Check out this stat re: assistant experience

[michigancat]

YEARS AT THE TOP

The Big 12 is home to some of the nation's most experienced coaches. The chart below shows the combined number of years the members of each school's staff have spent at the coordinator, assistant head coach or head coaching level in Division I football. In parentheses is the combined years of head coaching experience on each staff.

Texas A&M 101 (36)

Texas 67 (33)

Kansas 63 (4)

Texas Tech 57 (17)

Nebraska 51 (10)

Missouri 41 (15)

Oklahoma 40 (6)

Iowa State 39 (11)

Oklahoma State 31 (1)

Colorado 21 (5)

Baylor 20 (5)

Kansas State 5 (0)

RP vs. TA comparison:

http://catzone.cjonline.com/stories/073006/cat_ksustaff.shtml

[cats12ksu]

This is good news.  Maybe they won't have the bad habits that our experience coaching staff had the las several years. i.e. lack of recruiting.  Give them a chance to coach on the field and I think (and hope) that they will be successful.

[chum1]

The Big 12 is the real thing.

Not lately.

Take Texas A&M's coaches and add their years of experience as a head coach, assistant head coach or coordinator at the Division I level or above.

This is meant to help his case?

[michigancat]

This is good news. Maybe they won't have the bad habits that our experience coaching staff had the las several years. i.e. lack of recruiting. Give them a chance to coach on the field and I think (and hope) that they will be successful.

I think a nice mix would be perfect...something like Snyder's early staff.

Hire two experienced top-level D1 assistants for coordinators (Cope and Miller) and surround them with young energetic types.

[Andy]

i think he tried but got no bites

[michigancat]

i think he tried but got no bites

He tried with Ruffin McNeil and that young DC from North Carolina.

I think Franklin was the guy he wanted for OC from day 1.