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@Cribby any insight you can share as to why Mario interviewed this particular pool of candidates? Was he having trouble getting interest from bigger names/more established OCs?
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What exsctly does some comments from rando Houston fans tell you?
LOL. Rent controlled walk up is very generous. More like Bubs in The Wire who sometimes gets to live in his sister's basement, but isn't allowed upstairs.
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Do you have a problem understanding that veiled sarcasm and jokes dont work very well on forums. So glad you were joking. Thanks for the kind response.
Agreed, the Houston fan base is a lot like Miamis on Social media. The whiners and negative nellies are the ones who post the most and complain. My kids went to UH and we have a very active fanbase. With the size of UH compared to Miami, there are quite a few more fans than 3! LOL.
No one said hire a less accomplished coach. There a number of college WR coaches who recruit and develop to go after who are more accomplished than Hankerson. Leonard Hankerson has been a full-time WR coach at the NFL level for 1 year. 4 years overall. Top 10 in the world is a giant stretch and more UM exceptionalism talking. We aren't talking about 2000s era Curtis Johnson.
Chip Kelly and Lincoln's Riley main jobs on the power 5 level weren't to outrecruit guys. Implementing offenses and scoring points was their jobs. If Hankerson is also an offensive mastermind then maybe he should've been hired for the OC job instead of Dawson. Funny you mention Chip. A guy known to dislike big time recruiting. Went to the NFL. Then came back when he failed and still would rather recruit system guys then get locked into all out recruiting wars.
The 2022 staff didn't have enough recruiters so at a position specifically designated for a recruiter lets hire a guy in part based on sentimentality. I didn't make an assumption that he can't do it. We don't know if he can. Go get a guy who has already done it. Limit the risk.
Most are not. My sons are UH grads and Dawson was a very good OC and folks liked him. The UH fans who post alot are similar to our fans. the negative nellies post the most. The noise at UH is about Dana losing control of the team somewhat. The noise about Gattis dwarfed the minor noise about Dawson at UH.
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It’s been touched on, but there’s few tangible metrics for UH to dog Clawson on as to why they’re happy he’s leaving
Sigh. Like we stole Jimmie Johnson from OK state and Dennis Erickson from Washington State??
Very few, my friends are super UH fans and close to the program and their feedback is that folks are not happy he is leaving.
Buddy, 140 other people got the joke. That’s a veiled joke to you? Have a blessed day
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If you believe in market principles, he's one of the 10 best in the world because he EASILY has one of the best 10 jobs in the world, and if you don't believe in market principles, his value was determined by arguably one of the top 3 offensive minds/experts in the world (Shanahan).
Regardless of the semantics, you get the point. He's basically overqualified, but still hungry. You need to get out of your own way on this. This is the new "Dorsey has never called plays, pass" and you're one of the peeps leading this charge again.
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I was only joking about the fan numbers. Everyone else gets to make fun of us for not having fans, so I wanted a chance
Because he went through like 10 guys that said no way first. You think is our first choice?
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Maybe it was as simple as this. Hankerson is competent and a hard worker and he was next in line after Wes Welker took a job with the Dolphins. Kinda like Dorsey in Buffalo. And you just wrote something that you thought sounded good. What Shanahan values in an NFL WR coach isn't what Hankerson's job would be at Miami so even if you were right, he isn't a top 10 WR recruiter which is what is relevant.
Never thought I’d see Venn diagram on here, twice
I believe Jaycane said worst case scenario it was a b hire.
Ha. You're making a TON of assumptions and twisting reality to suit your ill-conceived argument. So that's how it works, every single coaching vacancy in the NFL is from within? Wrong. No top NFL coach is going to promote someone in this highly competitive salary-capped industry where you look for every edge unless they think they are the best man for the job. Especially a highly intelligent and uber-competitive guy like Shanahan. That is a RIDICULOUS and discrediting statement by you. You're trying to bend reality and supposition to help defend this indefensible take, when the FACT is the man is a successful NFL WR hand-picked by one of the best offensive minds in football. That's FACT.
And furthermore, you have ZERO IDEA how good a recruiter Hankerson is. You've never met him. You've never interviewed him. You have no idea what kind of personality he has, you have no idea what kind of recruiter he was considered when he was in CFB. It's up to Mario to figure that out by putting in the work. Mario, one of the best recruiters on Earth, who values recruiting above all else and is literally in the throws of remaking the staff to level up the recruiting. I think we can both agree that HS kids would certainly, at the least have an initial interest in being coached by a guy who coached Aiyuk and Samuel among others in the NFL playoffs last month, under Shanahan, and only hypothetically left the position for the love of the U and his family.
Just stop, buddy. Or keep going. By yourself. I'm out! No more ROI here.
