Risk/Reward and what i would do with the coaching budget

[Pony Soup]

Intro to life:

Investment opportunity = Risk

[SMU88]

I am not sure about Gil..but you might be on to something...use the money to hire a top notch defense and offense coordinator and a good staff.

[mrydel]

The thing I do not agree with is allowing the assumption that Johnson is a risk. He has a long track record at different levels and has been successful everywhere he has been. I would be very excited with Gill but the fact that you have put equal risk levels on Johnson and Gill makes the whole theory absurd. You are merely playing a money game and that is not right. You could convince me more with a boring verus exciting personality argument rather than money. And a Johnson hire relates to an OLeary hire much more than a Gill hire would.

Is money limited or unlimited? How you allocate it is valid. I am not playing a money 'game' at all. And how can Johnson or anybody else be a sure thing at SMU? Is that what you are saying? THAT sir is absurd. I happen to think a number of coaches could take SMU to a bowl or two if they have the tools. I don't understand this our savior Johnson or bust thing alot of people have recently developed.

What I said was that you have equated the risk as equal. Johnson has years of accomplishments. Gill, no. Johnson is also his own OC so that saves money. Gill, I honestly do not know. You are comparing to completely opposite theorums and that is not proper. If you want to say "let's go for youth, energy, fresh face, man of color, vs. conservative, ploddng but proven history" I can understand, but no it is not just the money. If it were I am sure that Ford et al would drop down another few million so we could be in the BCS championship next year.

I am not a Johnson supporter. I have supported no one since Barnett was nixed. I just think that Johnson could do very well and the signs most recently have pointed to him. If it is him I am fully on board. Just as I would be for Gill or any other hire that is made. I am a fan of SMU not a particular coaching candidate.

[mrydel]

Was a potential Hall of Fame Head Coach Ken Hatfield a sure-thing at Rice?

I am sure he would have been with the Stallion model.

[BrianTinBigD]

Was a potential Hall of Fame Head Coach Ken Hatfield a sure-thing at Rice?

Nothing is a sure thing at Rice except Jess Neely. However, Hatfield is the 2nd winningest coach at Rice. I know things didn't end well at Rice for him but in the 12 years he was there they did actually have 3 seasons that were over .500. He wasn't great at Rice but he was decent at a school that hadn't been relevant in over 30 years.