re: How confident were you in Matt Canada?

I was excited. If you look back at what we knew at the time, it made sense. What we didn't know was that he couldn't adapt his scheme to our personnel, he was insistent on trying to make freshmen linemen learn more stuff than they could handle (which didn't work), and he would be insubordinate.

There are times when you make the best decision that you can with the information that you have, and it doesn't work out. Curley Hallman was producing winning seasons at Southern Miss when we hired him, and we didn't know that he was a terrible coach who had managed to win there because he had Brett Favre. Trent Johnson looked like a fantastic basketball coach in his previous jobs who turned out to be terrible at LSU. Sometimes, stuff just doesn't work out the way it should.