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#Fire Coach Dorrell
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buffalo1
Club Member
I fear that CU's new president (Saliman) will be of little support or help in rebuilding the AD/Football. His career is him being a budget/policy wonk for the State of Colorado. It doesn't seem he has built anything. I fear he doesn't have a golden rolodex to get the major donations directed at football to right the ship. I certainly don't think he will challenge the status quo of who controls the policy and direction of the university and its resistance to being "all in for football."
No way to tell. He’s only been on the clock for 2 months. Nothing in his bio provides any indication how he would approach athletics. There is no way of knowing if he will be active or hands off. But he is a CU grad and it looks like he may have been a student about the time we were in our hay day.
I was thinking about this, actually.
Are other successful ADs that much better than Rick is or Bohn/Tharpe were?
There seems to be something more in play here- take Arizona, for example. The general thinking is that football's the only revenue-positive sport, and in 2019 (the last "normal" year for which we have a complete year's worth of data), Arizona averaged ~10K per home game less attendance than CU. They are in the Pac12, so the media payout from the conference is the same. Yet the Arizona AD maintains 10 varsity men's sports compared to 8 for CU, and 12 varsity women's sports compared to 10 for CU. Arizona didn't have to take a loan from the P12.
Is UofA just that much better at managing their AD? Or are their other financial constraints that CU places on their AD that others don't? Honestly asking because I don't know.
This comparison is true for a number of other P12 schools (OSU and WSU, both of whom, embarrassingly, offer more varsity sports than CU), or ACC schools like BC or Syracuse
Counterpoint: those schools didn’t cure cancer
Counterpoint 2: those schools don’t recycle
SINKRATZ
PhD in Analogy
Did he really say that? Holy f**k.
Talking about Tharp - he was really not very good. Absolute definition of BFL good ole boy who turtled during the “scandal” when he should have been out front of it and putting the whole thing to rest. He allowed people with no interest in the success of CU athletics to set the narrative and he did nothing to combat what were obvious half truths and downright lies. He was a horrible choice for the job and he left the department in much worse shape than he found it.
Nobody
Nobody could replace him and we would get better. Addition through subtraction.
No he didn't. He was saying since the preseason was a failure there can still be motivation for a new season ( conference play). He didn't dismiss the last three games as if they weren't important.
I want Dorrell fired as much as the next guy but go buffs either mis-interpreted what he said or just made that up.
Not sure how I didn't know this but I learned in Brian's chat today that Chandler is our Director of Player Personnel and "he coordinates and leads all aspects of football recruiting" according to his bio. I knew he was on staff but had no idea he had been promoted this far up. Given the importance of recruiting in this day and age this strikes me as nepotism that's as bad or worse than Cody Hawkins. The Dorrell family is just completely swindling CU
BuffTuff
Well-Known Member
Friend of mine with ASU connection in the AD believes their #1 target is Matt Rhule.
he has also heard that Tom Herman has thrown his name in the hat.
At CU, incompetence is not enough, nepotism has to be sprinkled in.
Give credit where it's due. If not for Chandler, I wouldn't have known that Colorado was called the Box State.
He was promoted last year iirc. Needless to say, it’s not working out
“Incompetism”
SINKRATZ
PhD in Analogy
If ASU hires Tom Herman on their way to the Big12 and CU is stuck with Dorrell I may have an aneurism.
ahoelsken
Well-Known Member
We really need Chipper to hand us an ugly L on his way out of the Pac 12 on Saturday.
Can't sit on our hands for another two weeks while Tom Herman winds up in Tempe.
Consecutive Hermans...that has to be some kind of record.
ahoelsken
Well-Known Member
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This might be worth a listen-especially because we've taken KU's place as the worst P5 program in the country. A lot of these comments I think are directed at this program.
BuffTuff
Well-Known Member
I told my buddy nearly the exact same thing. He also mentioned Oregon OC as a possible candidate they are talking about. From AZ originally and coached at ASU at some point. (I didn’t verify those things so not sure if correct)
BuffTuff
Well-Known Member
I think UCLA wins the game for sure. Can Chip get it to the point of ugly enough for RG to make a move? Tough to say since UCLA usually play down to their competition level. Fortunately for us they will have to forget to bring their 2-deep on the plane to get down to our level.
Arizona State coaching candidates: Matt Rhule, Byron Leftwich, Dan Mullen lead options to replace Herm Edwards
The Sun Devils should have no shortage of coaches interested in their open job
www.cbssports.com
whomever it is will need to know that asu will be under some sort of sanctions sooner than later- look at #11 suggestion ..lol
Explains a lot of what I hear and see here in the "Box State." Recruiting is abysmal. This Chandler could probaby do a better job:
So…. Not sure where to put this. according to Shutdown Fullcast, using SRS the 2022 CU team would have been at least a 5 point dog to any team in CUs history going into the drubbing by Minnesota. Yes- this explicitly includes 2012s team.
the spread would likely be more now, since the Minnesota won by so much.
it’s here:
the spread would likely be more now, since the Minnesota won by so much.
it’s here:
Is Lopez still part of the recruiting dream team we have in Boulder? Or has KD fired him in favor of his son? Lopez was beyond horrible and brought in by KD but I have not seen anything on him and do not care enough anymore to look it up
Ah ****, I looked it up and his title is now General Manager. Whatever the **** that means