49ers hire Mike Nolan (Ravens Def. Cord.) as new coach

[pres2032]

He's worked as Defensive cordinator for the Ravens and Redskins and Linebacker and Special Teams coach for the Broncos. He's coached since 1987.

What do you all think? Will we FINALLY return to glory?

[trotsky]

1. What's your cap space for next season?

Are you still writing checks to Joe Montana? ;-)

[pres2032]

2. heh, dumping erikson and donahue helped a ton

with opening cap space

[ThorsHammer]

3. Bring back Eddie D, and they're back in business

I don't think the coaching matters much if the owner isn't willing to spend. Eddie would spend whatever it took, but the Yorks don't follow the same model.

[MrSlayer]

4. They have a lot of work to do.

It will be a couple years before the Niners get back into contention provided they draft well. With the parity in the NFL it's not out of the question that they could go from worst to first in a year ala San Diego but I don't see that happening unless they get a stud QB to build around and do something about that horrendous defense.