Johnny Utah wrote:Am I wrong that the "Larry Brown Formula" is the only proven way to go? I'm stunned how anyone wants to take a gamble on an unproven coordinator on the rise. Big schools can gamble on coordinators. Not SMU. Come on everyone, do you all really want to waste 5 years? I mean, wasn't that what Phil Bennett was? Bennett was a great D-Coordinator at K-State, had Texas roots, had energy, focused on the metroplex etc...
How can you even begin to compare Bennett's tenure to any "unprove coordinator on the rise." When Stallion sees your post, he will dismantle it (admissions are better, etc - I'll let him handle that).
Larry Brown is one of the top 5-10 basketball coaches EVER (Pop, Auerbach, Phil Jackson, Coach K, Pitino...). A coach with the LB's pedigree is not walking through this door. Retread coaches rarely work out. See retread coaches who have failed over the past few years: Charlie Weis, Ron Turner, Norm Chow. I'd be curious if you could name a coach outside of George O'Leary, who was a retread that actually was successful.
You named Mike Singletary and Raheem Morris. Neither person has ANY college coaching experience this millennium (Morris coached at Cornell and Hofstra for a total of 3 years in 1997).
Let's take a look at "no name off/def coordinators," who were successful. In parenthesis are their records over the first 3-4 years.
-Mark Richt, former FSU OC, current UGA HC (42-10) (2001-2004)
-Jimbo Fisher, Former FSU OC, current FSU HC (45-10) (2010-2013)
-Ruffin Mcneil, former TTU DC, current ECU HC (29-22) (2010-2013)
-Dabo Swiney, former Clemson WR coach, current Clemson HC (29-19) (2008-2011) He was an interim coach in 2008, and I left out the last 2 years, where he went 22-4
-Mike Gundy, former OC OSU, current OSU HC (27-23) (2005-2008)
-Charlie Strong, former DC UF, former HC L'ville, Current HC UT (37-14) (2010-2013)
-Kliff Kingsbury, former TAMU OC, Current TTU HC (8-5) (2013)
-Mark Helfrich, former OU OC, Current OU HC (11-2) (2013)
-David Shaw, former Stanford OC, Current Stanford HC (34-7) (2011-2013)
-Gus Malzahn, former Auburn OC, former ASU HC, current Auburn HC (21-5) (2012-2013)
Looks pretty stellar to me, and that is a small sample size.
