Curt Cignetti took Indiana to the playoffs in year 1 with a bunch of former JMU players. And he's probably going to play for, and maybe even win, the national championship in year 2. You can absolutely very quickly turn around a program, by hiring someone who knows how to build a college roster and coach college players. If UNC hires Jon Sumrall last year, we probably get Darien Mensah, the best quarterback in the portal, and we probably have several more wins this year against the easiest schedule we've probably had in decades.
I guess my thing is I don't understand the point of us hiring Bill Belichick if the expectation was that it's okay to limp and plod along to a 4-win season this year, then try to win 7 or 8 in year two. If we were going to hire a 73-year-old coach with exactly ZERO collegiate coaching experience, then it should have been made very clear to him that it was imperative that he hire coordinators and assistant coaches, as well as player personnel staffers, who have all been highly successful in the college ranks previously. Allowing him to hire his sons, his buddies, his buddies' sons, and so on- none of whom had actual collegiate experience- was a terrible mistake.
