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what would you do? be honest
Posted on 12/11/07 at 9:43 am
Posted on 12/11/07 at 9:43 am
Hypothetical situation:
You played football for four years at LSU, spent years as an assistant, met your wife, etc. It's your dream job, you openly love the school. But, today, you are the coach of a crappy midwestern school. Just for discussion today let's say OHIO STATE...,
ANYWAY, Skip calls, he wants you to come back, take the team. You say NO because the timing isn't right, you sincerely don't want to be a distraction, you're trying to do things the right way. So, you settle, come out, announce sign your contract, etc. You're disappointed but thrilled about where you are right now. It's settled, let's move on.
BUT, all of sudden, the phone rings, it's skip again... He says "can we just talk about it"... "don't you want to come on home, this is your chance, it ain't coming around again.."
Mama's calling.
WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Be Honest
You played football for four years at LSU, spent years as an assistant, met your wife, etc. It's your dream job, you openly love the school. But, today, you are the coach of a crappy midwestern school. Just for discussion today let's say OHIO STATE...,
ANYWAY, Skip calls, he wants you to come back, take the team. You say NO because the timing isn't right, you sincerely don't want to be a distraction, you're trying to do things the right way. So, you settle, come out, announce sign your contract, etc. You're disappointed but thrilled about where you are right now. It's settled, let's move on.
BUT, all of sudden, the phone rings, it's skip again... He says "can we just talk about it"... "don't you want to come on home, this is your chance, it ain't coming around again.."
Mama's calling.
WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Be Honest
Posted on 12/11/07 at 9:45 am to saintaustin
fricking make up your mind and go
Don't leave us in limbo
Don't leave us in limbo
Posted on 12/11/07 at 9:48 am to saintaustin
according to the ohio State (a name I use dripping with venom)
"Les Miles is a businessman first." (A greedy one it would seem).
We should and must demand he shut down all communications with Michigan. Including his Agents and monitor them, their calls etc.
ANYTHING SHORT OF THIS MEANS DEFEAT jANUARY 7TH FOR LOUISIANA st AND WE HAVE EARNED THIS TITLE. Tosu'S STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE WAS #143
"Les Miles is a businessman first." (A greedy one it would seem).
We should and must demand he shut down all communications with Michigan. Including his Agents and monitor them, their calls etc.
ANYTHING SHORT OF THIS MEANS DEFEAT jANUARY 7TH FOR LOUISIANA st AND WE HAVE EARNED THIS TITLE. Tosu'S STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE WAS #143
This post was edited on 12/11/07 at 9:50 am
Posted on 12/11/07 at 9:52 am to saintaustin
Depends on whether you are a MOMMA'S BOY or not.
Posted on 12/11/07 at 10:39 am to saintaustin
If I'm happy where I am, I wouldn't risk my current happiness and success just for a familiar environment where the pursuit of equal happiness and success will ultimately be decided by factors of limited control and far less certainty.
So in Miles' case, his current success is not strictly a result of his input. He can credit the LSU facilities which attracts recruits as well as the multiple coaching assistants, the quality of players, and the virtually exclusive territorial recruiting rights to one of the highest per capita concentrations of athletic talent in the US. To maintain this success may require only incremental changes each year. It is easier to keep doing what has worked.
To go to Michigan, there will be a much more diverse set of changes whose intertwining effects will have no track record of success to have faith in - optimism that your input was the sole determining factor of success has a pretty good chance of turning out to be false optimism. In Michigan, if Lloyd Carr was the only personality in place who didn't want Miles, Carr would be out of the picture. He's already retired (due in part to public pressure), so he can't wield that much political influence without the support of others. So why would Miles risk what he has for a more divisive political environement?
The list of successful coaches who succeeded elsewhere is not very pursuasive of an expectation of continued success when compared to a list of successful coaches who failed to achieve the same level of success elsewhere.
So in Miles' case, his current success is not strictly a result of his input. He can credit the LSU facilities which attracts recruits as well as the multiple coaching assistants, the quality of players, and the virtually exclusive territorial recruiting rights to one of the highest per capita concentrations of athletic talent in the US. To maintain this success may require only incremental changes each year. It is easier to keep doing what has worked.
To go to Michigan, there will be a much more diverse set of changes whose intertwining effects will have no track record of success to have faith in - optimism that your input was the sole determining factor of success has a pretty good chance of turning out to be false optimism. In Michigan, if Lloyd Carr was the only personality in place who didn't want Miles, Carr would be out of the picture. He's already retired (due in part to public pressure), so he can't wield that much political influence without the support of others. So why would Miles risk what he has for a more divisive political environement?
The list of successful coaches who succeeded elsewhere is not very pursuasive of an expectation of continued success when compared to a list of successful coaches who failed to achieve the same level of success elsewhere.
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