Mailbag: “New Coach, Who Dis?” Edition Part I

I’ve had some long mailbags before but since this one eclipsed the 4,000 word mark I’m going to divide it up into 2 parts run over the next 2 days for ease of reading. Enjoy.

It’s easy now to say that Jen Cohen made a terrible hire in Jimmy Lake, but in retrospect did you see any signs before the hire that would have indicated that he would fail so spectacularly? Of course, the first red flag was the Donovan hire but that was post hire. - GU1966

There are plenty of things to be critical of Jen Cohen for but it’s hard for me to fault her too much for the hire of Lake in the first place. At that point Lake had been rumored to be under consideration in the recent past for the DC job at Alabama…