In Reply to: MBA, quick question posted by SehornBlew on October 23, 2024 at 16:41:21
introductory presser.
"I think it started when when we were preparing for our bowl game... Ryan Gunderson, who's a great quarterback coach, left to go to Oregon State as the coordinator, so he wasn't there, so I actually coached quarterbacks during the bowl game, and I just started to think like I hadn't actually coached a position since 2008, and then I think my
wife... she's like I haven't seen you this happy in a long time, and to me the best part of football is football, and so you got to do football and not do some of the things that involved with the head coaching deal, and and I had a chance after we beat Boise in the bowl game and as we started recruiting just to kind of think about what that experience was like, and then I get to make the decision on what my future is going to be and so what do I want to do.
So, I started to look at it, is there an opportunity and what would have been the right spot to go somewhere and just coach a position again and be back with that group, because I think as a head coach you sit in on position meetings but you're always getting pulled out, and there's other things that are involved with being a head coach, and I think it's more of a CEO operation right now, you know.
It's the the job in the landscape, as we all know, of college football has changed, so I just thought at the time that, you know, there's a story about John Lennon when he was a little kid that had a assignment of 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and he said, 'I want to be happy,' and then his teacher said, 'I don't think you understand the assignment,' and his mom said, 'I don't think you understand life,' so, I just want to be happy, and I'm really happy coaching a position, really happy to be at this place.
You know it's it would have taken a special place for me to leave UCLA, cuz I love those players and I love that coaching staff but to be here with Ryan, I had a great relationship, I've known Ryan since he was a little kid, so I think a lot of things just fell into place that way."
That's what he said. Believe it or not. Of course, that doesn't explain why he was pimping himself for almost every single NFL opening before the L.A. Bowl game, or why he interviewed for the Cincinnati Bearcats head coaching job, but it doesn't matter.
In any business, anywhere in the world, if someone doesn't want a job, and they suck at it anyway, and they tell you they're leaving to take a smaller position that pays way less money; you shake their hand, wish them good luck, let them walk out that door, and lock it as quickly as possible.