I 100% Support Mike Desormeaux! (formerly I will not support Mike D)

[CajunVic]

Do not even try to insinuate Maggard leaked info to you.. lol

Don’t you start with me, it has not been very good for you . . . sit back and enjoy the show like you have learned to do . . . That MAT has been very good for you . . .

[Turbine]

A good hunter gets his ducks in a row before he leaks from the bird . . . remember 100% rock solid . . . Lessons learned

Only you described the look under (or was it from under ) the Martin Hall desk.

[Bandwagon King]

This is my take on the situation. I think hiring someone within the program was a right move. Now whether Desormeaux is the guy only time will tell. I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.

Things I have against him

1. Coaching experience
2. Young
3. Not being a coach anywhere else
4. Not having the connections with other coaches. We will see who he hires?
5. Being able to run a Division I-A program
6. How to manage a team
7. Knowing what plays to call and knowing what to do in key situations.
8. Having the persona to be a Division I-A coach.

If he doesn’t get it done we will tell within 2 yrs.

I just wish we hired someone with more experience that has coached at bigger programs. I support it but personally in the long run it will be the wrong move. His first test will be Marshall in the New Orleans Bowl.

I will be the first to admit if I am wrong! I hope I am wrong !

So no offense, but maybe using the term these are things you question rather than say things you are against might fly better with some people's feelings.

So to address your concerns:
on points 1,2 & 3 I hope you know he was a high school coach for a couple, or 3 years so he does have experience calling plays & he was a head coach somewhere else, which you couldn't even say about Napier when he first took the job. I know it's high school, but coaching in real time is coaching in real time.

Point 4 is also my biggest concern. I have thought about this myself. One answer I can come up with is that when a program has success it is going to draw a lot of attention. When that program draws from within to continue that path, it will draw the attention of coaches from all around, especially that region, who will want to come on board to a part of that success. So that in itself should help Mike. The really BIG concern with him having not been around the 1-A racket is his ability to ferret out the real movers & shakers from the BSers & fakers. And that my friend is the BIG unknown which cannot be known until later.
Point 5: defer to point 4
Point 6: defer to points 1,2,3
Point 7: He has the experience. That shouldn't be an issue & should be answered in the bowl game.
Point 8: Will be determined by the previous answers to your other points.

[Bandwagon King]

For everyone else including the Cajun Nazi patrol, Bum Phillips said it best. There's two kinds of coaches. Those that's been fired & those that's gonna get fired.

[CajunVic]

For everyone else including the Cajun Nazi patrol, Bum Phillips said it best. There's two kinds of coaches. Those that's been fired & those that's gonna get fired.

And that is not exactly true . . .

[Ragin9221]

Well being a High School coach doesn’t make you a college coach.

Now he has been in the system so that is a plus, but even the best high school coaches are not successful at the Division I-A level.

North Texas hired a coach that won 5 or 6 State Championship at the highest level in Texas. He never had a winning season at North Texas.

In my eyes his HS experience doesnt matter !

[Turbine]

And that is not exactly true . . .

He didn't say it was exactly true, he said "Bum Phillips said it best"

[Bandwagon King]

And that is not exactly true . . .

I don't need an ignore feature, I need a backhand button.

[CharlieK]

And as for you, Charlie! Maybe if you'd ever invite me to go fishing, we wouldnt be in the position we are in! Selfish! Take one for the team! I'll be watching my inbox mister!

Wrong charlie, we would be fishing from the bank like Andy and Opie.

[Ragin9221]

Todd Dodge! 6-37

Todd Russell Dodge (born July 21, 1963) is an American football coach and former player, and the current head coach at Westlake High School in Austin, Texas.[1] After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin where he played quarterback for the Longhorns, Dodge went into coaching, primarily at the high school level. At Southlake Carroll he was head coach of four 5A state championship teams in a seven-year span.[2] He moved on to the college level as head coach of the University of North Texas football team, but he was released after acquiring a 6–37 record.