Interesting information on Miami coaching search (Harbaugh and others)

When Schnellenberger took over, Florida State was also just getting started under Bowden, which meant that Florida was the only real football school in the state, and even then, they weren't a major player in the SEC. In the late 70s, there was football talent in Florida, but it wasn't the focus on recruiting like it is today.

Schnellenberger could schedule exactly like he wanted to, could operate without little in state pressure, and probably found it easier to overcome antiquated facilities (though they weren't that far behind the standard back in the late 70s and early 80s) because the facilities arms races of the past ten years hadn't begun yet. 

Today, everyone in the nation is recruiting Florida, or at least trying to. Florida has won two national titles it the past five years and is perhaps the premeire program in the nation. While Florida State has slipped, Jimbo had a pretty successful first year, and you'd think they'd continue to trend up. Plus, the state has now four more FBS schools that are in the state, with one playing in a BCS conference. UCF has an on campus stadium. Plus, Miami is a small, private college that does have decent academic standards, when they decide to enforce them for athletics (which they seem to pendulum swing on whether they will or won't).

In the end, Stanford (small, private college in fertile recruiting state with marginal fan interest with new stadium and great facilities) to Miami (small, private college in a fertile recruiting state with marginal fan base, an off-campus pro stadium and otherwise mediocre facilities) would be a lateral move. 

Recruiting was never Randy Shannon's problem. He was consistently drawing lots of 4 and 5 stars, esp. from Miami's traditional feeder Miami Northwestern. He just couldn't get those 4 and 5 stars to play well consistently.

Or the most conventional thought that he will be coaching Stanford.

People who are successful divsion 1 BCS football coaches have to pretty hard driven type A people likely to fit what would be called a CEO personality in a Briggs-Meyers testing situation.   Not surprisingly, they are likely to have big egos as a rule. 

Well maybe he DID invent the game.  Afterall, how would you feel if you invented football as Mullin perhaps did and weren't getting any credit for it?

Criteria is plural.  Criterion is the singular form.

Anonymously sourced so it's not all that public.

Coaching burnout is becoming common enough that you can't blame administrations for subtle age discrimination. I remember when we hired Rod I said "He's ten years younger than Les Miles? Sweeeeeeet."

Probably not. They had legitimate, non-age related reasons for selecting Al Golden instead of Randy Edsall. If you're sniffing lawsuit, you're incorrect.

That's nothing but bulletin board material.

Oh, Elno, you're such a J.

Edit: No offense, intended, of course.  I'm an I and sometimes have difficulty navigating social situations like this ;-)

If you were responding to my post with this, you're missing the point.  The point is not that it's a suit that would be won, but rather it's a suit that could be made.  Which means time and expense.  All based upon a comment that really serves no purpose and has no value.