New HC Blind Hopes and Wishes

[HornetHope]

Very pedestrian, .500 coach.
Need lightening in a bottle again as we have swung so far to the sucky side.

Hornets need/require a young high scoring creative football leader of men.
TX State OC, Incarnate Word HC, Idaho-HC type of winners/leaders.

You mean like the poor man’s version of Kenny Dillingham?

 

[HornetFootballFan]

Excluding Kris Richardson (the only viable internal option)... All depends of how much $$$ we can throw at these guys...

-Mack Leftwich (Tx St. OC)

-Daniel Da Prato (Tx St. Associate HC, Former Hornet)

-Junior Adams (Oregon WR Coach, BSC experience, recruits like a mo-fo).

-Andy Avalos (TCU DC - a reach, but former position coach here, would be ideal to lead to MWC or Pac-12).

-Hines Ward (ASU WR Coach)

-Eddie George (Tenn Tech HC)

-Kyle Cefalo (Utah State former OC?)

Those are good targets..

 

[Kadeezy]

Those are good targets..

Hopefully we see some movement this week... I know Orr and Wood are moving fast. As others have said, we need a hire as ambitious as our football aspirations.

 

[OldSchoolHornet]

I'm not contradicting you but I'm curious as to how you "know" Orr and Wood are moving fast.

 

[Kadeezy]

I'm not contradicting you but I'm curious as to how you "know" Orr and Wood are moving fast.

I talked to Dr. Wood in person on Monday.

 

[stingthemgood]

I talked to Dr. Wood in person on Monday.

I talked to him this week as well

 

[HornetHope]

I talked to him this week as well

And just like that I feel very excluded cuz he has not said boo to me. Also, I am not in his orbit so that may be why.

 

[stingthemgood]

He is very accessible -- and he not only listens to alums and donors, but he's proactive about reaching out when he has updates on previous conversations you've had. I personally wish I had his memory about interactions with other people. He is very sharp.

 

[OldSchoolHornet]

I talked to Dr. Wood in person on Monday.

Excellent response. Thank you.

 

[FootballAlum84]

WHAT AM I READING?!

Sacramento State is in discussions to hire former Pro-Bowl QB Mike Vick as its new head coach, per Adam Schefter. Sacramento State plans to move up to FBS, is building a new stadium and has over $50 million in NIL. Sacramento State would build an exp

Read more on ESPN

www.espn.com

 

[Hornet25]

But........what???

 

[the Rat]

https://www.sacbee.com/sports/article297196234.html

 

[BuckeyeHornetFan]

WHAT AM I READING?!

Sacramento State is in discussions to hire former Pro-Bowl QB Mike Vick as its new head coach, per Adam Schefter. Sacramento State plans to move up to FBS, is building a new stadium and has over $50 million in NIL. Sacramento State would build an exp

Read more on ESPN

www.espn.com

https://www.sacbee.com/sports/article297196234.html

Yeah, color me surprised when I saw that ESPN report first.

Other than an advisor, Vick has zero coaching experience. He’d be a name recognition hire at this point, swinging for the fences to duplicate a Deion Sanders type of hype.

Now reading that Sac State’s admin are openly denying this rumor makes me wonder whether Vick’s camp is leveraging the Hornets HC opening in his alleged talks with Norfolk State, which is near his hometown and frankly makes more sense.

 

[the Rat]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1868793826758082985

Joe is now saying Sac State and Vick have talked, but has not been offered the job today.

 

[Hornet25]

I was just about to post that Sac 12 was reposting the Schefter report, which adds validity to it.

Davidson is fine, but the tone of his Sacramento State posts and articles leads me to believe he's still trying to get a source on the inside that he trusts.

 

[HeavyistheClown]

No previous coaching experience, isn’t that kind of important? Norfolk State, is that the level we are competing for? Asking for a friend.

 

[FootballAlum84]

These sorts of rumors at least could suggest they’re really looking to make a splash with this hire and do something notable…? And if true the name/brand recognition could be great for recruiting but the zero coaching experience shooting for a still hopeful FBS move seems like a long shot to coaching success.

 

[the Rat]

Not worth the risk. No coaching experience and it could end poorly, setting the program back even further. I don't care for the personal baggage he brings too.

 

[the Rat]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1868805772655968713

There is that word "transformational" again.

 

[FootballAlum84]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1868805986657444327

I don’t think that Schefter reporting on our Head Coaching hire was on my bingo card this time around