How do you even evaluate coaching candidates today?

[dorndawg]

As we await the Stoops announcement, just as a hypothetical: How do you even evaluate coaching candidates today? It really seems like, all that really matters is how well they do at NIL/portal nonsense. They can be a whatever recruiter/developer/game manager/CEO, but if they can't play the new game the rest is of little importance.

Yet, it seems like we're making this coaching list the way we always would, based off the old metrics and not the new one?

 

[tenureplan]

As we await the Stoops announcement, just as a hypothetical: How do you even evaluate coaching candidates today? It really seems like, all that really matters is how well they do at NIL/portal nonsense. They can be a whatever recruiter/developer/game manager/CEO, but if they can't play the new game the rest is of little importance.

Yet, it seems like we're making this coaching list the way we always would, based off the old metrics and not the new one?

I think we are underperforming based off our actual talent this year. So coaching em up is key. So is getting buy in. A gimmick doesn't hurt.

 

[8dog]

Start with a 58 point checklist.

 

[patdog]

I think we are underperforming based off our actual talent this year. So coaching em up is key. So is getting buy in. A gimmick doesn't hurt.

We don’t have much talent, especially on defense. We are underperforming though. That’s a bad combination.

 

[tenureplan]

We don’t have much talent, especially on defense. We are underperforming though. That’s a bad combination.

Pretty much all of our starters on defense are 4 stars

 

[patdog]

Pretty much all of our starters on defense are 4 stars

They’re not very good.

 

[Wesson Bulldog]

Run them through the SixPack gauntlet. If they survive, they make the list.

 

[jethreauxdawg]

TikTok followers and dance moves

 

[SteelCurtain74]

TikTok followers and dance moves

So you're thinking it's down to Dabo and Brian Kelly for our next coach? Could do worse I guess.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

It’s really just good or bad luck. There’s no metric that fits anything honestly.

 

[jethreauxdawg]

So you're thinking it's down to Dabo and Brian Kelly for our next coach? Could do worse I guess.

Uh, I’m thinking Kim Kardashian. We can’t afford NIL deals, we need something else to land these players.

 

[horshack.sixpack]

As we await the Stoops announcement, just as a hypothetical: How do you even evaluate coaching candidates today? It really seems like, all that really matters is how well they do at NIL/portal nonsense. They can be a whatever recruiter/developer/game manager/CEO, but if they can't play the new game the rest is of little importance.

Yet, it seems like we're making this coaching list the way we always would, based off the old metrics and not the new one?

gotta be winning where you are.

hc experience

Recruiting ranking in their respective conference has to play into it. If you are a winning coach who is in the bottom 25% of your conference in recruiting, you might be a fit at MSU. Conversely if you are winning but also #1 in your conference recruiting, I’m not sure if you aren’t just out talenting people. You won’t out talent people in the SEC

 

[Perd Hapley]

As we await the Stoops announcement, just as a hypothetical: How do you even evaluate coaching candidates today? It really seems like, all that really matters is how well they do at NIL/portal nonsense. They can be a whatever recruiter/developer/game manager/CEO, but if they can't play the new game the rest is of little importance.

Yet, it seems like we're making this coaching list the way we always would, based off the old metrics and not the new one?

You are right. Portal / NIL isn’t the only thing that matters. But its what matters far more than anything else. So they have to know the landscape.

As far as “playing the new game”, they don’t even have to be playing it themselves, they just have to know what’s happening and know how to embrace it. That means open and transparent communication between the staff and the boosters. The boosters have to be able to know who to go after the hardest, who to pass on, who to just keep warm, etc. You can’t have all the cloak and dagger horseshlt where the head coach tries to play coy / aloof to save his own ***. He’s gotta be in the mix.

At MSU, you might also have more targeted strategies. Maybe our coach decides to go with more dart throws on high school players, and decides to use big money on the portal studs. Thats one way to maximize our resources do that we aren’t blowing money on HS kids who are just pocketing OV checks and looking to cash in again a year later.

 

[OG Goat Holder]

Ask @Drebin. He’s the expert at predicting things.

 

[Drebin]

Ask @Drebin. He’s the expert at predicting things.

You're gonna be alright, precious.

 

[olblue]

I think we are underperforming based off our actual talent this year. So coaching em up is key. So is getting buy in. A gimmick doesn't hurt.

I think you are overestimating the actual talent this year.

 

[8dog]

Pretty much all of our starters on defense are 4 stars

You can probably stop relying on stars in year 3. And some of ours are in year 6.

 

[tenureplan]

I think you are overestimating the actual talent this year.

The thoughts of a KY fan don't concern me.

 

[PooPopsBaldHead]

The evaluation should always begin and end with the mist important factor...

 

[CochiseCowbell]

With a divining rod.


ETA: I watched some old Western with my dad when I was little and an albino used a divining rod to find water on a desolate ranch. I was in my 20's when I realized albino's don't actually have a 6th sense for this.