by youngterrier on Fri Jan 12, 2018 3:32 pm
Also it's not a terrible thing to have some of these coaches leaving.
Long term, it means we have more capable coaches out there getting diverse experience. So we'll have candidates with more diverse resumes for new coordinator/head coaches in the future.
If the Josh Conklin experiment pans out, and I think it will, we'll have made a successful transition to division one. If not, we're in trouble.
The difference between creating a good team and establishing a great program is the ability to have the next guy up at head coach be successful. Mike Ayers built us a great team and a great program, but the question of whether our success is dependent on the man or the program will be answered in the next couple of years.
There's a big gap between the costs and the benefits of the decision to go out of staff. The cost is we lose some of the guys who have been around forever. The benefit is a coaching tree that branches out like it is now. Whether or not that cost/benefit will pan out depends on how we perform on the field and in recruiting over the next couple of years.
I imagine we'll take a recruiting hit this year, but thankfully we have a good nucleus of guys coming back and we haven't had a lot of freshmen start for us traditionally.
It's all on Conklin now
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