What am I missing here? We hire a head ball coach, pay him lots of money, presumably because that is the going rate for a winner, expect him to win, raise money, fly the flag ... and tell him he czn't hire his assistants because, again presumably, he ain't good enough? That coach needs to float his resume right now.
He did say all of those things. Just not in the words you did.
Hmm…so my responses to these would now be:
If you look at the list of accomplishments across all of GT Athletics, TStan only mentions one thing specific to football ... "we increased the staff from 28 to 40." That's it.
I know some HS coaches who thought the same way. They really liked Coach Mac.
If he only wins 9 games in three years with the assistants he selected? Yes, it seems fair for the AD to then get involved in the next round of hires.
You're one of two of us walking back his statements, but only one of us was honest enough to own up to that fact. And I am not going to converse with someone ill-mannered enough to call an idea "stupid" just because he disagrees with it. Calling someone's ideas "stupid" is a thinly veiled way of calling them stupid - just a cheap fig leaf to claim otherwise. You're on ignore, so I won't read your crude response. The last word is yours. Bye.
Fine with me. He didn't work out.
The issue is who would come here to be a coordinator? If the believe by many/most is next year is likely Collin's last year, why would anyone looking to build their resume come for a one year stint and likely mediocre at best results. Yes it is a Power 5 job. But people want to hire people who have had success which means far more than just which team and conference they came from. So I think you would not get the quality upgrades for coordinators we desire based on this scenario. The only remote possibility would be to hire someone in one of the coordinator jobs who is potentially your next head coach. But at these dollars, I don't think that is a realistic possibility either. So I think we have to play this out next year and unfortunately to a great extent start over if we don't have far more success than we have currently.
I agree with that. I said elsewhere that I don't think we should fire coordinators at the end of year. My point is simply if we were to do so, the AD should be involved in who we end up hiring.
Coordinators - and frankly, any assistant- needs to be done by the head coach and head coach alone
There are hundreds of coaches at lower divisions who would come hear within one phone call. I really don’t understand how so many think the only pool of coaches are already in P5. That is the same reasoning that led Spurrier from GT to Duke. The vast majority of current coordinators started at lower divisions. We’ve tried 2 P5 coordinators (Thacker and Patenaude) for 3 seasons and my opinion is they stink. I’d rather pay 2 young up and comers a lot less money because we know what the current guys can do. Maybe we hit on the next Venables or Day. Maybe not, but any high school staff could win 3 games a year at minimum with our athletes. There is no special sauce to getting P5 jobs. It’s about paying dues and having contacts. Hence, a lot of meatheads in the football coaching profession.
No the AD should not directly fire the assistants. That is the Head coach's job. BUT he definitely needs to tell the Head coach something needs to happen and strongly tell him what it is that needs to happen. Otherwise you let the Head coach go next year and promote someone to interim head coach for a full year to help get rid of the buyout.
He’d probably make a very good hire and be able to land him for sure with our budget.
