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In a vacuum Fickell, Campbell, Freeman could be good hires by SavageDragon

The hottest G5 coach, who comes from an elite football background as a player and assistant coach; the best coach in his awful P5 program’s history; the hottest young defensive coordinator in the country, again who comes with a great set of mentors and early recruiting cachet.

But in the space of “our archival just went and hired a coach from a Blueblood Tier I, and further proving it’s not impossible, LSU just did that to us”, hiring a coach from a G5 school or one of the historically least successful schools from the weakest P5 conference, or the existing first year DC because we got blindsided is screaming “WE’RE SECOND RATE” on a flashing neon marquee.

My mantra has been for a decade, and continues to be, “You’re a Have. Act like it.”