Post by DFW HOYA on Feb 12, 2014 22:01:24 GMT -5
No timetable I'm aware of. There are as many as three vacant coaching positions with interim assignments right now (football, field hockey, and women's basketball) and there's that "so when does the IAC break ground?" talk that doesn't seem to have an answer right now but which probably takes up much of the department's time right now. Of course, in mid-February, a lot of applicants are likely to be those out of coaching or those on the way out of their jobs to begin with. Kevin Kelly's first four years (5-38) would likely be a cautionary tale to any assistant thinking he could turn around the program on short notice.
A lot of this discussion is the half-empty, half-full scenario. Georgetown does support football (2nd largest budget outside of basketball) but it still pales in compared to other schools--Holy Cross spends 20% of its entire athletics budget on football, Georgetown about 3%. Alumni support in 2012 was listed on the GUHoyas.com site at $341K, which is larger than any sport other than basketball. Still, if you raised that every year, it would only buy six scholarships and Fordham will be at 60 this year.
In the end, a head coach in football is the sum of his assistants, his recruiting, and his results. Other than Sgarlata, assistants have come and went, in part from salary, cost of living, or maybe just following Kelly's own resume of getting experience and moving on. In the end, it didn't provide the continuity players needed, which is why defense (with Sgarlata at the helm back through the Benson years) always seemed ahead of the offense. Recruiting suffered but a lot of that was outside Kelly's reach and the other PL coaches knew it. As for results, draw a trajectory across the offensive coordinators (Miceli, Patenaude, Marino) and see the trends.
Georgetown, for all its strengths and weaknesses, still doesn't do enough to promote its program, which is something the new coach must embark on. Kelly was not as comfortable in front of people selling the program and relied on the department leadership to do the talking which, in many cases, it did not do.
Check this video from the new coach at Nevada-Reno and the messages he is trying to get out there--to recruits, to fans, to parents, and even to opponents. Would that Georgetown could be as emotive when a new coach comes aboard.
www.footballscoop.com/news/12489-video-you-ll-want-to-see-nevada-s-a-new-beginning
A lot of this discussion is the half-empty, half-full scenario. Georgetown does support football (2nd largest budget outside of basketball) but it still pales in compared to other schools--Holy Cross spends 20% of its entire athletics budget on football, Georgetown about 3%. Alumni support in 2012 was listed on the GUHoyas.com site at $341K, which is larger than any sport other than basketball. Still, if you raised that every year, it would only buy six scholarships and Fordham will be at 60 this year.
In the end, a head coach in football is the sum of his assistants, his recruiting, and his results. Other than Sgarlata, assistants have come and went, in part from salary, cost of living, or maybe just following Kelly's own resume of getting experience and moving on. In the end, it didn't provide the continuity players needed, which is why defense (with Sgarlata at the helm back through the Benson years) always seemed ahead of the offense. Recruiting suffered but a lot of that was outside Kelly's reach and the other PL coaches knew it. As for results, draw a trajectory across the offensive coordinators (Miceli, Patenaude, Marino) and see the trends.
Georgetown, for all its strengths and weaknesses, still doesn't do enough to promote its program, which is something the new coach must embark on. Kelly was not as comfortable in front of people selling the program and relied on the department leadership to do the talking which, in many cases, it did not do.
Check this video from the new coach at Nevada-Reno and the messages he is trying to get out there--to recruits, to fans, to parents, and even to opponents. Would that Georgetown could be as emotive when a new coach comes aboard.
www.footballscoop.com/news/12489-video-you-ll-want-to-see-nevada-s-a-new-beginning
