what can UK and Mitch do to set Mark Stoops up for success? Would it help to add additional coaches in advisor roles. Imagine adding names like Les Miles, mike leach, or Mason. Could the additional experience help??
How to set Stoops up for success
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Before I added anyone, I would send Coach Stoops to "Basic Leadership Class 101".
These things are just "buddy" deals that are funneling money to these guys retirement account. If you are truly having to hire someone to "advise"the head man then you have made the wrong hire. Spurrier is more than likely just cashing checks.
The idea of hiring an ex coach to advise the current coach is the dumbest thing I've ever heard of and if any head coach was willing to put up with that, we don't want him anyways.
He can get a taste of BLC at the UK ROTC. His position is the equivalent of an officer anyway. But your right he may need BLC where the rubber meets the road, the enlisted corp.
Try to give your team a chance at success. Drop UL off the schedule. UK should have never played them in the first place. (Does anyone care about IU football anymore since we don't play them.) It's bad enough losing to S. Miss but then you turn around and play UL where it's another loss in a non-SEC schedule that your team should be 4-0 in. Going 2-2 in the non-SEC portion of your schedule forces you to go 4-4 in the SEC to make a bowl. That has not happen a lot in my lifetime no matter who the coach or AD were. Once you are winning 7 or 8 games your recruiting will ramp up even more. Then you can add a power 5 team or two back on.
Shell out the money to get the best DC they can find for next season, someone equally in stature to Gran - i.e. a Bo Pelini type. Then we have a great chance to succeed. That would ultimately be cheaper than replacing the head coach down the road.
Why in the hell would we pay two guys to do the job one should be doing capably? Dear Lord ENOUGH EXCUSES
Mark Stoops is making a whole lot of money to still be on training wheels. We do not need a consultant or co-head coach, we need to act like a school that plays the game to win. Stoops should have replaced his DC after the first season. The head coach has been disorganized since the first press conference. It is hard to teach organization to a man who is already running the program. You should have that trait before you are hired. Mitch did not do his homework but I guess we were desperate to find somebody to coach here. In the future we need to take the responsibility away from MB to hire the head football coach and head basketball coach. Or better yet, retire MB.
I don't think those guys (or any other "advisors") are walking' thru that door.
But was he not already "set up" for success this year with 6 very winnable games on the home schedule and a 7th winnable game (MO) on the road? And, as a bonus, a home game against what now looks to be a very ordinary GA team. JMO.
Peace
UF hired Spurrier to play golf with deep pocket alums, nothing more nothing less.
It's Stoops job to set Stoops up for success.
If he can't get it done soon, then.. NEXT!
If he can't get it done soon, then.. NEXT!
Exactly, that is the only reason they hired Spurrier. He isn't doing any coaching. Just playing a lot of golf with the money folks.