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[QUOTE="billsin01, post: 634236, member: 837"]
A couple comments here:
 
1) Doug just jumped into a market where a coach can be fired in one year. Literally one year. He took the guys he thinks can best help him have success (and, of course, were available and willing to go to Buffalo). This idea that he somehow should have been worried about what SU was going to do to replace position coaches when he could be (and still might be) in the unemployment line by January is incredibly naive. I have no idea if it's a good NFL staff or not, but it's the best DM thought he could do.
 
2) The days of significant continuity on coaching staffs is over. You may get a nice run of 3 or 4 years without much turnover, but generally there are a few coaches replaced at every school every year. The reality is if you are a good position coach (or perceived to be good), you move onward and upward. If you are a not good position coach (or perceived to be not good), then get replaced.
 
3) How does someone who shares your viewpoint of the dire straights in which DM left the program reconcile with the fact that Shafer quickly went out and lined up a staff many (rightly or wrongly) believe is as good or better than the previous staff? I mean couldn't DM have known that Shafer was a veteran coach in his own right who had plenty of connections and may have wanted to build is own staff regardless? And even if he didn't, there was a pretty big bump in assistant coach $$ allocation which I have to believe had something to do with the fact that DM left. Honestly, DM leaving and taking his staff could end up being a good thing for the university (b/c they had to face a harsh reality, not b/c DM and co. were bad coaches).
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