Why do people think Hud is so damn good. I, for one, hope he never comes back in any capacity.
Because he IS good. My evidence:
1) He brought UNA back to prominence after they fell off a cliff. That proves he knows Xs and Os.
2) He helped engineer some good offense out of nearly nothing for us in 2009 and 2010.
3) Look at our offense last year when he was near, and this year now that he's gone - seems he was the common sense part of the equation.
4) Four straight 8-4 seasons and bowl games at ULL, who had went 3-9, 6-6, 6-6, 3-9 before he got there and had never really won much of anything.
5) He's an MSU guy and understands exactly what we are.
6) His temperament is very similar to Mullen's, which is what we need for discipline/fundamentals in the program (this is why they butted heads).
7) He knows the Louisiana, East Texas and Alabama recruiting landscape, and now Tennessee.
8) He is a great recruiter, as evidenced by the decommitments we had when he left, and what recruits say about him.
9) The big boys were all on board with hiring him back in the day. Many wanted to hire him to replace Croom to begin with.
10) He's winning at Austin Peay.
Literally the only piece of evidence against him is the NCAA stuff, in which he was not even punished. All things considered, I think he weathered that storm very well because he still went 6-6 and 5-7 at the end. He obviously recruited well because Napier came in and didn't drop off the cliff his first two years.
This would be a home run hire for us. And he'd stay here. It's where he wants to be, and we're going to let someones else get him.
Maybe if Moorhead goes 6-6 and gets another year, and Hud has another winning season, maybe that will change some people's minds about him when we go 3-9 next year and are 100% coach shopping again.
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