We wouldn't have gotten him last year, Flood was 8-5 and he wasn't going to get fired off that record. The year it was possible was 2013 when I was mentioning him. Most here were on the Narduzzi bandwagon, and pretty much no one even bothered to discuss Herman despite the fact I put out all his info/background. Also donors wanted someone with HC experience. Mullen, along with Golden, was one of supposed targets but we didn't have enough money for it. I would have liked Mullen too but if we couldn't get him Herman would have been perfectly fine with me.
Now again I see people mostly neglecting coordinators for some reason. Again with the HC experience. I get wanting to have it but if you look at it in practice I don't see much difference in success/failure rates between mid major HCs and P5 coordinators. Just have to take it on a case by case basis.
Aranda/Meacham are the names I like this year and I've given the reasoning in a bunch of threads. Venables would have been good and I mentioned him in the past and he's a good recruiter too. But I've read he's quite a hot head and can be prickish so I don't know that we need that type of coach here given our history, otherwise I'd think he could be good. Because of that I cooled on him quite a bit.