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His whole hiring process is bizarre. There is “due diligence”, and then there’s scatterbrained indecisiveness. Mario May suffer from the latter.

He certainly gets credit for leaving behind a good roster, but assembling talent and maximizing its performance are two different things. With a roster made up entirely of his players 4 years into his tenure, he fielded a very inferior product compared to his successor with zero HC experience.

Now post the 2021 box scores of games like Stanford, Cal, UCLA, UW , Oregon State and of course Utah. I feel that’s more indicative of the sort of teams we’ll see under him in future seasons with better rosters and assistant coaches. They finished with a point differential of only 4.4 points vs...

Joe Moorhead got a head coach job before Mario was even hired by us, so it wasn’t an option even if he wanted to consider bringing him. His first OC at Oregon was Marcus Arroyo, who was able to parlay their success into the HC job at UNLV. The guy he fired was the DC (Jim Leavitt).

You’ve made the comment before about Mario “liking shiny things” (in the negative sense). His coaches at previous stops have displayed upward career mobility (Satterfield, Collins,Avalos, Arroyo) . This suggests some level of eye for assistant coaching talent on his part, but in this situation...

Mario can alleviate the 2007 comparison by hitting the reset button NOW rather than string it along the way Shannon did by only firing one coordinator after year one and waiting until after the 2008 season to fire Patrick Nix and some of the other underperforming assistants. BOTH coordinators...