It was just a silly hire, given his complete unfamiliarity with the college game/recruiting, etc., to say nothing of his poor scheme fit with todays athletes.
It was just a silly hire, given his complete unfamiliarity with the college game/recruiting, etc., to say nothing of his poor scheme fit with todays athletes.
Wilcox must've felt so out of his depth on offense and panicked when it turned out Baldwin didn't actually have a system. Along with having his own disconnect from reality about what kind of offense might work in this decade for this program. So, silly hire from an objective perspective, but the perfect hire from Wilcox's mindset. I'd bet Musgrave was the first choice on the top of his mind before Baldwin was even shown the exit, I mean Cal Poly opportunity .
Yeah and the analogies are Buh == Baldwin; Kaufman == Musgrave.
Baldwin hire was great on paper, and I think the Buh hire was fine (he was up and coming and probably a decent enough recruiter, just happened to fall flat and get shell-shocked.. but was also on an uphill battle that year with player turnover/injury and Sonny's lightning fast 3-and-out offense, with the defense on the field for 120 snaps a game).
The Kaufman and Musgrave hires had the similar knee-jerk, "lets get the opposite guy now" type of reactions, but at least Kaufman was a college guy with recent success, so even Kaufman looked decent on paper (and then was still at a disadvantage with the bear raid tempo).. Musgrave on the other hand, not so much. Just wreaks of an emotional hire by Wilcox, to fit his comfort level and old school philosophy without knowing what would be the best OC for the program.
It was just a silly hire, given his complete unfamiliarity with the college game/recruiting, etc., to say nothing of his poor scheme fit with todays athletes.
Wilcox must've felt so out of his depth on offense and panicked when it turned out Baldwin didn't actually have a system. Along with having his own disconnect from reality about what kind of offense might work in this decade for this program. So, silly hire from an objective perspective, but the perfect hire from Wilcox's mindset. I'd bet Musgrave was the first choice on the top of his mind before Baldwin was even shown the exit, I mean Cal Poly opportunity .
I actually liked the Baldwin hire a helluva lot more than Musgrave, which despite the Eugene connection was always a puzzler.
Yeah and the analogies are Buh == Baldwin; Kaufman == Musgrave.
Baldwin hire was great on paper, and I think the Buh hire was fine (he was up and coming and probably a decent enough recruiter, just happened to fall flat and get shell-shocked.. but was also on an uphill battle that year with player turnover/injury and Sonny's lightning fast 3-and-out offense, with the defense on the field for 120 snaps a game).
The Kaufman and Musgrave hires had the similar knee-jerk, "lets get the opposite guy now" type of reactions, but at least Kaufman was a college guy with recent success, so even Kaufman looked decent on paper (and then was still at a disadvantage with the bear raid tempo).. Musgrave on the other hand, not so much. Just wreaks of an emotional hire by Wilcox, to fit his comfort level and old school philosophy without knowing what would be the best OC for the program.