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.
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.
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 !
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.
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