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[QUOTE="OrangePA, post: 491039, member: 204"]
This is brilliant analysis.
 
Comparing your ability to take the CEO of Microsoft position from Steve Balmer to the Jeff Stoutland's access to the SU HC position is of course silly. 
 
You have to do better than that when trying to analogize.
 
A few other things.
 
Having a familiarity with the NE and NE HS coaches is crucial in this business. If you don't understand that you're not watching carefully enough.
 
Second, Stoutland was also a TE/OL coach for the Orange in the late 1990s meaning that he he spent a lot of time on the Hill - he knows the peculiarities of running a program at Syracuse.
 
Because of his effectiveness with SU he was recruited to coach at Michigan State and thereafter at Miami and of course Alabama. That Nick Saban hired him at Alabama has to say a lot about the guy.
 
The notion therefore that his football coaching background is not sufficient to qualify him to lead an ACC team seems a bit misguided to me.
 
The no HC experience issue is odd in this instance when one considers that Marrone was never a HC before he was hired by Syracuse University.
 
As we have discussed in the past, Andy Reid was never a coordinator before he became the Eagles HC and Vince Lombardi and Tom Landry had no HC experience before they got their jobs. The same holds true for Jim Boeheim and Bob Knight. So that discussion is really a waste of time.
 
I think you missed the point abut his assignment to the interim HC position at Miami. The result of the game was what it was. The point is that he was viewed as being the guy on the staff most qualified to take over for Randy Shannon - he obviously impressed somebody at Miami to have been asked to so serve.
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