Semi OT: Shaw to Interview w TItans
Former Stanford HC David Shaw set to interview this weekend with the Tennessee Titans.
This likely puts to bed the weird 'fan theory' that Shaw was doing a solid for Harbaugh/Chargers re: Rooney Rule, so they could hire him in the next couple days.
Additionally, the Chargers interviewed Vrabel yesterday as well, and look to have more interviews set up this weekend. So, any speculation that they'll announce JH "by Friday" appears to be presumptive.
Lastly, Vegas (for whatever that's worth) moved JH back to returning as their top odds at +160 per BetMGM. I'm going to probably pass on making any bets.
January 19th, 2024 at 6:50 PM ^
Who isn't doing the hiring if it isn't the owners?
To be fair, GB has never hired a black head coach so collective ownership doesn't equate to change.
There is an argument to say African Americans have already achieved parity. 10 of the head coaches this year were former players so 7 of them you would think would be a minority and if the remaining 22 were representative of the general population then 3 of the remaining coaches would on average be from a minority. There were 9 minority coaches. We might be good as of right now. It will never be a perfect spread (and an ideal distribution should be based on merit only.)
I'm rethinking the collectivity argument as well...I'm inclined, after looking up these numbers to just say... meh... we're good.
I appreciate your pushback here I assumed we had much further to go to get to statistical equity.
There are other ways to look at it as well, and this is a small dig on my part. I would be interested in other opinion.
January 19th, 2024 at 10:24 AM ^
My "maybe" hot take. If Jim leaves and I was choosing between Sherrone Moore as HC or David Shaw as HC with Sherrone Moore as OL coach/OC, I would want Shaw as HC with Moore in his current role. It's damn near impossible to have sustained success a Stanford. I think if Shaw was motivated and interested, he'd be a very solid fit at Michigan.
January 19th, 2024 at 12:02 PM ^
Or how bout Moore as HC. Shaw as OC/AHC.
January 19th, 2024 at 1:00 PM ^
Dual Stanford/Michigan fan here. Appreciate what Shaw did at Stanford from 2011-2016-ish but they really fell off a cliff in the later years. Yes it's 'hard' to win there but the staff regularly pulled in top 25 recruiting classes and performance on the field was not top 25 for the last 5-6 years. The offense was also slow, plodding, and not very entertaining to watch. Every since Shannon Turley left they seemed to loose their competitive fire.