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CU officially hires Mel Tucker as new Head Football Coach

Wyo Buff said:
Don't worry. No one knows who is staying or who is going at this point. HCMT will make those decisions after he meets with the current coaches tomorrow.
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He'll keep 1-2. I don't think we've seen a change since the advent of the early period where the entire staff leaves.
 
Taking a step back to consider how utterly ****ing stupid it is that I was so upset and stressed about a Wednesday announcement with a Thursday press conference instead of a Sunday announcement with a Monday press conference. This may be the biggest nothing burger freakout in the history of Allbuffs. :ROFLMAO:
 
Buffnik said:
Taking a step back to consider how utterly ****ing stupid it is that I was so upset and stressed about a Wednesday announcement with a Thursday press conference instead of a Sunday announcement with a Monday press conference. This may be the biggest nothing burger freakout in the history of Allbuffs. :ROFLMAO:
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Yeah. I've calmed down the past few days. We have to look big picture and long term. RG is setting CU up for success. I'm so happy right now.
 
buffedup said:
Chris Childers and slick Rick on the Full Ride show on ESPNU XM radio just talked about Colorado and Mel Tucker for about 8 minutes and echoed Allbuffs with “what the hell is taking so long?”

Rick talked about the critical time being lost for recruiting, etc with a lot of specifics.

So it just confirmed that our freaking out has been fully justified.
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Screw Tricky Rick, except for his take on Larry Scott which is right on. I actually think Rick would be a good guy in the PAC 12 office. He's smart, he has run down 1/4 of the football programs in the PAC 12 and I think he would be good at the politics.
 
buffedup said:
Chris Childers and slick Rick on the Full Ride show on ESPNU XM radio just talked about Colorado and Mel Tucker for about 8 minutes and echoed Allbuffs with “what the hell is taking so long?”

Rick talked about the critical time being lost for recruiting, etc with a lot of specifics.

So it just confirmed that our freaking out has been fully justified.
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What the F does Rick know about critical timing for recruiting. He left CU on our biggest recruiting weekend of the year! F him.
 
A lady I work with is an Okie St. grad and her brother is a professor their. The faculty was posed when T. Boone donates $150 million, or whatever it was, to athletics. But I think they’ve gotten over it. I think he has also given a Brinks truckload or two to the academic side.
 
Wyo Buff said:
Screw Tricky Rick, except for his take on Larry Scott which is right on. I actually think Rick would be a good guy in the PAC 12 office. He's smart, he has run down 1/4 of the football programs in the PAC 12 and I think he would be good at the politics.
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He's great at the PR and politics. Likable guy. I'd love to have him as a former Pac-12 coach representative on the AD Council (and for that council to have a lot more power). Belotti would be another good choice if we wanted more of a "no nonsense" type guy in a role like that.

Also - Mel Tucker is the truth and our Buffs are gonna be winning a lot of damn football games!
 
buffedup said:
Chris Childers and slick Rick on the Full Ride show on ESPNU XM radio just talked about Colorado and Mel Tucker for about 8 minutes and echoed Allbuffs with “what the hell is taking so long?”

Rick talked about the critical time being lost for recruiting, etc with a lot of specifics.

So it just confirmed that our freaking out has been fully justified.
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Cool you guys are just like Ricky.
 
Buffnik said:
Taking a step back to consider how utterly ****ing stupid it is that I was so upset and stressed about a Wednesday announcement with a Thursday press conference instead of a Sunday announcement with a Monday press conference. This may be the biggest nothing burger freakout in the history of Allbuffs. :ROFLMAO:
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Depends if the assistant coaching moves go more quickly. Because CU being slower than everyone else on hires like this one should not just be brushed off.
 
buffs04 said:
The bottom line is that at serious research universities --- and CU is most certainly a serious research university --- faculty members care about getting tenure, publishing their research, (sometimes) advising their graduate students, and teaching undergraduates, more or less in that order. Campus politics are viewed as basically an administrative burden, and any faculty member that seriously involved themselves in such affairs would likely be viewed scornfully by at least some of his colleagues (of course, there are exceptions). Furthermore, most researchers at schools like CU take a job in the best department that will have them, not the department located in a town that is most aligned with their political views. Consequently, the political leanings of a faculty at CU are on average unlikely to be much different than a faculty at Ohio State, or at Georgia, or at any other major research school.

The view of CU as some sort of especially-lefty ivory tower crammed full of athletics-hating libtards is a farce, IMO. The "libs gone wild" campus politics that are covered by media mostly belong to liberal arts colleges, which are totally different environments than CU in just about every way.
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So it is the residents of Boulder, not the faculty, that marches with torches and pitchforks? Sounds about right, since that is the mob the elected regents seem to pander to. I continue to be amazed (or maybe baffled is the right word) at how educated and intelligent people can get so shortsighted and nasty when a vote comes around regardless of what the vote is for, or which side of that vote they are supporting.
 
Duff Man said:
Depends if the assistant coaching moves go more quickly. Because CU being slower than everyone else on hires like this one should not just be brushed off.
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I think it's funny how you've got the impatience and knee-jerk moves of your Auburn family influences on one side coupled with the glacial pace and justifications for lowered expectations you see from CU as a fan. Like you're shouting for the sanity of the program to please start behaving inside the venn diagram overlap where our crazy could meet in bliss. :ROFLMAO:
 
Buffnik said:
I think it's funny how you've got the impatience and knee-jerk moves of your Auburn family influences on one side coupled with the glacial pace and justifications for lowered expectations you see from CU as a fan. Like you're shouting for the sanity of the program to please start behaving inside the venn diagram overlap where our crazy could meet in bliss. :ROFLMAO:
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Heh.

Just saying the new staff has a lot of work to do on 2020 recruiting (it might even be more important) in January, not just 2019. Most/all of the new staff needs to be in place.
 
buffedup said:
My points are:

1. Just because Rick sucks as a coach, doesn’t mean he is wrong, He was actually a pretty good recruiter.

2. They were wondering the same thing we were. What is taking so long?
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Who knows. Maybe we were waiting on Ohio St. to officially commit to Day. As long as it gets done and done right is all that matters. The wailing that was going on over the difference of 24-48 hours was comical.
 
dio said:
What is your evidence for this?

Let me assure you, the faculty doesn't think about athletics nearly as much as this site thinks.
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To be fair the number of them is very limited but I have personally heard a couple of them express this sentiment. There are certainly also those who are strong supporters, who see athletics as an integral part of the college experience and benefit to the school. I have no idea of the percentages but most probably fall in the group you identified, those who simply don't put a lot of thought into it either way. Those who give it no more concern than they do some other academic department or the landscaping and grounds department.

Unfortunately out of those small numbers there tend to be the ones who are more vocal about it. Same applies with those who's views are outliers but they end up running for office and getting elected as a regent.
 
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