TomVH: Dee Hart Update

LOL

Let my neg be the first of many.

possibly the best back in the class and could win high sdchool all american player of the year? no big loss though.

... You're joking, right?

Did you see our non-RB based rush attack?  The QB carried more than the RBs combined in most of the games.  We need a quick all-purpose back like Hart.

Think Steve Slaton at WVU.

If it were this simple, and DB "knows what kind of coach he has" than he would have just made his announcement and been done with it, securing Dee's committment, helping RR recruit during this critical recruiting month and ending the media circus surrounding our program.

This reasoning is naive.  In the corporate world, this would make sense.  But we are not in the corporate world - we are a major college football program that is covered extensively by the local and national press.

This press coverage is followed by recruits, fans, alum and donors.  While in the corporate world, failing to make public the result of a performance review would be ordinary and would not harm the company, that mentality does not apply to D1 college football.

Failing to announce his "decision" can only further hurt recruiting, and likely donations.  Recruiting is the lifeblood of our team - this should be obvious after the past three years and the "Decimated Defense" Diary that has made its way around this blog a million times.  Donations are equally important, because they pay for the facilities that allow us to recruit, they allow us to apy coaches anough to keep them and they allow us to do more to market our brand (which again dovetails into recruiting).

As for making a "hasty" decision, I do not think that anyone on this board - including those that, like me, have become frustrated with DB's timetable - wants that.  But DB has had a full season to evaluate RR.  He has seen the results of the past three seasons, witness the level of progress, met with the players, met with the coaches, spoken with former players and alum.  To me, making a decision at this point would not be hasty, it would be timely.  Most other ADs don't seem to have trouble making this decision after the close of the regular season. 

So, in summary, I just don't get why you (and I am not singling you out) are treating DB's decision -and that is what it is - as an ordinary corporate performance review.  It is not.  This "decision" will largely shape the future of our program.

One note:  I have seen this theory in many of these threads:  DB is waiting to make his announcement because he wants Harbaugh and does not want to put Harbaugh in a Les Miles type situation where he has to choose between the M job and his team on the eve of a huge game.  If this is his reasoning - agree or disagree with the decision - then this would justify his delay.  If this is not, and he is just going to keep RR, then in my mind just get on with it and let's restore some sanity to our program.

was saying we should keep RR in order to keep Dee.  He was saying he thinks we will keep RR and therefore we will keep Dee.

DB is just hart-less.

although as long as Addazio is Florida's OC, I think he'd fit in better playing cricket or Quidditch.

Or failing that, hurry up and get 2011.

Sorry Mr Walmart Slappy...I graduated from Michigan. RR has to go and since Dee won't come to A2 without him...Good Luck to him