Understood. That may well be the case. Ron Brown is an exceptional person and is great from a character perspective. And, you may be right, he could , perhaps, have found coaching positions elsewhere --- but we really cannot say. All we can say is he has not been coaching.
Marvin is not unemployed. Up through '09 he gets paid to be NC's DC. If he takes another job that ends. Hell Marvin is actually getting close to becoming a vested civil servant for that state. You saying he should give that up for any coaching job that came along? I wouldn't .
It is not that I am not supporting these hires (if these are the hires). If hired, I will indeed support them in every conceivable way. But, I am just a little questioning of whether this staff will be waht a hopeful top ten type program would like to have. Maybe they will be. I hope so. It just makes one question.
Glad to hear that Hanc. That makes a difference for me. I'd hate to think that Bo is having assistants forced onto his staff that he is himself not enamored of. Lets hope this staff is up to snuff.
I have to agree this is not terribly exciting. Living in Oklahoma, I remember when Stoops started gathering his staff. I don't remember all the names, but I remember Mike Leach coming over from Kentucky (Kentucky had the #1 rated offense the prior year), Mike Stoops & Bret Venebles(sp?) coming from KSU as co-defensive coordinators (KSU had a top 5 rated defense the previous year iirc), and Chuck Long coming in as QB coach (Chuck Long was the Heisman runner up from Iowa in '85). I looked at the staff, knowing the kind of talent that had been left at OU, and told my wife "They're gonna be good -- and fast." I don't get that same feeling at all looking at this group. I'm not saying they'll be bad, but they don't have the "wow" factor that Stoops had coming into Oklahoma. I try to keep my expectations in line with reality, thus I'm not getting really excited with this list.
I *hope* that the problem was that some of these people (like Cotton) were marketing themselves wrong. He may have been a great OL coach who moved to an OC position and then continued to look for OC positions instead of leveraging his real talents. You know, like Crouch trying to be a QB instead of taking positions that would have actually gotten him in the pros. If Crouch would have said to himself, "Eric, maybe you ought to be a slot back," and then allowed himself to be hired as such, saying that he had been "unemployed" would have been a moot.
Spot on. This MAY be, ultimately, a good staff. But, on paper --- now as we look on it --- there is not a single wow candidate as coach. For that matter, the staff assembled looks rather like staffs at mid-conference programs --- not like a top 25 hopeful.
No, it's not really. Even if true, it's not pulling the top coordinators from top teams to be in your area. If he'd have pulled Gus Mahlzan from Tulsa (OC of the #1 offense in the nation - Tulsa) Paul Rhodes (DC of the #7 defense in the nation -- Pitt -- and he's from nearby Ankeny, IA), I'd be more impressed. I didn't say I think we'll be bad, I just said that this staff is missing the "wow" factor that some other staffs have had. I think N will be back, but it will take longer that it took Stoops (NC in his second year). I think Nebraska fans, much like Oklahoma fans, want to be back and we want it now.
Tulsa --- I love that last line --- High expectations aren't bad unless they mask your ability to view reality. I agree. And there is often a result that comes from that --- frustration from fans and fans then turn on their players and coaches for not living up to their inflated and unrealistic expectations. Really, no one should expect NU to be a top 25 team for the foreseeable future. Hope for, maybe. Expect, no. There are people out there predicting 9 or 10 wins! Next year even!
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