[gailtate]

And by various accounts may be one of the hardest-working and admissions-savvy recruiters we've ever had, not to mention reportedly responsible for the most impressive collection of talent any Stanford recruiter has been associated with aside from perhaps Bloomgren. He can't clone himself. I think it would be wildly, comically misguided to want Anderson to focus more on recruiting if that means focusing less on the part of his job he's failed at, which is coordinating a defense.

Couldn't we create a position of Recruiting Coordinator and let him concentrate on that while lifting someone else to DC.

The three options I would consider acceptable:

1. Make Lance Anderson the defensive line coach and recruiting coordinator (firing Diron Reynolds, obviously) and bring in an outside hire to be the new defensive coordinator

2. Give Lance Anderson the Ron Lynn treatment and thank him for his service but shift him from one of the positions that counts toward the coaching limit to more of an administrative and recruiting role

3. Fire Lance Anderson

In a vacuum, the first one appeals to me with a big caveat: our defense has been so bad and it's so important that a coordinator be set up for success that if retaining current defensive assistants were a deal-breaker for a good coordinator I would not let that stop me from bringing in the new hire. Given the performance of our defense, nobody, not even Anderson and Akina (both of whom arguably have recruiting value and/or other value), should be immune from a house cleaning, if that were what a good coordinator wanted to do.

Nothing's going to change. Ever.

Sure as hell not without regime change. Without it, le déluge continues.

[gailtate]

And by various accounts may be one of the hardest-working and admissions-savvy recruiters we've ever had, not to mention reportedly responsible for the most impressive collection of talent any Stanford recruiter has been associated with aside from perhaps Bloomgren. He can't clone himself. I think it would be wildly, comically misguided to want Anderson to focus more on recruiting if that means focusing less on the part of his job he's failed at, which is coordinating a defense.

Couldn't we create a position of Recruiting Coordinator and let him concentrate on that while lifting someone else to DC.

The three options I would consider acceptable:

1. Make Lance Anderson the defensive line coach and recruiting coordinator (firing Diron Reynolds, obviously) and bring in an outside hire to be the new defensive coordinator

2. Give Lance Anderson the Ron Lynn treatment and thank him for his service but shift him from one of the positions that counts toward the coaching limit to more of an administrative and recruiting role

3. Fire Lance Anderson

In a vacuum, the first one appeals to me with a big caveat: our defense has been so bad and it's so important that a coordinator be set up for success that if retaining current defensive assistants were a deal-breaker for a good coordinator I would not let that stop me from bringing in the new hire. Given the performance of our defense, nobody, not even Anderson and Akina (both of whom arguably have recruiting value and/or other value), should be immune from a house cleaning, if that were what a good coordinator wanted to do.

Nothing's going to change. Ever.

Sure as hell not without regime change. Without it, le déluge continues.