One of my favorite threads on Letsrun is the Coaching Openings one that annually appears on the forum. One thing I can't figure out is what a "great young coach" is, and when they cease to be a "great young coach" and become just another coach in "da struggle" to steal a phrase from Tupac.
There are some younger-ish coaches that now have 7-8 years of experience and are on position #2 or 3 and to be honest have not produced all that much, yet when mentioned on a thread like the coaching one, are always refered to as "great, young, real up and coming, etc."
It is also confusing when a new coach is called "great" when they might have just landed their first paying gig off of a GA situation or 3-4 years of volunteering. How do we know they are great? I mean, they might be really nice, very personable, could be very capable of landing really good recruiting classes, but how do we know they are great at the art and science of coaching?
I guess I am just looking for an answer to the question why these guys/gals have to be classified so quickly? I don't think that most of the masters of the college coaching world needed to have these labels put on them. Instead it seems like over time their accomplishments spoke for themselves until they were just known as great coaches.