....the corch Scott Stricklin is looking for, may not be a head corch at all. The Mississippi State University might just go for a top notch assistant, a young and hungry one who works his *** off and buys into the whole new paradign, ie, that THE Mississippi State University is the dominant university in OUR STATE, and that we will win at everything.
Bo Bounds made a good point this morning.....
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...nothing against assistant coaches in general (after all, Richard Williams was an assistant as was Stansbury), but an assistant coach has not been named a permanent head coach of an SEC school since Stansbury and Rod Barnes were named to coach MSU and Ole Miss in '98 (unless you count Andy Kennedy since he was interim coach at Cincinnati).
We will most likely hire a current head coach, unless he is like a Chris Collins from Duke or Kenny Payne form UK.
"If we get an assistant, it had better be an assistant from an elite program..."
I'm sure there are assistants at mid-majors (or even below) that would do a great job for us. To eliminate them based on the fact that they aren't at Duke, Kansas, Kentucky or North Carolina is pretty silly. There are a limited number of assistant positions at "elite" schools which means there are more good coaches out there than there are elite positions available.
Besides there is no guarantee that just because you are an assistant at an elite school that you'll make a good head coach. I remember everyone here in New Orleans going apeshit crazy when Tulane hired Shawn Finney, who at the time was regarded as one of the top assistant coaches in the nation at Kentucky. He is now bouncing around as an assistant at Central Florida after having not done much at Tulane.
Give me someone with a lot of energy, who can recruit and whose teams play with toughness and heart and I'll be happy.
I'm sure there are assistants at mid-majors (or even below) that would do a great job for us. To eliminate them based on the fact that they aren't at Duke, Kansas, Kentucky or North Carolina is pretty silly. There are a limited number of assistant positions at "elite" schools which means there are more good coaches out there than there are elite positions available.
Besides there is no guarantee that just because you are an assistant at an elite school that you'll make a good head coach. I remember everyone here in New Orleans going apeshit crazy when Tulane hired Shawn Finney, who at the time was regarded as one of the top assistant coaches in the nation at Kentucky. He is now bouncing around as an assistant at Central Florida after having not done much at Tulane.
Give me someone with a lot of energy, who can recruit and whose teams play with toughness and heart and I'll be happy.
...but at the stageour program isin whencomparing toprevious times we've made hires,I wouldn't hire a mid-major assistant unless he had previous head coaching experience.1
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1In other words, a coaching lifer not named Richard Williams.
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1In other words, a coaching lifer not named Richard Williams.
Only one season as head coach, so he's like hiring an assistant, except that he also happens to have a year of head coaching under his belt AND just so happened to go 31-2
He led Indiana State to the title game in '79 in his first season after the previous coach resigned because of a brain aneurysm & never coached in another NCAA tournament again.</p>
So, your prediction is that we'll hire a current head coach... unless we hire a current assistant. Great insight.fishwater99 said:
he admittedly is all about takingBOTHthe sportsand fashion scene in Mississippi to previously uncharted waters.
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