Willie Taggart

[Bull-by-Marriage]

His resume sounds great. He won at the Mid-Major level, but can he win at the BCS level? I'm leary of promoting from there. I'd rather have a coordinator from a team that's been in the middle of the violation. JMHO.

[2000bull]

Wonder if he moves up Purdue's list now that Jones took the cu job. Also would Cincy look at WT now?

okay, correction, Jones hasn't made a decision yet...my bad

[macphisto]

His resume sounds great. He won at the Mid-Major level, but can he win at the BCS level? I'm leary of promoting from there. I'd rather have a coordinator from a team that's been in the middle of the violation. JMHO.

If you get a good guy then there's not much risk. Brian Kelly was a mid-major guy as was Butch Jones. Harbaugh coached at a FCS school before Stanford got him.

There are negative examples too (Steve Kragthorpe, anyone?), but many of them relate the the inability to recruit and lead. Taggart does not appear to have an issue recruiting and he has been growing as a coach. I actually was impressed how decent WKU looked against Alabama. They lost by a wide margin and could not score, but that alone does not tell the tale.

[bulls phanatic]

Need to get this guy before more jobs open and competition heats up

[Bullshiznitz]

My concern with Taggart, is that from my understading he is similar to Holtz in the aspect that he is a 'program leader'. He's never been a coordinator and is not really known as a defensive or offensive guru. Does a head coach absolutely need to be....no. But that makes his hiring of coordinators very very very important, and with him being so young and having coached at so few places, will he have the ability to put the necessary staff together here to be a success.

[Bull94]

My concern with Taggart, is that from my understading he is similar to Holtz in the aspect that he is a 'program leader'. He's never been a coordinator and is not really known as a defensive or offensive guru. Does a head coach absolutely need to be....no. But that makes his hiring of coordinators very very very important, and with him being so young and having coached at so few places, will he have the ability to put the necessary staff together here to be a success.

urban meyer was never a coordinator. he went from wr coach to head coach

[Triple B]

My concern with Taggart, is that from my understading he is similar to Holtz in the aspect that he is a 'program leader'. He's never been a coordinator and is not really known as a defensive or offensive guru. Does a head coach absolutely need to be....no. But that makes his hiring of coordinators very very very important, and with him being so young and having coached at so few places, will he have the ability to put the necessary staff together here to be a success.

Had the same thoughts ... Like some of what he offers but that made me wonder.

[rayzofheat]

My concern with Taggart, is that from my understading he is similar to Holtz in the aspect that he is a 'program leader'. He's never been a coordinator and is not really known as a defensive or offensive guru. Does a head coach absolutely need to be....no. But that makes his hiring of coordinators very very very important, and with him being so young and having coached at so few places, will he have the ability to put the necessary staff together here to be a success.

urban meyer was never a coordinator. he went from wr coach to head coach

OK...well the only point he was trying to make is that if we don't start spending money on coordinators there is a chance Taggart might not be the best choice.

[Bull Martin]

My concern with Taggart, is that from my understading he is similar to Holtz in the aspect that he is a 'program leader'. He's never been a coordinator and is not really known as a defensive or offensive guru. Does a head coach absolutely need to be....no. But that makes his hiring of coordinators very very very important, and with him being so young and having coached at so few places, will he have the ability to put the necessary staff together here to be a success.

Had the same thoughts ... Like some of what he offers but that made me wonder.

I think DW would have to do a lot more than giving Taggart free reign in hiring assistants. Part of why I think Taggart would only be making about $900-950K. I bet the overall HC + Assistant salary range would be the same as Skip, but we'd need some talented coordinators.

[Bull94]

My concern with Taggart, is that from my understading he is similar to Holtz in the aspect that he is a 'program leader'. He's never been a coordinator and is not really known as a defensive or offensive guru. Does a head coach absolutely need to be....no. But that makes his hiring of coordinators very very very important, and with him being so young and having coached at so few places, will he have the ability to put the necessary staff together here to be a success.

urban meyer was never a coordinator. he went from wr coach to head coach

OK...well the only point he was trying to make is that if we don't start spending money on coordinators there is a chance Taggart might not be the best choice.

I imagine with the defections that we will be very close to the top in the conference for head coach and assistant salaries. I think we were already #2 with head coach.