re: Buccees Mascot Coaching Edition (Former Jet Tracking)

The timeline will get judged depending on how this hire ends up going. If Roberts ends up pulling a shocker and landing an established P5 AD, then the time will be seen as well spent. If on the other hand it ends up being Hartwell, then really it probably shouldn't have taken this long (although I guess even under that scenario someone could argue that exploring all the bases even if you come back to the guy everyone was suggesting the whole time isn't time wasted).

There are two important things here: one, Roberts is legitimately playing this very close to the vest. There is lots of misinformation being put out. Several people think that he's trying to silently lure a big-fish, and the interviews of other known candidates are being promoted as smokescreens. Two, he's making this hire himself and isn't being told who to hire. Cue the "but Jimmy Rane and JABA..." stuff, but I haven't seen anyone suggest that the "PTB" are influencing this hire.

The late addition of a name like Nunez does seem to confirm that there are things that Roberts is doing silently, because his name came out of nowhere.