A Sea Of Red

We all got caught up in what was going to happen with our coaching situation, I think we all forgot about Coastal also going through major staffing changes. Joe Moglia is the new coach there, I did not know a thing about him so I decided to see what I could find.

This is his first year as a head coach, he seems to have minimal coaching experience. I am more intrigued by his experiences on Wall Street. check these articles out:

( this first website was found through google, dont judge)

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/jo ... 2-12789794

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/830 ... ll-program

Can anyone give me a REAL reason why Coastal made the hire?

Hired because of $$$

I listened to some of his interviews. I like the hire...it's outside of the box thinking...he's doing ok so far...overtime win at Furman, hung around with Toledo.

I like him...although I liked Bennet as well. Both are fun to listen too.

Could someone move this to the non-lu sports forum?

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/830 ... ll-program

The story from Grantland is pretty telling. Work your way through the sarcasm/smarm that is part of their style and you'll find a pretty amazing story of how the hire actually came about.

I laughed at the hire when it happened. Now I am choking on crow. No reason to think they won't be in the mix for the conference title.

Here is more coverage on Moglia's success prior to and at Coastal. Let's hope he's not the most successful new FCS coach record wise (or BSC coach for that matter) by the time the season is wrapped up. http://sports.yahoo.com/video/americas- ... 00470.html

I am still not sure why anyone was laughing at this hire. I said it when he was hired and I've been saying it all along...I don't care who you are, or what you're doing, if you have the kind of skills necessary to run a huge organization like TD Ameritrade, AND have the incredible success he had there, you can coach a football team at the lowest levels of FCS or do just about anything else you want. The football knowledge is secondary to all the other skills (organization, efficiency, selling, vision, leadership, motivation, talent evaluation, etc..) needed to be a head football coach. He has those skills and can learn the game.

Gladwell tells us it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert in something. Moglia is an expert in leadership and running complex organizations, and those skills transfer to anything - football included. You guys act like deciding to run a 4-3 or a 3-4 is some kind of huge decision that requires incredible expert football knowledge. Moglia took TD from a market cap of 700 million to 12 billion. That kind of decision making trumps just about anything he'll find at the FCS level.

As far as in-game instincts...he'll learn that as he goes. The groundwork is there. Again I don't care who you are or what you're doing, if you are a CEO type and can run the world's largest online brokerage firm you can run a football team and a staff of 20+.

Wow, good post logic.

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"The principles in coaching football, and the principles in leading a business, are the exact same thing."

- Joe Moglia



That is what I was trying to say in my post...case in point, he said in one sentence what I was trying to say in three paragraphs...That is why he ran a business and is now coaching,and why I am doing neither, and probably never will.