LongviewLobo01
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In reading posts from people on here and other sites it appears as though a lot of people don't want us to look at the NFL ranks for our next head coach. I'm not understanding this. Why wouldn't you want a coach who has won at the highest level? For ever Jim Harbaugh who goes from the college ranks and is successful there are guys like Nick Saban and Steve Spurrier who were at the top of the college game and failed in the NFL. To me, all things being equal I'd rather have someone with success in the NFL over someone who has had success in the college ranks.
First, everyone is worried about recruiting and rightfully so. But at the end of the day, if we are winning recruiting will pretty much take care of itself. This is Texas. Players want to play here. And to me if I'm a player wouldn't I want to play for someone who can tell me exactly what to do to make it into the NFL and be successful? Especially if the coach saying telling them that is wearing a Super Bowl ring or two?
Second, there's a long line of coaches who have been highly successful in the college game, but have failed at the NFL level. Nick Saban, Pete Carroll, Bobby Petrino and Steve Spurrier are all examples of good to great college coaches who were failures in the NFL. That in itself should tell you why looking at an NFL coach should be high on the list. In the NFL teams generally are very even in regards to talent levels and coaching is a much more important factor to winning and losing. You HAVE to be a good coach to win in the NFL and even better than that to win a Super Bowl. College is different. In college, it's much more about talent accumulation than it is coaching. If you can stockpile the talent AND can coach you can nearly be unstoppable. See Nick Saban for an example of this. And while the NFL has a salary cap that limits how you can accumulate the talent, in college you are free to get as much talent as you want as long as you are under the 85-man limit. It's much more free in the college game.
I understand that a coach from the NFL is not going to be used to recruiting. But that's where assistant's come into play. Generally, the assistants do a majority of the heavy lifting when it comes to recruiting to begin with and the head coach is more of the closer. So the biggest complaint when it comes to the NFL names is nullified a little bit depending on who they hire as their assistants and I think a lot of top level assistants would like to come work for a proven NFL head coach to learn from him and see what it takes to be successful.
At the end of the day, the biggest issue with our program right now is that our head coach isn't an excellent X's and O's coach on either side of the ball. Hiring a coach from the NFL would eliminate that problem. To become a HC in the NFL you have to almost always have been a strong coach on one side of the ball. That's just the nature of the beast.
First, everyone is worried about recruiting and rightfully so. But at the end of the day, if we are winning recruiting will pretty much take care of itself. This is Texas. Players want to play here. And to me if I'm a player wouldn't I want to play for someone who can tell me exactly what to do to make it into the NFL and be successful? Especially if the coach saying telling them that is wearing a Super Bowl ring or two?
Second, there's a long line of coaches who have been highly successful in the college game, but have failed at the NFL level. Nick Saban, Pete Carroll, Bobby Petrino and Steve Spurrier are all examples of good to great college coaches who were failures in the NFL. That in itself should tell you why looking at an NFL coach should be high on the list. In the NFL teams generally are very even in regards to talent levels and coaching is a much more important factor to winning and losing. You HAVE to be a good coach to win in the NFL and even better than that to win a Super Bowl. College is different. In college, it's much more about talent accumulation than it is coaching. If you can stockpile the talent AND can coach you can nearly be unstoppable. See Nick Saban for an example of this. And while the NFL has a salary cap that limits how you can accumulate the talent, in college you are free to get as much talent as you want as long as you are under the 85-man limit. It's much more free in the college game.
I understand that a coach from the NFL is not going to be used to recruiting. But that's where assistant's come into play. Generally, the assistants do a majority of the heavy lifting when it comes to recruiting to begin with and the head coach is more of the closer. So the biggest complaint when it comes to the NFL names is nullified a little bit depending on who they hire as their assistants and I think a lot of top level assistants would like to come work for a proven NFL head coach to learn from him and see what it takes to be successful.
At the end of the day, the biggest issue with our program right now is that our head coach isn't an excellent X's and O's coach on either side of the ball. Hiring a coach from the NFL would eliminate that problem. To become a HC in the NFL you have to almost always have been a strong coach on one side of the ball. That's just the nature of the beast.
