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Message: [QUOTE="nzm136, post: 1148134, member: 2531"] My thoughts are as follows: HCSS is a brilliant football mind (look what he did at Stanford and Syracuse as DC), he is energetic, and he is incredibly loyal. Loyalty is good to an extend, but not when it turns into full-blown nepotism. Unfortunately, I think that he's taken loyalty too far, and sub par assistant coaches are dragging him down. In the interest of recognizing both sides of an argument, Dr. Gross could be limiting HCSS' budget. I'm not sure how realistic that is, though. On one hand, I don't think Dr. Gross would because we are pouring money into the program, but on the other hand our salaries are low, so budgetary restraints might be the culprit and not HCSS' loyalty. Either way, I am 100% OK giving McD a couple of more years. He is an excellent recruiter, so he is more than a warm body, and he is a young coordinator. Look at Hackett. He was terrible for his first 2-3 years, but by the time his last year rolled around, we looked good on offense. The same thing might be true for McD. And, if it is, having a young OC who is both a good OC and a good recruiter is a dangerous combination, especially since we play in a Dome (which rewards having a high-powered offense - good weather, dome air, crowd noise, heat, and so on). My problem is pretty much everyone else. What tangibly have they done? We often look unorganized, our players aren't progressing (i.e. like they did under HCDM), and none of our other assistant coaches are exceptionally good at recruiting (admittedly, some are OK, but none are great). IMHO, the worst of our coaches is Chuck Bullough. What has he done? Our defensive play calling looks attrocious at times (and when we look good, I suspect it's because HCSS did the game planning and took a heavy role in the play calling), and I don't think that he has been especially good at recruiting. What does he do? He's just a warm body, just like he was at UCLA. I've said this before, and I'll say it again: if we surround HCSS with high quality assistant coaches, we will win, and we will do it on a big scale for a long time. If we don't, we will turn into a basketball school, and our proud football tradition will be flushed down the toilet. [/QUOTE]

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