A rare Forde article that doesn't place namedrops in bold print. But if you're asserting that a new coach's previous record correlates to his future success, then lines like this - even in the hypothetical - don't help.

Maybe Chizik will be the next Bill Parcells -- he went 3-8 in his first year as a head coach, at the Air Force Academy in 1978 -- before turning out all right.