I was listening to Matt Barrie's show. Matt is the host of ESPN's College Football Final. He had Paul Finebaum on as a guest and they were talking about our situation.
Matt suggested a "rent-a-coach" idea and mentioned Urban's name. Bring him on as an "Over Seer" or Advisor for the program mid year after we let Billy go. He would effectively act as a coach but wouldn't be responsible for our wins and losses. In other words, it wouldn't count against him much like a Relief Pitcher who comes into the game with runners already on base. When we fire Billy, name an Interim coach from the staff and have Urban there as an Advisor. Urban could keep the current roster on board, those we want to keep anyway, and also attempt to maintain our recruiting class.
Now if Urban had any real interest in staying on as the new Head Coach, then have those discussions, or not, but this way we can hopfully mitigate the fallout from a new coaching hire, which has never been done before during the 12 Team Playoff era. If we pursue Lane, we'll likely have to wait until the second week of January to name him as our coach and as we all know, that's past the window for the Portal and ESD.
Naming a temporary coach or custodian of the program, if you will, might be the way around that. Just a thought but one I thought warranted some discussion.
Matt suggested a "rent-a-coach" idea and mentioned Urban's name. Bring him on as an "Over Seer" or Advisor for the program mid year after we let Billy go. He would effectively act as a coach but wouldn't be responsible for our wins and losses. In other words, it wouldn't count against him much like a Relief Pitcher who comes into the game with runners already on base. When we fire Billy, name an Interim coach from the staff and have Urban there as an Advisor. Urban could keep the current roster on board, those we want to keep anyway, and also attempt to maintain our recruiting class.
Now if Urban had any real interest in staying on as the new Head Coach, then have those discussions, or not, but this way we can hopfully mitigate the fallout from a new coaching hire, which has never been done before during the 12 Team Playoff era. If we pursue Lane, we'll likely have to wait until the second week of January to name him as our coach and as we all know, that's past the window for the Portal and ESD.
Naming a temporary coach or custodian of the program, if you will, might be the way around that. Just a thought but one I thought warranted some discussion.
