A lot of you are acting like we haven’t been part of this rodeo before.
How many g5 coaches have been taken to p4/5 programs because they got some team to perform well for a year or two.
Fuente, Frost, Taggart, Golden, etc etc.
Sometimes the stars line up with a roster and a qb. A lot of seniors, a good oc against sht comp and a qb like McKenzie Milton.
This has rarely translated to a top p4 program and even less has it brought stability.
The difference between these conferences as a head coach is so vast and under appreciated by the average fan.
I would even go as far as to say that it’s probably easier to go from g5 to the NFL than to a p4 program with lofty expectations. That may sound ridiculous but take a closer look.
Over 85 players. Staff sizes that easily outnumber your average nfl team. On field coaches now expanded, NIL, boosters, agents, babysitting spoiled brats, establishing a winning culture to teenagers, recruiting all year round plus the portal, development.
Now try to that in a rebuild while knowing you have a pool of millionaires and even billionaires have you on a timeline.
Yes this also happens at g5 but the stakes, the size and the pressure are exponentially higher.
You have to absolutely go after someone who has done it at this level and been successful.
But then there is the other side of the story. Does the school understand what it takes to have a successful cfb program?
The BOT and the admin have to realize that it may not be the coach that’s the problem.
If the same people keep making the decisions and those decisions never lead to success, then the people that do the hiring are likely the problem.
If I’m uf I hire Franklin and ask him the same thing that we asked Mario… what do you need from us for this to be successful?
And if he says you need to clean house at your house because I know what I need inside of mine. And if those things aren’t aligned then they gotta go.
Because a g5 coach may likely have no idea wtf he’s getting himself into or think that he can fix it without any changes to the people that outrank him.