[SamuelMcF]

Before we get lost in the bigger picture recruiting stuff, let's not forget the need to overhaul the coaching staff. That is the first step to take that will demonstrate Shaw can make hard decisions.

If there is one thing I have learned from following the most successful coaches in college football, it is that they are willing to make themselves uncomfortable to get better.

On Defense: Fangio -> Mason -> Anderson were all internal promotion Defensive Coordinators.
On Offense: Shaw -> Bloomgren -> Pritchard were all internal promotion Offensive Coordinators.  

Shaw needs to make himself a little uncomfortable with some outside the family coordinators. If he isn't willing to make the most standard managerial decisions to improve performance, he isn't going to make the harder ones.

Vic Fangio once coached at Stanford. Where is the next Fangio level DC? Please hire an OC off of Kyle Shanahan's staff. He really knows how to scheme an offense and keep defenses off balance. I want someone from that coaching tree.

I suppose it's a start that all the newer position coaches come from outside the program.

Gould ('17): Cal RB/UC Davis HC (I LOVED this hire; Cal fans were furious)
Kennedy ('18): Iowa WR
Carberry ('18): Washington Redskins offensive asst.

Others...
Turner: internal (Stanford offensive asst.)
Alamar: Fresno State ST/TE
Reynolds: basically internal (Stanford defensive asst., was the DL coach at Oklahoma for a year before he came back)
Hansen: basically internal (Stanford defensive asst., was a SF 49ers defensive asst. under Harbaugh for a couple years before he came back)
Akina: Texas

[SamuelMcF]

Before we get lost in the bigger picture recruiting stuff, let's not forget the need to overhaul the coaching staff. That is the first step to take that will demonstrate Shaw can make hard decisions.

If there is one thing I have learned from following the most successful coaches in college football, it is that they are willing to make themselves uncomfortable to get better.

On Defense: Fangio -> Mason -> Anderson were all internal promotion Defensive Coordinators.
On Offense: Shaw -> Bloomgren -> Pritchard were all internal promotion Offensive Coordinators.  

Shaw needs to make himself a little uncomfortable with some outside the family coordinators. If he isn't willing to make the most standard managerial decisions to improve performance, he isn't going to make the harder ones.

Vic Fangio once coached at Stanford. Where is the next Fangio level DC? Please hire an OC off of Kyle Shanahan's staff. He really knows how to scheme an offense and keep defenses off balance. I want someone from that coaching tree.

I suppose it's a start that all the newer position coaches come from outside the program.

Gould ('17): Cal RB/UC Davis HC (I LOVED this hire; Cal fans were furious)
Kennedy ('18): Iowa WR
Carberry ('18): Washington Redskins offensive asst.

Others...
Turner: internal (Stanford offensive asst.)
Alamar: Fresno State ST/TE
Reynolds: basically internal (Stanford defensive asst., was the DL coach at Oklahoma for a year before he came back)
Hansen: basically internal (Stanford defensive asst., was a SF 49ers defensive asst. under Harbaugh for a couple years before he came back)
Akina: Texas