mattcoldagelli
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So we pivot from a 62-year-old, two-time Super Bowl veteran, Methuselah doppelgänger to ISU’s receivers coach, making him literally the youngest HC in all FBS football by two years (bully for you, Kent State’s Sean Lewis), because it once worked at Northwestern and also it gives some gym teacher in schaumburg some feel-goody vibes? The snarky deadspin article writes itself.
Who cares? Wasn’t McVay the same age when the Rams hired him? There was much clutching of pearls, then he was awesome and NFL teams couldn’t hire guys under 40 fast enough.
If there’s a specific criticism (like that you think he needs to have been a coordinator or something), then at least make it. But “omg so young!” as a standalone doesn’t hold much water.
Haven’t we collectively gone through this enough times to realize we have no clue what the winning recipe is? Harbaugh is failing at Michigan, perhaps the clearest case of “well that guy is the obvious, can’t miss, back-up-the-money-truck candidate”