Hope: Low Salary May Allow for Expensive Hires
Thus the glimmer of hope is as follows:
-Rivals hints his SDSU coordinators both have head coach aspirations
-Hiring an OC and DC at short of a million opens the door to hire some significant talent (Magee and co. made around $200-250k.
-Brandon left Dallas at a time when a wide range of coordinators were all in one place
Sure it's a rosy look at things but to have Hoke lead a crew of successful hired guns, at least for the transition, is not the worst case scenario so... There's that.
January 11th, 2011 at 7:16 PM ^
This might lend credibility to DB's statement of opening the wallet: staff, not just the HC
January 12th, 2011 at 4:24 AM ^
That just pisses me off even more about the firing. At least they learned their lesson, though. Better late than never, right? *sigh*
January 11th, 2011 at 7:35 PM ^
What awesome coordinators or assistant coaches are we going to hire in mid-January? At this point in the game we're not going to have the ABILITY to hire any highly qualified assistants, so the ability to pay a lot of money is going to be fruitless.
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<br>If you think this sounds a lot like our head coaching search as well ... it's because it does. I'd love to hire big-time assistants, but it's not plausible at this point in time. As Brian points out in his front-page post, Randy Shannon is the only one left - and he's on the same side of the ball as Hoke.
January 11th, 2011 at 7:42 PM ^
I completely missed this on the front page
January 11th, 2011 at 8:01 PM ^
Annarbor.com via San Diego paper reports that hoke's OC is coming to AA
January 11th, 2011 at 8:20 PM ^
Ok this really killed any hope I might have for next year. Goddamnit.
January 11th, 2011 at 9:06 PM ^
His OC is/was Al Borges. He has been OC at Boise, Oregon, UCLA, Cal, Indiana, Auburn and SDSU. Former Auburn HC Pat Dye called him "one of the best OC in the country"
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<br>He developed QBs Cade McNown and Jason Campbell.
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<br>The guy has experience and has run some bug time offenses. SDSU had a Top-of-the-nation offense this last year
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<br>Sounds like a good move to me
January 11th, 2011 at 9:00 PM ^
Out there. Maybe even pull a coordinator from the NFL.
January 12th, 2011 at 3:38 AM ^
It would be nice to see us splurge for a great DC, or as i believe that is Hoke's specialty, do the same for OC. I'm actually more interested in the in coordinators than anything.
January 12th, 2011 at 5:39 AM ^
.....then I would say the spread is going to be "scheme non grata" in Ann Arbor very soon, at least the way we had come to know it, if I may put it that way.