Why the best college coaching hires were the names you may not know (yet)
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A funny thing happened a few weeks ago when North Carolina made the decision to part ways with four-star rhetorician Larry Fedora: They didn’t call the guy they probably should have called. Instead of reaching out to the best young coach in their own stateWhy the best college coaching hires were the names you may not know (yet)
A funny thing happened a few weeks ago when North Carolina made the decision to part ways with four-star rhetorician Larry Fedora: They didn’t call the guy they probably should have called. Instead of reaching out to the best young coach in their own state, Appalachian State’s Scott Satterfield — who led the Mountaineers to 40 wins over the past four seasons as they transitioned from the FCS to FBS — the Tarheels made perhaps the most astounding hire of the offseason to date (if not in the recent history of college football), plucking an anodyne 67-year-old television analyst from the ranks of retirement to become their de-facto CEO. It is not impossible to imagine that Mack Brown will succeed at UNC in the short term. But it highlights a strange divide of this busy college football hiring season, particularly for mid-tier FBS schools like UNC: Either you target someone with upward mobility who can energize a program with new ideas, or you hire someone based largely on nostalgia and hope the momentum carries Read more