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What's your main criteria for our next Head Coach?

A top coordinator or formerr, that can both recruit coaches and players, and can also be ruthless with his staff. Hard ask maybe, but It may require the ambition that’s lookin at the next job.
 
This is a tough call. I want a recruiter who can build a staff and yet I’m scared of landing on the next Embree. I would generally say someone who has been successful at a big time program in the last 5 years even though that might exclude my number one.
1. Jeff Tedford
2. Jimmy Lake
3. Les Miles
4. Chip Long
5. Jim McElwain? (Assuming he didn’t rape that shark)
 
nolabuff said:
This is a tough call. I want a recruiter who can build a staff and yet I’m scared of landing on the next Embree. I would generally say someone who has been successful at a big time program in the last 5 years even though that might exclude my number one.
1. Jeff Tedford
2. Jimmy Lake
3. Les Miles
4. Chip Long
5. Jim McElwain? (Assuming he didn’t rape that shark)
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If our next HC can consistently go to quality bowls while being a fixture in the Top 25 competing for conference titles... I'll ****ing become a pimp to satisfy his shark fetish. :ROFLMAO:
 
nolabuff said:
This is a tough call. I want a recruiter who can build a staff and yet I’m scared of landing on the next Embree. I would generally say someone who has been successful at a big time program in the last 5 years even though that might exclude my number one.
1. Jeff Tedford
2. Jimmy Lake
3. Les Miles
4. Chip Long
5. Jim McElwain? (Assuming he didn’t rape that shark)
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Your top four is solid. Hell ****ing no on McElwain. He struggled to recruit to freaking Florida.
 
Duff Man said:
Jimmy Lake

BTW, here are the conference ranks over the last five years of that offense that kicks so much ass:

2018-12th
2017-4th
2016-7th
2015-14th
2014-12th

Meanwhile, the Northwestern defense has finished in the top half of the conference all five years. Northwestern finished ranked in only two of those seasons. Only one recruiting class ranked in the Top 50.

But yeah, Mick McCall is definitely the answer here.
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Dude, it is Northwestern! They just won the Big Ten West At NORTHWESTERN using creative offensive concepts using players that no one in the Big 10 wanted. Who gives a **** about ranking in the Big 10.
 
SBP said:
Dude, it is Northwestern! They just won the Big Ten West At NORTHWESTERN using creative offensive concepts using players that no one in the Big 10 wanted. Who gives a **** about ranking in the Big 10.
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They're not winning because of their offense, that is the whole point.

You replied to a post of criteria I set with a coach who fits none of that criteria.

Top coordinator? Nope (actually has been on the hot seat several times)

Coordinator of a Top 10-20 team? Nope

Recruiter? Nope
 
Duff Man said:
Your top four is solid. Hell ****ing no on McElwain. He struggled to recruit to freaking Florida.
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I was spitballing with with Sparkles. I will say that he did well at CSU and has good connections with his current and previous jobs. Also, all three of the Florida schools have been lagging with their facilities, which will definitely impact recruiting.
 
nolabuff said:
I was spitballing with with Sparkles. I will say that he did well at CSU and has good connections with his current and previous jobs. Also, all three of the Florida schools have been lagging with their facilities, which will definitely impact recruiting.
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Just stick with any of your top four.
 
I really want a head coach that understands the importance of recruiting to CU and assembles a staff with several high effort, good energy recruiters.
Obviously, that’s not enough based on the Embree years, but it should be a big strength for the next HC.
That why I like the idea of
Jimmy Lake or Chip Long.
 
Initially I didn’t like the idea, but I’m really coming around to a Tosh Lupoi. The guy has had a high impact everywhere he’s been, been named a top recruiter, and is young and energetic. Fits the successful at a P5 program, although he’s at Alabama so hard not to be successful. Key here is that Saban wouldn’t just put any random coach up at DC, he clearly thinks the guy is capable and I think a Saban seal of approval is good enough for me. Might be tough to get him here though.
 
DavisBuff said:
I really want a head coach that understands the importance of recruiting to CU and assembles a staff with several high effort, good energy recruiters.
Obviously, that’s not enough based on the Embree years, but it should be a big strength for the next HC.
That why I like the idea of
Jimmy Lake or Chip Long.
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The main lesson from the McCartney era that still apples at CU i that it's all about recruiting. Get the top talent and you will win.
 
Bread said:
Initially I didn’t like the idea, but I’m really coming around to a Tosh Lupoi. The guy has had a high impact everywhere he’s been, been named a top recruiter, and is young and energetic. Fits the successful at a P5 program, although he’s at Alabama so hard not to be successful. Key here is that Saban wouldn’t just put any random coach up at DC, he clearly thinks the guy is capable and I think a Saban seal of approval is good enough for me. Might be tough to get him here though.
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Problem is that he is thought to be the main reason that Cal went into APR hell and Tedford ended up getting canned. It's a risk.
 
SBP said:
Dude, it is Northwestern! They just won the Big Ten West At NORTHWESTERN
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Then go after Pat Fitzgerald then ....

... actually that boat has sailed ... he was talked about as a CU hire before but "close links to Barnett" hurt him as I recall
 
As a SC Native; I can tell you Venables is going nowhere. He makes HC money, doesn’t have to worry about anything but the D. He has a son at a local high school that is going to Clemson next year and a son there now. There’s absolutely no reason to leave.
brettden said:
Venables maybe? The bottom line for me is we need better coordinators. Look at how hood the defense looked (with comparable talent) with a top flight d coordinator. Get a legit offensive mind who gets ahead of defense, a defensive coordinator that understands how to generate pressure and Mac would be good.

My criteria is Buffs need to come up with more $$ to get top flight assistants. Tough situation right now
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Duff Man said:
A top coordinator at a legitimate top 10-20 school. Also, someone who can come in and recruit well right away (and not the Allbuffs definition of recruiting well).
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You mean Mike Bobo or Jim McElwain?
 
How much $$$ will it take to buy out Coach Mac and How much $$$ will it take to hire Coach Miles or whomever RG decides to hire?
 
When CU went after McCartney they found that the ideal program to emulate at the time was Michigan under Schembechler. While they couldn't hire away Schembechler they went after the assistant they could find that emobodied that success and would put in the work necessary to raise the bar at CU.

In today's age, I would say that aside from Alabama the program that CU should try to emulate is Stanford. Based on CU's desire to be academically-oriented I think that is even more fitting; and the fact that we share the same recruiting grounds only makes it more ideal. Washington since hiring Peterson has done that as well; but Stanford has been the better program for longer. Since we can't get David Shaw, the next best thing is...

I would submit: Lance Anderson

The Gatekeeper: Lance Anderson and the redefinition of Stanford football
Anderson, Stanford’s new defensive coordinator and ace recruiter, has flown under the radar for a long time, but his successes are fundamental to the program, and even for people only tangentially acquainted with Stanford football, the responsibilities that have come with his new title have made him impossible to ignore.
“The key guy is Lance Anderson in all of this, above everybody in my opinion,” Harbaugh told The Daily in an interview for the book Rags to Roses last spring. “He is the one consistent thread for six years.”
But Anderson’s greatest achievements have been strategic rather than tactical. Put simply, Anderson has changed the very science of how Stanford approaches recruiting.
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Willie Shaw Director of Defense
One of the architects of Stanford’s vaunted defense, Anderson also has received considerable praise for his work as the program’s liaison to the Stanford admissions office.
Recruiting Areas: California (San Diego County, Imperial County), Arizona (Central, North, East, West), Georgia (North), Idaho, Utah
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Stanford's Anderson Evaluates Cardinal Defense

I like him for many reasons that people have posted as criteria for our next HC; but I like most is that he puts his head down, does the work, flies under the radar, and doesn't make it about himself much like David Shaw does. So much so that the dude doesn't even have his own Wikipedia despite all of his accomplishments!. I like him over Jimmy Lake as he has a longer track record in the Pac-12, in recruiting, and in being a DC (since 2014). Another reason to love him: Utah hates him for plucking away their in-state talent!
 
Im only wanting a coach that has balls. After our powderpuff game yesterday, I turned on the Ok State/OU shootout and saw the Mullet go for two to win the game. That’s the type of balls that has been missing in Boulder since Barnett. If OK State were to let Gundy go that’s my dream guy , but the chances of that happening are slim to none.
 
BuffPride88 said:
Im only wanting a coach that has balls. After our powderpuff game yesterday, I turned on the Ok State/OU shootout and saw the Mullet go for two to win the game. That’s the type of balls that has been missing in Boulder since Barnett. If OK State were to let Gundy go that’s my dream guy , but the chances of that happening are slim to none.
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I watched OSU go for 2 in a bar in Boulder after the game thinking that’s a move only a coach with job security makes. I hope OSU is stupid enough to let Gundy go - I’d take him in a heartbeat - over Miles, over Tedford, over Lake, over pretty much anyone.
 
SINKRATZ said:
I watched OSU go for 2 in a bar in Boulder after the game thinking that’s a move only a coach with job security makes. I hope OSU is stupid enough to let Gundy go - I’d take him in a heartbeat - over Miles, over Tedford, over Lake, over pretty much anyone.
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That would be fun to watch unfold.
 
Whoever we get (if Mac is fired) is going to require CU to cut checks that they’ve never been willing to before. Not going low-rent is the part I’ll have to see to believe.
 
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