At the very least, time for US, as alumni, to begin a serious discussion, looking ahead anywhere from months to YEARS, of who we might begin to consider bringing in as our next Head Coach.
To be clear:
This is by all means “no holds barred”, “Spare no EXPENSE” time. Perhaps it is “way outside the BOX”-thinking time TOO:
I must admit to finding MYSELF virtually completely DEVOID OF ANY concrete suggestions.
Right offhand I begin with NOT A ONE!
That’s right: for all my many loud declarations here, come the moment NO IMMEDIATE SUGGESTION LEAPS TO MIND.
I really hadn’t expected things to come to this any time soon:
But that doesn’t mean we haven’t now been served ample warning...“The Time Is Nigh!”:
It has been sudden, but it has been total and CLEAR:
The University of Florida’s Athletic Department’s program is in disarray, it’s leadership in rudderless confusion: it was and is in no better shape than I am at this moment to “adapt and overcome”...
The DIFFERENCE is, these folks are PAID, WELL paid, to be always and eternally ready for such moments—READY TO THINK ON THEIR FEET!
I do NOT get the impression that Stricklin currently IS—not in the SLIGHTEST!
Do any of YOU?!!
So, aside from perhaps making HIM the FIRST one we fire, let’s just put him and all THAT to the side for a moment;
Who do we simply turn to in considering individuals whom we might IMMEDIATELY consider HIRING AS OUR NEXT HEAD COACH?
Someone to bring in his own all-star line-up to in turn rebuild our program and bring us back to the very top of the College Football Pack in record time??!
Is there ANYONE like that out there?
We’ll have nothing but a long, bleak “slow road back”, back through “mediocrity”, no matter what, it seems, just based on the apparent lack of standout well-rounded (at least PROMISING “up’n’COMING”) young Coaches out there right now.
That being the case, MY best suggestion is that for now, as a first step in the event that (however it came to this) we WERE to find ourselves in the market for a new Head Coach, that we go for someone whose skills most assuredly include a growing reputation as a master recruiter. At the very LEAST that would presumably begin a “restock” of TALENT here, no matter what else meanwhile ensued. If that one didn’t show enough in the way of actual onfield results, well, at least maybe the NEXT guy after THAT may have something to work with, when the time comes (sardonic aside: “...maybe the next Mullen?”—but that won’t work long term either: Mullen’s biggest failing probably IS his ineptitude/disinterest (choose one) in RECRUITING, after all!).
No matter what, as I say: It’s gonna be a long road back from here, it seems—so we might as well begin THINKING “long term”!
To be clear:
This is by all means “no holds barred”, “Spare no EXPENSE” time. Perhaps it is “way outside the BOX”-thinking time TOO:
I must admit to finding MYSELF virtually completely DEVOID OF ANY concrete suggestions.
Right offhand I begin with NOT A ONE!
That’s right: for all my many loud declarations here, come the moment NO IMMEDIATE SUGGESTION LEAPS TO MIND.
I really hadn’t expected things to come to this any time soon:
But that doesn’t mean we haven’t now been served ample warning...“The Time Is Nigh!”:
It has been sudden, but it has been total and CLEAR:
The University of Florida’s Athletic Department’s program is in disarray, it’s leadership in rudderless confusion: it was and is in no better shape than I am at this moment to “adapt and overcome”...
The DIFFERENCE is, these folks are PAID, WELL paid, to be always and eternally ready for such moments—READY TO THINK ON THEIR FEET!
I do NOT get the impression that Stricklin currently IS—not in the SLIGHTEST!
Do any of YOU?!!
So, aside from perhaps making HIM the FIRST one we fire, let’s just put him and all THAT to the side for a moment;
Who do we simply turn to in considering individuals whom we might IMMEDIATELY consider HIRING AS OUR NEXT HEAD COACH?
Someone to bring in his own all-star line-up to in turn rebuild our program and bring us back to the very top of the College Football Pack in record time??!
Is there ANYONE like that out there?
We’ll have nothing but a long, bleak “slow road back”, back through “mediocrity”, no matter what, it seems, just based on the apparent lack of standout well-rounded (at least PROMISING “up’n’COMING”) young Coaches out there right now.
That being the case, MY best suggestion is that for now, as a first step in the event that (however it came to this) we WERE to find ourselves in the market for a new Head Coach, that we go for someone whose skills most assuredly include a growing reputation as a master recruiter. At the very LEAST that would presumably begin a “restock” of TALENT here, no matter what else meanwhile ensued. If that one didn’t show enough in the way of actual onfield results, well, at least maybe the NEXT guy after THAT may have something to work with, when the time comes (sardonic aside: “...maybe the next Mullen?”—but that won’t work long term either: Mullen’s biggest failing probably IS his ineptitude/disinterest (choose one) in RECRUITING, after all!).
No matter what, as I say: It’s gonna be a long road back from here, it seems—so we might as well begin THINKING “long term”!
