Thanks for the info, and for your post here!
I'm particularly happy to hear the bolded line above. It seems that the most effective coaches have that characteristic in common.
My pleasure. There was a great article written years ago by the Athletic Director that first hired him at Montana in 2002 to be the Head Coach at Montana during his first stint, where he built a monster that dominated the conference in an unheard of way. I will link the article with the paywall removed, but include a quote that I think highlights the above, bolded portion very well.
The "golden boy" candidate that Hauck ended up beating out for the job was Brian Kelley. Its a good article in general.
"The Sea-Tac interviews were going along pretty much as expected, the candidates getting two or three hours with our impromptu committee, fielding questions and expounding on their vision for Grizzly Football. Then, it happened. Bobby Hauck happened.
Missoula attorney David Paoli, who had become my most trusted friend and advisor among the local voices in Montana, and Dave Guffey, my veteran PR man, who came closer to speaking the language of an old sports information director (which I was) than anyone, were in the room.
The three of us were about to be mesmerized, utterly and completely gobsmacked over the next three hours. To say that Hauck was prepared, both for this interview and to become our head coach, would be an understatement the size of the state of Montana.
Bluntly, I have sat through dozens of interviews in my career, but I have never, ever been involved in an interview like Bobby’s, before or since. He offered the names of everyone he would bring in as assistant coaches and said he had commitments from each to join him.
He talked about his practice strategy and schedules, talked about his academic plan, talked about strength training and discipline, talked about scheduling philosophy, and then gave a 30-minute tutorial on recruiting that should be encapsulated for coaches everywhere. To cap it off, It was all in written material in a bound book which he left with us.
When Hauck left, Hogan, Paoli and Guffey just sat in silence if not awe. The gravity of what we had just witnessed was pretty overwhelming. Suddenly, the smug athletic director (me) with a sinister plan and a hidden golden boy to be interviewed the next day was reduced to intense self doubt."
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