Coaching Search: My 2 Cents
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 9:39 pmI have read some wonderful ideas in the last 24 hours and I would be happy with most of them. Not all, but most.
I want to put an idea out there for people to consider as these names come forward. We are a G-5 school. While we have better facilities than our direct competitors in the G-5, we suffer in comparison to our P-5 competitors. These facilities make a major difference in recruiting. We don't have $20 million coming in annually in TV money to make all of these things happen tomorrow. We need to be smarter and plan better as an organization. In the mean time, how do we off set these challenges and move forward?
Besides the snake oil salesmen on the recruiting trail, I think our next HC and staff need to be innovators. This coach needs to create an offense/defense that our competitors haven't seen and don't really know how to counter - that includes the P-5 schools. They also need to continually innovate that offense or defense. This will create a competitive product and build momentum going forward. This will also make us stand apart from the competition when it comes to recruiting. In 2015 we cannot compete athlete to athlete or building to building. Our next coach needs to change the game, until our O Line physically matches our opponents D Line...etc.
Don't get me wrong, this is not the safest strategy. However, with the challenges we face as an institution this could also be the fastest route to the top
Thoughts...
I want to put an idea out there for people to consider as these names come forward. We are a G-5 school. While we have better facilities than our direct competitors in the G-5, we suffer in comparison to our P-5 competitors. These facilities make a major difference in recruiting. We don't have $20 million coming in annually in TV money to make all of these things happen tomorrow. We need to be smarter and plan better as an organization. In the mean time, how do we off set these challenges and move forward?
Besides the snake oil salesmen on the recruiting trail, I think our next HC and staff need to be innovators. This coach needs to create an offense/defense that our competitors haven't seen and don't really know how to counter - that includes the P-5 schools. They also need to continually innovate that offense or defense. This will create a competitive product and build momentum going forward. This will also make us stand apart from the competition when it comes to recruiting. In 2015 we cannot compete athlete to athlete or building to building. Our next coach needs to change the game, until our O Line physically matches our opponents D Line...etc.
Don't get me wrong, this is not the safest strategy. However, with the challenges we face as an institution this could also be the fastest route to the top
Thoughts...