Just for Shiggles:

[SlappyCajun]

Jay Johnson is the only one I think you could consider, and I don't think he would get it.

[Turbine]

Is there anyone on the current staff who you would promote to HC and maintain continuity?

Not that you asked me . . . Do any have HC experience? If not, no.

[Bandwagon King]

Is there anyone on the current staff who you would promote to HC and maintain continuity?

Very interesting question. I think should for example a head coach take a job & decide to leave before his bowl game, then that "could" be used as part of an interview process for one of the assistants as head coach. How he continued to run practice. How he conducted himself during the game. How he made half time adjustments. How well the players respected him & listened to what he had to say before, during, & after the game. This could also be used in evaluating which assistants are such big assets that they should be retained.

We need to remember this program is in a place it hasn't been before IF a coaching change were to take place. When you are cleaning house it is necessary to make complete changes, but when an operation is changing due to unexpected success. It might be better to maintain the new status quo & build from there, instead of just junking the present operation & starting over or completely.

[zephyr]

As good as his resume is, alot of the players he coached at Miami are constantly getting hurt in the NFL today. Shockey, McGahee, Gore, Andre Johnson, Vilma

Dude, we usually agree on things but I can't see any validity to this statement. I don't know how you can correlate players he coached ten years ago in college to their current injury issues. Lets not forget that all of these guys are veteran players who have been in the league a while and have taken a beating, especially guys like Gore and McGahee. I can't see how their current injury status' have anything to do with their training in college some years ago.

[zephyr]

Is there anyone on the current staff who you would promote to HC and maintain continuity?

No. I think we'd have to go out and search for a new coach rather than hire within. Nobody on this staff has head experience and that is what Farmer has mentioned was a deciding factor in the last search.

[zephyr]

But let's say you are the AD. How do you handle the present staff ? Do you just clean house? Do you recommend that the coach look strongly at certain coaches? Do you offer incentives to keep most of those guys here? Do you just take hands off approach & allow new coach to "have his way" in every decision?

You are assuming that Hud wouldn't take some from this staff with him wherever he were to go which is usually the case. Also, the incoming coach will get to typically name and bring his staff so i don't think that Farmer would get in his way

[Bandwagon King]

You are assuming that Hud wouldn't take some from this staff with him wherever he were to go which is usually the case. Also, the incoming coach will get to typically name and bring his staff so i don't think that Farmer would get in his way

In the potential case I'm thinking of, it is possible that with HUD's previous ties with said school, that there are possibly several guys already in place there he would like to see stay there, as well as guys he might likely recomend to Farmer that he try to keep.

[raginsaints]

If Hud leaves, the one guy we need to stick around is Jay Johnson, IMO.

[zephyr]

In the potential case I'm thinking of, it is possible that with HUD's previous ties with said school, that there are possibly several guys already in place there he would like to see stay there, as well as guys he might likely recomend to Farmer that he try to keep.

And would Mullen not want to take those assistants that he brought with him to MSU to PSU?

[zephyr]

If Hud leaves, the one guy we need to stick around is Jay Johnson, IMO.

I'd take Reed Stringer and Lovings since both can recruit really well and know the area. I just don't know if we could expect either to stay if Hud were to go though

[Bandwagon King]

And would Mullen not want to take those assistants that he brought with him to MSU to PSU?

Ok Zeph. Think about this. Hey guys, I'm going to the seventh level of football hell. It's cold enough in winter to freeze the nads off a charging rhino. The media will be all around you every day asking all kinds of questions about things you had absolutely nothing to do with. The papers will be filled with horrible stories every day that will make you cringe & not want to trust any of your neighbors. The fans are going to hate you because you will be percieved as southern carpetbaggers coming in after what they see is outsiders destroying their program. You're going to have to teach your kids the meaning of all kinds of new words like molestation, sexual predators, etc. etc. & you might even make the same or a "little" more money. Are you guys ready to roll?

[raginsaints]

Yeah, I'd love for Stringer, Saunders, Lovings, Stewart, etc to all stay but I was talking about what I thought was realistic.