He elevated a fucking coordinator to the head coach role.

Hires don't get any easier than that.

"The prior AD’s most recent two hires seem talented." What does that mean?

First, you don't really know, and second you only reference the two most recent hires.

Setting aside the second point, this is Notre Dame. Should we be hiring a head football coach who "seems talented"? Is that the measure now? "Hey, this guy might be good?"

At least viewed that way at the time of hiring, and then lived up to it. I’ll name one: Lou Holtz. That’s it. That’s the list.

Even Frank Leahy had been a head coach for only two years.

Ara had a career record at Northwestern one game over .500 and was coming off a 5-4 season.

Dan Devine had a terrific college coaching record but was coming off a rather lackluster one in the NFL.

It might be wise to wait and see at least a tiny bit.

Shrewsberry which, of course, has nothing to do with my post.

Methuselah has never been vituperative in his short Notre Dame interwebs life.

Doherty no prior HC experience? Brey had HC experience at…Delaware. Shrewsberry 2 years HC at Penn State. McLeod…NBA HC experience.

is the exact same thing as saying this guy is a bad hire.

I'm just tweaking Andy because he has long argued that leeway should be granted to alums and there are 50 replies here that refuse to grant any.

You can be upset about the process but Bevacqua deserves your support.

professional sport team. ND men basketball recruited exceptionally in the limited period coach had. Why doesn’t savvy Jack get a check mark for that hire?
Marcus was DC, so shit, that wasn’t tough ? That’s the reasoning why savy Jack blows. Even he couldn’t screw that one up?
Yep. He couldda hired our OC.
I’ve been a fan and student during Devine/Faust headed football with Digger’s wife my legal writing instructor ; and coach Phelps a frequent visitor to the law school to meet and great ; and bullshit with student body.
Savvy Jack had few if any fans on this site.
His hires are doing the initial necessary work successfully of for the most part getting the athlete student they want/require. Give each 2/3 years. Judge them then

Hell. What about the woman baseball hire. He screw that up too? I think that was/will be a grand slam ! I get it. Who gives a rats ass about women basketball . I do. Probably one of college sports fastest growing sports of popularity .

Critize when warranted. The guy is gone . Let the body get cold.
Give the new guy at least a month or 2 before his hire declared a clunker

Be well

You mean when he hired Muffet McGraw's hand picked successor, whom she had been grooming for the position for years?

Okay...

Women's baseball?

Recent hire?

Yes, he would fuck that hire up as well. Go back to drowning your Celtic sorrows in your bud light, Mrs. Swarbrick.

and women's basketball.

If you lot want to jump on the guy's shit for being dim, you may want to sharpen your own sleuthing skills first. Outsmart the autocrat.

themselves so poorly in writing while possessing insight or credibility worth taking consideration of.

I do like those Celtics, though.

to be fair, I was rooting for them as well, but Law83's celebration after game 6 was pretty obnoxious. It was quite humorous watching them fall on their face the next game.

express glee they lost ? You Savvy jt you !
Get a life clown

it was funny. It's still funny.

Funny like a clown. You amuse me.

As a Celtics fan.

Law was like the guy in the dugout after 7 innings of no hit ball. “Hey, you see what our pitcher is doing? Would be cool to be part of a no hitter”

🙄

an uNDefeated sweatshirt for Christmas. She had lost or donated or thrown away the sweatshirt I had had for 20 years.

I shaved off thousands of years of purgatory that day by hiding undetected my dismay and anger and instead genuinely thanking her for what she understood to be a thoughtful gift. It may be my peak achievement of generosity, never to be rivaled.

Made it to the conference finals in his first year!

He gets it!

Shrewsbury hasn't coached a game. People are hopeful, and in fairness I haven't seen any complaints about the choice, but it's hardly the time for a victory lap.

The OC hire was a disaster, which there is nearly unanimous agreement about.

Baseball appears to be headed back into the dumpster.

Freeman enjoys strong support, but, again, any sort of victory lap would be very premature.

So, again, exactly what recent hires by Swarbrick distinguish him from a replacement-level AD?

It’s never premature to take a victory lap. You’d be surprised how easy it is to get media to ask you how it felt to win a race you never ran.