Grantham Decides To Stay At Florida

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(02-15-2019, 10:28 AM)Wyche Wrote: Bottom line is this.....in years gone by, the interview process for coaches was usually at least a couple of weeks long.  Several candidates were brought in, and at the end of the process a hire was made.  That was it, that was all we ever knew.  Now, these people are running to social media with any shred of info they can find or outright rumor and posting away.  That's the age we live in now, and quite frankly, it hurts our chances more than anything.  

Think about it......did we get every single tidbit of info during the HC search process?  Now, every single candidate interviewed knows exactly what happened.  Before the age of information overload, this process would have been behind the scenes, and they could have gone down their list privately until a deal was reached.  Now, it's all mucked up, and you can't go back to the 2nd choice or whatever choice and offer a deal.  We have ZERO idea how many times this EXACT scenario has played out all over the league in the past......or even now if other teams' plans didn't get leaked.  Twitter idiots are as much to blame in the fiasco as anyone.

Excellent point.

Also, where you once had, say, ten actual reporters, now you have a hundred wannabe reporters, bloggers, talking heads, self appointed experts and, apparently, some assholes inside the organization with very big mouths.