Looking Back to Learn About What to Question in the Future

I've been going through all the writers that I trust for the layout of what went wrong at VT and what the new market and search will look like over the past few days like many folks I suspect. Steven Godfrey mentioned something that made me think about the fumbling replacement coordinator and S&C search that was conducted over the off-season: Agents reported to him that there were multiple coaches that were contacted who didn't want to uproot and move to Blacksburg for just a year. That's why the Siefkies hire came weeks after Marve was let go. Some posters suspected we were taking swings at Knowles before Penn State landed him even then. The market knew that we were likely going to face a complete rebuild after 2024.

I wonder if that's also what took so long to get Ferguson named as the permanent S&C hire; that delay was odd to me because Ferguson seemed to fit the bill pretty well and we still flailed around for a month before it was a done deal.

And then you have Bowen seeing the water coming in over the transom and hitting life raft for a demotion in title, though one that probably pays better too.

And now all these things are obvious in hindsight but I want to file this experience away for the future. Sometimes hope will make you think someone is playing 4D chess when it really is just checkers.