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2015 Coaching Carousel
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Mr. Babar
I have no elephant books
One could say you are enormed with stars.
Yup. Sounds awesome. You stumbled on gold there Illegal.
My wife will be so proud!
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Was listening to the Daniel Jeremiah podcast in the car today. He had Bruce Feldman and Albert Breer on and the main topic was coaching candidates, changes etc. College guys they touched were Sumlin, Mora, Saban, Shaw, Kelly and Art Briles.
Summary
Sumlin - too soon, not after this season, not with the talent coming in, maybe in 2 years
Mora - good candidate to make the jump, Feldman doesn´t think he´s in for the long haul and might want to get out before USC gets all their schollies back, mentioned the Niners job, Mora not happy with some of the environment in Westwood
Shaw - has interest in the NFL and would listen, but probably not after this season, doesn´t want to leave on a down note
Brian Kelly - top candidate to make the jump this season, thinks he´s fighting an uphill battle at Notre Dame with the academic requirements. Both Jeremiah and Feldman have been hearing his name a lot from a bunch of people to think there´s a really good chance
Art Briles - Feldman thinks Briles has thought long and hard about the NFL and how his system would fit there, believes there´s interest
Saban - ship might have sailed, but in the right situation they both think he´d sit down to listen, the Maras like him a lot and almost hired him over Fassel when Saban was at Michigan State
Summary
Sumlin - too soon, not after this season, not with the talent coming in, maybe in 2 years
Mora - good candidate to make the jump, Feldman doesn´t think he´s in for the long haul and might want to get out before USC gets all their schollies back, mentioned the Niners job, Mora not happy with some of the environment in Westwood
Shaw - has interest in the NFL and would listen, but probably not after this season, doesn´t want to leave on a down note
Brian Kelly - top candidate to make the jump this season, thinks he´s fighting an uphill battle at Notre Dame with the academic requirements. Both Jeremiah and Feldman have been hearing his name a lot from a bunch of people to think there´s a really good chance
Art Briles - Feldman thinks Briles has thought long and hard about the NFL and how his system would fit there, believes there´s interest
Saban - ship might have sailed, but in the right situation they both think he´d sit down to listen, the Maras like him a lot and almost hired him over Fassel when Saban was at Michigan State
lawdogg
Club Member
Solid as a coach, but not scary. Wouldn't mind seeing him go, but wouldn't hate to see him stay.
BlackNGold
Club Member
Here is what is weird - he appears to be replacing the Oline coach. I wonder if they give him an assistant head coach title.
Great recruiter, slightly above average coach.
lawdogg
Club Member
Think run game coordinator or something like that is what I read.
He came in with a bang recruiting wise and inherited a team that was pretty talented. This year didn't show as above average (Severely underachieved) and so I think there's got to be a question mark here. His NFL teams all declined under his watch.
I am taking a show-me approach here. If they have a poor year, Mora won't be such a great recruiter. He came into CFB with a great line of BS. Kids bought it and they will if he wins. If he loses he's basically Lane Kiffen.
Utah losing DC is a huge blow. He was the guy pulling the great Poly recruits.
Looks like they're also losing their OC, which I think might be a bigger deal. Utah was doing things on offense that it wasn't capable of in the past and Wilson stopped turning the ball over.
Per footballscoop.com:
Texas A&M: Per sources, Utah offensive coordinator Dave Christensen is joining the staff as offensive line coach and run game coordinator.
A few Ute fans I talked to didn't seem to care too much for Christensen...thought he threw Wilson under the bus. Maybe Christensen was told to look around for other opportunities.
I don't doubt that.
For the most part, I find most fans to be complete idots when it comes to evaluating coaches.
lawdogg
Club Member
Present company excluded, of course.
Landing at UNLV from CU is being told to look for other opportunities. Landing at aTm from Utah is a promotion.
Christensen gave up the coordinator title to move to aTm. Probably does mean that he wanted or needed out of Utah. aTm probably can do it without cutting his pay, too.
Couple of related possibilities.
Christensen spent a long time paying his dues as an assistant to Gary Pinkel at Missouri. He got his shot at a head job with Wyoming and liked being the man in charge. He landed at Utah after being fired but he had some success at Wyo mixed with his problems there.
Two different angles to this might be that after being the man in charge he had trouble "taking direction" from Whittingham creating a personality clash. The other is that he knows that he is reaching that age where the opportunity to get another head coaching job is going to quickly diminish. His resume includes plenty of time as a coordinator. He may feel that being in the SEC, especially at a fairly high profile program like aTm will give him better exposure and put him in better position to get that call again.
Christensen's players at Wyoming hates his guts. He's a prick.
Wasn't just players
Heard that the university employees who worked in the athletic department hated him as well, everyone from business development to the custodial and maintenance staffs. Not a lot of tears in the building when he was given his walking papers, has an ego bigger than Mangino's appetite.
FLounda
Think Positive and life will be Positive.
My brother was supposed to be WR coach his last year, had the job and everything but during the summer Cristensens went on vacation and asked him to watch the house and the dog. Long story short he had to come to my sisters graduation that week and asked another coach to watch Daves house. The dog **** every where in the house and my brother was fired before even signing the paperwork.
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