Football has changed. In this era with more money, the HC is a CEO. A coordinator gets paid well and the staff is larger. Essentially this pushes everything down a level.
* There are examples of this but also examples where it is not the case. Harbaugh is an example, Saban at this point, Kirby.
We have a CEO that understands how to run a National Title contending program. He has an NFL pedigree as well. And while he does not know strategic marketing he sure gets the world of social media and what appeals to kids today. He is a detail-oriented, big-picture, PR executive of football. It's what we paid for and it is what we have. There are things we don't have. No one is good at everything.
In this type of structure, with a CEO, the staff is everything. You essentially have an old-school head coach (none of the above skills) as each of your coordinators. So now the CEO has to surround himself with people smarter than him. By that, I mean better than him at winning at a place with challenges and how to build a program in a situation like this one. Not a bolt-on solution from a major power.
Now is the time to make these major changes to start on the road to success. These new coordinators should be part of evaluating the entire staff's work and determining which also needs to be replaced.
With any organization, it starts at the top. We hired the CEO. We gave him no time to hire a staff and poor timing to do so. But now is the time he makes his CEO salary. He will make the hard decisions between candidates and how to announce his search or not. A search for three lieutenants that will be responsible for tightening all the screws, setting up the scheme, and fully being in charge of in-game management. These are not fun things to be doing especially as close as you have to working with these people every single day. But it's what comes with being CEO. As for the coordinators, there have been three full seasons to make things happen. But here is a list of things you cannot accept from a coordinator:
* inconsistent situational football decision-making
* regular misalignments on defense
* poor secondary technique
* pathetic special teams play including roster management
* clock management
* your unit stack ranking is consistently in the 100s when your resources including the talent floor are 35.
* your results directly contributed to a losing record of 2 out of 3 years.
With these types of changes, I remain optimistic about the future.
* There are examples of this but also examples where it is not the case. Harbaugh is an example, Saban at this point, Kirby.
We have a CEO that understands how to run a National Title contending program. He has an NFL pedigree as well. And while he does not know strategic marketing he sure gets the world of social media and what appeals to kids today. He is a detail-oriented, big-picture, PR executive of football. It's what we paid for and it is what we have. There are things we don't have. No one is good at everything.
In this type of structure, with a CEO, the staff is everything. You essentially have an old-school head coach (none of the above skills) as each of your coordinators. So now the CEO has to surround himself with people smarter than him. By that, I mean better than him at winning at a place with challenges and how to build a program in a situation like this one. Not a bolt-on solution from a major power.
Now is the time to make these major changes to start on the road to success. These new coordinators should be part of evaluating the entire staff's work and determining which also needs to be replaced.
With any organization, it starts at the top. We hired the CEO. We gave him no time to hire a staff and poor timing to do so. But now is the time he makes his CEO salary. He will make the hard decisions between candidates and how to announce his search or not. A search for three lieutenants that will be responsible for tightening all the screws, setting up the scheme, and fully being in charge of in-game management. These are not fun things to be doing especially as close as you have to working with these people every single day. But it's what comes with being CEO. As for the coordinators, there have been three full seasons to make things happen. But here is a list of things you cannot accept from a coordinator:
* inconsistent situational football decision-making
* regular misalignments on defense
* poor secondary technique
* pathetic special teams play including roster management
* clock management
* your unit stack ranking is consistently in the 100s when your resources including the talent floor are 35.
* your results directly contributed to a losing record of 2 out of 3 years.
With these types of changes, I remain optimistic about the future.
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