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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 4051822, member: 71"] How many NFL players do you think we have and what do you think they get paid? 4Ever, we won’t be able to pull off what you want for quite a few reasons and even if we were able to try there is no guarantee of success. Landing someone who could bring in the level of (developed) HS talent your posts suggests would require a sales job that I’m not sure is possible and a financial commitment the school couldn’t carry out with better resources, top level leadership and political support. The last time I can remember a school attempting this was ~15 years ago when UNC brought in Butch Davis (who in his prior collegiate head coaching job assembled as much talent as any school ever had). The had a better situation than we could reasonably hope for in the near term, added top level assistants across the board and put in every possible effort to add talent (even stretching the rules a bit too far) and they still failed to get the results a hire of that magnitude should achieve. Whoever we bring in will need to understand and accept quite a few things in order to succeed. [LIST] [*]There are challenges unique to this job but they are challenges, not road blocks. [*]There will be people within the top levels of the school, government and local media who not only will believe football success is unimportant, but detrimental to their interests. [*]He will (to some extent forever but absolutely until we do achieve success on the field) need to continually find undeveloped talent and build them into quality pieces after two, three years in the system. [*]He will need the vision to realize what the program can become if we start winning at a reasonably high level. This place can become something special. Not many realize this but the person who does will be able to endure the background noise trying to kill the program [*]There are benefits attainable here that can only be matched with a job at a handful of schools outside of the P-5. [*]We still have facilities equal to at worst the middle of P-5. [*]We are the flagship school and clearly largest amateur brand in a densely populated, affluent state. [*]We have demonstrated in the not too distant past that our home field can be an electric environment when things are going well. [/LIST] We need someone who will be willing to endure the [I]slings and arrows[/I] of the naysayers for a few years. We need someone who will embrace the climate and build a program that can win in sunny 90 degree weather, rainy 60 degree weather and snowy 30 degree weather. We need someone who will be willing to view this job with a long term focus (even if he isn’t viewing it as a destination job) as for a time being, talent will need to be built by bringing in raw kids who likely won’t contribute (beyond perhaps special teams) for a few years and install a system to support this. We need someone with the vision to establish recruiting ties in various hotbeds (NJ/PA/OH; MD/VA; FL; GA; TX) as (regardless what many want to claim) we don’t develop sufficient local talent to support a football roster and too often those with top talent are looking for larger profile programs. We need someone who will be willing to embrace an independent schedule, with the pitfalls of such a schedule: home and road games falling where they may, not in a standard sequence; a couple of annual games against G-5 schools we have no attachment to offset with a couple games against top programs as a [I]payday[/I] (believe it or not a few top programs built themselves this way 4-5 decades ago). This can be done and this can be done well but it will take a comprehensive plan and support from above the AD position (which may be the most difficult part). [/QUOTE]

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