i can't believe the enthusiasm for this guy. he "turns around" north texas by beating a bunch of bad teams, he runs an offense that is a lesser version of the ones already ran by better big 12 teams (aka every other team), he got outcoached often by first-year CUSA coaches, his team underachieved expectations - sometimes massively - in almost every game it played in october and november down the stretch, and suddenly gene and k-state are tripping all over themselves to hire him?
bill clark, an actual good coach, destroyed LittreLL's UNT team with a program that literally didn't exist when LittreLL began his rebuild.
ya gotta feel for LHC LHC LHC LHC Bill Snyder. he spent most of the last three decades to build up this program, and now ya'll are just gonna turn it over to the north texas coach who can barely beat UTEP and UTSA. pretty sad to watch this happen.
i liked the kansas hire way better. sometimes Les really is more.
Cute. "Les is more." Very cute. Yep, that's a good hire for a crap program that needs to simply build enthusiasm and lay some foundation for a coaching hire in 2-3 years.
But even IF your comments about LittreLL weren't simplistic and demonstrating a shallow evaluation of him as a candidate.....we've got an opening NOW. Not next year. Who do you think is a realistic and positive hire that's better? Easy to cast stones. Give us a name you think is an option.
what is simplistic about them?
It takes into NO account the total shitshow of a roster he took over, and how he developed it. It speaks zero to the big upsides to him: recruitment, player development, and offensive improvements at each stop in his coaching career. It's ONLY focused on results--which mind you, ARE important. Within context.
If your standard is "proven P5 HC results," which is what your post implies, then there's almost no names that are possible hires--and Snyder wasn't an option for you either. The ONLY possible name that fits that standard (and might be interested) is Mike Leach. And the only way he's coming here is if we rigged the opportunity to play Texas Tech 5 times a year, and him give each player a shiv in those games.
So again: who? Throw an acceptable, and realistically possible, name out.