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Maybe, just maybe, the spring portal is open or soon will be. The coaches who are here have made bonds and connections with possible transfers, as I'd imagine the assistant coaches are the ones who drove a lot of that. Reich steps in, and that is a brobdingnagian plus towards bringing in guys, even if it's just for a year. That said, losing the connections that the assistants have made would end anything that's possibly coming our way, or could now be enticed to come our way. Just a thought.

Even more importantly they may have some influence on our current roster. The guys that had "issues" staff as it was have probably already left. Bringing in new staff members with no time at all to integrate them into a coherent whole is a recipe for disaster, at least in the short term. If Reich intended to bring in some of this "own" people he would have has about a week to make that happen in terms of negotiating terms etc. Then these new coaches would have to participate in running a spring practice in the next week. They wouldn't even yet know the names and functions of their colleagues, let alone the players. It this whole mess had evolved even a month earlier it MIGHT have made sense to do some immediate additional coaching staff changes. In the event, it couldn't reasonably be done, even assuming there were candidates "ready to go", which IMO is highly improbable.
 
While a "good" spring practice may indeed not be a make-or-break element of next seasons success, a disorganized incoherent one could easily convince quite a few players that Stanford doesn't have a clue on how to run a football program. There is already some evidence it does not. It might not take much more to create a rush for the portal. That is a risk even with a relatively well run spring practice given recent events. Players may be thinking about seeing what the "new guy" brings and if it isn't adequately convincing, move on.

and how many of "his guys" are currently unemployed, and if employed would be willing to leave their current job for what might be a one year gig?

Actually pretty much guaranteed to be a one year deal if Reich is serious about his longevity. It might have been possible to get some of the potential candidates to quit their current job if you paid them enough money. Of course, many of them have buyouts. It would take much more than a week or so to sort out the contract issues. On top of that, the guy on the current staff probably has a buyout too. I suspect AL had both time and money problems with  attempting to change more than he had already been forced to do. Thus he wisely decided to disallow attempting it.

[Goose]

Maybe, just maybe, the spring portal is open or soon will be. The coaches who are here have made bonds and connections with possible transfers, as I'd imagine the assistant coaches are the ones who drove a lot of that. Reich steps in, and that is a brobdingnagian plus towards bringing in guys, even if it's just for a year. That said, losing the connections that the assistants have made would end anything that's possibly coming our way, or could now be enticed to come our way. Just a thought.

Even more importantly they may have some influence on our current roster. The guys that had "issues" staff as it was have probably already left. Bringing in new staff members with no time at all to integrate them into a coherent whole is a recipe for disaster, at least in the short term. If Reich intended to bring in some of this "own" people he would have has about a week to make that happen in terms of negotiating terms etc. Then these new coaches would have to participate in running a spring practice in the next week. They wouldn't even yet know the names and functions of their colleagues, let alone the players. It this whole mess had evolved even a month earlier it MIGHT have made sense to do some immediate additional coaching staff changes. In the event, it couldn't reasonably be done, even assuming there were candidates "ready to go", which IMO is highly improbable.
 
While a "good" spring practice may indeed not be a make-or-break element of next seasons success, a disorganized incoherent one could easily convince quite a few players that Stanford doesn't have a clue on how to run a football program. There is already some evidence it does not. It might not take much more to create a rush for the portal. That is a risk even with a relatively well run spring practice given recent events. Players may be thinking about seeing what the "new guy" brings and if it isn't adequately convincing, move on.

and how many of "his guys" are currently unemployed, and if employed would be willing to leave their current job for what might be a one year gig?

Actually pretty much guaranteed to be a one year deal if Reich is serious about his longevity. It might have been possible to get some of the potential candidates to quit their current job if you paid them enough money. Of course, many of them have buyouts. It would take much more than a week or so to sort out the contract issues. On top of that, the guy on the current staff probably has a buyout too. I suspect AL had both time and money problems with  attempting to change more than he had already been forced to do. Thus he wisely decided to disallow attempting it.