Here's why I don't blame Cohen
Look at some of the hires of teams and be honest with yourself about how you felt about them:
1) Sam Pittman - Arkansas
2) Scott Satterfield - Louisville
3) Neal Brown - West Virginia
4) Scott Frost - Nebraska
5) Chip Kelly - UCLA
6) Mario Cristobal - Oregon
There's a lot of interesting names in this group. A lot of folks that the consensus said they wouldn't be successful and have been. One that was guaranteed to be successful and hasn't been. A couple that we were interested in that have had varied results.
If you paid everyone on this board money that you get Sam Pittman's wins in year 2 or Mike Leach the board is taking Leach.
Point is it's hard to hire the right coach in college football when you are a mid tier program. Moorhead was considered by many in the world of college football to be an A or A- hire. Didn't work out. I know a lot liked Neal Brown and his early results are very positive.
I get what Cohen tried to do with this hire and the last one. They didn't work out. I don't know the inner workings of the athletic department so folks may have their reasons to hate him. But I can at least see the vision of what he tried to do with Moorhead and Leach. They didn't work out. But I find it hard to say he should lose his job because the 2 didn't work out because at the time I don't think they were bad hires.
You are forgetting a couple things...
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Originally Posted by
MetEdDawg
Look at some of the hires of teams and be honest with yourself about how you felt about them:
1) Sam Pittman - Arkansas
2) Scott Satterfield - Louisville
3) Neal Brown - West Virginia
4) Scott Frost - Nebraska
5) Chip Kelly - UCLA
6) Mario Cristobal - Oregon
There's a lot of interesting names in this group. A lot of folks that the consensus said they wouldn't be successful and have been. One that was guaranteed to be successful and hasn't been. A couple that we were interested in that have had varied results.
If you paid everyone on this board money that you get Sam Pittman's wins in year 2 or Mike Leach the board is taking Leach.
Point is it's hard to hire the right coach in college football when you are a mid tier program. Moorhead was considered by many in the world of college football to be an A or A- hire. Didn't work out. I know a lot liked Neal Brown and his early results are very positive.
I get what Cohen tried to do with this hire and the last one. They didn't work out. I don't know the inner workings of the athletic department so folks may have their reasons to hate him. But I can at least see the vision of what he tried to do with Moorhead and Leach. They didn't work out. But I find it hard to say he should lose his job because the 2 didn't work out because at the time I don't think they were bad hires.
Cannizaro and Penson. Let's not act like this has been two bad hires...we are sitting at FOUR bad hires. You can keep with the "yeah but....he didn't know that would happen" or "but everyone said it was a great hire" but the fact of the matter is it's his job to KNOW. That's one of the responsibilities he get's paid for. Honestly, he knows baseball and he can identify coaching talent in that area (Cannizaro debacle withstanding) but under his tenure out football and women's basketball program have gone off the rails and I would argue that those were our two strongest programs when he took over. That CAN'T be ignored.
The smart decision when Mullen left would have been to look at what our team is built for and go after an up and coming coach that runs a similar scheme because that football team was POISED to win 10 or more games. Then you build off that. It may not be smart and edgy but you build to your strengths not what you WISH your strengths are.
Same thing with women's basketball. We were at the pinnacle and we could have had our pick of coaches out there but we decided to make political statement hire instead of getting a proven coach to take over a program at the top of the sport. Some of you are going to dig your heels in on that statement but (unbelievably) I have a bit of connection there and I can say for sure that the hire was made as a political statement and went wildly against what the major portion of boosters wanted at the time.
Nothing will change though. Why? Because we also have a university president that has let our academic standing sink as low as it's ever been. The academic faculty got who they wanted this time...and every facet of the university is paying for it because no one is being held accountable for anything. There is no drive or energy outside of collecting free money from the government.