That completely ignores what a disaster that school and program are and also two 5-7 seasons. If they kick ass the rest of the year you gotta take a look at him.
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Official CU Head Coach Search Thread - Primetime
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Yeah I’m okay with ignoring two 5-7 seasons in the G5, but to each their own I guess
So if San jose ****ing state wins the mountain west this year again for the second time in three years you just don’t care because he had two 5-7 season, one of which was in his second year?
that team two years ago was pretty damn good too, especially when you consider all the **** they had to deal with in the state of california with Covid restrictions
SINKRATZ
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5-7 was his 3rd season, not his 2nd. I think aside from the SJSU fear, take away the COVID season and he’s 17-37 and has never finished higher than 4th in his division. If he lights it up this year and you’re willing to read some good things into the COVID season maybe he’s interesting, but seems like there are a lot of better options out there this year.
The reason that SJSU is pretty good this year is because they were lucky to snag the Hawaii transfer QB Chevan Cordeiro, who has played lights out. Credit the coach for that transfer, but I think CU needs to shoot higher than BB.
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Yeah pretty much just not a fan of his results thus far. I think there are a lot of better options this year
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Would be great publicity and probably good for fan engagement if CU could give Snelson and team a little access to cover the coaching search. Obviously there is some necessary secrecy when it comes to interviewing specific candidates, but maybe something focusing in on Saliman and RG working thru the process of selecting the next guy. Would be an interesting watch.
RG would never agree to have his performance scrutinized. He’s already in self-preservation mode.
lawdogg
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Almost certainly correct. Just thinking about some ways to generate some positive publicity even before the hire, and the media team has been one of the few bright spots over the past several years.
Maybe after they hire the new coach they can profile recruiting and portal work in order to hype up the team ahead of 2023.
Didn’t we do a San Jose State thing?
Seems a little like Boise State in that regard.
He was yanked.
Edit: I should’ve known better than to post a pun while behind two full pages. Oh well.
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I'm sure Google can explain it. Report back
I bet a lot on the Iowa-Illinois under and watched the entire thing. The commentators made several comments about how they’re hearing Ryan Walters is a serious candidate for the Colorado job. It would not surprise me if RG has already made contacts with Walters’ agent…
Irrelevant.
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when someone can explain the rationale for hiring kd, paying him like a guy that had been a successful head coach in the modern era, and then extending him and his staff, that will be the day i will entertain the idea of rg being qualified to select the next hc without a great deal of help and oversight.
and i do not mean dithering phil, either.
we need a proper search committee to baby sit rg and help him avoid stepping on his own dickk again.
what that committee would almost certainly tell rg is that a first time hc or a guy with a middling record from a junior conference is not a good bet.
and i do not mean dithering phil, either.
we need a proper search committee to baby sit rg and help him avoid stepping on his own dickk again.
what that committee would almost certainly tell rg is that a first time hc or a guy with a middling record from a junior conference is not a good bet.
Listened to the Feldman/Mandel podcast from last Wednesday and they spent a decent amount of time talking about the CU job.
- CU is in a really ****ty spot due to complete rebuild while in the midst of conference instability and basically no recruiting base
- Dorrell is good guy who has never felt like a guy who had “it” as a HC
- Feldman thinks it’s Bienemy’s job if he wants it, although he says that’s just his feeling
- He also thinks if CU offers Calhoun and he thinks CU is committed to winning, he would probably take it
- Feldman listed other candidates of Grimes, Rahne, Choate and Walters and basically says Grimes would be his choice of CU can sell him on the job.
- Says Grimes just exudes “it” with deep Texas ties
- CU is in a really ****ty spot due to complete rebuild while in the midst of conference instability and basically no recruiting base
- Dorrell is good guy who has never felt like a guy who had “it” as a HC
- Feldman thinks it’s Bienemy’s job if he wants it, although he says that’s just his feeling
- He also thinks if CU offers Calhoun and he thinks CU is committed to winning, he would probably take it
- Feldman listed other candidates of Grimes, Rahne, Choate and Walters and basically says Grimes would be his choice of CU can sell him on the job.
- Says Grimes just exudes “it” with deep Texas ties
Listened to it as well, I think they are pretty informed. I disagree with Mandel's evaluation of the job, but I'm obviously biased. I also think that Mandel saying "they need an alum" was enough for me to throw up haha
Yeah, I kind of threw that out as well. Think Feldman is way more dialed in. I guess I just don’t see EB and TC all of the sudden accepting the job in 2022 with a complete rebuild needed, after turning it down in 2020 when they were 5-7 and had a decent roster.
Maybe if RG and Saliman are truly going all in and selling coaches on removing hurdles and paying for assistants, etc, but otherwise why would either of them accept it now?
More than that, I don't think that EB and TC should take the job, for either parties. I don't have faith that either candidate would succeed in any capacity at CU. I think they are lazy names that writers put on their hot board
SINKRATZ
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Am I the only one who hates the idea of Calhoun at CU? He’s got a great thing going at AFA but how much of what he’s doing translates to this job? I think very little. His teams are disciplined and play hard but great, they’re service academy kids. He has essentially zero P5 experience as a HC or assistant aside from 2 years at Wake 20 years ago. He hasn’t run or even been around a legit P5 recruiting operation, his coaching tree and connections for assistants are a huge unknown. And he runs an option offense that people keep telling me he wouldn’t necessarily run at CU. So what are you getting with him?
P5 experience? Not really
Built a program? No
Plus recruiter? No
Brings a defined system? Apparently no.
Deep connections in fertile recruiting grounds? No
Coaching connections? Not really (same OC for 13 years)
Completely agree. His teams are always a bunch of Junior and Seniors who’ve been in the same, niche system their entire careers that’s really hard to gameplan for in and of itself, playing against mostly younger G5 kids.
Agree with everything else you said. I think he’s just as big of a risk as any of the coordinators
As I said yesterday, Feldman is very dialed into coaching/agent circles.
All of this.
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