My coaching solution- and I don't expect agreement....

[metrolax]

It all comes down to what the U is going to do big-picture wise.

If the U wishes to pony-up for football like most successful schools, and like
the U did before the 50's, then I would want the best hard-nosed head coach I could get.

The best HC's know the organization that is needed to succeed at the IA level as a HC.
Most coaches that fail to succeed at the IA level do so because they cannot organize
their efforts for what is a very unique and demanding job.

However.....

If all the U is going to do is the minimum needed to reasonably field a team, then we
might as well do this.....

Go Minnesota all the way.

We can talk all we want about how the state produces only so much talented
in terms of quantity of players, but the state is as good as any other, and better
than most, at producing talented coaches.

Yet, this screwed-up school runs like hell from them.

Give it to guys like Trestman, Hohensee, the Salems, Walker, etc. Fill
the staff with those guys. The slots we cannot fill we go outside the U
family to the state in general. It would motivate a lot of coaches who
came from the U and the state.

There are LOTS of good MN-produced coaches. Let Minnesota people take
ownership in the results.

Make that a new tradition. We might just surprise ourselves.

Let's not keep out-sourcing thsi thing for 2nd and 3rd-rate coaches when
we have some good ones right from here for the same price.

Have some pride in the state. These Mn coaches would. I would
seriously rally around that.

 

[BarnBurner]

Metro is on here

It all comes down to what the U is going to do big-picture wise.

If the U wishes to pony-up for football like most successful schools, and like
the U did before the 50's, then I would want the best hard-nosed head coach I could get.

The best HC's know the organization that is needed to succeed at the IA level as a HC.
Most coaches that fail to succeed at the IA level do so because they cannot organize
their efforts for what is a very unique and demanding job.

However.....

If all the U is going to do is the minimum needed to reasonably field a team, then we
might as well do this.....

Go Minnesota all the way.

We can talk all we want about how the state produces only so much talented
in terms of quantity of players, but the state is as good as any other, and better
than most, at producing talented coaches.

Yet, this screwed-up school runs like hell from them.

Give it to guys like Trestman, Hohensee, the Salems, Walker, etc. Fill
the staff with those guys. The slots we cannot fill we go outside the U
family to the state in general. It would motivate a lot of coaches who
came from the U and the state.

There are LOTS of good MN-produced coaches. Let Minnesota people take
ownership in the results.

Make that a new tradition. We might just surprise ourselves.

Let's not keep out-sourcing thsi thing for 2nd and 3rd-rate coaches when
we have some good ones right from here for the same price.

Have some pride in the state. These Mn coaches would. I would
seriously rally around that.

A decison must be made - compete with the Big Time, or not.

One way or the other, not half assed.

 

[RedPoo]

I'd love to bring in coaches from Minnesota, but no one on that list jumps out at me as particularly promising.

Maybe what we need to do is develop a world class Football Coaching major at the U. Give it 20 years and maybe bring in the great offensive mind Moses Alipate to lead this team to its first Rose Bowl in 60 years.

 

[gopher the gold]

If the U wants to have a sucessful program that we all want we are going to have to open the check book.