Is that wisdom or risk?

by tex29, Dallas, TX, Sunday, December 12, 2010, 19:39 (4876 days ago) @ Jeff (BGS)
edited by tex29, Sunday, December 12, 2010, 19:42

You said that Weis was a gamble. A reasonable one? Sure. But I thought the question was to assess the relative risk of hiring one versus the other, rather than the relative wisdom of doing so.

Rodriguez, even if he wasn't Michigan's first choice, had proven that he could win as a college head coach. And he built and sustained West Virgina's program with arguably lesser talent than he would presumably have at Michigan.

Weis had barely sniffed a college campus as a coach, and he had no head coaching experience outside of high school. I thought Weis would succeed, but I can't say that hiring him wasn't a huge risk. It was just a risk that I thought would pay off.

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on a scale of risk, grade these hires (at the time) - Jay, 2010-12-12, 18:08
- interesting exercise. composite ranking: - Jay, 2010-12-13, 09:36
  - nit - disagree on Sarkisian - JD in Portland, 2010-12-13, 19:56
  - awards - Jay, 2010-12-13, 09:39
    - Pete Carroll, winner of the Carr-Fulmer award. - Bryan (IrishCavan), 2010-12-13, 10:37
- Interesting that Alabama's hiring of Saban... - KGB, 2010-12-13, 09:10
- My attempt - Domer99, 2010-12-13, 06:52
  - I guess I don't see how Meyer rates higher than Kelly. - KGB, 2010-12-13, 08:01
    - A couple of thoughts - Domer99, 2010-12-13, 09:10
      - I think the perception of Kelly was similar a year ago. - KGB, 2010-12-13, 09:17
        
        I don't disagree. - Domer99, 2010-12-13, 09:50
        
        Along these lines... - MattyCinNYC, 2010-12-13, 09:39
        
        I desperately hope that Lane Kiffin turns into a poor man's - Domer99, 2010-12-13, 09:53
        
        I think the perception of Kelly a year ago... - Greg, 2010-12-13, 09:25
        
        I think there's a lot right in this thread - Mike (bart), 2010-12-13, 09:44
  - good read - Jay, 2010-12-13, 07:59
- taking a snab at it - Pat, 2010-12-13, 05:47
- A bit odd that - Pete, 2010-12-13, 03:37
  - Guess we're on the same wavelength. - KGB, 2010-12-13, 09:30
- Here goes nothing. - Pat (Moco), 2010-12-12, 21:45
- okay here goes - JD in Portland, 2010-12-12, 21:08
- The USC hire of Petey . . . - Glass, 2010-12-12, 20:21
- Mine - PMan, 2010-12-12, 20:19
- Hard to do this without hindsight - JRT, 2010-12-12, 19:41
  - I'm curious as to the high marks given to MSU for Dantonio? - hobbs, 2010-12-12, 20:00
    - I'm not sure how to explain his first two seasons - BPH, 2010-12-12, 20:12
    - Above average, or low risk? - JRT, 2010-12-12, 20:08
      - You're right - hobbs, 2010-12-12, 20:27
- mine - HumanRobot, 2010-12-12, 19:34
- Mine - DCT, 2010-12-12, 18:53
- It's tough to eliminate hindsight. - Slainte Joe, 2010-12-12, 18:44
- Mine - Jeff (BGS), 2010-12-12, 18:29
  - You think Meyer in 2004 was a better hire by UF - hobbs, 2010-12-12, 18:37
    - I really wasn't as sold on Saban - Jeff (BGS), 2010-12-12, 19:13
      - You aren't alone - Domer99, 2010-12-13, 06:57
      - If you include the risk of bolting, his risk quadruples. - JRT, 2010-12-12, 19:43
        
        Yes, but I think it was much less risky in that he - tex29, 2010-12-12, 19:46
        
        Not sure I agree - Domer99, 2010-12-13, 07:02
        
        You could be right, but I think Carroll is different. - tex29, 2010-12-13, 07:51
        
        Possibly - Domer99, 2010-12-13, 08:53
      - Fair enough. - hobbs, 2010-12-12, 19:27
- My scale goes to 11 (edited) - BPH, 2010-12-12, 18:27
- Mine - hobbs, 2010-12-12, 18:26
- I had too many threes to make my answers useful. - Kevin, 2010-12-12, 18:22
  - Curious why you think that about Rodriguez - BPH, 2010-12-12, 18:42
    - It's a close call, but Rodriguez had a longer tenure at WVU - Kevin, 2010-12-12, 18:47
      - I thought RR was a desperation hire, moreso that Meyer/Weis - Jeff (BGS), 2010-12-12, 19:18
        
        Agree. - KGB, 2010-12-13, 08:22
        
        It may have been - Domer99, 2010-12-13, 07:15
        
        I don't think Miles shunned them. - Kevin, 2010-12-13, 05:24
        
        Lloyd was smarter than he looked - JN, 2010-12-13, 07:43
        
        Sexist. - JRT, 2010-12-13, 07:52
        
        Is that wisdom or risk? - tex29, 2010-12-12, 19:39
        
        I didn't rank mine on risk - Jeff (BGS), 2010-12-12, 20:58
- risky business - Jay, 2010-12-12, 18:21
- ok... - irishoutsider, 2010-12-12, 18:21
  - you made me go back and bump up Urban - Jay, 2010-12-12, 18:24
    - Now that I'm back to stable internets.... - irishoutsider, 2010-12-13, 07:47
    - Yeah, but as Einstein would say, it's all relative. - tex29, 2010-12-12, 18:27
- Mine (edited) - tex29, 2010-12-12, 18:15

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Is that wisdom or risk?