Cal-Berkeley has apparently fired Sonny Dykes. Well in the past 2 years it seems almost every job that was open had Dykes named mentioned as a candidate b/c he is this "supposed offensive mind". Well now he is out of a job and it goes to my contention that all these morons that hire coaches seem to care about one facet. Well that is why I am always in favor of hiring a "Great Head coach", regardless of his pedigree or background. You need not be of a certain background to be a great head coach. It is innate and it is the morons job who do the hiring to discern that great quality. Sadly almost none of them can do it, hence "morons".
I believe there is some real magic in being a head coach. I can think of many examples where I have been wrong about a head coach both ways.
1. I thought Dooley acolyte Ray Goff would probably do well at UGa, but he turned out only average.
2. I thought Curly Hallman could do great at LSU, he won at USM, and he was awful.
3. I though Terry Bowden would not be good at AU, but he won his first 20 games and was good but they ran him out because he did not run the ball enough to suit them.
Also someone who is good at one place may not succeed at the next. For that reason I am not willing to say the Orgeron will clearly not be good at LSU. Also even Belichick failed at Cleveland.
All of this cause me to be cautions about any coaching hire.
Heck if McElwain had done the job he was hired to do and fixed UF's offense, I would be cautiously optimistic about him now. Because he has not I am cautiously pessimistic, but I do recognize the point many dissenters here bring up of who are you going to replace him with.