Parish bought himself two, maybe three years automatically with the LOI signature of Freeman. He's now in a position to play the "inexperience" and "potential" card with Freeman now firmly at the helm. The same stunt Wooldridge pulled, except The Wool was a loveable loser liked by most of the low expectations K-State crowd that couldn't get enough of his aww shucks country bumkin attitude. I don't see that playing out with a guy as arrogant as Coach P.
I shutter to think about Parish going into next season, if the dude hadn't miraculously landed an Elite 11 recruit in his backyard at the QB position last year.
The scary thing is now it's becoming pretty apparent, his staff is marginal recruiters at best and that elite level talent is going to far more of the exception than the norm.
P.S. Speaking of coaching smart and not scared. People shouldn't estimate the brilliance of his move to throw Meier under the bus and go youth movement on us with the season slipping away, especially considering all the talk by Snyder pre-season that this program was left in good shape and that we've got the talent to compete for the North. Now Parish can lower the expectations and save his ass by saying it's going to take time to adjust to a young Qb and a new system.
