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At first I was kinda stunned about this thread...

But after thinking about it for a bit, Im even more confused. Either you must REALLY hate Ianello or you have no faith in him becoming successful and leaving the program for something better (aka not being fired). The guy hasn't coached 1 real game yet, let alone an entire season, so Id give him the benefit of the doubt.

Unless you have reasons to believe he'd be fired... in which case, I'd love to check out your time machine.

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I love the topic and voted for leaving when another chance presents itself.

The history of Akron coaching is it is the "Graveyard of Coaches". The history of the MAC is a coach can win a championship relative quickly if he has the right people and things go his way. Buffalo did it and JD did it at UofA.

Coach I, here is my advice. Listen closely because JD didn't take this advice and look what happened to him. Win something quickly and get the Hell out. If you don't win something within the first three years, get the Hell out because this is when the graveyard catches you. Your assistants will start to leave and you won't be able to hire good replacements. Your recruiting starts to fall apart. Leave before getting fired....you're not making that much money compared to the rest of the league so the income shouldn't be that hard to replace.

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  GP1 said:
Listen closely because JD didn't take this advice and look what happened to him. Win something quickly and get the Hell out. If you don't win something within the first three years, get the Hell out because this is when the graveyard catches you. Your assistants will start to leave and you won't be able to hire good replacements. Your recruiting starts to fall apart. Leave before getting fired....you're not making that much money compared to the rest of the league so the income shouldn't be that hard to replace.

I think you're mostly right.

However - JD's recruiting didn't fall apart over his tenure. It actually improved.

JD wanted to win quick, and cash in big-time. So took your advice and took a bunch of at-risk athletes (not student athletes). It was a valid theory at the time because the league's best programs were built on non-qualifiers, JUCO's and troubled talent (see early 2000's Toledo & NIU).

Unfortunately for him, and Zips fans, all JD's athletes flunked out.

He subsequently righted the ship and recruited a better caliber of student athlete. But you can't undo the damage of back-to-back horrific recruiting classes in a single season or two. Not in football.

JD reaped what he sewed, and got canned last season. The clock expired.

But iCoach will benefit. Kinda like Mack Rhoades benefited from Mike Thomas' work. If iCoach is any good, he'll start winning fairly soon. If he's good enough to leave after 3 seasons...we'll have a pretty magical 3 seasons of Zips football to remember. That's 3X more than the last 25 years combined...so I'd be pretty grateful.

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It's hard enough being a Zips fan, I feel bad for the Zips fans that can't be positive from day one when a new coach and system are implemented. Good luck to you guys. :wave: I'm excited for the new staff and hope they put an entertaining brand of football on the field for their fans.

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Personally, I have nothing against Coach I.

I wish him all the luck in the world.

However, he will fail just as Brookhart did .. for the very same reason(s).

Coach I has zero head coaching experience at any level. This is a killer.

Even Lee Owens had high school head coaching experience. Brookhart, nada. Ianello, nada.

Coach I's best chance is to surround himself with the best assistant coaches he can find. Not

his buddies, his pals, or the friends of influential people. Go get real, qualified assistant coaches.

Even then, silly blunders like refusing to utilize a pass rush (Owens), goofy defenses (Brookhart),

keeping bad apples (Owens & Brookhart) will kill your chances.

Straight up and down, smash mouth football with talented athletes will get the job down, not trick

plays and guess and by golly. Do not wish for luck ... make luck with solid play.

And for heaven's sake .. the doghouse should never be longer than thirty seconds. More talent,

and Akron never has quite enough talent, goes wasting rotting in some coach's head for trivial

matters.

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  Dr Z said:
It's hard enough being a Zips fan, I feel bad for the Zips fans that can't be positive from day one when a new coach and system are implemented. Good luck to you guys. :wave: I'm excited for the new staff and hope they put an entertaining brand of football on the field for their fans.

+1 :wall:

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Not at all!!!!....... god i miss that good ole' NEOhio self depricating humor.

I'll put a twist on it! He gives up.... citing lack of institutional support related to burgeoning soccer and riffle team budgets..... and goes back to ND as an assistant again!

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I voted 5 seasons. Long enough to build a program we can get behind, long enough to show consistency in the moribund and craptacular MAC, long enough to get a great job as a HC at a BCS school. I'm as down as anybody on this program (HELLO TOM, WHEN IS THAT G-D TEAM STORE GOING TO OPEN?????) but I need to feel positive about the program or I'll simply stop paying attention to it.

Here's hoping that the text that Ianello sent to Wistrcill immediately after the text about Liz Lemon that inadvertently went to Liz Lemon was one asking about WHEN THE HELL THE TEAM SHOP IS GOING TO BE OPEN.

STZ

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I voted 6 years, but it is presumably as soon as Mr. Wistrcill leaves for greener pastures. That seems to be the pattern. AD leaves to a bigger school before having time to actually get stuff done, claiming credit for things that happened through his predecessor, and the new guy wants to bring in his own head coach from his own circle of friends. Rinse, repeat. The key here is the AD. If Wistrcill stays long enough to be able to take credit for his work, then hiring Ianello could be counted among his successes. If he leaves, Ianello gets fired for not living up to the new standards of the new AD, even though those standards are the same as we've always had but since he's not from the new AD's list of contacts he doesn't get the extra latitude.

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