I would like to jump in please. Pierce is a DA/DCA guy. I am sure he understands the DII landscape a little bit from 20 years ago. Not as a coach recently, but as a naive high school QB. My concerns lie with him trying to win games. NCS, FCS, CA, GCA, just in regular season. He had stallions at East Robertson. Everyone knows that, but he was losing games to the likes of McEwen, Cornersville, Clay County, Houston County, Richland, Harpeth, Stewart County, etc. No disrespect to these teams, but they are not what I would call powerhouses at the A/AA level. And they sure didn't have the players East Robertson had/has. There is a big difference than having to try to outcoach someone as opposed to just being able to run jet sweep or misdirection in middle school and let their better kid out run everyone to the corner and be gone. My concern is in no way toward this hire as a person or teacher. It is strictly based on facts/games as proof and probably more qualified people applied. I have had friends play at DCA years ago and have close friends coach at DCA over the years. It is a special place. I want to see them do well. I watched many a game where Paul Wade and staff had to actually outcoach people to win games. Same for Dennis Goodwin. They are 2 fantastic coaches who could out scheme you. If it was close in the 4th Qtr, more times than not, they made it happen.