(11-21-2021 03:44 PM)ken d Wrote: It's a strange year if P5 teams would be eager to snap up a coach who just got fired for grossly underperforming.
Harsin has connections through Peterson and he knows West Coast recruiting and has suffered mightily in the SEC in that regard. Still, Ken it is no accident that older coaches are still cherished. They know how to teach and and manage while younger coaches have a hard time delegating and managing and tend to focus on recruiting and play calling. This is why so many schools have talent but no success and why Saban, for one, just keeps developing kids for the draft. Coaches like Fuente are a dime a dozen. They come in with high energy, make an initial splash, and can't manage or teach technique, and often are not a good judge of talent or character.
Then you have the Malzahn's and Freeze's who were successful in high school running a dumbed down streamlined system and putting all athletes on offense and simply outscoring the competition, until they run into a trained defense that learns the pony's one trick. You can put Riley in this category as well.
I disagree with another comment I saw on this board. Wake's coach has not peaked. He has to school lesser recruits to compete. If he can teach he has an upside.
The third type of young coach out there is the medium fish in the small pond. He's good enough to look like a gangbuster in the Mountain West or Sun Belt, and so he is snapped up by a hopeful P5 where he is outcoached by 75% of the league's coaches.
We are in a market with a dearth of coaching talent, hence the 7-10 million salaries for solid but not legendary coaches.
