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A question to Cardboard members: apart from Pete Alamar, is there a single member of Shaw's coaching staff that would realistically have a shot at a bigger job elsewhere?  And a second question: could any member of Shaw's staff replace Shaw (the way he replaced Harbaugh)?  I say no and no to both questions, but would be interested in your collective views.  The answer to both questions in a truly excellent program would be yes and yes.

This is an interesting question, IMHO, and a bit tricky to answer. Bloomgren was certainly able to "move up" to a head coaching job. Yet, he also gets lots of the blame on this board for failing to recruit anybody his last year and doing poorly the year before. I think Akina is well respected, and could probably get a head coaching job somewhere if he really wanted it. However, like may coaches, his strengths (and career goals probably) do not translate to that. Mason worked three years for Shaw before going to Vanderbilt. Ron Gould, who was head coach at UC Davis, is our running backs coach. He probably is a potential candidate somewhere in a year or so. Anderson also might be a candidate for a head coaching job, but he probably isn't high profile enough.
The positions from which head coaching candidates emerge are usually OC ad DC. Our DC is a "possibly but not likely". Our OC is for sure a "not yet". In reality, I have no idea what other coaches and administrators think about our assistant coaches. When head coach hires are not retreads, my reaction to the hire is often "Who?"

It's definitely not an easy question to ask, hence my appeal to the collective wisdom on this board.  

Yes, Gould was a head coach, but that didn't work out.  He might get another shot, but it's hard to say.  Mason, as a successful DC, was clearly a great candidate for a head-coaching job, but he was hired by Harbaugh, not Shaw.  I think Alamar has done a great job and might get a bigger role elsewhere.  Anderson? Not convinced.  Pritchard?  Certainly not now, if ever.  Bloomgren was a Shaw hire, but is now gone, so regardless of what we think of his tenure as OC/OL coach, that ship has sailed.  

One of the principles of great management is that you should always have a couple of possible successors in your team and always hire people who challenge you and who may be, at least in some areas, better than you are.   I don't see that in the current staff.  And it's most egregious in the coordinator positions.

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A question to Cardboard members: apart from Pete Alamar, is there a single member of Shaw's coaching staff that would realistically have a shot at a bigger job elsewhere?  And a second question: could any member of Shaw's staff replace Shaw (the way he replaced Harbaugh)?  I say no and no to both questions, but would be interested in your collective views.  The answer to both questions in a truly excellent program would be yes and yes.

This is an interesting question, IMHO, and a bit tricky to answer. Bloomgren was certainly able to "move up" to a head coaching job. Yet, he also gets lots of the blame on this board for failing to recruit anybody his last year and doing poorly the year before. I think Akina is well respected, and could probably get a head coaching job somewhere if he really wanted it. However, like may coaches, his strengths (and career goals probably) do not translate to that. Mason worked three years for Shaw before going to Vanderbilt. Ron Gould, who was head coach at UC Davis, is our running backs coach. He probably is a potential candidate somewhere in a year or so. Anderson also might be a candidate for a head coaching job, but he probably isn't high profile enough.
The positions from which head coaching candidates emerge are usually OC ad DC. Our DC is a "possibly but not likely". Our OC is for sure a "not yet". In reality, I have no idea what other coaches and administrators think about our assistant coaches. When head coach hires are not retreads, my reaction to the hire is often "Who?"

It's definitely not an easy question to ask, hence my appeal to the collective wisdom on this board.  

Yes, Gould was a head coach, but that didn't work out.  He might get another shot, but it's hard to say.  Mason, as a successful DC, was clearly a great candidate for a head-coaching job, but he was hired by Harbaugh, not Shaw.  I think Alamar has done a great job and might get a bigger role elsewhere.  Anderson? Not convinced.  Pritchard?  Certainly not now, if ever.  Bloomgren was a Shaw hire, but is now gone, so regardless of what we think of his tenure as OC/OL coach, that ship has sailed.  

One of the principles of great management is that you should always have a couple of possible successors in your team and always hire people who challenge you and who may be, at least in some areas, better than you are.   I don't see that in the current staff.  And it's most egregious in the coordinator positions.