Great point. Only rebuttal id have is transfer portal. Who knows how many would jump ship that came to play for Frost. I just choose to believe we won’t be in that mess.....hopefully
That can also cut both ways. Depending on how that would shake out, I would be happy to take a couple of of KU's players from them if they were essential to a successful season or two. Or players from whatever program we hire our next coach from. The way I see it, if Frost were let go after a bad year this year, I hope we're calling up Campbell, #2ndChoice, and Malzahn to see what can happen. Some of it may be pie in the sky, but hey. Might as well try.
I'm not quite sold on Leipold yet, but I am highly curious how this experiment goes. He has yet to coach, outside of a GA position, at a Power 5 school. His time at Nebraska was as an administrative assistant, not an official coach on the field, which seems to get overlooked in the articles written about his time in Lincoln.
Dude could totally put it together. He's been successful at all of his levels of coaching, and so far, his sales pitch and vision for the program appears sound.
But we've seen this song and dance with other G5 coaches before. Matt Campbell is now the poster child of finding the next perfect coach from the G5 pool. But we've also seen coaches go from being the most successful coach at their level to just average. We know how Frost has managed so far. Tom Herman couldn't make it work at Texas. Justin Fuente seems to be in neutral at Virginia Tech. Jury is still out on Chris Kleinman, though he does seem to have Oklahoma's number.
The lucky break is KU gets to put him to the Power 5 test first so we wouldn't just be gambling on another G5 coach. If he gets things rolling quickly, then put him in the same category as Campbell as someone who's got the goods.
