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Message: [QUOTE="SubbaBub, post: 4074979, member: 523"] Trying to wrap my head around people mad about hiring Edsall suggesting we look at Skip Holtz? GTHO here. The best hire is someone no one on this board has ever heard of that comes out of nowhere to have success here. Any geezer or rehab applicant will just pull a PP and phone it in. Heck, even Diaco phoned it in because he had low expectations resulting from no respect for the program. His ceiling was a few overachieving bowl teams before moving on. Instead he had a meltdown because people here actually expect success, which still baffles the vast majority of the CFB community. Any big school OC/DC we could get here is unlikely to be seen as HC material or they would have a better job offer. So again, you are taking a shot on an unknown. We aren't pulling a coordinator from a top P5 and should be Diaco level skeptical if one shows interest. A lower division HC is probably the best option if we are talking in generalities. Either a young unknown or someone with some success that is young enough not to phone it in or old enough that they are unlikely to get a ton of offers. Dave has been around more than any AD we've had since Lew. If he has truly been "monitioring" the coaching market for the next guy as he claims, he should have a decent list. That may include guys that have coached against us ala JC at BU or not, but it's all on Dave and I don't think our wish list should enter the deliberations at all. In fact, I think all we are doing is setting ourselves up for not liking whomever Dave ends up getting. [/QUOTE]

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