I think that Manuel has to really swing for the fences with a hire if he goes with anybody else but Weist as a HC. There is very little benefit to changing staff yet again, at this point, when we've got a guy in charge, that wants to be there, will come at a reasonable expense, and has shown the ability that he can improve, learn and has the juice to be the head man. He most certainly presided over a team that was arguably the very worst team in all of division 1 at mid season, and found a way to get them to play the game right and win. That counts for a lot.
The question, I have, that I wrote about somewhere else, is what kind of involvement Manuel wants with the assistants and evaluation, hiring, management of the entire football staff. We've got a couple of coaching vacancies on this staff, and some real serious evaluation to do about the entire staff and our direction as a program. We're going to need to fill two vacancies on top of evaluating the others. We need to bring in some hardcore recruiters and hungry, driven position coaches that know WTF they are doing.
I honestly don't know if Weist is the kind of guy that has the connections to do that.
I do like that he wears t-shirts in the cold though. TJ - if you're reading, you don't have to do that when it's snowing and freezing rain. a windbreaker will be ok.
