[NU Sports] 08.31.06 (fwd)

[Cyril S. Ku]

For options 1 and 2, instead of hiring head coach or
assistant coach from another school, how about hiring
head coach or assistant coach from the NFL?

Not that I know any candidate who would be a good fit
for us.

Cyril Ku

--- Mike Nolan <nolan at romaine.tssi.com> wrote:

> 
> Realistically, there are five sets of choices:
> 
> 1.  Hire a head coach away from another school
> 
> 2.  Hire an assistant coach who is ready to become a
> head coach away 
>     from another school
> 
> 3.  Name a current member of the staff the interim
> head coach
> 
> 4.  Name a current member of the staff the new head
> coach
> 
> 5.  Hire a retired or out-of-work former head coach,
> either on an interim 
>     basis or as the new head coach.
> 
> Options 1 and 2 both suffer from timing problems,
> this is a bad time to
> try hiring someone away from another school.  Also,
> do we really want as 
> our next coach someone who is willing to abandon his
> current school and 
> contract a few weeks before fall camp?  
> 
> Option 3 may be the best or at least the most
> flexible choice, though it 
> is not without risks.  The interim head coach would
> surely have a leg up 
> on being named the new permanent head coach,
> especially if he starts out
> the 2006 season with a few wins, but he might leave
> if he doesn't get the 
> job, regardless of whether the new head coach wants
> him to stay on the 
> staff or not.
> 
> Option 4 is probably the second best choice, but
> given the coaching 
> departures since the end of the season the choices
> are a bit slim, and
> why rush the naming of a new head coach if it's an
> in-house replacement?
> 
> With regards to both 3 and 4, if Pat Fitzgerald is,
> as some have speculated,
> the coach of the future for NU, maybe the future is
> now.  How many first-time
> head coaches in the last 20 years have never served
> as either an OC or a 
> DC before moving up?  Not many, I suppose.
> 
> Option 5 would be a very mixed blessing.  Yeah,
> there are some big names out
> there, like Gary Barnett and Rick Neuheisel (or is
> he still coaching with
> the Ravens?)  Personally, I don't want Gary Barnett
> back, the taste from
> his departure is still too bitter.  And nobody else,
> not even Ricky, rings
> my bell, not even Tom Osborne, who having lost in
> the primary for his
> bid to be the Governor of Nebraska, is probably
> available at the moment.
> 
> Moreover, since he's in his 60's and has little to
> prove on the football 
> field, he could be the type of one-year (or less)
> placekeeper appointment 
> that NU might find attractive.
> --
> Mike Nolan
> 
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