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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1589919, member: 289"]
I don't think it matters that both Shafer and Babers came from the MAC. Ben Schwartzwalder came from Muhlenberg. Coach Mac had been the head coach at UMASS- a decade before he came here. Paul Pasqualoni was at Western Connecticut. the other guys hadn't been a head coach at all. Everybody starts somewhere and it's not going to be at the top..

And coaches will tend to hire guys they know, guys they've worked well with. That doesn't mean their bad coaches just getting a free ride. Coaches are always coaching for their jobs. They aren't going to undercut themselves by hiring assistants that they don't think can do the job.

And Babers isn't just a "MAC coach". he's been all over the place. He's taken a system he learned at Baylor and used it successfully at Eastern Illinois and then at Bowling Green. His system is clearly very different that Shafer's, (who never really developed an offensive system, although he was starting to). The fact that they both coached in the MAC is meaningless. I agree that bringing staff with him is a plus. I've always thought our best bet was getting a coach who had a successful system at a lower level who wants to try it at this level and brought his own staff along to implement his system. Now we're doing it.

Really, sometimes it seems as if we seek out things to worry about.
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