I saw yesterday that Mark Daniel has retired at Rutland after compiling a 2-27 record over three years and my first thought was me wondering if it was a voluntary retirement or did someone step up and tell him that maybe it was time to retire. My real thoughts were that he never should have been hired in the first place. His record over the five years before he was hired at Rutland was 10-30 at two different high schools. So if he couldn't win at Schley County or Wayne County, why did the hiring committee think he could win at Rutland ? I think that Mark Daniel is a very good man and that is going from the two times I talked to him over his years at Rutland. He cared about his kids and had that old school mentalitiy as a football coach. He may have been the perfect choice for a school that was steady and already winning games, but that was not the case at Rutland. The Hurricanes had struggled in George Collins last two years , winning only four of the 20 games they played. It was time for a fresh start for Rutland football. The hiring board did not deliver. So now, once again Rutland will hire a football coach looking for a fresh start. One of my questions right off the bat is who really wants that job ? Rutland, for whatever reason, has always struggled on the football field. They have made the playoffs in basketball and baseball and even soccer, but football has always been a problem. I don't know but I am guessing it has a lot to do with the number of kids it takes to field a good football team. So hiring board, here is what you must do to turn this program around. 1) Hire Local- I know several Bibb County assistants that could thrive in this job opportunity. I will not mention names because I don't think that would be fair. You want names you can contact me by email or twitter. Bibb County has some great young assistants who are ready for a head coaching job. Please don't go outside and hire another coach that is at the end of his career, Hire young- Kids want to run the spread and want to throw and want to catch and please don't hire someone who is going to come in and run the wing t. That offense is complicated and I know coaches have won a lot of games with it, but Bibb County has got to be progressive in its choice for Rutland. Look what Justin Rogers did at Jones County. I believe a lot of the success is because of his offense and how he got the kids to love it. I need to see a young guy who has worked as an assistant and maybe never even had a head coaching job get this Rutland job. Kids these days don't care what you did in the past, they want someone they can relate to . Hire from a winning program- This is a must. The coach that gets the Rutland job must come from a winner and preferably from the Middle Georgia area. They need someone that understands what the culture of Rutland football is and how they can change it. With that being said, I am urging the hiring board to find a coach from Jones, Peach, Mary Persons, or a local school. Hire a coach that has been trained by great coaches and that are hungry to be a head coach. That's the only way this will work. Trust the Athletic Director_ I have heard that the principal of the school has hiring rights for any coaching job that is open in Bibb County. I just say why why why to this. Bibb County is blessed to have Barney Hester as the AD and he and whatever committee he puts together should have full hiring power for this job. We don't need a friend of the principal getting this job. We need the best man to build a winner at a school that has basically never won football games. Rutland it is your time to change the fortunes of your program. Please don't blow it again