Cannot defend the trajectory of the program

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Originally Posted by JamesTheJeweler

LoL! They knew the age of NIL was here when they hired Des. And yet they still hired a coach with zero head coaching experience. So yeah, that makes it an even dumber decision. That excuse holds no water anyway. Literally every school has to deal with the same thing.

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1. Mike does have previous head coach experience
2. Tony was given a Head coaching job the year after he played…with zero coaching experience at all. Senior in 1986 head Coach in 1987.

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Originally Posted by crazycajun

1. Mike does have previous head coach experience
2. Tony was given a Head coaching job the year after he played…with zero coaching experience at all. Senior in 1986 head Coach in 1987.

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Mike was a head coach at a small high school in Louisiana. Tony was a successful head coach at a division 1 college baseball program for 8 years before we hired him. What am I missing here?

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Originally Posted by crazycajun

1. Mike does have previous head coach experience
2. Tony was given a Head coaching job the year after he played…with zero coaching experience at all. Senior in 1986 head Coach in 1987.

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I am sure he meant Mike had zero D1 head coaching experience. You are correct about out Tony, but UL let another school make the hire and he made his entry level mistakes with them and not UL. Tony hit the ground running at UL, Mike is getting on the job experience. Big difference.

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Originally Posted by crazycajun

1. Mike does have previous head coach experience
2. Tony was given a Head coaching job the year after he played…with zero coaching experience at all. Senior in 1986 head Coach in 1987.

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A tiny private high school is worlds apart from a D1 head coaching position

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Originally Posted by facelessjonmoon

A tiny private high school is worlds apart from a D1 head coaching position

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1A ball at that.

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Originally Posted by facelessjonmoon

A tiny private high school is worlds apart from a D1 head coaching position

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Didn’t say otherwise but he does have head coach experience, which is more than zero. Napier had zero head coaching experience. Gus Malzahn, hughe freeze, Jeff traylor, urban Meyer, Jimmy Johnson, bill Snyder all came from high school.

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Originally Posted by crazycajun

Didn’t say otherwise but he does have head coach experience, which is more than zero. Napier had zero head coaching experience.

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Napier was an OC and AHC at a few places before landing at Louisiana. Those positions he had is a natural progression into a head coaching gig. Mike had a title only of OC for one season with no play calling duties. Apples and Oranges bud.

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Originally Posted by JMV JustMyView

I am sure he meant Mike had zero D1 head coaching experience. You are correct about out Tony, but UL let another school make the hire and he made his entry level mistakes with them and not UL. Tony hit the ground running at UL, Mike is getting on the job experience. Big difference.

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Tony Is still the all time winningest coach at McNeese with 263 victories, won coach of the year and gave them their first 40 win season. Sounds like they were pretty smart to give a 23 year old the reins of their program with zero coaching experience at all.

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Originally Posted by JMV JustMyView

Napier was and OC and AHC at a few places before landing at Louisiana. Those positions he had is a natural progression into a head coaching gig. Mike had a title only of OC for one season with no play calling duties. Apples and Oranges bud.

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Our strength coach was the AHC, it’s about money not actually duties. Billy had ZERO head coaching experience. Billy got fired for calling plays, it will probably get him fired again.

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Originally Posted by Million$Mullet

Mike was a head coach at a small high school in Louisiana. Tony was a successful head coach at a division 1 college baseball program for 8 years before we hired him. What am I missing here?

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A D1 school gave Tony a chance with zero coaching experience at all, at 23 and it worked. Texas A&M gave a national championship coach a 100 million and it didn’t work. It will either work or it won’t and there is never a guarantee that any route you take will. Jeff Traylor went from high school to D1 HC with no coordinator experience and is 38-13 at UTSA.