re: Is there ANY positive way to spin the Rick Ray hire at State?

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Boise State hired Chris Petersen with no HC experience as did Penn State when they promoted Joe in 1966. Give the kid a chance

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College football is way different than college basketball in hiring coaches. As someone said, the last basketball assistant hired to be HC in the SEC was Rick Stansbury. It's almost unusual in college basketball for a BCS program to hire an assistant, especially one that is not already an assistant at the hiring school and/or has never been a basketball head coach.

Contrast that to a high percentage of BCS college football programs hiring college assistants or NFL coaches to be their head coaches--Georgia, Florida, Bama, Arkansas, Mississippi State, South Carolina, Kentucky, Vanderbilt, Florida State, West Virginia, Penn State, Boise State, Utah, California, Oregon, Oregon State, Washington, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, and others.

Having said, that, I'm excited to see what Rick Ray can do for State. He has received tons of accolades from coaches, reporters, etc.