10 hours ago
(Yesterday, 10:49 PM)007BengalsFan Wrote: Im not sure about Golden. I would want someone with a history of being a good DC at the NFL level. Golden doesnt have that background. He has been the DC for 3 years at Notre Dame which is one of the easiest places to recruit and bring in talent. He could end up being a good NFL DC but he is not proven and I think the Bengals would be taking a chance with that hire. The Bengals organization cant afford to botch this next DC hire. The time to play for championships is now.
Notre Dame is a "top tier" program but it's probably the hardest to recruit for out of that tier. Notre Dame is an academic school and even the athletes are expected to be real students with real majors not "sports management" like you see at alot of programs like Georgia, Alabama, Ohio State etc. You can't just be good at football to get into schools like Notre Dame and Standford.