Fisch has to have so many connections both college & NFL
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Mora wanted the CU job back when we hired Embree, iirc.
I’m pessimistic that we can get Babers or Holgorsen to leave their jobs. I just don’t understand why they would leave. Unless RG has got $$ which by most accounts he doesn’t.
Thoughts??
I'm taking that footballscoop list as the list of every HC's agent that contacted FS when the job came open.
I think that's probably a smart way to look at it. That's what FS is - the place where agents and coaches (sometimes ADs) can anonymously drop scoop.
BUFFjunkie
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ESPN's Adam Rittenberg writes that Colorado athletic director Rick George "wants a recognizable name with previous head-coaching experience" and lists Helfrich, Fresno State head coach Jeff Tedford, Boise State head coach Bryan Harsin and West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen as possible candidates, also saying that Syracuse head coach Dino Babers "also could be an interesting option."
Rick George was asked what he was looking for directly at the presser, and specifically did not include HC experience as a factor. The rest of this is whispers.
BUFFjunkie
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That's what Adam Rittenberg has suggested Rick George wants, but I don't believe that to be an actual quote by Rick George himself. In fact, he specifically said he was going to be looking at every available option, including on the current staff (obviously, that isn't going to happen). Point is, he is not going to limit his pool of candidates.
Cubby
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I'm thinking Rick George will have this search on EMCON Alpha and we won't hear anything until the last moment. Rittenberg doesn't know jack squat.
I do believe that RG has put the word out that he's willing to pay and that current head coaches should know that money concerns shouldn't keep them from having their agents express interest. Based on FS and other sources, it sounds like he's not limiting things in that way.
This isn't like when Mike Bohn publicly stated 6 years ago that he wanted a successful P5 head coach and then laid out a budget with a pay scale of about $2M for the position and bottom third of P5 for the assistant pool. That was so embarrassing.
I honestly think Benson trusts RG on this and RG has his blessing to use the resources he needs to get the right hire.I do believe that RG has put the word out that he's willing to pay and that current head coaches should know that money concerns shouldn't keep them from having their agents express interest. Based on FS and other sources, it sounds like he's not limiting things in that way.
This isn't like when Mike Bohn publicly stated 6 years ago that he wanted a successful P5 head coach and then laid out a budget with a pay scale of about $2M for the position and bottom third of P5 for the assistant pool. That was so embarrassing.
This AD is a steel trap.
Hoping for some grainy photos of a coach hiding behind a food cart?
Having "ESPN" on his byline certainly gets people talking to him. But he seems to be more a guy who regurgitates info than breaks it. Not exactly the the Mort of college football.
The only way we're getting info out of the AD is by doing the flight tracking routine when we get to the point at which it's likely there would be flights to track.
If stuff leaks, it will be by agents (and probably only by agents who no longer have a horse left in the race), and any leaks they make will be to try and position their clients for other jobs, promotions and raises.
Keep this last bit in mind if you hear things that sound a little sour grapish a week or so from now. The source will probably be someone or the agent of someone who got rejected...
Plus he seems to have mostly been around the B1G, so there isn't much of a geographical or regional fit, either. Always a chance a guy hears something from an agent, sure, but others have way more credibility and have time and time again proven they're really tuned in nationally.
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Just not going to happen this time. It will be fun guessing and trying to read tea leaves, but nobody will know until RG wants them to know
I frickin' love the title of this article!
At CU, it’s titles or bust: Why Buffs AD Rick George wants a coach who wants a crack at Alabama
At CU, it’s titles or bust: Why Buffs AD Rick George wants a coach who wants a crack at Alabama
I hear Tommy Tuberville has just boarded a private jet. Stay tuned.
I think Rittenberg had the scoop on one of the assistant hires this past offseason. That being said, I don't think his source was RG so he probably won't have much info this time.
I don't necessarily take that as coaches having interest... I take it as more of a "prestige" that schools have an opening.
Like, Texas State, or Colorado. Which is the better job that opened up this year. Currently, we have the best open. Perhaps if/when USC drops Helton, they will move up to 1, we would slide to 2.
Again, just don't see it as a coaches interest type of thing.
Well I sure do. He said that after they discussed usc and Ohio State likely to open up and he clearly had a different opinion of the Colorado job, which is likely a reflection on what’s he has heard from coaches he talks to. It’s going to be interesting around here and RG wil have some good candidates to process. Like I said before, there are plenty of coaches out there that see a school they can recruit the hell out of, sort of the opposite of what Mac thought about CU.
Is there any kind of an AB poll anywhere that we can start putting in our vote on the next coach? Would be nice to take maybe the top 5 or so coaches that we think would be the best fit and have a poll to vote on? I am a bottom feeder, so I am asking the experts to bless us with a poll.