Stallion wrote:and what you don't seem to understand is that none of these Coaches we keep talking about may be interested in SMU or Turner has no interest in them. There are plenty of great coordinators who have made great head coaches. Only uninformed posters would even suggest otherwise. I can go right down that list of coaches and cast great doubt on the possibility they are SMU's next Coach
First of all I watch enough football and grew up playing the game so i know there are plenty of head coaches who made the transition. All of them had to at some point.
Unfortunately this little school we went to called SMU tried that before and screwed it up. Since you're the self proclaimed expert you probably know that. Therefore, we need to try something new. If we were a school that had not lost for the last 20 years, we could afford to take the coordinator risk again.
The risk needs to be limited with this hire by hiring someone with experience. If you're the board of a computer company and you're fighting to keep the doors open/catch up to the competition, do you
A. Hire a very sharp recent graduate as your new CEO to save the business?
B. Hire a CEO with experience, who has gone into other struggling computer companies and turned the business around?
Maybe you will get my point a little better now that i've broken it down into little wittle baby bite size bites for your miniature horse mouth(stallion).
That company would promote someone from within. We aren't talking about a computer company. It is not that complicated as SMU makes it look. That is the problem. Nobody wants this computer company! Go against the grain and do something different.
The plane is DC could mean we're interviewing Friedgen for the job (yeah right), or perhaps, Neuheisel. Is there a Bears assistant who might be in play? Maybe Lovie is interested, or Mike Ditka.
Stallion wrote:Look Sport just because you can name a long list of experienced Coaches who would would make great SMU Coaches doesn't mean a single one of them is interested or that SMU is interested in them. I've said I want an experienced Coach with a resume too. But I know enough to realize that may not happen. You better prepare yourself for a let down. Its becoming quite evident to me that if any of those guys were availiable we would have seen them pounced upon. Get ready for a guy like Chan the Man. Personally, I am not so wedded to a silly idea like all CANDIDATES must have head coaching experience if it means Chan the Man
BEST AVAILABLE COACH might initially mean one with HC Experience...but as the ones you may want are no longer available, then perhaps OC / DC experience is considered.
We still have a ton of HC on the table, whether or not they are interested/we are interested is to be seen.
NEBRASKA wasn't too concerned hiring Bo Pelini (whose D absolutely sucked this year at the end, go figure).
