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ahoelsken said:
I've said this several times since the Ed McCaffrey hire became official-UNC did great by taking a flyer on him. If he works out, he's a big enough name locally to where they're going to get attention. If he doesn't, they're not any worse off than they are right now. Its a zero risk, high reward move-and they're reaping the benefits of it already just by getting the attention they've got over the last day and a half.

My point about Wristen is more in context of the CSU job-Wristen has won 9 of the last 11 RMAC championships, he's put guys into the NFL, and he's one of the thousands of names who would have that fanbase more excited than the dip they just hired does. They looked at guys like Kevin Wilson (player treatment issues at Indiana), Food Cart (involved in a Title 9 lawsuit at Tennessee), and Steve Addazio (multiple stories of petty behavior toward his former players)......but why no phone call to Wristen? You can't tell me he doesn't at least listen to CSU if they call.

Sarkisian's results as a head coach have been mediocre-Sure, UW was a mess when he took over there, but he's held two of the best jobs on the west coast during his career and he's won 9 games one time.
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CSU could have and should have done better than they did.

They want to be seen as a "big time" program. Hiring a guy with bowl wins lets them keep the illusion, hiring a D2 guy no matter how successful in their minds is small time.
 
Buffapalooza said:
Playing in the NFL is like going to grad school for football. You are eating, breathing and living the game. You constantly study film and develop a very immersive understanding about how the game is played. However, in a different way than you'd expect. Eddie was a WR so he spent his time watching film of opposing defenses, even though he was an offensive player. He brings a knowledge of West Coast passing principles and an understanding of how to to exploit defenses. The average NFL player has forgotten more about football than the average Division I coach ever knew. Even most Division I basketball programs (like here at Colorado have coaching staffs that are very light on their expertise in Xs and Os and just rinse and repeat a basic philosophy of defending and rebounding). Coaches like the Dude just focus on power running game and stout defenses. Eddie is already a plus HC because he has a much more nuanced understanding of football than most coaches.

Take Mel Tucker. Tucker was in the SEC. Teams in the SEC aren't winning because they have elite plus coaching. Teams in the SEC are winning because they have elite plus players. They are running out 5-star athletes from Texas, Florida, and Pennsylvania against the 3/4 star athletes that everyone else gets. Nick Saban is not actually a football genius the way Walsh/Seifert/Shanahan/mini-me Shanahan/McVay are. Part of it in football is a self-fulfilling prophesy. People think Alabama is good, and Saban can recruit. So Alabama gets good players. It isn't the expertise, necessarily, of Alabama's Offensive Line coach, or the nuance the Wide Receiver's coach is instructing, its the elite gifted athletes they attract that gives them a competitive advantage.

Immediately, Eddie Mac has the NoCo program as the talk of prep football in Colorado, and everybody is now talking about NoCo and the opportunity to play for this Broncos legend. The fact that Eddie developed Max into an athlete that hung in the NFL for a couple of seasons, Christian into a generational type Glynn Milburn, and the other two into getting scholarships to play QB tells you that Eddie can develop players. He can scheme and understands the Xs and the Os beyond half the staffs in the Big Sky day one.

Don't ever be so impressed with what you think college football coaches know. Jon Embree when he was here at Colorado had an OC and a DC that had never done it before. They were college coaches though. The coordination during the Embree era at Colorado was a train wreck. Not because his OC and DC didn't have experience as coordinators, they just didn't have enough experience in football.

Eddie Mac already is creating a self-fulfilling prophesy in Greeley. He's going to run Bear buses to Greeley throughout the Front Range bringing up families on GameDays to see their kids play. They are going to create an invested community, he can talk the talk about how to get to the NFL even if most Big Sky players won't have the ability, height, weight, or quicks. If I'm a marginal athlete looking at playing in the RMAC Div II and I just want to keep playing, why not go to Greeley where at least I can say I have a chance to get some insight as to how to become an NFL athlete. I may not make it, but that's on me.

Valor was a top-drawer program. There are high school coaches in Texas more competent and with a more nuanced understanding of football than half the coaches in Division I. Never forget that coaching in football is like the emperors clothes, its all about the players. We think the coaches are brilliant but players make plays, not the coaches.

NoCo will out recruit the Big Sky guaranteed with the announcement of Eddie Mac. Eddie will be able to bring players from his NFL connections to come up to Greeley (not on staff) to teach these young kids. You aren't going to find that everywhere. He's not doing it for the money. But don't for a second believe this is a joke hire. Football is not rocket science. Its about matchups and exploiting the defensive formation and personnel.

Eddie wasn't a speedster (though the maternal grandfather of the boys was). He was a crafty receiver who was just fast enough. He employed gamesmanship like not wearing pads, cutting holes out your heels, wearing a skin tight jersey, anything to give him an edge. He'll approach coaching the same way.

Brilliant hire. The question is how long will Eddie Mac be there. His star burns bright. A lot brighter than Northern Colorado.
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Goodness. I have close connections with an NFL'er, consequently I have met more of them than I can count. You way overestimate their cumulative football IQ.
 
zbuff said:
My question is how you got through that. I fell asleep. Twice.
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I stopped after the first paragraph about NFL guys with football IQ. Only have known a few, I suppose they were outliers because they certainly were NOT students of the game!
 
tOSU rivals Alabama as the best stepping stone job for an assistant looking for a P5 HC opportunity. No surprise there. Every program in the nation wants to have a semblance of the success we've seen from Urban and Saban. The only HC who is really in their peer group is Dabo and it's only a matter of time until Clemson assistants start jumping ship for their own HC opportunities.
 
Buffnik said:
tOSU rivals Alabama as the best stepping stone job for an assistant looking for a P5 HC opportunity. No surprise there. Every program in the nation wants to have a semblance of the success we've seen from Urban and Saban. The only HC who is really in their peer group is Dabo and it's only a matter of time until Clemson assistants start jumping ship for their own HC opportunities.
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They already lost their Co-OC.
 
Buffnik said:
tOSU rivals Alabama as the best stepping stone job for an assistant looking for a P5 HC opportunity. No surprise there. Every program in the nation wants to have a semblance of the success we've seen from Urban and Saban. The only HC who is really in their peer group is Dabo and it's only a matter of time until Clemson assistants start jumping ship for their own HC opportunities.
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OSU has been so good for so long it’s almost unfair, their worst record in the last 8 years is 11-2. They’ve been to a bowl game every single year but 3 since 1972 which is crazy considering they went 6-6 twice and didn’t qualify (1988,1999), todays world they would. They’ve had 1 losing season since 1967, that’s unfathomable to me.

I would take two, 6-6 seasons in a row and call that a success at this point.
 
Da Lama said:
I thought the goal of college football programs was to win games, not get buzz. UNC will be 2-10 again for the next 3 years. Tell me how that makes things better? To me this reeks of an administration that has totally given up.
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The way to win football games is through recruiting better athletes. Seems to me like the more fans in the stands, creating buzz and a coach with Superbowl rings will help UNC recruit better athletes. But I guess, only time will tell.
 
skibum said:
The fan rumor is that Bieniemy will end up with the gig.
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Love that EB would get this shot, just sad it might come with the most dysfunctional organization and he may not succeed due to no reason of his own!!! Probably would go get Embree and Joseph for his staff?
 
4BienemyTDs said:
Love that EB would get this shot, just sad it might come with the most dysfunctional organization and he may not succeed due to no reason of his own!!! Probably would go get Embree and Joseph for his staff?
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Vance oughta stay with the Cards. That's a team that's pretty far off from the other three in their division, but from what I've seen.........they look like they're going in the right direction.
 
Monday Carousel Update:


New stuff noted with an UPDATE tag. Lots to cover, updates are now more of a conglomeration so you don't have to scroll through to catch up.


Filled Jobs:


Rutgers- Chris Ash out (h/t dwyermj), Nunzio Campanile was interim. Schiano back for Round 2 (h/t Jalapeno).

Washington- On and off the Carousel in what may be world record time, Peterson out, Lake in. (h/t MKBuffs) Shout out to onealcd for his swami-like predictive powers on this one.

Florida State- Willie Taggert out after less than two years. (h/t vinniew_11). Mike Norvell in. (h/t CarolinaBuff) Leavitt gone (h/t Trufflesauce). ODell Haggins retained as DL (h/t DeNiro). UPDATE: Fmr. Auburn OC/QB Ken Dillingham filling same role at FSU. (h/t DeNiro).

Ole Miss- Matt Luke is out (h/t jeric). The Lane train rolls into Oxford, Lane Kiffin in, stiffing Arky. (h/t DeNiro, ahoelsken, Hawg) MikMac stays as DC. (h/t BinaryBuff) Love, S and C from FAU follows. RichRod sent packing (h/t ahoelsken)

Arkansas- Chad Morris is out. Could not win even one SEC game. (h/t Duff). UGA OL coach Sam Pittman in. Underwhelming hire. UPDATE: Fmr. Mizzou HC Barry Odom now DC (h/t Duff). I am hearing Jay Johnson turned down an offer to be OC at Arky.

Mizzou- Barry Odom out. (h/t Duff) Eli Drinkwitz in (h/t DeNiro), a $4MMper year. Ted Roof added to staff (h/t bombay).

UNLV- Sanchez does not survive. (h/t Jens). Ced Cormier is WR coach on UNLV's staff, I hope he lands on his feet. Arroyo Oregon DC in (h/t DeNiro)

USF- Charlie Strong is out. (h/t DeNiro) Clemson co-OC Jeff Scott in. (h/t DeNiro) UPDATE: Strong gets $3MM buyout.

UTSA- Frank Wilson out. (h/t DeNiro) Jeff Traylor, from Arky, in. (h/t DeNiro) Barry Lunney, also from Arky to be OC. UPDATE: Dan DePrato, fmr. Buff GA now ST Coord. (h/t Tschek)

Old Dominion- Bobby Wilder resigns (h/t DeNiro) Ricky Rhane from PSU in. (h/t OUBUFF)

Colorado St.- Bobo out (h/t 85Alum) Steve "dude" Addazio (h/t Jens). UPDATE: Sons, brothers, sisters, wives getting job on HC Dude's staff as Urb's S in L and Dude son get jobs on the csewe staff. (h/t Dio).

FAU- Kiffin out, to Ole Miss, Willie Taggart in (h/t DeNiro) Kiffin attempting to raid Bama staff.

Boston College- Steve Addizzio out. (h/t DeNiro) UPDATE: Ryan Hefley, tOSU DC gets gig (h/t DeNiro).

App. State- Drinkwitz off to Mizzou. UPDATE: Interim Shawn Clark takes over (h/t DeNiro).

Memphis- Norvell off to FSU, Ryan Sutterfield in (h/t DeNiro).


Open Jobs:


University of Almost Mexico- Bob Davie out. (h/t Black Dynamite) Danny Gonzales ASU DC in play (h/t DeNiro), possibly Curtis Luper TCO Co-OC.


Fresno St.- Tedford steps down for health reasons, MikMac, Pat Hill, Mike Martz, Beau Baldwin, Troy Taylor, Sparkles and DII Danny early names (h/t DeNiro)


Secondary Market-

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Possibles:

Clay Helton- Near riot conditions as Bohn announces retention of Helton (h/t Serenity). SC trying to fend off Tejas for Graham Harrell. (h/t DeNiro)

fUCLA- Could Kelly be leaving? Maybe. (h/t Duff) $9MM to buy Kelly out, he owes $9MM if he leaves.

UTEP- I mean who cares, but (h/t DeNiro) points out Dimel has not had success, so UT-Juarez may be coach shopping.

Okie Lite- The yearly, will he or won't he leave drama of Gundy's Mullet begins anew (h/t DeNiro).

NMSU- Marin safe (h/t De Niro).



Other News:


Show me the Money- Cali leads the way to player pay, starting 2023. Hapless NCAA and Conferences clutch pearls.

Sheriron Jones- The well-traveled QB gets caught in a solo routine. CU dodged a bullet. (h/t sewallbeach)

Arizona- Gets defensive about its DC and fires him, and one defensive AC. (h/t Jens). Chuck Cecil now DC (h/t ahoelsken). Fired their DL coach, Sumlin dropping defensive AC's on a near weekly basis. (h/t DeNiro). Sumlin back for year three (h/t Jens)

ASU- Herm guns down his OC and pretty much the whole O staff. UPDATE: Boise OC Zak Hill hired as OC (h/t DeNiro)

Wazzu- Tracy Claeys "resigns". (h/t Tractor) Leach extended (h/t DeNiro)

USC- hires Mike Bohn as AD (h/t ZKobalt), 11 other P12 programs chuckling uncontrollably.

Minnesota- PJ Fleck extended for 7 years, kNU in mourning.

Indiana- Tom Allen negotiating a raise, and presumably, an extension. kNU mourns more.

kNU- Frost extended by two years, then promptly loses, again, to Wiscy. (h/t blackdynamite), I think he had it first. kNU extends no bowl streak with loss to Iowa.

BYU- Kilani 'the Mushroom" Sitaki extended.

Willie Taggart- As noted in the FSU update, not so slick Willie never signed a formal agreement with FSU and the buyout provisions are up in the air. Willie needs to lawyer up and go after his agent and former attorney. This one cost him a bundle.

No. Colorado- Earnest Hollings gets the axe. (h/t ahoelsken) UPDATE: Pass the Mustard, Eddie McCaffrey new head Bear (h/t ahoelsken)

UNLV-UN-R: Game erupts into a full blown brawl.

Northwestern- McCall the OC/QB canned. (h/t DeNiro) Mike Bajakian new OC (h/t DeNiro)

Texas St.- Bob Stitt out (h/t DeNiro)

ISU/Matt Campbell- Extension signed through 2025 (h/t TSchek)

Tejas- Making play for SC OC Harrell, 2.2 MM offered (h/t Duff) UPDATE: Chris Ash new DC (h/t somebody, I forgot)

Oregon St.- Bigger AC pool (h/t DeNiro)

Liberty- Hugh Freeze gets raise (h/t DeNiro)

Mike Bobo- Lands OC gig at So. Carolina for $1.2 MM/yr.

No. Carolina- Mack Brown extended

Notre Dame- OC Chip Long gone (h/t dwyermj)

UGA- Matt Luke now OL.

Auburn- Chad Morris retreads to the plains. (h/t Hawg)

All Encompassing, Long Awaited SJ Tuohy Update- SJ Tuohy, the little kid in the Blind Side movie, actually exists, and was fired from the Arky staff as Dir. of Player Development. Stay tuned for more breaking news on this very important story.
 
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