Has it ever been successful?
A new head coach underwhelms for the first two years, and is given an ultimatum that they should overhaul their staff to keep their job. I just can't imagine what would work about this situation as a hypothetical. Leadership so lacking that very early in a coach's tenure that the public outcry demands a change in direction; this seems like a reason to simply find new leadership.
This is a balletic operation of confidence by an administration: "We trust the coach, but not his initial judgement about assistants. We think, however, that his second choices will be more in line with our expectations of not giving one quarterback starter's reps all offseason, and then starting a different quarterback in week 2."
I was thinking this must have been a universal failure. After all, not many coaches have started out with Chuck Strongsian ineptitude for their first two years at a major, established program. Mike Shula, John Blake, Derek Dooley, Rich Rodriguez...none ever saw year 5.
Then I remembered a cheesy mom-spooning, constantly overwhelmed head coach we're about to see in Miami. Is Dabo Swinney the only outlier? And is his success contingent on Clemson finding unbelievable reserves of cash to sign two very high-profile coordinators like Chad Morris and Brent? His mediocrity is propped up by Equifax money, after a lifetime of mom-snuggling, so he can be the No. 1 Clemson fan in the world and get a trophy presented to him by President Donald Trump. It's like a collective fantasy created through yokel groupthink in rural South Carolina.
Maybe the problem for Chuck Strong is that a rambling, aloof, platitude machine isn't really part of anybody's collective dream in Austin. On some level, we Oklahoma fans all want to be midwestern golf pricks who get to publicly torture Carey Murdock.
A new head coach underwhelms for the first two years, and is given an ultimatum that they should overhaul their staff to keep their job. I just can't imagine what would work about this situation as a hypothetical. Leadership so lacking that very early in a coach's tenure that the public outcry demands a change in direction; this seems like a reason to simply find new leadership.
This is a balletic operation of confidence by an administration: "We trust the coach, but not his initial judgement about assistants. We think, however, that his second choices will be more in line with our expectations of not giving one quarterback starter's reps all offseason, and then starting a different quarterback in week 2."
I was thinking this must have been a universal failure. After all, not many coaches have started out with Chuck Strongsian ineptitude for their first two years at a major, established program. Mike Shula, John Blake, Derek Dooley, Rich Rodriguez...none ever saw year 5.
Then I remembered a cheesy mom-spooning, constantly overwhelmed head coach we're about to see in Miami. Is Dabo Swinney the only outlier? And is his success contingent on Clemson finding unbelievable reserves of cash to sign two very high-profile coordinators like Chad Morris and Brent? His mediocrity is propped up by Equifax money, after a lifetime of mom-snuggling, so he can be the No. 1 Clemson fan in the world and get a trophy presented to him by President Donald Trump. It's like a collective fantasy created through yokel groupthink in rural South Carolina.
Maybe the problem for Chuck Strong is that a rambling, aloof, platitude machine isn't really part of anybody's collective dream in Austin. On some level, we Oklahoma fans all want to be midwestern golf pricks who get to publicly torture Carey Murdock.
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