Ok so I am going to say that the coach in waiting idea isn't really the best idea in the world, especially when the current coach has no say in the decision.
Imagine you show up to work, and do a job you enjoy and want to proof yourself in, and then all of a sudden your boss comes in and says that there is someone in waiting for your job. How is that supposed to go over well? You want to proof yourself and do a good job and then all of a sudden someone new with new ideas and the future reins is working with you. That's not a good situation...
Then take into account having staffs for each person involved. Now you have people who work for the "old coach", under their regime and then new coaches who have their own ideas of how to do things and will have trouble sitting on their hands and doing the status quo until they get the reins to the program. You have two separate clans on the same staff. It just doesn't work well.
West Virginia should not have been surprised that their coach in waiting situation did not work. The pressure to win that comes with football and the competitiveness of coaches doesn't really lend itself to having coaches in waiting.
The only way it can possibly work is if a head coach picks their successor and gives a definite date that they will take over. Coaches in waiting that go on forever don't work because the coach in waiting just gets impatient waiting.
Coaches in waiting also limit the amount of people interviewed for a job.
Mostly though, coaches in waiting just causes problems because there are leadership problems and competing attitudes and ways of thinking. Different coaches also generally set up new cultures too. Different cultures often seem to butt heads with each other.
It should come to no surprise that just months in, that the coach in waiting situation at West Virginia fell through.
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