence for people not already in the know to vote for the changes to the board and I would believe that is something they want to avoid at all costs.
A coach would have the ability to implement whatever he wanted with the time to do it the way he wanted. That kind of freedom doesn't come by too often. You don't have to mess with leftover staff or players from previous coaches, you don't have to concern yourself with being on the hot seat when the program was dead before you got there, and there's no way to go but up at this point.
I think they'd be plenty of people interested in the job, especially with the backing of the city, Football Foundation and, hopefully, the new administration backing the building of new facilities and the like. Whoever becomes the athletic director probably won't be beating coaches away with a stick, but I don't believe we'd have to settle for the likes of Callaway. I'd be really happy if Coach Clark was still available but it's not realistic.
Edit: To be a little more on topic, I was watching NFL Live or something and actually caught the beginning of the game but I really couldn't watch it. Our football team going down the way it did really messed up this bowl season for me. Just can't even look at college football without feeling down and I was really, really looking forward to it before all of this. I hope Marshall wins, though.