When a coach is secure in his legacy and is at his terminal gig, he might pick an Associate Head Coach with the idea that that would be his replacement. However, coaches who are anywhere below that level, those who are not absolutely secure in their jobs, are hiring assistant coaches for what they can do for me right now. And the fact of the matter is that not all great assistant coaches are also great head coaches. Probably very few Assistant Coach hires are made because the HC thinks he might be a good head coach. They are hired because they will be a good Assistant Coach and provide what the program needs at the moment, not somewhere down the road.
One of the problems of having consistent success at our level is that we cannot keep good coaches. Good coaches do not stay, and we have not had huge success promoting assistant coaches. And that is not hard to figure, since they weren't hired to be HCs, but to be ACs. IF the AD hired the assistant coaches, he might be looking at continuity, but the Head Coach will not be to any real extent, and it is the HC to picks his assistants.
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