Quote Originally Posted by Johnson85 View Post
It's not the lack of HC experience even thought that's what people keep pointing to. He just hasn't had as many years doing as many things.

I'm perfectly happy with Arnett as the coach. I thought he would be competitive in a national search. I am more concerned about the process. Either Keenum panicked and short circuited the process, or he has enough insight into things fans don't to know that at the end of the day, none of the likely potential candidates were going to be able to show anything in an interview that would trump what we have seen in person with Arnett.

If it was the latter, going through the process would be all harm for not much gain. Still would have been value to the process to confirm what you think you know, but would have been at the expense of continued uncertainty while people are trying to poach our players and recruits.

If it was the former, it may still work out, but it was a stupid move. I'd like to think it was the latter but really don't know. Don't have enough of an opinion of Keenum to think it was likely he panicked or likely he made a reasoned decision based on good info.
Blowing up the program at this juncture was not an option. Losing most of our recruits and a sizable portion of the roster to the portal would have been a severe blow to the next coach. Arnett knows this program. He is respected among the staff. He knows the recruiting landscape very well. And most importantly Leach really, really liked him a lot. He turned to Zach often for coaching decisions.

I would not be surprised in a couple of years everybody's all on board and demanding we pay the man an outrageous salary because he's proven to be a damn good head coach and bigger programs are knocking on his door.