All good luck to Mike Singletary and if he is wildly successful the Niners should put him in a pool of names to compete for the head coach job next season. I doubt he will succeed but he deserves the chance.

I am reading Pete Carroll is a secret aspirant to the job. Good. Fine. But the 49ers should go after Mike Holmgren. Holmgren said he’ll take time off after this season in Seattle, said he promised his wife Kathy a sabattical from football. Fair enough. In spite of that, the Niners should do everything in their power to entice him to become their coach. They should court Holmgren and his wife and make her comfortable with this new situation which would be a dream come true for Holmgren, for the organization and the fans.

In spite of his current record, Holmgren is one of the premier NFL coaches and he is in the Bill Walsh line. He will return Niner football to what it should be — a West Coast Offense team — and he will restore a sense of history and pride. He is the obvious choice and he has worked with Scot McCloughan in Seattle so the transition would be smooth.

This is a no brainer. Do the Yorks have the brains to pull it off?

— Lowell