NewApp wrote:appgrad wrote:EastHallApp wrote:
Also worth noting that Petersen is the outlier - for every one of him you could name a dozen Dave Doerens, Al Goldens and Butch Joneses.
Also - keep in mind that Petersen wasn't the first at Boise. They had a string of Houston Nutt, Dirk Koetter, and Dan Hawkins before him..all of whom moved on to bigger jobs, then the next guy built on what they left. To build on success on this level, you have to get several hires in a row right.
Butch Jones basically followed Brian Kelly's smoke trails to success at CMU and Cincy...but even Kelly was picking up where Dantonio left off at Cincy.
There will come a time when Scott leaves, so we need to make sure we have our list ready and find that next guy. It's something we haven't done a very good job in with basketball...but I'd say we haven't had a bad coaching hire in football since Working...even hiring Mack begat us Sparky.
Fox is a good coach when you consider how young the team is. Too, Buzz was an excellent coach if you can forget how he crapped on us by leaving in one year. It was tiresome hearing that he wore Michael Jordan's shoes, however.
Buzz did a good job in both his stints here, abbreviated though the second one was. I think his point was that, when we had to find that next coach to build on his success, we got middling results the first time and awful ones the second time, so we haven't been able to sustain anything in basketball.
