That sounds like "just get yourself an 'elite' QB".
Easy to say.
Very tough to do in practice.
Yet guys like Meyer, Fisher, Peterson do it year in and year out
HC's with "proven track records" already have good jobs and good relationships with their GMs and owners who don't intend to let them go. College guys, like the ones you show in your sig, are already set. None of them are going to leave their domains - where they are KINGS - for the headache that is NFL coaching.
The guys you call out as example owners aren't as "hands off" as you think. And their head coaches have earned the right not to be obviously meddled with. Do you really think O'Brien has earned hands off status with the way he's handled our QB situation?
Very tough to do? Yet guys like Meyer, Fisher, Peterson do it year in and year out, with and without "elite" QBs. Some coaches just know how to win more football games than other coaches. That's a fact.
Never leaving? An assumption on your part only. Established winning NFL HCs and GMs won't leave, why would they? They already have an ideal job. As for college, most of these guys aspire to compete on the biggest stage (NFL). However they all have learned from Saban, Spurrier, Johnson, Carroll only cross that line with full and complete control. Without it, it's a suicide mission.
The guys I called out are more hands off than hands on when compared to other owners in the league. They pretty much stay in the background, give credit where credit is due, are
NOT the first ones at the office every morning, riding in their golf carts at every practice, making player personnel decisions, standing on the sidelines most of the game, sitting on the front row in the NFL Draft Room with everyone else sitting behind him. Yeah the ones I called out pretty much let
the person (singular) they hired do what he does best and pretty much stays out of their way (when compared to most of the other owners who have a record of average and ordinary).
First I don't put O'Brien in this class of college coaches, never have. Second O'Brien may think he's deserving of full and complete control but I sure don't. I'm not sure there has been a bigger critic of O'Brien's answers to Texans QBs and their performance than me. Not sure where your O'Brien comments are coming from?
Just to be clear, from the day that McNair hired O'Brien I was not an O'Brien fan and to this today I still am not.