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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 1922180, member: 40"]
Hiring Ash would have been an epic fail, of grand proportions.  We would have been discarding a defensive oriented, unproven coordinator who was in over his head as a head coach for another defensive oriented, unproven coordinator who is likely to be in over his head. The program needed someone who knew what the hell they were doing.

And thankfully, the increased ACC revenues enabled us to not have to chase another coordinator type who lacked head coaching experience hoping to catch lightning in a bottle.

I don't know if Ash was ever a favorite--there was media speculation about that, but mostly [I'd say] because we were getting radio silence from the AD and nobody knew what they were thinking, as various candidates that had been proposed in the media were heading elsewhere.

Also think we dodged a bullet with Frost.  Nothing against him, but being able to land a proven head coach with a generally intact staff was what our program needed, not a two-year stepping stone to somebody who may or may not pan out.

We got the right guy.
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