SMU Football Blog wrote:Who is going to recruit such that we can salvage recruiting? Neither the interim coach nor the remaining staff will recruit ... for SMU. They may recruit for themselves in hopes of convincing someone to come over when they get to their next job.
Do you actually think you can hire somebody now? Even to start the moment the season is over? That notion is so stupid it doesn't even merit discussion.
BTW, Butch Davis was hired with 2 weeks left in the season. Other than Terry Bowden or an impossibly awful retread I am not thinking of, I can't imagine any coach out there that is unemployed and capable of even interviewing by then. Oh, and even UNC waited until Bunting as guaranteed a losing record before firing him.
THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WILL BE TO HIRE THE RIGHT GUY, not the guy available right now.
It is very likely that we will have secured our losing recored in early November. I think Mike Shula is unemployed and would make for an interesting candidate for our job. Larry Coker is out there, but I would say he is potentially the definition of an awful retread.