Rutgers and hiring the wrong coach

[RUSK97]

Can anyone remember a serious HC candidate who was pursued/interviewed by Rutgers but wasn't hired and evetually went on to success?

The only one I can really think of is Gary Pinkel (who's not having a great year, but has had success). From the recent round of hires...the Dazzler is having a lackluster time thus far at BCU, Cristobol got fired from FIU a year after we interviewed him. Previous candidates? Gary Darnell was fired from WMU shortly after we interviewed him. List goes on and on.

So the point is even if someone else had been hired in place of Flood, chances are pretty good we wouldn't have had success with them either and we'd be paying a whole lot more (to date and also to get rid of).

Is it an institutional thing that we can't even look at winners (let alone hire them)?

 

[AreYouNUTS]

We never had the words "Big Ten" in our HC-search before.

 

[RUSK97]

We never had the words "Big Ten" in our HC-search before.

Sure thing, Nuts, but when we were looking for a Graber replacement or Shea replacement, the Big East was no slouch.

 

[retired711]

But, Nuts, as you know better than anyone, we don't have full B1G revenue coming in yet, and that constrains us.

 

[scarletKNIGHT07]

Jay Wright

 

[RichG]

Glen Mason - then Graber was hired, I believe.

 

[rutgersdave]

Can anyone remember a serious HC candidate who was pursued/interviewed by Rutgers but wasn't hired and evetually went on to success?

The only one I can really think of is Gary Pinkel (who's not having a great year, but has had success). From the recent round of hires...the Dazzler is having a lackluster time thus far at BCU, Cristobol got fired from FIU a year after we interviewed him. Previous candidates? Gary Darnell was fired from WMU shortly after we interviewed him. List goes on and on.

So the point is even if someone else had been hired in place of Flood, chances are pretty good we wouldn't have had success with them either and we'd be paying a whole lot more (to date and also to get rid of).

Is it an institutional thing that we can't even look at winners (let alone hire them)?

We should never try to hire another head coach because it's scary. We can be worst off than 3-9 but attendance will be about 22,000 a game and lost revenue from tickets sales of $15-20 million.

 

[brgossRU90]

It starts with a good AD capable of identifying good coaches and we haven't had many of those.

 

[RUSK97]

We should never try to hire another head coach because it's scary. We can be worst off than 3-9 but attendance will be about 22,000 a game and lost revenue from tickets sales of $15-20 million.

Oh shut up. My point is not that we shoildn't go looking for another coach, it's that we have a particularly poor record of figuring out what makes a successful coach...so we don't go down this path again. I'd much rather have my coach poached by another team (like Schiano) that having to fire a coach.

 

[satnom]

Don't think Flood is Julie's fault but has she hired any head coach for any of the sports since coming on board?

GO RU

 

[Blitz8RUCrazy]

Don't think Flood is Julie's fault but has she hired any head coach for any of the sports since coming on board?

GO RU

She has hired some of the olympic sports coaches. They seem to be doing well. She hasn't had the authority or donor money to hire FB or BB yet.

 

[RUich]

How many top possibilities may have been quietly contacted and declined? Rutgers is not a top program and that tends to control your pool of candidates. One think I try not to get too excited about is locking onto the latest hot guy. You always have some phenom from somewhere having a great year and everybody wants him. This can really blow up in your face if you are not careful.
If Flood is let go, we can only hope a lot more thought goes into his replacement.