[BillBradley]

I very much hope Luck spoke with head coaching candidates from the moment he took the job. The season has been over for months and now here we sit with the position open. Unless there was some greasing of skids for a particular candidate (maybe an NFL contact of Luck's?), a search process at this point would likely be less then fruitful. Instead of hiring the best available, I would rather get an assistant coach, past head coach, Luck, or someone else close to Stanford fill the position on a one year contract until we can hire someone great. In other words, lets not repeat the same mistake. Taylor was a no-excitement, below-standard hire from the get go.

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Edit: Oops, apologies - didn't see the New Coach thread before posting this.

[BillBradley]

I very much hope Luck spoke with head coaching candidates from the moment he took the job. The season has been over for months and now here we sit with the position open. Unless there was some greasing of skids for a particular candidate (maybe an NFL contact of Luck's?), a search process at this point would likely be less then fruitful. Instead of hiring the best available, I would rather get an assistant coach, past head coach, Luck, or someone else close to Stanford fill the position on a one year contract until we can hire someone great. In other words, lets not repeat the same mistake. Taylor was a no-excitement, below-standard hire from the get go.

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Edit: Oops, apologies - didn't see the New Coach thread before posting this.