12-02-2025, 05:21 PM
are you being facetious? I think it is possible to have identified a preferred candidate at the onset and still carry out a thorough search. In fact it would be negligent not to. The preferred candidate could wind up getting a better offer elsewhere, or maybe a red flag pops up during their vetting. I’ve seen candidates who knew they had the inside track blow off the process and make everyone question the initial assessment. Sometimes a dark horse just totally blows everyone away.
I think you guys are jumping to conclusions about a process that none of us know anything about. All we know is that the candidate that, at the onset looked like the most likely candidate to get the job got the job. Tha doesn’t mean the process was flawed or that it wasn’t thorough.
About the only thing we know is that Luck elected to bring Reich as a temporary coach for a year. I’m pretty sure that if Stanford wanted Pritchard, we could have had him in March, which tells me that, actually, Stanford wanted to conduct a more thorough search than simply identifying Pritchard and bringing him in.
BC
I think you guys are jumping to conclusions about a process that none of us know anything about. All we know is that the candidate that, at the onset looked like the most likely candidate to get the job got the job. Tha doesn’t mean the process was flawed or that it wasn’t thorough.
About the only thing we know is that Luck elected to bring Reich as a temporary coach for a year. I’m pretty sure that if Stanford wanted Pritchard, we could have had him in March, which tells me that, actually, Stanford wanted to conduct a more thorough search than simply identifying Pritchard and bringing him in.
BC