Butch Davis was working w/ 30 schollies a year...at a time when VT and FSU were at the top of their game. The dominance that Miami experienced for the past 3-4 years was all of his doing. Davis will win ballgames wherever he goes. LSU needs a proven commodity and he's proven.
It also has something to do with your assistant coaches too. You rely on your coordinators to gameplan accordingly. Now, I don't know if this ever happend, but what happens if one of your coordinators over-looks someone and doesn't prepare like he should? You lose. And a head coach will almost certainly take all the blame.
Don't drink the kool-aid Butch Davis needs his year of rest ... I hope Skipper doesn't consider hiring this whack job
I dont want Davis. Besides, he just got 11 million and has some health issues. He needs to take a year off and probably will. We need a tireless worker to come in and clean up the current recruiting class and get his system installed. I see Davis as someone thats a wee bit burned out.
The only thing you can fault Davis for is for going public about his panic attack. No where in his coaching past, has there been any reports of that happening before. Perhaps the stress of the Cleveland job got to him? Maybe he knew he was out, and it was hard for him to accept that he failed at his life-long dream to be a successful NFL coach. I'm sure if you actually acheived one of your goals, got your "dream job", only to fail and know you would be fired soon, you would have anxiety attacks too. If his episode was an isolated incident, and he passes a physical, a "clean bill of health", then I, for one, won't discriminate against him.
