re: New Head Coach Thread (Welcome Coach DeBoer)

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If it got leaked weeks / months / a year before Saban actually retired...it would ruin all kinds of stuff. How do you think recruiting would go.. just one example.

I don't think you understand how real life works. And more specifically, I don't think you understand how the HC hiring process works (or agents)...

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I was pretty specific.

Saban could've told him a week before he planned to announce.

That gives him time to do everything we are seeing behind the veil of uncertainty that has been created by years of BS rumors.

It takes pressure off the candidates, himself, Saban and keeps the portal closed while maximizing our odds of hiring whoever Byrne has as his top candidates.

If done after signing day that's not a factor.

I'm not saying its dragged out an unreasonable amount of time. I'm just saying there is a better given modern portal/NIL and media realities.