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Like all of us, I hope Harbaugh ends up staying for the next decade or so.  But, if he doesn\'t, I want a Harbaugh-trained coach, someone familiar with the culture JH has been able to establish with this program, and also someone who is capable of recruiting high-quality recruits to Stanford.  JH has gone a long way toward closing the talent-gap on the field.  One name that jumps to mind is Willie Taggert, the former JH assistant who has been head coach for a year at Western Kentucky.  While he hardly turned around the program in his first year, his team was consistently competitive in the second half of the season and clearly made strides from earlier years (mirroring Harbaugh\'s first year here).  And Taggert had a reputation as a recruiting whiz.  

My only misgiving about reaching out to Taggert is the move smacks of USC sending Kiffin to Tennessee for one year, only to grab him back and leave Tenn. in a jam.  But I do think Taggert would be a great choice for Stanford, and he does have at least one year of coaching experience, which is valuable since the first year at any new position is the most challenging and he now has at least some experience to draw from.

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Like all of us, I hope Harbaugh ends up staying for the next decade or so.  But, if he doesn\'t, I want a Harbaugh-trained coach, someone familiar with the culture JH has been able to establish with this program, and also someone who is capable of recruiting high-quality recruits to Stanford.  JH has gone a long way toward closing the talent-gap on the field.  One name that jumps to mind is Willie Taggert, the former JH assistant who has been head coach for a year at Western Kentucky.  While he hardly turned around the program in his first year, his team was consistently competitive in the second half of the season and clearly made strides from earlier years (mirroring Harbaugh\'s first year here).  And Taggert had a reputation as a recruiting whiz.  

My only misgiving about reaching out to Taggert is the move smacks of USC sending Kiffin to Tennessee for one year, only to grab him back and leave Tenn. in a jam.  But I do think Taggert would be a great choice for Stanford, and he does have at least one year of coaching experience, which is valuable since the first year at any new position is the most challenging and he now has at least some experience to draw from.