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<blockquote data-quote="Vespidae" data-source="post: 881837" data-attributes="member: 2957"><p>Exactly. Which is the problem with most college football teams. </p><p></p><p>In business, once you decide on a strategy ... it will take 7-10 years to fully implement it. You have recruiting talent, training, aligning sales/marketing/operations, recapitalizing, managing facilities, etc. So a CEO has to do two things ... manage for the short-term AND manage towards a long-term strategy. </p><p></p><p>If you want short-term thinking, look no further than Al Dunlop, aka "Chainsaw Al". He would use a specific playbook (cut costs, pump the stock) to make millions short-term but almost always left the company worse off. </p><p></p><p>Looking at a football coach as a program hero is Al Dunlop thinking. "Let's hire a guy and we'll win in 4 years!" Maybe. You'll have a year or two of sub-par results and then, maybe the stars align and you win for a year or two before ... the coach leaves and you start all over again. And most programs do start all over again with every coaching hire. It's like car, careening down the mountain lurching from one guard rail to another. </p><p></p><p>The most impactful thing Saban has done at Alabama is to professionalize the Athletic Department. It bears no resemblence to the one of 2007. Alabama has set on a strategy and been working it, working it, working it. </p><p></p><p>My perspective was that the TO and Tech were a good fit ... being fully committed to a scheme gave Tech an advantage and a way to compete. But you have to fully commit to it. We never did. (CPJ did. Tech did not.) Times change and the TO is not coming back. The new strategy is for Tech to be NFL-Lite. Is Geoff the right guy to lead that? Probably not. I do think Chip is going to take over but the best thing that could happen is for Tech to commit to NFL-Lite and work like the devil to make it work. If it doesn't, we go right back to the hero coach model ... which for a school with limited resources, is a budget buster.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vespidae, post: 881837, member: 2957"] Exactly. Which is the problem with most college football teams. In business, once you decide on a strategy ... it will take 7-10 years to fully implement it. You have recruiting talent, training, aligning sales/marketing/operations, recapitalizing, managing facilities, etc. So a CEO has to do two things ... manage for the short-term AND manage towards a long-term strategy. If you want short-term thinking, look no further than Al Dunlop, aka "Chainsaw Al". He would use a specific playbook (cut costs, pump the stock) to make millions short-term but almost always left the company worse off. Looking at a football coach as a program hero is Al Dunlop thinking. "Let's hire a guy and we'll win in 4 years!" Maybe. You'll have a year or two of sub-par results and then, maybe the stars align and you win for a year or two before ... the coach leaves and you start all over again. And most programs do start all over again with every coaching hire. It's like car, careening down the mountain lurching from one guard rail to another. The most impactful thing Saban has done at Alabama is to professionalize the Athletic Department. It bears no resemblence to the one of 2007. Alabama has set on a strategy and been working it, working it, working it. My perspective was that the TO and Tech were a good fit ... being fully committed to a scheme gave Tech an advantage and a way to compete. But you have to fully commit to it. We never did. (CPJ did. Tech did not.) Times change and the TO is not coming back. The new strategy is for Tech to be NFL-Lite. Is Geoff the right guy to lead that? Probably not. I do think Chip is going to take over but the best thing that could happen is for Tech to commit to NFL-Lite and work like the devil to make it work. If it doesn't, we go right back to the hero coach model ... which for a school with limited resources, is a budget buster. [/QUOTE]
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