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<blockquote data-quote="slugboy" data-source="post: 900404" data-attributes="member: 282"><p>I’ve seen a lot of coaching searches, back to us lucking out and hiring Bobby Ross (and that was total luck). Paul Johnson was lucky too. O’Leary wasn’t even a search. </p><p></p><p>We do need to talk with coaches now, or at least their agents, or they’ll be gone by the time we’re hiring. </p><p></p><p>However, let’s say we hire Deion Sanders, and he’s everything some of us hope he’ll be. 2023 is a lower-tier bowl game, 2024 is an ACC title game, 2025 has GT in the expanded playoffs (assuming it happens then), and in 2026 Deion is the new Falcons coach. After that, are we figuring out our program again, what we are as a program, and trying to find the next Deion? </p><p></p><p>We haven’t been a smart organization since Homer Rice, and we screwed up the post-national-championship coaching search THEN. I DO want a strategic direction for the AA and an AD that will put that into place and have them hire a coach that will be part of us being a good long-term program. </p><p></p><p>On the plus side, if Deion is coaching here instead of Auburn, I think he and Saban will be fine splitting AFLAC commercials.</p><p></p><p>But, as much as I’d like to see us hire my favorite coaching option, I’m more interested in us getting our act together, getting our program straightened out, and getting a coach that moves us forward with having a program that works. </p><p></p><p>I’d like us to get past short-term thinking and into long-term thinking that we can flex as the NCAA and college athletics shift over the next decade.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slugboy, post: 900404, member: 282"] I’ve seen a lot of coaching searches, back to us lucking out and hiring Bobby Ross (and that was total luck). Paul Johnson was lucky too. O’Leary wasn’t even a search. We do need to talk with coaches now, or at least their agents, or they’ll be gone by the time we’re hiring. However, let’s say we hire Deion Sanders, and he’s everything some of us hope he’ll be. 2023 is a lower-tier bowl game, 2024 is an ACC title game, 2025 has GT in the expanded playoffs (assuming it happens then), and in 2026 Deion is the new Falcons coach. After that, are we figuring out our program again, what we are as a program, and trying to find the next Deion? We haven’t been a smart organization since Homer Rice, and we screwed up the post-national-championship coaching search THEN. I DO want a strategic direction for the AA and an AD that will put that into place and have them hire a coach that will be part of us being a good long-term program. On the plus side, if Deion is coaching here instead of Auburn, I think he and Saban will be fine splitting AFLAC commercials. But, as much as I’d like to see us hire my favorite coaching option, I’m more interested in us getting our act together, getting our program straightened out, and getting a coach that moves us forward with having a program that works. I’d like us to get past short-term thinking and into long-term thinking that we can flex as the NCAA and college athletics shift over the next decade. [/QUOTE]
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