*Maybe* someone can press him on the vague answers.
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CU Buffs hire former Minnesota OC Mike Sanford as their new OC
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*Maybe* someone can press him on the vague answers.
HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA!
Part of me wants answers, the other part wants a 2am announcement on New Year's Day. Just for the fun of it all.
HarleyCycler
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How about an optimistic take? I think it’s possible that they have a deal in place with Marion but aren’t announcing it until after the Pitt bowl game. Nik mentioned there was ‘smoke’ around Marion a week ago and since then Pitt has lost their OC but hasn’t promoted Marion even though he is well thought of there. Maybe he agreed to stay on to help them out by coaching in the bowl game. 
Bliff Cranch
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KD and RG think they’re smarter than everyone else.
This is a promotion. It wouldn't be viewed as him jumping ship. There is no reason they couldn't announce it if that were the hire. Pitt doesn't play until Dec 30.How about an optimistic take? I think it’s possible that they have a deal in place with Marion but aren’t announcing it until after the Pitt bowl game. Nik mentioned there was ‘smoke’ around Marion a week ago and since then Pitt has lost their OC but hasn’t promoted Marion even though he is well thought of there. Maybe he agreed to stay on to help them out by coaching in the bowl game.
Correct.
My take is KD definitely prepared for this, for as much as I don't think KD is a good HC, it's not for lack of trying. He probably had a list going, but that list is probably loaded with NFL guys because that's where he has spent the majority of his recent career. Since he got fired by UCLA in 2007, he has spent all of 1 year at the college level before becoming the HC here. His rolodex is NFL af. So, we're probably waiting for the NFL season to end to make the hire.
If asked about the recruiting aspect, I think KD would say it's more about making the right hire.
So, to us, it looks like a mess with no urgency, which the lack of urgency isn't wrong, but I doubt any of us are longing for some NFL guy to roll in and bring an NFL system with him, so we discount that possibility.
If asked about the recruiting aspect, I think KD would say it's more about making the right hire.
So, to us, it looks like a mess with no urgency, which the lack of urgency isn't wrong, but I doubt any of us are longing for some NFL guy to roll in and bring an NFL system with him, so we discount that possibility.
Nice pep talk.
Yeah. Every coach since Donahue has struggled. Kind of comparable to CU. Except when we suck, we go the extra mile. No 4-5's for us. We like to do the 0-9's or the 1-8's. We are ****ing great at sucking.
Nope. Never lived in any city called Manhattan, although I still feel proud that my first land ownership was on Manhattan Drive in Boulder, CO.
Many of buddies in LA were tuned in Bruins football fans. I trust their opinions about the state of their program, as they understand college football. Dorrell isn’t a better head coach of college football today than he was in the mid-2000s. That’s a major problem for Colorado.
But you live in Manhattan now.
They let you own land in a Boulder? I figured you could only be a guardian of the land there
White people love private property.
No thanks. But because you asked, he makes $190k with up to $72,500 in incentives.
Given that he feels no urgency to recruit high level prospects, and that he believes it's more important to hire great teachers - this is entirely accurate.
Making a hire on a timeline to improve recruiting doesn't make any sense to him. It's more important to get a good teacher in place, because good teachers can work with any player that really wants to be a Buff.
The layers in this comment...
This is what I want to know.
This should be the biggest red flag for any AD. When a coach rolls in and disregards recruiting in favor of "teaching" or "coaching em up" you gotta end that ****ing interview immediately
..or sign that coach to a fully guaranteed contract
Bliff Cranch
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It's OK if the new guy isn't as good at recruiting if your last coach built up an sec style recruiting operation because you can just keep that operation running.
How many fans speak fondly of their past, fired coaches in any city? Except for Barnett here, maybe, for different reasons. There are a few.
5 bowl games in 5 years? Competing against Pete’s juggernaut at USC (paying players?). Sure. That’s not enough in LA. But a reasonably young HC’s only shot? I don’t get why everyone presumes that a HC can’t get better a second time around? Sure things sucked this year. No doubt. We’ll see.
I feel like you don’t understand what I wrote. Let me be clearer: 1) while Dorrell was coaching UCLA, the people whose opinions about college football I trust and who also follow UCLA did not like his performance largely because recruiting degraded as he was the coach. He has not improved. He is probably worse today than he was a decade and a half ago. At least then, his offensive concepts weren’t totally outdated. 2) Dorrell has been bad since day one at Colorado. His inability to put together a staff that can recruit and produce a competitive on field product is really poor. Colorado was lucky to win four games this season.
I was going to invite you to stay at my apartment until your little rant about only staying over at rich people's houses.