I'm a Butch guy 100% so we can leave him out of this discussion. Since Mario is being given heavy consideration by the search committee, let's just mention some positives attributes he has:
1. All the top SoFl recruits are familiar with him, he's part of the staff that is evaluating who they are and the ones he's recruiting that do sign will be 4* or 5* nothing less. Understand he's recruiting for Bama, but he still has to be good because he's recruiting against schools better than Canes and idiots like Al Golden. I say he'd pull in top 10 classes, plus the majority top SoFl talent.
2. You can't go to MIT and not learn some high level ****. Well when it come to how to build a championship caliber team consistently, then Bama is MIT. Forget FIU, His insights from being there will pay dividends for organizational structure, recruiting, development, practice and game day.
3. We are loyal fans and have our wishes, but we gotta admit having the high school coaches support is more important than us Chat Room Corches and AD's. Plus he has the support of many former players. We tout the importance of Baez and the former Canes currently on staff, who's to say his former Canes staff members won't be better? Not to say these guys, but for comparison: Lamar Thomas WR's, Kevin Patrick DL, Vilma LB's and Ed Reed DB's. See I wouldn't be concerned about what former Canes may want jobs.
4. We coming off the worse coaches in football history (AL, Dorito & Coley). We know Mario is 5 wins better than Al if he coached from home. He knows the better coaches plus many will solicit their interest in joining the Hurricane staff. Coaching goes way up.
5. Plus the practices will be more physical, competition increases, players put in right position and used better for their skill set. We soft because Al wanted to be the band leader of concussion prevention. Guys like Chocolate, Njoku and speed guys will be primary contributors.
6. Lastly he'll have less need to evaluate potential recruits since he already familiar with the many, if not all the top tier recruits in SoFl. He can have his lists ready day one and the staff can hit the road. Sign a few more top SoFl recruits and a few flips and we back in business.
I'll address these in order:
1. All of the South Florida recruits are indeed familiar with him. I'm just wondering, how many South Florida guys, more specifically Dade, has he got to go to Bama? Zero. Goose eggs. Anybody can recruit Bama. Him being handed national recruiter of the year is a given to anyone who's put in that position. Anyone can sell Bama. Anyone.
2. Him being at Bama doesn't mean crap as far as learning. Some guys have their ceilings. Some coaches are meant to be position coaches, coordinators, and head coaches. Everyone has their own ceiling. The Nick Saban tree is far from perfect, and for every Jimbo Fisher and
Mark Dantonio, there's also a Derek Dooley and Will Muschamp.
3. The only reason HS coaches support Mario is because he's the fast track to their careers. If he's the coach they'll be telling him (not asking) that they need to be on his staff. Once he denies them, so too will their support wane. Then we run into the issue of coaches sending their players to other schools.
4. Mario's 5 wins better than Golden? He's probably a better coach then Golden (isn't saying much). But Golden with an average schedule has 6/7 wins. You're telling me that Mario's going to get 11 wins or go undefeated? Hahahahahaha. Him knowing the better coaches? How do you come up with this? He found Coley who's in the running for one of the worse OC's to ever come through Miami. And if Mario is hired, he may even retain Coley.
5. How do you know this? The only track record we have of Mario's is 27-47. Based on that record (even though it's FIU), it's hard to say that he puts guys in the right position. His crowning achievement is winning the Little Caesars Bowl.
6. You can say that about any other coach outside of Butch. And even then, given what Butch accomplished here, an eye for talent and being able to evaluate said talent. I wouldn't doubt that Butch could keep most of the class together. Mind you, although I'm a Butch supporter, I'm of the group that believes that there are better candidates out there.
