How come Ferris State

[Deltaduckhunter]

Head coach, Tony Annese, never comes up in coaching search discussions? Dude has won four D2 National Championships and has only lost like 5 games the last 5 years. Seems like he coached up Trinidad into a winner. Is the game that different at D2 or does he have some built-in advantage at FS that would make any HC successful?

 

[615dawg]

My personal opinion is athletic directors have too much to lose if a D2 coach is not successful. They can get by with hiring a successful G5 coach, but if you go to D2 and they don't work out, it hurts the athletic director's career.

Cignetti was a D2 guy before James Madison and Indiana
Brian Kelly was a D2 guy before Central Michigan, Cincy and LSU
Chadwell was a D2 guy before Coastal and Liberty, and he's on several MSU people's list.

The point is, there's a guy coaching D2 football right now that is going to be a hell of an FBS coach one day. The knock on Annese is that he is 65 years old.