From Riley: Lesrned the importance of frequent application of Chap Stick.
Waaaaay different time and era … back then a #1 assistant on a "P5" team was better qualified than a HC at a lower level team. Nowadays being the HC at UCF or Boise State or ND State is more valuable than being an OC or DC at Alabama or Nebraska.
4 of the 5 you highlighted are all internal promotions. So the promoting institution knows exactly what they're getting, much like NU with FS. Additionally everyone of the guys you have cited have a long rich background with experience at multiple institutions some even having NFL experience.It seems to me that great HCs make their way to the top one way or another. Plenty of recent coaches are having success at P5 programs without "mid-major" coaching experience.
Kirby Smart: DC at Bama ->HC at UGA
Dabo Swinney: WRs at Clemson -> HC at Clemson
Lincoln Riley: OC at OU -> HC at OU
The jury is still out, but Oregon and Ohio State just promoted coordinators to head coaching jobs. That's 5 of the best jobs in college football given to coordinators. Not much different of a time and era at all really.
4 of the 5 you highlighted are all internal promotions. So the promoting institution knows exactly what they're getting, much like NU with FS. Additionally everyone of the guys you have cited have a long rich background with experience at multiple institutions some even having NFL experience.
Relatively speaking everyone of those guys are or were younger than FS when FS got his shot. Yes, FS had years of assistant coaching experience but all at Nebraska.
I tend to that a lot. Must be my ADD.I thought this thread was supposed to be about the positive's. Why in heck is it getting run off the tracks???
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I thought this thread was supposed to be about the positive's. Why in heck is it getting run off the tracks???
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