The Giants' coaching search is less than a week old, but many fans have expressed disappointment over the lack of "big names" on the team's candidate list.

So far, the Giants have interviewed four candidates, with a fifth interview coming Saturday and a sixth yet to be scheduled. Four of the candidates are coordinators with no head coaching experience, the other two had brief stints as head coaches that resulted in losing records and no playoff berths.

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But Giants president and CEO John Mara says he is not looking for the home run hire. He is looking for the right hire.

"I don't care whether the guy's a big name or not. That doesn't last very long," Mara told Michael Kay and Don LaGreca on ESPN Radio in New York on Friday. "It gets you by the first conference, but once you start playing games, nobody cares whether he's a big name or not. They care that you are winning. It's got to be the right guy to lead us going forward."

The Giants have interviewed their coordinators, Ben McAdoo and Steve Spagnuolo, as well as Bears offensive coordinator Adam Gase and Lions defensive coordinator Teryl Austin. The team is scheduled to interview Jaguars offensive line coach/former Bills head coach Doug Marrone on Saturday, and has yet to schedule an interview with Panthers defensive coordinator Sean McDermott.

Mara told Kay and LaGreca he still has some interviews left, but did not discuss how many or specific candidates. Mara did say hiring a head coach is, "the toughest decision you ever make in this business by far and away."

"Because until they've actually done it, and done it successfully in the league over an extended period of time, you really have no idea whether they're going to be a successful head coach or not," Mara said, adding his experiences with late former Giants general manager George Young have influenced how he approaches coaching searches.

"What you look at is, who have they coached with in the past, what kind of record they've had, what are their leadership qualities, how smart are they, how hungry are they, do you feel like they have something to prove, is this something they've been waiting for their entire life, and they can't wait to get started? All of those different things."

Mara said he has no set timeframe, but he would like to wrap the search up sooner rather than later.

"We want to make sure we get the right guy. There's always advantage to trying to do it sooner rather than later," Mara said, adding he is always cognizant of what the other teams with openings around the league are doing.

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