ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
Well, except to the extent that these are the kinds of questions Whitman needs to be asking in investigating candidates.These are good questions and cannot be answered unless he were to be hired.
People are saying, in a positive way, "Whitman has his guy, it's just signing the contract and dealing with HR requirements". I hope he doesn't. Obviously I also hope and assume that he had already done a lot of legwork on the coaches he's looking at and had an idea of what he was dealing with, but he should also really put a lot of importance on what he learns from these guys face to face.
He was going to stop at nothing in the Underwood process to use his salesmanship and his resources to woo a sitting Power Five coach. That we even heard names like Danny Manning and Bobby Hurley was a testament to that, it was a single-minded thing. He's obviously very good at scouring the landscape for opportunities others might not see, and Underwood is proof of that and it all seems to have worked out, but I don't think this football process is that kind of thing.
We need to find the right fit. Whitman always wants a splash and immediate surface-level credibility. I think the two can be harmonized together, but there's a tension there, and that's where my worry is in the process.