Quote Originally Posted by CadaverDawg View Post
All of this Kiffin and Freeze talk made me think about the future of the SEC, and where we are positioned in the future. Coaches 60 or older in the SEC....

Pittman
Leach
Saban
Kelly

Saban and Leach are nearing the end. I have a pretty good feeling Alabama is preparing for their next regime behind the scenes...may even have input from Saban. Just so they'll be prepared whenever he decides to hang it up. Are we preparing? We don't even have an AD.

Drinkwitz
Lea
Beamer
Sark
Kiffin
Napier
Heupel
Smart
Freeze

All those guys in their 30's or 40's. That's the future of the league. Meanwhile we will be trying to find someone to crack into this league (+Texas and OU), and replacing an Air Raid personnel with whatever we hire. I just feel like in typical fashion, State has set itself up for failure for the future in this new day in age of the SEC. Everyone else is posturing for position, and we brought in Jackie Sherrill 2.0. Maybe Leach can bring us Sherrill type results for a few years before passing the torch. But where do we go in the future?
We get 7-10 more years out of Leach and then he passes the torch to one of his top assistants. (Spurrier Jr.? McBath? Will Rogers?)