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Originally Posted by Dudd
Could not disagree more. Stud coordinators don't like to remain coordinators, they want to be the guy. Much easier to find a great head coach and hang onto him than to identify great coordinators and be able to hold onto them for more than a few years in a row.
Usually a big part of the reason they want to be "the guy" though is the money. There are undoubtedly some guys who would be content with being a coordinator at a good program where they were paid decent HC money.
But really in order for this to work, the way things are done now would have to be overhauled - the coordinators would probably have to actually be paid more than the HC and the coordinators would need to have some authority.
Honestly I really like the way Lane Kiffin's staff is set up. I don't really think that kind of setup would be that much harder to replicate than trying to find one of the handful of genius micromanaging workaholics who can successfully control everything, including the personalities, and also recruit. That path is how Brad Childress (or, say, Charlie Weis) ends up coaching your football team.
I guess my point is, rather than expecting the HC to be responsible for everything, including a revolving door of coordinators who make a fraction of what he does, just get a good offensive mind who is content to be a coordinator, pay him some $$$, same for defense, and get a head coach with name recognition and experience who can recruit and who doesn't care about or want to be hands-on...that seems like a winning formula to me. The responsibilities are clear and you have proven guys in each discipline. Instead, what you end up with 90% of the time is a strategist who can't recruit or a recruiter who can't strategize being responsible for all of it.
Last edited by bills217; 11-29-2010 at 08:03 PM.