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Message: [QUOTE="nzm136, post: 954400, member: 2531"] 1. Our DC failed for a year at UCLA until he was fired. Unless I'm forgetting someone, only our HC and OC had success at a BCS school, and they just so happen to be viewed as the most talented coaches on the staff. A successful BCS background doesn't make anything a sure thing, just like the absence of one doesn't make anything a sure miss. It's all probabilities, though. 2. You're right, but the key word is *could*. They *could* also be a total failure in way too deep over their head. Unfortunately, the second is more likely. That said, before anyone twists my words, I want to make this clear: I don't think that our coaching staff is bad. I just think that we're 1-2 big time moves away from going from a team with a consistent 8 win season ceiling to a team with a consistent 10 win season ceiling. I trust HCSS as a coach. He has worked miracles at Stanford (as DC), Syracuse (as DC), and a number of other jobs. However, his success hasn't been as a result of his network. It's been his personal genius (and he *is* a genius). 3. Your third point is A. misleading and B. factually not true. Your post was misleading because when you say "they are ... on their way up (from a worse school)..." I think you mean it as if that's a bad thing. In reality it isn't. There are bright spots in most coaching staffs. Purdue might have a great running game, but be a bad overall program with little to offer. Odds are that in such a hypothetical situation, the OL coach and/or the RB coach who was able to successfully run against schools like Nebraska, PSU, Michigan, MSU, and OSU would be a good hire, despite coming from a worse P5 school. Your post isn't accurate because you leave out yard sales which is how most major assistant coaches are hired at our level. We didn't get Atkins because he was coming from a weaker program (he came from Tennessee), and we didn't get him because he was on the way down (he was thought t be one of the best assistant coaches in the nation when he as hired here). We got him because his HC, Phil Fulmer, got canned. [/QUOTE]

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