Hi Vikings,
I think you might have hired a diamond in the rough. I get tired of all the old recycled coaches and think PSU might have made a great hire. Of course, only time will tell, but look at how well a lot of young coaches have done lately. Turner Gill at Buffalo, Kevin Sumlin at Houston, Steve Sarkisian at UW, etc. Think Josh McDaniel and Sean Payton in the NFL. Burton's been mentored by Mike Riley and Chris Ault and they are both experienced and talented head coaches, so I think you might be very pleasntly surprised. Being young and very smart, he will likely be a great recruiter for Portland. And he's from Sacramento, so he'll be tapped into some good NorCal high schools for talent. I would say he's a high risk/high reward candidate, but you could have done much, much worse. By the way, I'm a PSU grad (who played at Sunset High School for Mouse way back in the day), but had two sons play for Sac State and one is the defensive line coach there now, so I'm a huge Big Sky supporter. Its time for Sac State and Portland State to rise up and become great rivals. I'd love to see us both beat up those Montana schools every year.
Good luck with the new coach except against the Hornets!