Imagine you’re hiring a top executive for a Fortune 500 company, and you’re competing with other top executives for candidates. Over the years, there’s been a lot of turnover in the industry, and a small number of companies have had success pulling from a particular pool of candidates. Other companies have tried to mine the same pool to varying degrees of success to the point where the pool ran dry.
And what if that pool was, by definition, filled with people without experience having actually done the job? Maybe you’d try and look at another fishing hole.
This is where the NFL coaching carousel is in 2023.