Dick Rosenthal {l Wrote}:HJS {l Wrote}:Dick Rosenthal {l Wrote}:Anyway, the fact I would now be good with hiring Kiffin is a pretty good indication I see nothing good coming down the hiring pipeline once we are rid of the Dazzler.
I think the BC job is very attractive. However I have no confidence that the administration will be able to get out of its own way.
I don't disagree, but you know that with this administration we are going to end up getting MAC attacked on this hire.
I don't think the MAC is in our future. I think that Leahy/BOT will push to hire someone familiar (like the Daz hire). That means former assistants (like Campanile) or names that have been floating around forever (like Schiano, Golden, JDF).
The wild card in this is Marty. He is well aware that this hire will determine the quality of his next job. Bates' focus was always about keeping the BC gig (as a result, he tried to make Leahy happy). Marty's focus is on moving to bigger program (as a result, he will be more concerned about winning the press conference). Accordingly, I doubt he will acquiesce as easily as Bates.
This is not to say that Marty will be given a ton of leeway to go out and hire/pay for anyone. Some of Leahy's preferred choices may overlap with Marty's. Too the extent that Marty does not like the familiar names, a smart political Jarmond move would be going with a minority (let's say someone like Stan Drayton). No one at the school would say a peep against the hiring of our first minority head football coach.