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CU turning into the Cradle of Coaching?

boydbuff

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Slightly exaggerating but I recall a few years ago people were saying CU was a coaches graveyard. Perhaps there has been a thread on this topic in the past year or so but I don't recall it.

I was just reading an article in ESPN about the running backs for the Seahawks and Broncos. Just saw this which is cool in talking about the line coaches/consultants for both teams:
[FONT=arial, sans-serif] [/FONT]The next season, after the Oakland Raiders fired him as their head coach, Cable accepted an offer with the Seahawks to fill the role that Gibbs' absence created. Cable was an ideal choice. He had learned at the feet of Gibbs, first when he was an offensive line coach at Colorado in 1998-99, when the Broncos, with Gibbs as assistant head coach, were winning the second of their back-to-back Super Bowls, then again when Gibbs and Cable worked together with the Atlanta Falcons in 2006.
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There have been tons of coaches (assistants and Head) that have moved on to great jobs in the NFL and other top college programs. They haven't always succeeded when they went on with their careers, but I think there is ample evidence that coaching at CU can be good for one's career.

Obviously a relatively recent name that comes to mind is Helfrich but there are tons. Any one else care to share suggestions on coaches who have left CU with positive results.
 
We were always known as a cradle of coaching prior to some of our more recent buffoon coaches. One of the big complaints around the water cooler was that we could never keep coaches long term. I always thought that wasn't much of a concern because a) that likely meant they were good and b) coaches move around a lot.


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White_Rabbit said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle_of_Coaches
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I went to Miami Oh for undergrad and that is why I referred to it. I also opened the thread by saying slightly exaggerating.

My point with the thread is I think a lot of coaches have left CU and had good opportunities when they left. They didn't all have staying power but it contradicts what some were saying around the hiring of Embree.

Anyway, I am fine with letting the thread die if you guys don't want to carry on the conversation.
 
Duff Man said:
And that half-hearted statement warrants this thread?
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There was a perception amongst some people, including many ABers when we were trying to hire a head coach around the Embree time period that one reason it was hard to get a good candidate is that Colorado was a dead end job for coaches. The past few years I have thought about that and observed anecdotal evidence to suggest that is not true.

To me the way to test that assumption is whether coaches leaving Colorado (for another job or getting fired) are able to land on their feet at equivalent or even higher positions. My point with this thread was to suggest that at least anecdotally there is a long tradition of coaches who have come through Colorado (assistants or HC) that have gotten good jobs when they have left.

Again, I don't care if we kill the thread but there was a point to it, that was inspired in part by the fact that 2 previous OL coaches for Colorado are now coaching in the Super Bowl.
 
boydbuff said:
There was a perception amongst some people, including many ABers when we were trying to hire a head coach around the Embree time period that one reason it was hard to get a good candidate is that Colorado was a dead end job for coaches. The past few years I have thought about that and observed anecdotal evidence to suggest that is not true.

To me the way to test that assumption is whether coaches leaving Colorado (for another job or getting fired) are able to land on their feet at equivalent or even higher positions. My point with this thread was to suggest that at least anecdotally there is a long tradition of coaches who have come through Colorado (assistants or HC) that have gotten good jobs when they have left.

Again, I don't care if we kill the thread but there was a point to it, that was inspired in part by the fact that 2 previous OL coaches for Colorado are now coaching in the Super Bowl.
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Sorry, but I had to laugh at how similar that sounds to the sad and tired old Cherokee man talking to Josey Wales - zbuff's(?) sig line. Endeavour to persevere, boyd. Endeavour to persevere.
 
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