ND OC, and former ND QB, Tommy Rees is now headed to be Bama OC under Nick Saban. Already a highly regarded OC, Rees now will get SEC experience under Saban. Perhaps Rees, who knows the ACC and UNC from his years as an ND assistant, would be an ideal bright, young replacement for Mack after a couple years under Saban to harden him and refine his understanding of the minutia that must be mastered to run the best program possible.
Memo to ND grad Bubba Cunningham
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I'll pass this along to him so we know he read it. I'm sure he knows how important message board memos are.
If he'd read me when Mack was hired, he'd have been forewarned about all that has gone wrong.
UNC's athletics hierarchy has been making stupid decisions regarding football for a very long time. Parts of that, a big part, is that the department has far too many basketball-first types. Much of the rest is that many of them align fairly closely with many in administration who would prefer football to be something comparable to 1A (FBS) Ivy League.
Rees' time under Kelly is important. Kelly has won everywhere he's been, including now having the most wins in ND history. And time learning from Saban will only add to all Rees has picked up from Kelly., and it should toughen him a bit.
Bill Dooley was a brilliant hire - get one of the next SEC up and comers before a major SEC power could land him. If only he had been made AD as he wanted, he would have stayed, and he could have done for UNC by 1980 or 1981 what Pell and then Ford did for Clemson.
That is how close UNC came even after the Hickey years, which seems to have been the wet dream of all UNC people who wanted to be playing William&Mary, Yale, and Princeton every year.
Let’s let Dees prove his worth somewhere else as a head coach before UNC goes after him. Being an OC at Bama, and taking over what would be a mediocre team at UNC after the
Mack Brown experiment are two different things. We hoped Bunning would be a great head coach. Wrong. Same with Torbush. Again wrong. UNC always seems to try and hire the NEXT great head coach on the rise, except with the recent decision to take a walk down memory lane with Mack. And his demise after a good start at Texas should have been an indicator of what might happen. Fedora…..was good at a lower level at So Miss. Supposedly the next great hire again. Again wrong as jumping to
power 5 isn’t the same as being good at So Miss.
All the while analysts have claimed for years that UNC is a sleeping giant in football just waiting to be awakened. Back up the Brinks truck and go hire an experienced head coach that everyone knows will win. No need to keep acting like some school with little support taking a shot in the dark hoping it will all work out. That approach hasn’t worked at all
Mack Brown experiment are two different things. We hoped Bunning would be a great head coach. Wrong. Same with Torbush. Again wrong. UNC always seems to try and hire the NEXT great head coach on the rise, except with the recent decision to take a walk down memory lane with Mack. And his demise after a good start at Texas should have been an indicator of what might happen. Fedora…..was good at a lower level at So Miss. Supposedly the next great hire again. Again wrong as jumping to
power 5 isn’t the same as being good at So Miss.
All the while analysts have claimed for years that UNC is a sleeping giant in football just waiting to be awakened. Back up the Brinks truck and go hire an experienced head coach that everyone knows will win. No need to keep acting like some school with little support taking a shot in the dark hoping it will all work out. That approach hasn’t worked at all
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The problem is UNC isn't a destination school. Established coaches don't want to come here and when they become one here, they bolt to a better job. Unless Saban gets a brain injury and accidently decides to come here, no coach is guaranteed to be good here (or anywhere for that matter). Doesn't matter what their resume is. We are no different than 99% of other schools.
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