ericcson out in 49er land

If I were Williams, I would have to wonder why Gibbs won't bring in a young offensive coordinator to train if he knew he would be leaving in 3-5 years. I mean, if Gibbs is going to hand over the team to Williams, wouldn't we want the offensive coordinator already here to make the transition easier?

Just wondering....

I wouldn't worry about Gregg Williams taking the Niners job, but I would worry about Greg Blache taking the job.

If I recall, everyone thought he would be the choice a couple of years ago, but all the while the Niners were secretly interviewing and working a deal with Erickson. San Fran is not an enviable job but if you have no head coaching experience and, I hate to say this, you're African-American you don't pass up an opportunity to get your first head-coaching gig...not matter how bad the gig may seem to be.

If you're set up to fail you have to be stupid to take the job. I sure as hell wouldn't take a higher paying job with a nice title just because someone offers the job to me. You have to evaluate all aspects of the job. Your commute time, working conditions, how much input you have, the expectations, etc. If you are an African American and you take the job just because then you get whatever is coming to you. Fortunately for me it's all about being happiness or benjamins. If the two conflict I take happiness.

If you're set up to fail you have to be stupid to take the job.

Well yeah ultimately that's the big question. Does the Niners salary cap situation set the next head coach up for failure, or is there a way around that mess?

The 49ers organization is a complete mess right now. My how far the mighty have fallen, LOL. I can't say I feel too bad for them though!

York is retarded apparently. They were actually under the cap this year I think and he goes and fires his GM and coach after that. I have no sympathy for Erickson as he has been wrohtless as an NFL coach twice now it seems but Donohue got shafted. We should bring in Donohue as GM here.

Well yeah ultimately that's the big question. Does the Niners salary cap situation set the next head coach up for failure, or is there a way around that mess?
The cap is cooling down, depending on how TO's numbers went. (though Barlow's new contract sucks for them) Ericson was only hired to man the team while they sucked. Can you imaging expecting to win with that roster?
Also, Did you know that Ericson's arrival marked the first time in more than 20 years that the 49ers didn't use the west coast offense?

Prediction:

The 49ers will hire a GM and a coach who are willing to work cheap. They are already going to pay Erickson $7.5M not to coach the team over the next 3 years and Donahue is going to pull down something near $4M not to be the GM.

Williams makes close to $2M here as a coordinator so it is going to take a huge offer from SF for him to go there. That's not gonna happen.

Blache pulls down just over $1M so he might be tempted by an offer of $2M to go to SF. But if he isn't smart enough to see that the squad there is just plain awful, then maybe it would be no loss for him to leave here.

I think I heard on the radio that the Niners planned on hiring a coach first and then looking for a general manager. Isn't that sort of backwards? Isn't the GM supposed to play a part in hiring the head coach?