People are saying Chud because he was a good OC and is a Cane. That's it. It's something. But not enough.
He was not a monster recruiter. He's not the most dynamic person or groundbreaking. Cleveland was a **** storm of incompetence yes, he got a raw deal, but he wasn't exactly blowing people's minds either.
We we have to stop to just deferring to someone with cane roots just cause golden sucks. Coker and Shannon had cane roots. Howard and jimmy didn't. It's not that ******* direct of an indicator.
Give me an X's and O's guy any day of the week.
That's why God made assistants, so they can recruit and leave the important coaches to make the calls on gameday.
We need a tactician. I'll say it til I'm blue in the face. I remember 4-5 years ago begging for the administration to consider a lightly regarded coach from the Canadian league named Marc Trestman. I bet you Trestman wouldn't have been a great recruiter either...but 5 years later we all know he can coach.
Give me an offensive minded, intelligent, X's and O's head coach. Give him enough of a budget to find a good DC....then fill in the rest of the ******* staff with every recruiter you guys can find.
You know what recruits better than any human being on the planet? Wins.