Is Our Head Coach "Search" a Sham?

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From Footballscoop: Akron: This afternoon we spoke with sources very close to the process. After those talks, we believe that Terry Bowden is the only candidate that was technically offered the job. .....

Makes sense. In business, you interview a number of candidates before offering the position to the one who you find through the interview process to be the most qualified. There are things that are brought out during the interview process that may cause either the interviewer or interviewee to decide that there is not a good match. It appears that UA and Bowden found each other mutually attractive during the interview process, and that mutual attraction did not work out with the other candidates.

And if the first one you make the offer to turns you down then you don't count that as an offer and make your first offer to the second best candidate.

Key word in this is "technically"

Absolutely. The Akron folks drove up to Detroit to make a nontechnical offer.

Exactly Meister, They went up to gauge interest in receiving an offer that didn't happen. You know like the ole junior high date question "you wouldn't, possibly, maybe be interested in going to the dance with me, if I was maybe to ask?"

It could very well be true that offers were just "floated" to other candidates.

You always try to get a face to face meeting (as opposed to telephone) when you are trying to get someone to respond right away. And in our case, we needed an answer quickly, based on us already being 3 weeks into the process.

Maybe we'll find out more soon on how all of this actually transpired.