Actually NO - I did
not say that AT ALL. All I said was, (assuming the hire is still 5+ years in the future) we can not POSSIBLY PREDICT who will be a good choice FIVE YEARS FROM NOW. And to demonstrate that reality - I used past "Good" HC hires, and showed that NONE of those coaches looked particularly appealing, FIVE YEARS PRIOR to the time they were hired at those jobs.
The PRIME example of this might be Urban Meyer - an Undistinguished WR coach on a mediocre Notre Dame team FIVE years before UF hired him. And yet, he went on to do "ok" at UF, despite NOT winning ANY NC's prior to taking the Florida job........
For that matter, how many NC's or B1G titles had Nick Saban won before LSU hired him? I still contend that he was a "Good Hire" for LSu in 2000!
Uh... No. Where did you get that idea??? I don't know how "up and coming" Ray Perkins was? He was an established NFL HC (4 seasons at the NY Giants) when he was hired by UA in 1983. The equivalent would be hiring someone like Adam Gase or Jay Gruden
IF either of them had also been an All-American player at Alabama.
Mike DuBose, sadly, was not "Up and Coming" - Prior to 1996 he had been a Career position coach and no one IN the game thought he was going anywhere (and they were right). If we had not made him HC in 1997 and not kept him as DC, he would have taken a position coach job somewhere else. Because, frankly, he was mostly a
bust in his one season as our DC. He got the HC job because delusional fans wanted him,
'cause he played for da bar!!! :frown:
Coach Stallings was hired for a number of reasons, including his character, and success in the NFL at a franchise that was KNOWN in those days for not providing sufficient talent, as well as his great success as an assistant to Bryant then to Landry at the Cowboys. Like Perkins, Stallings was an established NFL Head Coach (4 seasons at the Cardinals) at the time he was hired. And he was HARDLY a "Younger" coach when he was hired!!!!! (age 55 in 1990).
But as noted above, I AM
NOT SUGGESTING UA "GAMBLE" ON AN UNPROVEN COACH. Lots of things happen in Five years. There will be coaches who ARE "proven" five years from now, who are NOT "proven" today.
I don't disagree, and I think UA
Will call Dabo when that day comes. I'm just not a fan of his style of football OR his style of running a team - and lets be honest, if not for the FLUKE of our bad QB situation in 2016, he'd be 0-3 against Saban at this point, and two of the games would not have been particularly close.
And beyond that, I think it's debatable whether he would take the job at that point. My sense is that's he probably would not. But that's just my opinion - like most everything I post here.
NO "Flames" or disrespect intended!