Well, the difference between you, me, and apparently Duane Akina is that I'm hoping to be able to NOT work well before Akina's age. So I'm a little less worried about #2 myself.
And I'd point out that my post isn't criticizing the hire nearly as much as it's criticizing the posters that inevitably can't help by pine for all the old coaches that they see as representing some Golden Era of UT. Akina certainly gets that love, but we had people here at one point asking Charlie Strong to look into Greg Robinson and/or Dick Tomey, and Tomey might have already been dead. I laugh almost as equally for people talking about bringing back Carrington or Samples.
If Sark has a well thought out plan for this, well ok, lets give it a shot. But a lot of people are making a lot of assmptions we don't know shit about, like "Akina isn't going to be asked to hit the road recruiting." And if that IS even true, people aren't asking if there's going to be a hit because a player's position coach won't even recruit them consistently.
But to reiterate, I'm not laughing at the hire, although I'm from Missouri. But, to paraphrse Slider, I am laughing at some of you dickheards.