Football!!!! Yes, this is the first time.
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Who'd have thought Oklahoma becoming a stepping stone? Believe the Sooner fanbase feeling much maligned today losing their coach. Its a bummer losing CBN, but getting a fourth year out of his program was a big deal at least it was to me. So we can celebrate him. The Sooners won't be celebrating Riley that's for sure.
Yet none of them had coaches stay 10 years. The Frank Beamer model is something of the past unless your Saban, Dabo and a few others.
Appalachian State has hired to a system. Boise State hired to their system. We need to hire someone that comes from the same model and uses the same processes. We have recruited athletes to play in that system. It won't be easy, but it's a task that Dr. Maggard can handle.
Gary Patterson, TCU also fits that description. Those guys are needles in the haystack. Chris Peterson at Boise for seven years was a gift to them. No one in G5 can count on a very successful football coach more than 3 to 4 years before they are poached. Anything more is gravy. Agree 100%, on aligning hiring criteria with our current system then building from there.
I'm sure Billy Napier didn't have a choice on this last part. While I don't know the man personally, I'm sure he'd rather have as few distractions as possible before this weekend.
However, it's very likely Florida's big boosters were demanding an announcement to know their money and program would be placed in good hands, and Florida's administration probably told Coach Napier if he didn't want it announced this week, then they'd go after someone who had no problem with it.
Billy Napier wasn't going to turn down that opportunity.
No doubt. Schools do NOT like waiting to announce. The AD at Alabama tried to put Saban on a plane and go back to Bama with him the same day he agreed to leave the Dolphins and coach Bama. It was apparently a difficult decision to allow Sabin to sleep on it overnight and head to Tuscalossa the next morning instead.
I don't have an issue with how it was handled. I believe there are now much fewer distractions than there would have been otherwise.
The situation we have with Billy over the next 6 days is actually very rare. Most times the coach leaves almost immediately. The fact that he's sticking around to coach the CCG was probably a compromise he made with the Florida AD. Like sure you can announce me now, but I'm staying through 12/4. Good on all parties to make that happen, because I'm sure Florida is antsy to get him in ASAP with early signing on 12/15.
Your last sentence is key … for us! We needed to have this time to conduct a thorough search/hire before signing day as well. If done in time there is still opportunities to re-recruit any prospects the new regime wants to pursue. Doesn’t mean we will get them but at least we’ll have a better chance with a new coach already onboard.
And, I take the opposite view. There will be fewer distractions now that the decision has been made. To wait another week would have been disastrous with the unknown permeating through the football team. Look, every player knew what could happen. Them knowing is actually good as it lets them focus on the task at hand.
It can be done. Arkansas State had a blueprint (up until Blake Anderson wore out his welcome). App State has a blueprint and has held by it. UL can do the same.
Arkansas State went from Hugh Freeze to Gus Malzahn to Bryan Harsin to Blake Anderson and were 85-48 under those coaches in those years.
App State went from Scott Satterfield to Eli Drinkwitz to Shawn Clark and went 83-15 under those coaches in those years (Not to mention what they did with Sparky Woods and Jerry More before that which was a totla of 253-106-2.
It can be done, we just need to make it happen.
I’m very happy for CBN and how this process all worked out with the timing and all. I wish he and his family well and much success but him going there won’t make me a Gators fan, maybe I just won’t pull against them!
I only pull for one P5 team and that’s because I live in the town of the university. I always pull for every G5 against a P5 and I hope all P5 v P5 games end in a tie. Until they allow all FBS schools into their championship.