Thoughts on Gill:
1. He was never anything more then a position coach at NU. When Solich hired an offensive cordinator prior to his final season Gill wanted the job and should have been in line for it but was passed over for Barney Cotton from New Mexico State. NU fans all like him and say he'll be good but the truth is they think he is good for a school like Kansas they don't want him as their head coach and never have.
2. Comparing what Gill did to what Snyder did is dumb. Snyder actually turned the program around and sustained it for a long period of time. Gill hasn't shown he can do that. Nobody called it the miracle in Manhattan after 4 years when he was 5-6 or whatever because he hadn't done squat yet. Lots of coaches have taken bad teams and made them competitive or maybe had one good season. Few have turned it around and sustained a high level over a long period of time. What Gill did at Buffalo was the easy part that many coaches can do. Snyder getting it to that point and then going on to win 11 games 6 times in a 7 year stretch is the hard part.
3. Comparing the Buffalo program to the KSU program when Gill took over is also dumb. When Snyder took over KSU was the worst d-1 team in the country and were worse then probably half the 1-aa teams at the time. We had like 50 players on scholarship when the limit was 95. The worst team in the MAC would have beat us by 2 TD's and we had to play in the big 8. No program anywhere has been in that bad of shape relative to the competition in the past 15 years or more.
4. Gill might be good but there is really no history that says he can win consistently at ku. Hiring a coach is always a crapshoot I think it is even more so with Gill because he simply hasn't won big as a head coach and he was never even a cordinator prior to that. He was at NU for a long time but was never really key to thier success. Under Osborne Solch was the top offensive assistant and Charlie Mcbride was the top defensive guy. As stated above even when Solich took over he was never one of his top assistants.
That's actually a well-thought out post. Congrats. Much, much better than: "dude is Terry Allen because he has a bad record, lollercopters!!!" which completely ignores the fact that Allen took over a program two years removed from a top-10 ranking, while Gill inherited a program that hadn't won four games in a season in the eight years (when they joined 1A) prior to him taking over. NOTE: I think I accidentally said seven years earlier.
It's not easy to take a bad team and make them decent. I'll agree that it's harder to take a mediocre team and make them perennial contenders, but let's not act like Gill didn't do anything while he was at Buffalo.
But the people who call Gill a bad coach based on his record are completely neglecting where the program was when he took it over. Which is typical, for an opposing fanbase. He inherited a team that had won 12 games over the past eight years and won 13 over his last two.
