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Official Coaching Search Thread

onealcd said:
Because that would include promoting position coaches to OC/DC most likely, and we need coaches that are familiar with Texas, California, Colorado, Arizona and Poly pipelines. There is no reason to put recruiting resources towards anywhere in the South.
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UGA's top recruiter is from Texas and is currently the linebackers coach. The only problem is that many believe he will be promoted to DC, but if he is not it would be great addition for CU.
 
Johnny Stevens said:
UGA's top recruiter is from Texas and is currently the linebackers coach. The only problem is that many believe he will be promoted to DC, but if he is not it would be great addition for CU.
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Their top recruiter is probably Dell McGee-RBs coach. He won recruiter of the year from rivals this year. I've seen (and I can't remember where) that Lanning (their OLB coach) may be joining Tucker here. Schumann is likely to call their defense in their bowl game as an audition for the perm DC gig at UGA.
 
So, it's sort of fun to read through the first few pages of the two search threads (both here and in barzil).

There were early rumors that RG was looking for (or looking at) someone:

- with HC experience
- with NFL experience
- with major P5 program experience
- known to be a good recruiter
- relatively young
- defensive focus

Lots of people bitched about every one of those (frequently because one or more of them eliminated their favorite candidate); more than one person implied that if those were the criteria that we'd never find anyone that checked all six boxes and was available / would take a job at CU.

Liver hit it right in the beginning: RG was looking for a unicorn.

Well,

RG done found us unicorn: a 46 year old (1) defensive coordinator (2) who was an interim head coach for the equivalent of half a college season (3), has meaningful NFL coaching experience (4), at not just one but three elite programs in P5 conferences (5) who is considered a top 15 recruiter credited with being the primary recruiter in 4 5* and 14 4* prospects (6).

Either those really were the criteria that RG set out a couple weeks ago and he got exactly what he wanted, or he already knew who he was targeting, and every little rumor was a hint...
 
skibum said:
So, it's sort of fun to read through the first few pages of the two search threads (both here and in barzil).

There were early rumors that RG was looking for (or looking at) someone:

- with HC experience
- with NFL experience
- with major P5 program experience
- known to be a good recruiter
- relatively young
- defensive focus

Lots of people bitched about every one of those (frequently because one or more of them eliminated their favorite candidate); more than one person implied that if those were the criteria that we'd never find anyone that checked all six boxes and was available / would take a job at CU.

Liver hit it right in the beginning: RG was looking for a unicorn.

Well,

RG done found us unicorn: a 46 year old (1) defensive coordinator (2) who was an interim head coach for the equivalent of half a college season (3), has meaningful NFL coaching experience (4), at not just one but three elite programs in P5 conferences (5) who is considered a top 15 recruiter credited with being the primary recruiter in 4 5* and 14 4* prospects (6).

Either those really were the criteria that RG set out a couple weeks ago and he got exactly what he wanted, or he already knew who he was targeting, and every little rumor was a hint...
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And about half of CU fans seem to not like the hire or at least seem skeptical & disappointed. :ROFLMAO:
 
Buffnik said:
And about half of CU fans seem to not like the hire or at least seem skeptical & disappointed. :ROFLMAO:
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I blame you and Duff for the Inception-like mind control you placed on this board leading up to the Tucker news. The negative Nancy half would have loved this hire if they weren’t convinced into thinking that we needed an offense minded (you) coach within our recruiting footprint (Duff).
:D:D:D
 
Why is CU so bad at this? Is it a Tabor thing? It seems like we could empower our AD to execute a contract. As turn over continues, I don’t want us to have to move down the list if a more monied program swooped in at the 12th hour.
 
pcbuff said:
Why is CU so bad at this? Is it a Tabor thing? It seems like we could empower our AD to execute a contract. As turn over continues, I don’t want us to have to move down the list if a more monied program swooped in at the 12th hour.
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This is a guess, but I think it's the bolded that is the issue. At the end of the day, the regents have to sign off on all employment contracts above a certain value.

It's certainly possible that they can't delegate that authority - only a lawyer really steeped in Colorado state administrative law could answer that question.

What is clear though is that regardless of whether or not the regents can delegate that authority, they have not done so.

The only way to really change this is to elect regents that really care about athletics; or, at a bare minimum, defeat candidates for regent that are anti - athletics.

I don't know, but suspect, that target #1 needs to be Kroll. The election in which to beat him is the primary.

I've long thought that if you're a donor to CU athletics, even a smaller dollar one, that the most effective targeting of your donation dollars would be to direct half (or more) of them towards efforts to 1. defeat regents that have demonstrated anti - athletics tendencies - replacing them with someone that is at least neutral would probably have a bigger impact than: 2. electing regents that are pro - athletics.
 
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skibum said:
This is a guess, but I think it's the bolded that is the issue. At the end of the day, the regents have to sign off on all employment contracts above a certain value.

It's certainly possible that they can't delegate that authority - only a lawyer really steeped in Colorado state administrative law could answer that question.

What is clear though is that regardless of whether or not the regents can delegate that authority, they have not done so.

The only way to really change this is to elect regents that really care about athletics; or, at a bare minimum, defeat candidates for regent that are anti - athletics.

I don't know, but suspect, that target #1 needs to be Kroll. The election in which to beat him is the primary.

I've long thought that if you're a donor to CU athletics, even a smaller dollar one, that the most effective targeting of your donation dollars would be to direct half (or more) of them towards efforts to 1. defeat regents that have demonstrated anti - athletics tendencies - replacing them with someone that is at least neutral would probably have a bigger impact than: 2. electing regents that are pro - athletics.
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@Darth Snow and @Buffnik for regents
 
Buffnik said:
If we became your Boulder and Denver Dems on that board, the combined budget for football and men's basketball coaching salaries would be around $20 million... and it would be the best investment the university ever made.
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If you fundraise, you may have a chance. I'm not exactly the loveable type.
 
Darth Snow said:
If you fundraise, you may have a chance. I'm not exactly the loveable type.
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Yeah, but can you imagine me at a town hall in Boulder if someone told me the athletes should have a 100% vegan, cruelty-free training table? :ROFLMAO:

Or suggested that <insert non-revenue sport> is just as important as football?

Or tried to tell me that the head football coach should not make more money than any professor?

I'd lose my ****.
 
Buffnik said:
Yeah, but can you imagine me at a town hall in Boulder if someone told me the athletes should have a 100% vegan, cruelty-free training table? :ROFLMAO:

Or suggested that <insert non-revenue sport> is just as important as football?

Or tried to tell me that the head football coach should not make more money than any professor?

I'd lose my ****.
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Come on, you are a salesman. If you put that hat on you'd agree with them and in 15 minutes they'd be writing checks to the AD
 
Buffnik said:
Funny thing is that as I was typing that I was thinking about how I'd diffuse that. It's the bitching about it after the fact to you guys and Nikita I'd have to make sure didn't get caught on tape. :cool:
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Are there recall elections for trustees??
 
Buffnik said:
Yeah, but can you imagine me at a town hall in Boulder if someone told me the athletes should have a 100% vegan, cruelty-free training table? :ROFLMAO:

Or suggested that <insert non-revenue sport> is just as important as football?

Or tried to tell me that the head football coach should not make more money than any professor?

I'd lose my ****.
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Let's be real... You wouldnt get those questions in Boulder. Football wouldn't even come up in town hall!
 
dio said:
Let's be real... You wouldnt get those questions in Boulder. Football wouldn't even come up in town hall!
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True. The campaign would be all about my "green initiative". In other words, it would be all about the money but spun as being about sustainability into the 22nd century.
 
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