You're missing something though... The universe of coaches who are 1) worth two million a year and 2) make a big splash and 3) would consider Tulane (non-BCS, small school, poor training facilities at the moment) consists of only two names: Leach and Rodriguez.JerseyWave wrote:What is the search firm doing? The names we are hearing are less than inspiring..MAC coaches like Haywood, Saints assistants, Lionel Washington, OK St coordinator, just very disappointing. If Tulane is willing to pay $2 million per year with good money to hire a staff, recruiting facilities then we better see something better than this on the candidate list! We don't nned to pay our third, fourth, and fifth choices $2 million per year. Don't pay that kind of money to an inexperienced Head Coach.
We're not going to pay $2 million a year to anyone (other than maybe Leach, and I'm not convinced of that). But the thing is, there's else nobody out there worth that kind of money that is going to consider us. Its not like a school like Tulane can go out there and wave a check in the air and have Kevin Sumlin, Larry Fedora, Malzahn, etc jump at the opportunity to coach at Tulane.
There's a pecking order, and its not entirely financial. Once you're over a certain financial threshold, its about national stature and the BCS. That's why we lost Rich Rod.
Its all disappointing after RR and ML. But that's not because the search firm sucks or whatever. It's just because the market sucks for a school in Tulane's position.
At some point, we're going to have to get over the "splash" issue and realize that while it would be great, there's more to a job than the announcement press conference. Haywood, Diaz, and Monken can coach. They are lightyears better than Toledo. If we equip them with the right staff and resources, they can excel. We passed on Mike London 5 years ago. Look what he's done at UVA. Would he have been a splash? No. After the first year, does that even matter?