Do you have confidence in Mike Hill to make the right next HC hire?
- Yes
- No
- I donāt know, heās 0-2 in football and basketball so far
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Have to also believe that Hillās job may be on the line if he doesnāt make the right hire. Thus, I believe he knows he has to step up and make a good hire.
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Athletic directors would rather find the next young up and comer than settling for a retread hire, even if the retread coach is better for the program, they want to improve their resume, and make themselves look good in terms of evaluating coaching talent, a retread is someone elses find that you are recycling into your own program, sometimes that is best for a program but it does not give the AD the credentials, accolades, and recognition that finding the new up and comer brings
It will keep Hill employed.
If he fās this hire up heās in trouble.
Damn how 9 months changes things. Nine months ago we though Sanchez was Hills big problem.
Hill should already be on thin ice. I mean, two gigantic whiffs on the two most important hires & he doubled down on Ron.
Hill has made some moves that buys him some leeway. Especially with the next hire or two. The AAC was accomplished because we have our financial ducks in a row and thereās potential given our market. Hill had an easy sell there. The rebranding was nice, but thatās low hanging fruit. The big key in all this is the evergreen plan. If he can make that happen in the next decade, I will tip my cap and stomach these bad hires a little more.
This next head coach has to be a success though. Not a 4-5 year slog that shows signs of promise. Thereās no more ābuildingā a program with the portal and NIL out there. You can flip the script quickly and thatās what Hill has to make happen with the next hire. I have feeling though itās either going to make all of us excited or weāll all be scratching our heads, which makes me really nervous.
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This has been a fascinating thread to read. If we wanna go to a pass-happy offense, donāt forget that Nick Rolovich is unemployed and likely looking for a gig. Granted, he is a bit of a nut job these days, but the man had success as an position coach, OC, and head coach at a G5 and P5 school. As much as I think itās a bad choice, just throwing it out there for the sake of it.
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I think it is a good name. P5 experience with a chip on shoulder, use CLT as a stepping stone. I wouldnāt mind a āwack jobā who thinks out of the box, run and shoot on every playā¦ etcā¦ Look at how successful Mike Leach has been and no-one gets more wacked than him. I am not worried about local recruiting as much as everyone else is. Like Hill said, everyone recruits here and that is what local assistants do. I bet you Chris Reynolds would have loved to play under this guy.
Jamey Chadwell of Coastal Carolina has had a fantastic couple of years and Is probably being considered by a lot of teams searching for a coach
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Chadwell wants a P5 job.
I wonder if Georgia Tech might make a run at him.
Still shocked USC didnāt go after Chadwell.
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I mean Iām sure heās a nice coach and everything but if the the choice comes down to lincoln riley and chadwell Iām going with the guy whoās taken a team to the college football playoff.
Iām pretty sure he meant South Carolina not Southern California.
I imagine Chadwell lands somewhere superior to GT
I made a comment on one of the basketball threads over the winter. Canāt find it now but it was something along the lines of Iād be super pissed if Healy got canned before Sanchez. My how that aged like spoiled milk
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Probably, but I can see them trying anyway.
Itās kinda weird to me to see them struggle so much. GT was co natāl champion as recently as 1991 or so.
Yep. South Carolina.
Chadwell was on a roll when they hired Beamer and he still is doing great.
Almost his entire career is coaching in SC his Rolodex for recruiting the state must be incredible.
His triple option system would play well at a mid tier P5 like SC that doesnāt quite have the talent of the best of the SEC.
That was the thinking.
Ruffin Mcneill won the ACC a couple times and he wasnt even in the ACC 
, pretty good achievement.
Also built an All Star Staff, Lincoln Rileyā¦
I know that we will probably not go in this direction, but TCU offensive coordinator Garrett Riley is going to be a hot commodity, he has TCU ranked 4th nationally in total offense, he was an offensive position coach at ECU and App St so he is familiar with the recruiting landscape regionally, he is the younger brother of Lincoln Riley at Southern Cal, and he was an OC in the AAC (SMU), he is only 33 years old and has no head coaching experience, but he is going to be a potential star in the coaching ranks
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