"Pure football Xs and Os, it would be a great hire for obvious reasons. But these decisions are never made in a football-only vacuum. Real life isn't fantasy football. If you hire Hugh Freeze - and I have no credible information saying this will happen at Mizzou - you have to absolutely own it and Freeze must be transparent about his fall from grace. National media will descend on Columbia and cover that story like crazy. (Odom would rather have a week of root canals than subject his program to that kind of attention/sideshow.) Here's another risk you run when you hire a coordinator who's a significantly more well known (and successful) than your head coach: If Mizzou's offense takes off next fall but the defense struggles and the Tigers lose some early games, you can bet the same Twitter mob that wanted Odom fired in September will want Freeze to replace Odom as HC."
Hadn't considered the last point about hiring a OC that is more known than the Head Coach.
Hadn't considered the last point about hiring a OC that is more known than the Head Coach.
