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Message: [QUOTE="Ottawa Orange, post: 760466, member: 2559"] Unfortunately, the never ending recruiting cycle now means that coaches are going to get canned earlier and earlier. Look at USC - we are already getting reports of recruits warming up to them again now that Kiffin has been canned. Having a lame duck coach around just gives your program the stench of death, which kills you on the recruiting trail. ("You know the guy recruiting you at school X is getting fired soon, right?") The other issue is availability of "hot" coaching candidates. If you have a vacancy, you want guys to know about right away so that you can start tampering, errrr, I mean putting out feelers ASAP. Waiting until the end of the season might mean that the hot assistant you had targeted ends up becoming someone else's HC before you could act. (I'll bet you that Chris Petersen's agent got a text message before Lane Kiffin was even able to hail a cab at LAX.) [/QUOTE]