Unfortunately we have many fans that support this idea. These people need help.
Harpoon did more damage to this program in his short tenure than anyone AU history. His atrocious approach to and effort in recruiting may haunt us for five or ten years.
We can't hire a failed re-tread like Muschump.
We can't hire "potential without experience" like Deion
We can't hire a morally bankrupt, no-trick pony like Freeze just because he beat Alabama a few times and got Liberty (liberty, liberty) past a pretty shitty Arkansas team. Hugh Freeze is the Wal Mart version of Gus. It's a huge step backward.
We can't hire somebody from the west coast or who hasn't coached in the SEC because there's a difference. Part of Harboob's problem is that his valuation of talent was faulty based on his experience. A fantastic player at Boise is a third-stringer at AU. Pretty sure he legitimately believed he had an amazing array of talent (Watch!) because he was unable to properly valuate it in comparison to the rest of the SEC. This is really a different topic, but I watched a good bit of the Oregon game Saturday just to see. Yeah, Bo is putting up numbers, but denying the level of competition is different is delusional. It's not the same. It's mostly speed. The SEC moves at a different pace. It's like p5 to D2... or watching a 6A high school game and then taking in a AA private school game. Bo has a better OL, but the decisions he has to make don't come at him as quickly as they would in the SEC. That extra second or two is huge.
So who can we hire? Damned if I know. Just can't be any of those.
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