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<blockquote data-quote="Limey Frog" data-source="post: 3083022" data-attributes="member: 16969"><p>The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that following a legend is easier if the next guy has major cache of his own <em>and</em> a different style/personnel network. Sometimes an heir-successor works out, like Tom Osborne following Bob Devaney at Nebraska, but usually it looks a bit more what's happening with Ole Gunnar Soljksjaer at Man Utd right now (or what happened to Ferguson's immediate successor, David Moyes, who is once again proving himself to be a great manager at West Ham but was constantly undermined by the Sir Alex 'old guard' during his tenure at Utd).</p><p></p><p>All that to say, you need someone with the star power to tell grumblers that it's their job now and they're doing this way because they're doing it this way. Also we need positive buzz immediately and wins very soon; the price of failure on those counts could be catastrophic if further realignment happens and we've been mediocre for a decade.</p><p></p><p>Who on our list provides those things?</p><p></p><p>Peterson; Sanders; Moore... (maybe?)</p><p></p><p>Sanders seems to have huge upside for moving in a new direction, recruiting lights out, generating buzz, and going with a relatively younger candidate. The downside is obviously potential academic scandal--can you be sure you're not going to get that? (It hasn't happened at Jack State so far as I know.) Moore also has youth but star power of a much more recent and limited vintage (albeit considerable local appeal). Peterson has all these things except youth. Elliot seems to potentially fit the bill if you can be sure that the cache of his Clemson association will actually follow him to Fort Worth, but I'm less sold on that. Napier seems like a great candidate and I'm pretty confident he'd win, I just don't know about his 'star power'.</p><p></p><p>In sum, I have no clue.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Limey Frog, post: 3083022, member: 16969"] The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that following a legend is easier if the next guy has major cache of his own [I]and[/I] a different style/personnel network. Sometimes an heir-successor works out, like Tom Osborne following Bob Devaney at Nebraska, but usually it looks a bit more what's happening with Ole Gunnar Soljksjaer at Man Utd right now (or what happened to Ferguson's immediate successor, David Moyes, who is once again proving himself to be a great manager at West Ham but was constantly undermined by the Sir Alex 'old guard' during his tenure at Utd). All that to say, you need someone with the star power to tell grumblers that it's their job now and they're doing this way because they're doing it this way. Also we need positive buzz immediately and wins very soon; the price of failure on those counts could be catastrophic if further realignment happens and we've been mediocre for a decade. Who on our list provides those things? Peterson; Sanders; Moore... (maybe?) Sanders seems to have huge upside for moving in a new direction, recruiting lights out, generating buzz, and going with a relatively younger candidate. The downside is obviously potential academic scandal--can you be sure you're not going to get that? (It hasn't happened at Jack State so far as I know.) Moore also has youth but star power of a much more recent and limited vintage (albeit considerable local appeal). Peterson has all these things except youth. Elliot seems to potentially fit the bill if you can be sure that the cache of his Clemson association will actually follow him to Fort Worth, but I'm less sold on that. Napier seems like a great candidate and I'm pretty confident he'd win, I just don't know about his 'star power'. In sum, I have no clue. [/QUOTE]
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