AD Lesson #1 at MN - Hiring Top Coaches is Hard

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I guess a failure to learn from history will again repeat itself.

Over and over we have seen it is near impossible to hire top Coaches for our Men's BB and FB programs at MN. Yet each time we hire a new AD, they talk about how great MN is and how they will hire a game changing coach and then they get turned down by their top 10. Then we end up with a project coach with little or no P5 experience.

What they fail to realize is that top coaches require lots of money and lots of support and at MN they get neither. At least if MN was a stepping stone we would get top talent on their way through (except Holtz) but we aren't. We are a destination job, only it looks more like a New Jersey garbage barge than a tropical island destination.

MN - the land where AD's delude themselves and mediocre coaches go to die.
 


But maybe this time will be different...
 


Despite the potential damage from the fallout from the suspensions and firing, this is still the best our program been at the time of a head coaching search in a long time. I wouldn't write these guys off just yet...
 


Honestly if you were a coach with any aspirations why would you even consider coming here after watching this whole ordeal go down? No one wants to work for horrible managers/bosses.
 

GopherinPhilly said:
I guess a failure to learn from history will again repeat itself.

Over and over we have seen it is near impossible to hire top Coaches for our Men's BB and FB programs at MN. Yet each time we hire a new AD, they talk about how great MN is and how they will hire a game changing coach and then they get turned down by their top 10. Then we end up with a project coach with little or no P5 experience.

What they fail to realize is that top coaches require lots of money and lots of support and at MN they get neither. At least if MN was a stepping stone we would get top talent on their way through (except Holtz) but we aren't. We are a destination job, only it looks more like a New Jersey garbage barge than a tropical island destination.

MN - the land where AD's delude themselves and mediocre coaches go to die.
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Agreed!
 

bottlebass said:
Honestly if you were a coach with any aspirations why would you even consider coming here after watching this whole ordeal go down? No one wants to work for horrible managers/bosses.
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...or for a school that Sports Illustrated has just completely trashed, in a national article, for a two decade dysfunctional, scandal ridden existence.....Bad Karma.....
 

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