Quote Originally Posted by Todd4State View Post
It would have been a lot easier to transition with our current NIL situation compared to our 2022 NIL situation. Charlie was just taking that over when Leach had passed away.

Thing is we probably could have gotten Helton or Kittley if we didn't "panic" and have to "save the recruiting class" in 2022.

And hell- if we had gotten Helton we probably would have had Will Friend, Bumphis, and etc on staff. Probably the route we should have gone honestly. He would have kept the offense similar and may have even kept Hollinghead.
This right here.... and maybe we are answering where things went off the tracks.
Reading your posts, and vegas, and others, it is a really good thread going on.
It seems to start to jump out that we went off the tracks noticeably twice....
1. Moorhead inherited a heck of a team and took us the opposite direction and too soft.
2. Leach came in and even with the Covid year , had us proud of our toughness again. That Georgia game was just one I will never forget, and the mindset the team took into that game. That had some swagger.
Leach passes away, and we are back to our decision makers to make a hire. We could have kept it moving forward with Helton, Kittley, etc and kept some good coaches without a big dropoff.

The off the tracks moments seem to happen when certain people and alumni groups were pushing for hires. This includes those boosters that pushed for Cohen to get hired.
To me, reading everything points right back to those that pushed for these hires.... Cohen, Moorhead, Arnett(intentionally go 180 from what was being built).
I don't think those boosters, and admin are really good at this based on results.