We've had NFL-grade Head Coaches. Schnellenberger, Johnson, Erickson, Davis.
One's passed away, JJ is done with coaching, Erickson is out - but the one that worked under JJ, evaluated and recruited wide open for JJ, who's team was handed over to Erickson - is Butch.
He somehow managed to beat UM while building a team at UNC, and while at FIU - managed to outcoach and win as well. With inferior talent and players.
Same exact age as Saban - and he's proven himself at UM already.
He's a disciplinarian - I thought once he was going to strangle Sebastian in the end zone. Players respected him, he coached them up, developed them, and they were in essence - self motivated and self disciplined - ask Ed Reed. Clappy didn't coach.
Butch assembled the greatest college football team of all time.
I'd ask him what he needs - $$$ to assemble top coordinators. He can do the rest. If given a bit of time before the end-of-season coaching firings and scrambles - along with recruit confusion - he could hit the ground running and maintain a really good recruiting class with "I've been there, and I've done that, and I'll do it again - just need you. I recruited and developed the best college team ever assembled - fact. You come to UM, and you'll be a National Championship contender - I guarantee - and you'll be best prepared for the NFL by the time you leave."
Mac at UNC did well, went away to Texas - that was a disaster - and he returned to UNC - where he's done very well.
Some people belong in certain environments. Butch can take South Florida talent and gives it discipline and development to create a powerful team and build up the program in the process.
Or we can take another WAG.
Wild-Assed-Guess. Which hasn't worked out so well.
