Sean has kinda that pissed off since gym class chip kelly feel to him.
He could be a really sore loser and channel it into trying hard/scheming/cheating. Would take.
In general, promoting from within appears to be a better solution, by and large, than hiring outside of the tree.
Boise did it for years with great success. Patterson was hired from within after Fran. Helfrich. David Shaw. Gundy. You get to keep the same staff (likely), same administration (likely), same philosophy (likely), same support staff (likely). Players get to run the same offense, same defense, etc.
I've been trying to talk myself into Sean. I keep thinking that when Bill goes, Del and Hayes are probably walking away. Maybe Mo.
If you paid Sean the same amount as the lowest paid Big 12 coach (Rhoads), you'd save a little over a million annually. If Hayes, Mo, and Miller retired? $1.045m.
In my mind, that's Sean's big positive. You pretty much keep exactly what you have right now from an operations perspective, keep pretty much all of the coaches that are worth something, and then you still have huge money to go after strong assistants to prop him up.
I mean we could literally do this:
Sean: $1.8m
Leavitt (DC): $600k (+$100k over what he makes at CU)
Dimel (OC): $600k (+$200k)
Mangino (OC): $600k (+$250k over what he makes at ISU)
Dickey (OL): $425k (+$65k)
Cox (LB): $330k (+$50k)
Coleman (WR): $425k (+$250k)
Seiler: $215k (+$50k)
Klein: $205k
Clements: $425k (~+$94k over what he makes at OSU)
...and we'd be budget neutral to what we have right now. Granted, Mangino, Leavitt, Dimel, etc. are older. But that's a hell of a lot of talent at your coordinator positions. Then you'd have Coleman, Seiler, Klein, and Clements to be your road warriors.
I mean, I'd take that tomorrow and run.