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What Interview Criteria Would a New HC Candidate Need To Meet
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For me the very first thing is no more free contract years for 7 win seasons. Move that up to at least 8 regular season wins. Keep it at 4 or 5 years max left on the contract. No more ridiculous raises that make buyouts hard to do. You want ridiculous money you give us ridiculously good results. Like top 10 occasionally and top 25 more than that.
Get us in serious Playoff and SEC Championship Game contention if you want top 10 money. Doesn't mean we expect it every year like Georgia or Alabama. Just get us a realistic shot every 4 or 5 years. Expectations have risen and no more paying above the actual results. I'd throw in huge incentive money though to keep the coaches fired up to win to go with a reasonable contract based on their results.
Get us in serious Playoff and SEC Championship Game contention if you want top 10 money. Doesn't mean we expect it every year like Georgia or Alabama. Just get us a realistic shot every 4 or 5 years. Expectations have risen and no more paying above the actual results. I'd throw in huge incentive money though to keep the coaches fired up to win to go with a reasonable contract based on their results.
I’d like to see whoever gets the job be taller than the sideline reporters who ask him questions for once.
This includes women reporters too.
This includes women reporters too.
I think those are fair. We will save money on never having to pay those incentives.
Will you play aggressive on defense and offense?
If not. Next.
If not. Next.
The 7 win season triggering an additional year was taken off a few years back…it was a terrible idea when he did it.
I target those with these traits in this order: highly intelligent with diverse interests, good leaders with impeccable character and integrity, articulate and effective communicators, good family man with a strong and supportive wife and family, good listener, strong football knowledge, high energy performer and visionary, committed to setting and achieving goals to put and sustain UK football on a national map. I would use two primary gauges of many different areas to evaluate performance: winning games and recruiting effectiveness. A third category of great importance is our depth chart; do we have good second-, third-, and even fourth-string players? A fourth category would be player retainment and development. A fifth category is winning the games you are supposed to win.
Under Stoops, we have had some signature wins, but have also had some egregious signature losses. Despite some of the very best facilities in all of football, recruiting has been consistently just "plain vanilla" with some victories to go with a lot of misses and dead weight. At the twelve-year mark, we should have this program on consistently strong footing. It is not. Overall, it is an easy question: are you competing favorably in the SEC? If not, you potentially need to make a change and do it quickly and decisively.
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That is your first mistake, if you ever want to change that perception or move the needle you have to look for someone capable of it, so to answer your question, My questions would be geared towards landing someone who can take us to where we have never been before and can speak towards that vision and how they would do it
1. What is your process for game preparation during the season?
2. How do you evaluate players and coaches in the offseason?
3. What are your expectations for your players, your coaches, yourself and wins/losses/the program long term? How do you evaluate each?
4. What is the most important job you will have as the head coach of UK?
5. Professionally, what is your ultimate goal?
6. Which coach do you think you pattern yourself after and why?
7. Describe what you believe is 'winning football'. How do you prepare your team to play winning football?
8. Have you ever severely disciplined a player/coach? Why? And what was the repercussion/punishment?
9. What would you focus on when recruiting players to come play for you? Why would you focus on that/those vs. other facets?
10. What keeps UK from being a top tier SEC football program consistently and how would you address those issues?
11. What offensive/defensive system will you run and why do you believe it would be effective at UK in the SEC?
12. Describe how you prepared your team to play against an opponent with a significant talent advantage and what you learned from that experience.
2. How do you evaluate players and coaches in the offseason?
3. What are your expectations for your players, your coaches, yourself and wins/losses/the program long term? How do you evaluate each?
4. What is the most important job you will have as the head coach of UK?
5. Professionally, what is your ultimate goal?
6. Which coach do you think you pattern yourself after and why?
7. Describe what you believe is 'winning football'. How do you prepare your team to play winning football?
8. Have you ever severely disciplined a player/coach? Why? And what was the repercussion/punishment?
9. What would you focus on when recruiting players to come play for you? Why would you focus on that/those vs. other facets?
10. What keeps UK from being a top tier SEC football program consistently and how would you address those issues?
11. What offensive/defensive system will you run and why do you believe it would be effective at UK in the SEC?
12. Describe how you prepared your team to play against an opponent with a significant talent advantage and what you learned from that experience.
All of the rest of Barnhart’s hires will be known as high character individuals which could include Sumrall. Mitch is trying to distance his legacy from the swimming coach scandal in my opinion. I think that’s why he moved to Coach Pope as the number 2 option in addition to being a quick yes to accept the job.
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