In business, research (especially Jim Collins’ in “Good To Great”) has shown that companies whose CEOs are recruited from outside tend to underperform their similarly-situated peers whose CEOs are homegrown. This is a massive simplification of volumes of work, but you get the point. An outside hire with a good track record is no guarantee of success either. Exhibit A: Rich Rod.
So why do we so rarely see the successful "corporate" succession in college football? I'd hypothesize two factors: very few programs have a "process" in place the way we do with CNS; very few head coaches and ADs understand its importance.
Successful corporations don't have lots of turnover, at the top. UF has been through too many "changes at the top" to have a successful chain of succession.
Mullen is not going back. Freeze isn't leaving. Stoops is not leaving for there. (Even though he thinks the SEC is soft. He wants no part of it.)
OK, RR is out, supposedly. (Rats...........it would make a great sideshow, for a few years, and more turmoil at the top.) Gundy.......may want a career upgrade, but he knows the SEC is above his pay grade. (Even though he is a man.) Strong isn't leaving UTw, after only one year.
This will be interesting: finding a successful, established coach, who isn't afraid of playing a SEC schedule. Sure, great recruiting base, and desirable place to be. Except for that schedule. Bet a lot of job hoppers aren't up to the challenge.