Quote Originally Posted by Santiago View Post
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.
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.