The previous 2 NU coaches have been more successful. Look at the BigTen trophies.Yup. He is his own man, and if he was thin-skinned then he never would have had the success he has had as a player / coach. People forget that he’s a South sider... they tend to let you know what they think down there in much less friendly terms than the media.
I don’t think he’d like being a NFL coach for the same reason “true college coaches” don’t: he likes recruiting and developing young men into better men.
NFL coaches spend most of their 100 hour work weeks in the practice facilities and video rooms. College coaches spend theirs rallying their team, coaching their staffs, or on the road wooing recruits and parents.
Belichick is the greatest NFL coach for a reason, and Saban is arguably the best modern college coach for another set of reasons. Fitz is a college coach and I would bet he retires as NU’s head coach or AD... and before he’s too old to enjoy retirement.
Fitz has had greater opportunity with a practice complex, yet still has stumbled in recruiting and has to rebuild the sand castle he created that got washed away this year.
He has not successfully attained his stated goal of a BigTen championship.
Others before him did, so should he.