Questions for the doomsayers

[PhirePhilBennett]

Who have we missed out on....to name a few:

- Terry Bowden

- Paul Johnson

- Houston Nutt


...And it's not so much that we missed out as we are screwing ourselves in recruiting everday we don't have a coach. (and yes I understand the dead period)

Really? Let's see...

Terry is still available

Paul was on the market only AFTER the Army-Navy game - so our 'waiting' didn't CAUSE us to miss out on him

Houston Nutt, last time I checked, was employed by Ol' Miss 3 hours after he resigned from Arkansas...so again, our 'waiting' had nothing to do with 'missing out' on him


Try again

[PhirePhilBennett]

Let's see here:

Paul Johnson & Houston Nutt:

-If we wanted them, we could have offered them $2,000,000 a year the day after we fired Bennett and 3 weeks before other teams fired their coaches. Especially, for Johnson, this would have been very hard to turn down considering he had not yet beat Notre Dame, as well as he would have had no options to weigh but one.

Nutt too, would have not yet beat LSU and $2,000,000 would have looked pretty good. I think we waited around with our thumbs up our [deleted] and look what happened. You snooze you lose.

As Far as Terry Bowden - Now that West Virginia (a.k.a. his Dream Job) has opened up it's safe to say he is not coming to the hilltop. ANd if you don't think he would be a coach, I can't help you.

Do ya really think we would have been able to 'offer' them with 4 weeks left in THEIR seasons? I don't think their ADs would have allowed us to contact them, first of all, and if we didn't have permission, SMU would be liable for interference with contract.

idiot.

[PhirePhilBennett]

1. who exactly have we 'missed out' on by Orsini waiting SOOO long?

2. who exactly is out there that we can't get if we wait a little any longer?

everyone chill out

Better question is: Who are we "interested in" that we could not have hired last week (Assuming there is interest from a particular candidate)? And don't look like an idiot and suggest some currently active NFL head coach leading his team to the playoffs, cuz that ain't happening.

Exactly. Who are we 'interested with' that we missed out on by 'waiting sooooooo long'

please. Anyone we can have right NOW is goign to be there if we wait a bit further.

The only NEGATIVE is what is the cost in recruiting by not hiring an 'available' coach now VERSUS what we will get recruiting with the more 'wow' coach. Even then, we are ahead with a better coach.

The only way this works against us is IF we hire an 'available' coach in the end that would could have had 4 weeks ago.

Having said that, that is the risk Orsini is willing to take. That's the risk he took going after PJ (he could have hired Bowden perhaps, and he is still available, but he waited for PJ to be available). He's doing it again.

'nuff said.