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Bowling Green fired their coach today. Article is referencing when Jinks was hired in 2015.

With Bowling Green fresh off a Mid-American Conference title powered by one of the country’s highest-flying offenses, then-AD Chris Kingston wanted to keep a good thing going. So he Googled which team had the best offense that year, noted it was Texas Tech, and essentially targeted the top Red Raiders assistant he could afford.

Conservatively speaking, it was the dumbest coaching search in college football history.

Never mind that Jinks — then the 43-year-old running backs aide at Tech — was a career Texas high school coach with three years of college experience, none as a coordinator. Or that Texas Tech didn’t even run the same scheme as Bowling Green — no small thing if continuity was the main selling point. Or that Jinks had never so much as set foot in Ohio. Or that one BG insider told me Jinks had given so little thought to becoming a head coach that he did not have the standard, ready-to-go list of assistants he planned to hire.

As the resident smartest man in the world, Kingston decided none of that mattered. He saw a sharp, well-respected assistant and charismatic recruiter, and, fit be damned, brought him to Ohio.

Unfortunately, foresight proved 20-20.

Jinks threw together a wet-behind-the-headset staff that counted seven first-time Division I coaches, none with Ohio ties, and a program that won two of the last three conference titles set off on a one-way trip to the bottom.

https://www.toledoblade.com/sports/college/2018/10/14/college-football-bowling-green-state-university-mike-jinks-david-briggs/stories/20181014165?abnpageversion=evoke
 

Serious question, if you're Bowling Green, what is the better way to do it?

Pay 6 figures to a search firm who ... probabbly doesn't do any better than random chance?

Hiring coaches is a crap shoot. Even worse if you're someone like Bowling Green.
 

Serious question, if you're Bowling Green, what is the better way to do it?

Pay 6 figures to a search firm who ... probabbly doesn't do any better than random chance?

Hiring coaches is a crap shoot. Even worse if you're someone like Bowling Green.

Hire an up and coming assistant from the MAC, Sun Belt, etc. Or look at a head coach in the FCS.
 

Wow. Fired after 2.5 seasons for on field reasons via a booster-funded buyout.
 

Serious question, if you're Bowling Green, what is the better way to do it?

Pay 6 figures to a search firm who ... probabbly doesn't do any better than random chance?

Hiring coaches is a crap shoot. Even worse if you're someone like Bowling Green.

Wow, maybe talk to a colleague, look at the list you have on file in case you do lose your coach, at the very least try Bing AND Google?
 


Getting the solid of throwing Rutgers under the bus on top of it. Nice.
 





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