Coaching Search Update

I was more interested in Houston in 2018 than I am now. He is doing just okay at East Carolina. Really not much to this update.
 
smokey_wasp said:
I was more interested in Houston in 2018 than I am now. He is doing just okay at East Carolina. Really not much to this update.
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That's pretty much why he fell off my radar. Going to ECU from James Madison is a puzzling leap. Was it purely financial, or...? Is ECU a dump? Is it hard to win there? Serious question, I have zero knowledge of ECU as a football program. By comparison, Willie Fritz's record at Tulane to me qualifies as impressive for what Tulane is. Not sure if ECU is a similar situation...
 
As an ECU season ticket holder I can tell you that if you hire Mike Houston you will get a great guy, old school football coach, who will be passionate about winning. He is a good coach. If hired I would love for him to bring his defensive coordinator but not the offensive staff.

Yes, he is 20-22 at ECU, but the program went 9-27 under his predecessor and he started off in ‘19 and ‘20 going 7-14 but is 13-8 since. I would be happy for him to stay at ECU, but I think we can do better at Tech. (I also think we could do a whole lot worse.)

Bottom line, what could go wrong if we get a head coach from ECU?
 
77GTFan said:
As an ECU season ticket holder I can tell you that if you hire Mike Houston you will get a great guy, old school football coach, who will be passionate about winning. He is a good coach. If hired I would love for him to bring his defensive coordinator but not the offensive staff.

Yes, he is 20-22 at ECU, but the program went 9-27 under his predecessor and he started off in ‘19 and ‘20 going 7-14 but is 13-8 since. I would be happy for him to stay at ECU, but I think we can do better at Tech. (I also think we could do a whole lot worse.)

Bottom line, what could go wrong if we get a head coach from ECU?
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For some reason I thought he was an offensive minded coach. I thought he ran the TO at Lenoir-Rhyne and Citadel, but not at JMU or ECU. I figured he had his own offense..
 
EagleSting said:
For some reason I thought he was an offensive minded coach. I thought he ran the TO at Lenoir-Rhyne and Citadel, but not at JMU or ECU. I figured he had his own offense..
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That has been his forte, but he lets his coordinators coach. Donnie Kirkpatrick has opened up a little more this year. But, he has been frustrating with limiting Ahlers running the ball, stubbornly running the ball whe the O-line is struggling to block on the line of scrimmage, and avoiding throwing the ball downfield. I will say that when they open up the offense they are pretty good.

They are two missed kicks away from beating NC State and Navy and being 8-1 this season.
 
ECU beat UCF, something we couldn’t figure out how to do. But agree with others, no to anything related to ecu.
 
originalwombat said:
I will need to know how much money he’s shopping with before saying if his job is to be envied or not.
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The bigger the budget, the easier it is to make a mistake. Look at the "big name" coaches who have face-planted lately - Frost, drawing blanks but a lot of the "can't miss" hires have missed badly. I stated elsewhere that I don't think we can afford another mistake. We aren't Auburn with a blank checkbook each time we screw up. Whoever we hire has to work out or we are dead (financially).

There are a lot of good coaches out there who deserve a shot at running a P5 school that we can get for a modest (starting) salary and a modest buyout. We just need to find the right one.

So, in short, I don't think a blank check is the answer - that just allows the AD to make a popular, defensible hire without doing any due diligence.
 
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