[PersonalLegend]

Anybody would do better, or at least close enough to anybody if we halfway tried with a hire. 

Well, we ended up with Walt after we fired Teevens.  At the time of Buddy's dismissal it was hard to believe that we could do worse, but we clearly could.

Hard to believe that Walt was up for the head coaching job at Alabama at one point. . . .

Yeah, people easily forget he was a reasonably successful coach at Pitt (with Larry Fitzgerald, but still).  He consistently had Pitt in bowls and was Big East coach of the year and went to the Fiesta Bowl (a BCS bowl game) the year he took the Stanford job.  

He just ended up being a ridiculously terrible fit for Stanford football to the point of wrecking morale entirely, and probably less good a coach than his recent record had indicated.

The track record David has put together is one that suggests he can manage a high-performing team of internally motivated players, but can't create that culture when it doesn't exist.

[PersonalLegend]

Anybody would do better, or at least close enough to anybody if we halfway tried with a hire. 

Well, we ended up with Walt after we fired Teevens.  At the time of Buddy's dismissal it was hard to believe that we could do worse, but we clearly could.

Hard to believe that Walt was up for the head coaching job at Alabama at one point. . . .

Yeah, people easily forget he was a reasonably successful coach at Pitt (with Larry Fitzgerald, but still).  He consistently had Pitt in bowls and was Big East coach of the year and went to the Fiesta Bowl (a BCS bowl game) the year he took the Stanford job.  

He just ended up being a ridiculously terrible fit for Stanford football to the point of wrecking morale entirely, and probably less good a coach than his recent record had indicated.

The track record David has put together is one that suggests he can manage a high-performing team of internally motivated players, but can't create that culture when it doesn't exist.