I didn't have a guy on this one, I know I'm too dumb to know who will succeed and who will fail. That said, I suspect we made the best hire possible. Sure, there were guys with better systems, but one thing I do know is that a good system doesn't make you win if you can't get the right players and you don't have enough support from the school, so I never believed The Pirate or Lane would come here and "kill it". I don't think they would have had the vision or ability to pry this much cash and support free from the school and boosters. It took a guy everyone could believe in, and being a former player who knows SFLA is essential there. Know what? Maybe I did know a little something about who would succeed and who would fail. A "guru" might have bought us a year or two of fun, but would have left us right back where we were. Or failed from the start leaving us...right back where we were.
I don't know how Mario will do in-season, but anybody who's got complaints so far just can't be pleased.