"The most important thing (in hiring assistants) is to identify what you are looking for," Belichick said. "I think if you know what you want, you have a better chance of finding it, rather than just taking a list of names and picking one out of there."
"He puts the onus on your shoulder to make sure you're prepared," said wide receivers coach Nick Caserio, who was a college teammate of McDaniels at John Carroll.
And for a young coach to sell himself to a meeting room full of professionals? Milloy's advice still holds.
"The most important thing is that as long as you go into the meeting and are prepared and have a plan and are honest with the players and are straightforward and just be yourself, whatever your personality might be," said Caserio. "And as long as you can give them the information they need to be successful on the field, I think in the end, that's what they're looking for.
"I think you just have to be confident in yourself and just make sure that you're prepared, because if you're (not) -- just up there speaking -- the players can see through that."
