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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
I will fully admit to being wrong about Grinch. However, if you viewed it from the (admittedly limited) POV of a fan, it had all the markings of a poor choice: a guy with little coaching experience in a bungfukt region of the country who is hired by his uncle right as the team is moving into recruiting waters he's never swam in before.
Most of the time you'll win by betting on it being a Kurt Schottenheimer hire.
Sometimes a person who isn't qualified to get a job does a great job at it, but surely one could understand the raised eyebrows over the hire, especially when nepotism is involved.
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The question you always have to ask with family and/or legacy hires is 'would any other school have hired the same person for the same job'?
Grinch passed that test, as did Odom. Both guys would have eventually been considered for a similar job at a similar level. Kim Anderson did not.
But it's also strange to say that Grinch suited our needs at the time or even that he was an unqualified success here. He was a good coach but at a relatively non-critical role and frankly we'd have been better served getting a genuinely good recruiter in that spot or someone that could've helped us create SEC ties. Grinch did none of those things and then he left after what, 3 years? Man, what an impact.
So alright - he's getting a good job. And Eberflus is rumored to be a favorite for the Dallas DC job (and some say he'll get NFL HC interviews). Does that mean he did well here? No, no it does not. What someone does after they leave doesn't mean a whole lot for what they did here.
Grinch was fine. I don't think that dispels the concerns people had over him.