Drake. USD, Montana

[Mavman]

All three programs lost their Head coaches in the last week.
When is the best time for a coach to move on in the current landscape?
In mid February highschool recruits are signed and portal players in place so that seems less messy but can be argued dishonest to recruits.
Before the Portal opens may cause a school to lose most of its team to the portal.
Any long period while a national search is going on is going to cause players to wonder who is coming in and if they should just transfer.

Crazy times in college football for everyone.
What do you guys think?

 

[UncleRico]

All three programs lost their Head coaches in the last week.
When is the best time for a coach to move on in the current landscape?
In mid February highschool recruits are signed and portal players in place so that seems less messy but can be argued dishonest to recruits.
Before the Portal opens may cause a school to lose most of its team to the portal.
Any long period while a national search is going on is going to cause players to wonder who is coming in and if they should just transfer.

Crazy times in college football for everyone.
What do you guys think?

Those are great questions. I will get back to you after the new 15 day transfer portal window (because head coach resigned). If no Griz leave I would say February 4 is the perfect day to announce.

 

[701Grizfan]

All three programs lost their Head coaches in the last week.
When is the best time for a coach to move on in the current landscape?
In mid February highschool recruits are signed and portal players in place so that seems less messy but can be argued dishonest to recruits.
Before the Portal opens may cause a school to lose most of its team to the portal.
Any long period while a national search is going on is going to cause players to wonder who is coming in and if they should just transfer.

Crazy times in college football for everyone.
What do you guys think?
There is a better chance of me splitting an atom than there is of me trying to understand today’s crazy world of college football.

 

[uofmman1122]

Undoubtedly, the best time to replace a head coach is in early December, and even better if you fire the guy during the season, so you have extra time to interview candidates and get a hold on recruiting/transfers as soon as possible. Obviously, programs in these situations are probably not in the best positions to begin with, but that's really the only time that the timelines work out.

If you're changing coaches, you have to just accept the fact that in this day and age the roster is going to turn over, but if you're a forward thinking AD, that shouldn't necessarily bother you. Your job is to bring in a guy that can set the culture and convince those guys to stay, and if they don't, can go out and find guys that fit his culture and vision.

February is certainly not the best time for this, which makes sense as to why we promoted from within, given the circumstances. If the spring transfer window still existed, it would have made it a little easier to have a search for a new coach, if they so desired, but unfortunately that's not a thing anymore.

I personally think we'll have a pretty good idea in November of this year whether or not we're looking at Kennedy on a longer contract or a new coach in 2027.

 

[BelierPeaux]

Fully believe this was the best case scenario for UM.