Quote Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve View Post
Because when you have only been at one school for your entire time, like every one of ours has, you have very few contacts in the coaching profession and in other parts of the country. So they have to rely on agents. If they stopped listening to agents then they would have nothing to report.
Arnett has no coaching contacts outside of SDSU and his time at State, Leach probably had more coaching contacts and national respect than all but a handful of coaches in the country. That speaks to program building. When you wholesale fire a bunch of good coaches word gets around, coaching is a fraternity. I think Arnett is going to have a hard time attracting a good staff, but that probably doesn’t matter either. The one qualification to coach at State seems to be if you are a Mississippi high school coach good ol boy, not a recipe for national success.