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I think that this is right. RG is looking for a way to foul this thing up.
I’m of the opinion that there was enough hope for a bright future baked in to the fanbase that a few bad hires wouldn’t cause irreparable damage. Screw this one up and I believe there will be a lot of people who will simply find other things to do. Honestly, if KD hadn’t been fired, I was seriously considering non renewal of my season tickets. Life is too short to pour money and emotion into a program that doesn’t care.
Not necessarily. They could be in contract negotiations. There’s a lot of things they could be doing that would delay the announcement. However, I’d agree that if it goes on much longer, it becomes less likely that Bronco is the guy. I’ll blame Phil if that’s the case. While I wouldn’t have any specific evidence, historical ****ery on his part would easily lead to the conclusion that he managed to **** up this hire, too.
Agreed on the time and work. Want to shorten that cycle? Then it has to be a HR hire. Meddenhall MIGHT have re-charged his batteries by sitting out (possibly) and MIGHT be able to tap into the Poly pipeline (probably not) and MIGHT be recognized as a former, successful HC by recruits (doubtful). This is not a recipe I am not that excited by. Sorry. Same goes for Patterson or some "up and coming" FCS or P5 coach. Things are changing rapidly in the CFB world and us being 3-9/4-8/5-7 the next 3 years doesn't really look much different for us than where we are right now in the eyes of the powers that be. In the each of the next 2 years we need incoming classes of upwards of 30 players with more than half of those being legit transfers. They have to be enticed. I just don't see a Mendenhall type coming off a 1-11 season sparking that.
It wouldn't surprise me if it's Bronco, it was going to be announced this week, and Bronco delayed it to focus on the UVA murders. It really would have been bad optics if Bronco was giving Rah-Rah intro speeches a few days after the 11/13 tragedy.
Excellent point.
I go back to "it was supposed to be announced last week, but both sides chose to delay in order for the news of CU hiring UVA's former coach to overshadow that coach's duty to honor the deaths of the three kids he had recruited and coached at UVA as best he could."
I guess I missed this but what was the source of this?
No source, speculation.
Nah. A coach who is adept at working the transfer portal can turn things around pretty fast. Maybe not one year, but certainly by 2024.
I think there's potential (if we get a portal QB and some other strategic additions) to be in bowl contention in November'23 and to be .500 or better as a '24 expectation. But I do think we're a 5-year build to go into seasons talking about a bid in the expanded playoffs as something we're competing for.
Like Bronco wanting to focus this week on mourning the three UVA kids. I'll be worried about losing BM if we get to Thanksgiving with no deal done.
But you're basing that off Chase saying he was part of the candidate pool that was posted a few days before CU traveled to LA to play USC and then talked yourself into an offer/interview/negotiation scenario that doesn't make much sense, IMO.
Well yeah, he was reportedly being interviewed while the team was at USC last week, then the hire was rumored to be “done” a day or two later, so I think that scenario makes perfect sense thank you very much!
The rumor about it being "done" was prior to them even going to LA. We had this discussion at the time and I said it doesn't make sense to send out an offer before he was interviewed, to which you did the mental gymnastics of saying they for sure have been having conversations and this interview was just the final one to solidify it, which doesn't make any sense.
I’m pretty sure the “I think this thing is done” posts from Chase and BCS came late Sunday which was 2 days after the USC game.
I'm too lazy to go look because I think you're taking crazy pills, but I remember having this conversation about the sequence of events not adding up.
I went back and looked, the timeline in your second paragraph is what happened. Reports he was being interviewed after the USC game came early last week, and the “almost done” report was Sunday afternoon. Now it doesn’t at all mean that Grinch is the hire, but to me the timeline made sense if it was him.
247sports.com
New name emerges in Nebraska coaching search (11/21)
A new name to watch in the Nebraska coaching search
Feels like Bronco desperately wants back in and CU and NU are two programs that fit the geographical profile and P5 status that he's looking for. CU rumored to back out so now he's onto lobbying for Nebraska?
I think that was about Rocky Mountain guy (and wife + staff) in the Mid Atlantic region. I don't think religion really played into it unless his family struggled to find an LDS church & community, which would have been tough on the family.
