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stats don't lie= JMFL is a defensive GOD
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Can a DC be paid more than a head coach?
Unleash Hell
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I really hope we can keep him for a while
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Outside the Champions center there needs to be a Brinks loaded with Pepsi.
King_George_XXIV_Rules
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Denver Post did an article on Leavitt yesterday...
Colorado Buffaloes author remarkable defensive turnaround behind defensive coordinator Jim Leavitt
The Buffs rank No. 1 in total defense in the Pac-12
http://www.denverpost.com/2016/10/28/colorado-buffaloes-defensive-coordinator-jim-leavitt/
Colorado Buffaloes author remarkable defensive turnaround behind defensive coordinator Jim Leavitt
The Buffs rank No. 1 in total defense in the Pac-12
http://www.denverpost.com/2016/10/28/colorado-buffaloes-defensive-coordinator-jim-leavitt/
jizzrag85
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He's clearly an exceptional positional coach, coach and defensive coach at all levels: He's excelled everywhere he's been and he's worked with harbaugh. Harbaughs a massive dick but he knows how to coach and you know he expects lots from his assistant coaches/positional coaches. I really hope he chooses to stay at least another 5 years. If CU can lock in mac, leavitt and chiaverini for the next 5 years (even 3 would be nice) they will be set. They'll truly be able to grow the program to what we all want and expect.
FIFY
His time with Harbaugh is really ****ing pointless to his experience - it added virtually nothing.
Coaching with Snyder and Stoops at KSU - that's a different story.
Leavitt is elite as a DC. And this defensive staff is great across the board. Tumpkin should be a P5 DC (shhh! Don't tell anyone.). Jeffcoat was one of the best as a player, coached the DL in the NFL for 7 years before a few years at Houston and a couple at SJSU -- knows his ****. Clark would be the weak link on paper as the youngest & least experienced, but the way the CBs have played and developed under him proves how good he is.
I'll be amazed if CU is able to keep that defensive staff together for 2017. Hopefully there isn't too much of a shake-up, because I think next year is the big year for the defense cementing its identity after the veteran players established it in 2016.
I'll be amazed if CU is able to keep that defensive staff together for 2017. Hopefully there isn't too much of a shake-up, because I think next year is the big year for the defense cementing its identity after the veteran players established it in 2016.
His time in the NFL was pointless? That is an interesting perspective.
He was pretty formed. I'm guessing it wasn't a steep learning curve when compared to his other stops
You always learn something when you coach at the highest level of football, especially on a truly great defensive team.
In a year where Briles is being crucified not just for his team being a bunch of sexual predators, but also for not reporting it, I'm not sure a former head coach who tried to cover up striking a player will get as many looks as some think.
That is definitely the perception many people have of what happened at USF.
The other side of that story is that Leavitt had some folks in the administration who wanted him out (they loved Holtz Jr., iirc) and were looking for a reason. They allowed an incident to get blown out of proportion in the press (the alleged striking of a player) and later exonerated Leavitt of that charge. What he was actually fired for was that Leavitt, in the midst of all that bull****, told the administration they could eat a bag of dicks and told his staff & team to also refuse to cooperate with the witch hunt.
I hear what you're saying, but I have a hard time believing it. I don't recall anybody in Boulder making much of a fuss over the hire, and Boulder is the World Capital of political correctness. All that stuff at UCF (USF?) happened a long, long time ago. Any program would be lucky to have him as a head coach. I just hope he decides that building and maintaining a program in Boulder is more attractive than trying to turn around another struggling program.
Fair. I wonder how JMFL would characterize that period of his career.
aik
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A couple of things impressing me about JL are his adaptability and his energy. He was instrumental in Kansas State's turnaround but the way college football is played is much different now than when the Wildcats were a rising power in the brand new Big 12. He found a way to vault this defense to the top of the conference facing much different offenses than 20 years ago. The game has not passed him by, unlike his predecessor here. Also at his age and with his number of career rises and falls in the last decade it's been phenomenal to see the fire in him around his players, recruits, and on Twitter. There is nothing like having Jim Leavitt around our football team. It's amazing seeing a 60 year old guy as the freshest face behind vaulting the Buffs into the next generation.
Yeah dude, great, but it's gonna cost a little more than two bits to keep him in Boulder.
bigskybuff
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In the article, it said one of the biggest factors was his wife wanting to come to Boulder. Let's hope she is very content here.
Make millions. Be a Golden God to CU fans. Happy wife. Happy daughters. There are worse things in life.
bigskybuff
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The other interesting thing on the article is who wrote it. Howell of the Camera has been asked many times in his chats why he doesn't interview Leavitt and his answer is always " he's very media adverse". So now a newcomer at the Post gets this one. Seems like JMFL is Howell adverse.
That's because a guy like Leavitt could never learn anything about coaching from a guy like Harbaugh.
Doesn't matter if it is coaching or almost any other field, the best get and stay the best because they are always learning. Wade Phillips spends time every offseason studying what other DCs are doing.
BuffNut99
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His CU turnaround is arguably more impressive than the K State turnaround, which is difficult to comprehend. He took K State from #93 to #1. He has taken CU from #111 to #11. The year before he got here, we had the same players but never gave up fewer than 36 in a conference game. The last four games we've given up 6, 21,16, and 5.
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jizzrag85
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People are so hostile on here, good lord. I don't know leavitts entire back story. I merely alluded to the fact he was on a winning staff in the NFL with a demanding guy that can't be easy to work with. I highly doubt he learned nothing from that experience.