Quote Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve View Post
The Moorhead hire, although looked at unfavorably now, was universally lauded as one of the best hires of the cycle at the time. However, Cohen did no due diligence with that hire. I mean we had MULTIPLE P5 HCs interested in our job and we didn't even interview them. The funny thing with the Moorhead hire is that everyone thinks we got our first choice. We didn't. We literally called Ryan Day, still OC at Ohio St at the time, and offered him the job without an interview like an hour after Dan left.
It's rare for us to get our 1st target when hiring altho I think we did with Jan. I didnt hear about us getting serious talks with anybody else during that time