assistant coach choices and Jones would have a two-year contract. For 25 years, I've chuckled when ND fans throw out these demands with our failed head coaches that the AD should dictate when changes with assistants should be made. If you have a head coach who allows an AD to dictate who are your assistants and who should be let go, you have a weak head coach. The next time a head coach has a bad year and you think about saying, "Freeman/Fickell/Campbell needs to have conditions placed on his return, namely that he must replace _____________," just stifle yourself. That's idiotic, and you may as well hand over the keys to the program to your administrators.
That is all.
Link: https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/33119973/june-jones-turns-offer-return-head-coach-hawaii-football-team
He bombed as a HC in the NFL, but I've watched him succeed everywhere else. He's particularly good with QBs.
In other words, you have an employee whose incompetence is so glaring and whose presence is directly contributing to failure, the A.D. reserves the right to force you to fire him if you don't take action. Sadly, that is what happened in 2016.
Having said that, I agree with Jones' decision. Don't act like I "turned the job down" when you offered me a bill of goods.
at that time.
You hire a HC then let him do the job with autonomy to hire his own staff. If he makes a shit hire or a seemingly good hire goes sideways on him and he lacks what it takes to act on it, to the point admin feels they have to force assistant changes, what you really have is a HC problem and he should be let go (as tiga king should have been after '16) not forced to change staff. If he can't be trusted to hire, manage, fire staff on his own then he can't be trusted to be the HC.
go. Plain and simple. Why would you want ADs and their assistants making assistant coach choices? That's insane. How about decisions about which players to recruit? Should an AD exercise veto power if he thinks a particular prospect isn't good enough?
You “make an offer they can’t accept”.
He too, got the vibe that the Mormon Church would micromanage his football decisions.
Niumatalolo said "no thanks" and returned to the Naval Academy.