twballgame9 {l Wrote}:I dont know anything about him either but if we are reaching to Cleveland State to check off the head coaching experience box, I'll never read Blog Boys comment section again.
BC isn't talking. In its absence, the void is filled by Bloggers who have opinions but no real information. Is there a prerequisite to be a head coach, a minority, young, successful, major conference experience, recruiter, runs a system, exciting offense? Maybe... but none of that is coming from Kraft or anyone knowledgeable of the situation at BC. The only thing I believe was handed out was the Benbow article about a minority being a strong preference.
The fact that we fired Christian has no impact on the timeline. We didn't fire Jimmy Mac because we wanted to get a jump on the process. We fired Christian because he lost the team and didn't want us to keep playing. We are under the same time pressure as Fordham, Albany and PedState... which means none. I'd expect that the day we hire a coach would be the same if the mid-season firing never happened.
As for Coach Steamer... I know nothing about him. However, if you are convinced he is some sort of rising superstar, you grab him and don't care about his wife's position or his mere 2 seasons as a head coach. Similarly, if you find an assistant that you similarly think is the next Coach K, you hire him regardless of the thin resume.
As for the minority angle, I think if we are making a shockingly good hire (like Willard), you can get away with the lack of diversity. But, with the world we live in, BC is too terrible a job to say the risk of an unproven minority coach outweighs an incrementally better boring White candidate (noting that neither Coen or Schmidt could win a statewide election in Blogboy's Blue Georgia). Yeah... Coach Coen can get us to 16 wins when Gates only can 13. 16 isn't 26... 16 vs 13 will do nothing for the fans or national perception. College coach hiring is not a pure meritocracy. Simply, making a boring hire of Coen/Schmidt would be met with Daz-like enthusiasm. Further, how could you think anything other than Howard Eisley has been determined to be a truly awful coach? Eisley is such a safe hire politically that going a different is an affront to his abilities (unless the hire is a homerun).