Originally Posted by
Professor Chaos
I think it depends on the timing and the impact on recruiting. Most coaching changes happen in early December which means right before the early signing day. A national search takes time and if you hire a coach from outside the program, especially one who's currently a head coach elsewhere, he's probably going to want to bring "his guys" with him on the coaching staff. Where does that leave the current class of verbals who committed to the outgoing staff? I have a hard time buying that an external candidate would've been able to keep that 2014 class together like Klieman, Goeser, and Riley did. That class had guys like Stick, Urzendowski, Allison, Dunn, Marlette, Menard, Jones, Shepherd, T Volson, B Williams, Wimbush, Jordheim, and Butler.... that's one hell of a foundational class for the success that we've seen over the last 4-5 years. Beyond that what about young guys on the roster who had relationships with the outgoing staff? Not all of them came to NDSU because of the program, the tradition, etc... I'm sure some came here because of the coaches.
I understand the benefit of a national search but with the ridiculous momentum this program has I don't know why you'd even want to risk "rocking the boat" if you don't have to. Just my two cents.