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[QUOTE="Crusty, post: 5332906, member: 2265"]
FHCDM was an excellent online coach and a darn good HC.
If he had stayed I believe we would have continued to grow. When he left we lost Gus Edwards and Zach Allen and others. We also lost a terrific staff.
We were about to join the ACC with a big bump in money.
Doug's personality was his worst enemy. Instead of embracing the alums like Coach Fran wisely has done he kept them away and let them know their input was not wanted. 
Coach Fran has everyone singing from the same hymnbook while Doug sang solo. Hard to get what you want that way.
It is quite possible he would have been very successful and might even still be our HC today making more than he is as NE online coach.
He would have gotten everything he wanted and more.
His timing left Shafer scrambling to find a staff so he hired a lot of guys he knew. He took a big chance on McDonald as OC for his recruiting chops, which backfired into a disaster.
Note that coach Fran did the same thing he just picked better guys. (Jury still out on ERob.) If he had missed on Nixon we might have gone 6-6.
Doug left knowing we were graduating a ton of talent including Nassib and Pugh draftees.
I think he got while the going was good instead of sticking around to coach his best recruiting class with a newly experienced staff.
All this said he would left early anyway because he is a leaver and not a guy to stick around for the long haul.
He left one of the best 32 jobs in the country for quick cash only to become an online coach. In retrospect he might have made more in the long run at SU and/or Buffalo.
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