AllBuffs | Unofficial fan site for the University of Colorado at Boulder Athletics programs
This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!
-
Prime Time. Prime Time. Its a new era for Colorado football. Consider signing up for a club membership! For $20/year, you can get access to all the special features at Allbuffs, including club member only forums, dark mode, avatars and best of all no ads ! But seriously, please sign up so that we can pay the bills. No one earns money here, and we can use your $20 to keep this hellhole running. You can sign up for a club membership by navigating to your account in the upper right and clicking on "Account Upgrades". Make it happen!
Shawn Watson -- ouch
- Thread starter Liver
- Start date
Charlie Strong grasping at straws right now. Texas looked like dog meat and the million dollar donor club doesn't like explaining another big loss on national TV to their buddies from A&M and Oklahoma.
When you have Texas money the contract buy-out doesn't give him much if any protection. He better get things turned around quick or he is going to be unemployed.
When you have Texas money the contract buy-out doesn't give him much if any protection. He better get things turned around quick or he is going to be unemployed.
liverflukes
Resident Bear
Good good good
CU827
Well-Known Member
Seriously. How? I went on to ShaggyTexas today and was floored when I saw he was coaching there. It immediately made sense why their offense sucks.
Didn't you just post in another thread that Strong knows how to assemble a staff?
That's sounds right. I remember a game that he called in recent years that flabbergasted me (by the success of the playcalling). I couldn't remember the team or game, but it was probably University of Bridgewater over Florida in the bowl game (that contributed to my continued belief that the SEC has been overrated for a few years).
Strong could win 9 games and the pitchfork crowd will want his head. It's hard to keep the peasants happy in Austin.
Ozbuff
Member
True, but I think he'll get another year at least and by then they should have a solid offense. Defense won't be a problem once offense gets things sorted out.
He get embarrassed by OU and they will be ready to fire him that day.
He can get his defense sorted out but if they can't score they can't win and their offense is pathetic.
The big money guys didn't like him when he was hired and liked him even less after meeting him a few times. He would need to make a huge turnaround to get them on his side and that isn't going to happen.
He can get his defense sorted out but if they can't score they can't win and their offense is pathetic.
The big money guys didn't like him when he was hired and liked him even less after meeting him a few times. He would need to make a huge turnaround to get them on his side and that isn't going to happen.
Ozbuff
Member
I hear ya, but disagree. No question some of the boosters didn't like the hire, but others did. I completely agree, though, that if the offense keeps playing like it has, he's gone. I think it will improve, though.
Could it be that he's grown as a coordinator and a human being in all those years after leaving Boulder? He's had stops in a few decent places. And yeah, he lit it up at Louisville. Did Barnett limit his playbook at CU while others didn't?
We like to give shawn **** for the last few years at CU. Did he not call the 62-36 game as well as all those games in our last glorious run in 2001? Was it his fault after Marcus Houston and Craig Ochs that Barnett stopped recruiting top flight players? Probably not.
Just so we're all on the same page, is this still the thread where Shawn Watson was just relieved of his play-calling duties?
JT Barrett, you could be a hero back home (Wichita Falls) in Texas. Leave OSU right now and be eligible by game three next season.
Did you see the ND game?
Shawn showed what he could do when he had good players. Which of the two stopped recruiting for all the years after 2001 is up for debate. Helfrich on the other hand was way smarter; unlike Shawn he left at the first signs of doubt.
I agree. I recall them looking nearly as awful towards the end of last season as well.
Just looked it up. They got spanked by Arkansas and TCU for the last two games and blew a chance to go bowling in the process.
aik
Well-Known Member
Blew a chance at finishing with a winning record. TCU loss had them finish the regular season at 6-6. Arkansas steamrolled them in front of a pro-Texas crowd in the bowl game.
NBDefektor
Well-Known Member
ha ha ha! Yeah! See? It's definitely not our program that makes coaches look bad! Ha ha ha! Didn't we also have another offensive coordinator who was terrible? Mike or Mack Helford? Yeah, that's it! I think! Can't even remember his name! I think he is the head coach up at, like, Oregon St. or Oregon A&M. Probably failing pretty spectacularly I'm sure, too! Ha ha ha!
/sarcasm
/sarcasm
EddieCrowder
Well-Known Member
When guys like Red McCombs are saying "I am sure he is a nice position coach, maybe a coordinator" its time to find a realtor. I said it in another thread, Strong needs to send Teddy B a big Thank You, without him Charlie might not be in Louisville right now, and he sure as hell isn't in Austin.