Would You Hire a Program Changing Coach From a Bottom Tier School

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But yes, it is not a bad approach. Brian Kelly, Urban Meyer, Art Briles come to mind

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Based on the list above, you would hope Gill is the exception and not the rule.

With a guy like Taggart, you can look at his style of play and his coaching lineage and get a good feel for how he'll do going forward. He's built that WKU program from basically the ground up, and he's winning with a style that pretty much no one else on that level is winning with. His teams also don't get intimidated.

Mark Hudspeth has a history of being successful wherever he's been. On the D2 level, as an offensive asst in the SEC, and basically has brought the ULL program to new heights in a very short amount of time.

They're both in the Sunbelt, so you could make the argument that everyone else around them is bad, but the fallacy with that is that every team in the Sunbelt has always been bad. It's only recently that guys are being successful at those schools. I think it says more about Freeze, Malzahn, Hud and Taggart than the competition they face.

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Does he have the assistant coach who had blood running down his forehead at the Bowl Game last year? If so, I want them both as the next Auburn HC.

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That was the S&C guy. Gameday profiled him last week, I didn't really watch much of it, but it's probably on ESPN's website.

ETA: And Hudspeth had success at UNA, so he's familiar with recruiting in the south, particularly Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.

Didnt know Hudspeth has ties to UNA. Makes me wonder how Auburn would react to him as HC

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Chip Kelly came from New Hampshire

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He was never Head Coach at New Hampshire, he was Oregon OC when he was named Head Coach.