I know many project managers that handles good projects such as Jamalezaz, bounty detective, and many others most of them are either hero members or legend, I believe they have enough experience to handle it mere considering their ranks, not to say the rank is the only criteria to be a good project manager.i always doubt those project starters with newbie ranks.is it that they decide to use a new forum page,or were the restarting after being hacked or disqualified or how come a new be is handling a project? This are few questions that comes to my mind about newbie managers.
In general most people will question the credibility of the ICO/ IEO due to the rank of the manager that is posting it, however doesn't high ranking account user also start from a newbie and slowly climb up the ladder to be where he is now? If we dont give newbie chance to start from somewhere even if he can have a high rank in the forum he might not have the necessary skills to perform as a manager.