Another way to do things on the cheap. Let's just get a great coach and pay him!
Such as?
There have been plenty of discussions on who could replace hawk. I would just like to see us step up and pay a big name coach (whoever?) the best coach we could afford I guess I should say. I don't want to reach again and hope we get someone to make a difference.
My head is spinning, are we serious here?? Is this really a possibility?
I hate the idea, no offense to Mac, but a lot has happened in 16 years. Hell the internet wasn't really around 16 years ago - is Mac going to text recruits and friend them on facebook? This just sems wierd.
When KSU brought Snyder back, that seemed like a deperation move and he was only gone 3 years.
By all means give him an AD post, but head coach?? I'm leery.
CU can afford to pay someone about $1.5 million dollars. Tops.
That's not going to attract any "big name" coach.
I think in a few years we will be able to afford more than that to a coach, add in our new location and we will be a very attractive job IMO. However, big name coaches don't pan out at Colorado.
I'm calling it right now if they decide to do it, they will hire Embree or EB as HC and add coach Mac as the team Chaplain. Would be perfect.
I agree.
Colorado just isn't a place where "big name" coaches want to go. They pay like crap (assistants included). The attendance sucks. The fans are fickle. The media trashes the University non-stop. The academic standards are impossible to deal with. I could go on and on and on. This isn't Oklahoma or Nebraska or Texas or Wisconsin or Michigan or anything of the sort.
Colorado's last three coaches have been: Neuheisel - an assistant coach before coming to CU; Barnett - head coach at Northwestern and long-time CU assistant; and Dan Hawkins, head coach at BSU.
CU's best shot at getting someone who could be considered a "big name" would be to go out and hire the offensive / defensive coordinator from OU or Texas or Miami or USC or something like that.
I think it's possible that 4 or 5 years from now CU might have more money to pay a coach, might have better attendance, might have better fan reception, etc. I think the move to the Pac-10 is going to help in a lot of those respects. But not immediately. Not for 4 or 5 years.
Do you think Joe Paterno does much texting / facebooking? Or do you think he leaves those sorts of things up to the experts (i.e. his assistant coaches)?
My head is spinning, are we serious here?? Is this really a possibility?
I hate the idea, no offense to Mac, but a lot has happened in 16 years. Hell the internet wasn't really around 16 years ago - is Mac going to text recruits and friend them on facebook? This just sems wierd.
When KSU brought Snyder back, that seemed like a deperation move and he was only gone 3 years.
By all means give him an AD post, but head coach?? I'm leery.
Umm... yeah. I certainly don't want someone with the religious baggage Mac has anywhere near CU as a chaplain.
Yeah, God forbid the team chaplain actually be, you know, religious....
Yeah, God forbid the team chaplain actually be, you know, religious....
SD has this same rumor on Rivals now, but from a different source.
Mac wants to get back into coaching.
My thought is that if he wants to be the CEO of the program, has the budget to hire a tremendous staff for the Xs and Os work, and can bring in someone like Jon Embree to be the Assistant Head Coach (in-waiting HC) to handle the administrative stuff... then I think this would be an actual home run hire.
Mac is the best we could find for increasing donations, increasing media exposure, motivating the team, guiding the personal development of the players in the program, and building the relationships with high school coaches and prospect parents that are the key to recruiting. Basically, he needs to be Colorado's JoePa and he's 14 years younger (and always has been at least as energetic). If this can happen, then it needs to happen.
You know he would bring in great assistants. That was always his MO and I would not expect that to change.