re: tOfficial State Interviews: Pruitt, Moorhead, and Venables

My concern is the opportunity cost of not hiring Pruitt.

While I think Moorhead may be the better hire, I suspect it would be difficult to keep him while I think Pruitt could stay here for a while.

I don't envy Cohen's responsibility.

Who would you suggest? Kiffin?

If Pruitt was successful he'd be beating down the doors for a Bama interview as soon as Saban retires. We're gonna have difficulty holding onto whoever we get if they're successful. We got really lucky with Mullen

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T1. Pruitt
T1. Moorhead
3. Morris
4. Venables

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I would be fine with any of the above. I’m liking how Cohen went about this search.

State fans will unite around whoever is our next supreme leader and that is a huge positive for our program building off Mullen’s success

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Morehead is a brilliant guy. Outstanding modern OC acumen that's the rigjt fit for MSU, and plenty of HC experience, tho at a small school. He's been the difference maker at PSU. Stability on the offensive side is more critical than defensive side. With Pruitt or Venables, you could have W/L success disruptions due to OC turnover.

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This is 100% how I feel. The "emerging" programs over the last few years have all pretty much been high-powered offenses. Stability and continuity on the offensive side is much harder to maintain when you're relying solely on a revolving door of OCs. With Pruitt, we'd be one bad OC hire away from a multi-year slump, and we'd be guaranteed to have to roll that die every few years while we're successful.

Pruitt will be named head coach later tonight or early tomorrow.