elcid83
December 4th, 2010, 06:54 AM
I'm not sure who our university wants to hire to replace Coach Patton. I believe the general consensus is that we hit a home run with the recent basketball coach so that is very encouraging. There are many different approaches to guide the AD to our next Head Coach. There are former BCS coaches that can still coach and hot assistants looking to move up [ie. Eric Wolford - former Carolina OL coach now Youngstown State HC]. For what we will pay, I don't think we get what I consider a top notch FCS coach. It's difficult to predict that an up and coming DII guy will work at the FCS level, but should be looked at. My choice would be required to define his personal football calendar and then describe how he would improve on GW's current calendar. I would expect a good coach's personal calendar to be different from mine, but it would be something like this:
The Recruiting Season
The Non-conference football season
The Conference football season
The Conditioning Season
The Summer Workout Season
I want to know how the candidate approaches each of these seasons [and I recognize there is overlap]. I also want to know about the candidate's willingness [and proven success] with fundraising for his program. I have not witnessed GWU getting terribly excited about fundraising for our football program. Other Big South programs spend significantly more on football than we do and it is painfully obvious. This gap will only continue to widen and we will get further and further behind.
I will also want to hear about the candidate's approach to creating an interesting game day atmosphere. I understand that the coach needs to focus on just getting the team ready for game day. I also understand that our game day atmosphere stinks. For some unknown reason, GW wastes a lot of time and effort to put monster speakers all around the field and then we don't bother to use the speakers for any productive reason during a game. Every team I have watched plays some kind of motivational music during kickoffs and at other points during the game. GW has the music because I have heard them play it during pre-game warmups. We have one of the worst home game day atmospheres of any team in the Big South [Charleston Southern's may be worse]. My ideal candidate would have some very clear ideas about what our game day atmosphere should look like.
All of that being said, I don't care where our next coach comes from so long as he has a clear grasp on his big picture.
Go Runnin' Bulldogs!
The Recruiting Season
The Non-conference football season
The Conference football season
The Conditioning Season
The Summer Workout Season
I want to know how the candidate approaches each of these seasons [and I recognize there is overlap]. I also want to know about the candidate's willingness [and proven success] with fundraising for his program. I have not witnessed GWU getting terribly excited about fundraising for our football program. Other Big South programs spend significantly more on football than we do and it is painfully obvious. This gap will only continue to widen and we will get further and further behind.
I will also want to hear about the candidate's approach to creating an interesting game day atmosphere. I understand that the coach needs to focus on just getting the team ready for game day. I also understand that our game day atmosphere stinks. For some unknown reason, GW wastes a lot of time and effort to put monster speakers all around the field and then we don't bother to use the speakers for any productive reason during a game. Every team I have watched plays some kind of motivational music during kickoffs and at other points during the game. GW has the music because I have heard them play it during pre-game warmups. We have one of the worst home game day atmospheres of any team in the Big South [Charleston Southern's may be worse]. My ideal candidate would have some very clear ideas about what our game day atmosphere should look like.
All of that being said, I don't care where our next coach comes from so long as he has a clear grasp on his big picture.
Go Runnin' Bulldogs!