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

Would love Les Miles as option #1 but what about Leavitt in case it doesn't get done with Les?
 
ScottyBuff said:
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
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Had a slow day at work the other day and read the bulk of this(it's long). Since everyone on here is obsessed with the Buffs y'all should take the time to read this or at least skim over it. Had never heard of the guy before. He would be my number 1 choice after reading this. Mac 2.0. If not Anderson then hopefully Miles.
 
Gary Indiana said:
No experience as a HC, red flags around recruiting practices, and questions about what kind of staff he could assemble.
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Don't care about no experience as HC, and recruiting practice red flags seem to have been a thing of the past for him and it hasn't seemed to stop teams like Cal, UW, and Alabama from employing him and using him as their Ace recruiter. The staff assembly is a legit question, but that's going to be a question with the majority of candidates outside of the retread options.
 
TSchekler said:
Don't care about no experience as HC, and recruiting practice red flags seem to have been a thing of the past for him and it hasn't seemed to stop teams like Cal, UW, and Alabama from employing him and using him as their Ace recruiter. The staff assembly is a legit question, but that's going to be a question with the majority of candidates outside of the retread options.
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After the Embree and Mac eras, I want as close to a sure thing as possible and I just do not see Tosh as that. I see that as another experiment that you hope works but you enter into with too many unknown variables.

In my opinion, Les Miles is the answer on a lot of fronts.
 
TSchekler said:
Don't care about no experience as HC, and recruiting practice red flags seem to have been a thing of the past for him and it hasn't seemed to stop teams like Cal, UW, and Alabama from employing him and using him as their Ace recruiter. The staff assembly is a legit question, but that's going to be a question with the majority of candidates outside of the retread options.
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Give me an ace recruiter with the possibilities of a couple of slaps on the wrist over what we've had the past ten years.
 
Gary Indiana said:
After the Embree and Mac eras, I want as close to a sure thing as possible and I just do not see Tosh as that. I see that as another experiment that you hope works but you enter into with too many unknown variables.

In my opinion, Les Miles is the answer on a lot of fronts.
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I want someone who is hungry and is going to recruit his balls off and close on elite football players. Tosh has been known as one of the best recruiters in the country, knows the Pac 12 footprint well, and has spent time under the best to ever coach, in the best program we've ever seen. I think he'd bring an attitude and toughness to the team we haven't had around here since the glory years. There is some risk involved, just as there is in any coaching hire outside the known elites, but the reward could be huge.

I'd be cool with Miles, too, don't get me wrong, I just find the prospect of Lupoi pretty exciting.
 
TSchekler said:
I want someone who is hungry and is going to recruit his balls off and close on elite football players. Tosh has been known as one of the best recruiters in the country, knows the Pac 12 footprint well, and has spent time under the best to ever coach, in the best program we've ever seen. I think he'd bring an attitude and toughness to the team we haven't had around here since the glory years. There is some risk involved, just as there is in any coaching hire outside the known elites, but the reward could be huge.

I'd be cool with Miles, too, don't get me wrong, I just find the prospect of Lupoi pretty exciting.
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I lean toward Miles because the biggest thing CU needs right now is national exposure and brand development. We are on the verge of obscurity after the last 15 years. If Miles became the coach we are immediately a front page story across the country and I'm guessing our 2019 games are picked up nationally as well.

Additionally, I believe Les has the name recognition and credentials to pull together a fantastic staff. Which would include some ace recruiters. It's about time that Boulder was the place to be again.
 
That he does not have a kid that is about to be recruited to play at CU. No knock on JMac... I am just tired of coaches kids being on the roster. Having played on teams before, there is no way that does not affect a locker room and waste a spot for a contributor.
 
Gary Indiana said:
No experience as a HC, red flags around recruiting practices, and questions about what kind of staff he could assemble.
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Hard pass on Tosh Lupoi-I don't want anybody here who has been tarnished by off the field stuff.....so him, Sarkisian, etc I'd throw in there. Leavitt would be the only exception to that. Campus Conversation brought up three names during some discussion on this job-Jeff Tedford was one of them, and there's been chatter about that idea both here and on twitter (including some UCLA fans who think he'd win bigger here than at USC). He's been my #1 since the Oregon State debacle if he's interested in this job. Knows quarterbacks (would be great for Steven Montez) and has had success in this league when it was tougher than it is now (USC was a national championship contender for most of his Cal tenure). The other two were Bryan Harsin-and the only way you could sell that to this fanbase is if he's willing to not bring anyone with him from Boise (Kent Riddle, Andy Avalos, Jeff Pitman, Brad Bedell, and Eric Kiesau are all on his staff right now). Mark Helfrich would be interested in this job if it opens according to them as well.
 
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ahoelsken said:
Hard pass on Tosh Lupoi-I don't want anybody here who has been tarnished by off the field stuff.....so him, Sarkisian, etc I'd throw in there. Campus Conversation brought up three names during some discussion on this job-Jeff Tedford was one of them, and there's been chatter about that idea both here and on twitter (including some UCLA fans who think he'd win bigger here than at USC). He's been my #1 since the Oregon State debacle if he's interested in this job. Knows quarterbacks (would be great for Steven Montez) and has had success in this league when it was tougher than it is now (USC was a national championship contender for most of his Cal tenure). The other two were Bryan Harsin-and the only way you could sell that to this fanbase is if he's willing to not bring anyone with him from Boise (Kent Riddle, Andy Avalos, Jeff Pitman, Brad Bedell, and Eric Kiesau are all on his staff right now). Mark Helfrich would be interested in this job if it opens according to them as well.
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That's an awful list.
 
Harsin and Helfrich? Hell no.

Where is Harsin going to hire from if there cannot be Boise connections on his staff?

Helfrich is a nice guy, bad head coach. He botched recruiting for Oregon in a big way (did not pursue Tua much).
 
Duff Man said:
Harsin and Helfrich? Hell no.

Where is Harsin going to hire from if there cannot be Boise connections on his staff?

Helfrich is a nice guy, bad head coach. He botched recruiting for Oregon in a big way (did not pursue Tua much).
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I don't think we could pull this off because I think only an elite program could, but I'd love to have Helfrich back as OC under our new HC.
 
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