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How many of you would be excited about a Fedora hire?

  • ChrisUT said...

    I would not. Offensive mind, but I would worry about defense. I'd also worry about someone that jumped ship after one year, although it is the ACC and UNC, but just one year of commitment? Record is good, but most of the wins were from a pathetic CUSA schedule.

    Although I will say that UNC is pretty close to being 10-1 with really close loses at Wake Forest, at Louisville, and at Duke. Wake Forest is obviously the worst of those, but 10-1 in year one would have been unreal. He lost those 3 games by a combined 9 points. All road games.

    With that being said, I still wouldn't be excited. Okay with it, yes, but excited, no.

    Losing to Duke and Wake Forest would give me reason to think about this as a hire. But if it gets down to him as our only choice after Gruden, Stoopes, Fisher, Strong, then I'll support him wholeheartedly.

    gwbask

  • ChrisUT said...

    I would not. Offensive mind, but I would worry about defense. I'd also worry about someone that jumped ship after one year, although it is the ACC and UNC, but just one year of commitment? Record is good, but most of the wins were from a pathetic CUSA schedule.

    Although I will say that UNC is pretty close to being 10-1 with really close loses at Wake Forest, at Louisville, and at Duke. Wake Forest is obviously the worst of those, but 10-1 in year one would have been unreal. He lost those 3 games by a combined 9 points. All road games.

    With that being said, I still wouldn't be excited. Okay with it, yes, but excited, no.

    and we were pretty close to being 9 and 2, if only... We don't need another coach who gets close.

    frostyvol

  • If we get spurned by the A-list coaches and end up having to settle for what is perceived as tier C coach then I hope Hart and the big $$ get on the horn with Paul DePodesta or Bill James or even Billy Beane and come up with metrics to measure the Fedora's, Doerens, Goldens, of the coaching world. It seems there is so much dumb money chasing coaches that have obvious red flags (err, Dooley). I don't understand why AD's rely on politics and "instincts" instead of statistics.

    The baseball sabermatricians predict breakout players year after year . . I'm guessing they could quickly break down the tier C coaches so that we pay for value instead of perceived potential.

    I'd take Butch Jones or David Shaw over any of the tier B/C guys I've seen mentioned. Off/Def stats for 2011-12 have these two guys rubbing elbows with the "home run" coaches.

    GeneHarrogate

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