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Official Coaching Search Thread

hawg1 said:
Steve Addazio
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Doesn’t seem to have the recruiting chops. Not sure how difficult it is to recruit to BC but his classes have hovered in the mid-70’s according to 247. He does coach tough, hard-nosed football though.
 
hawg1 said:
Steve Addazio
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I'm not big on Addazio for Colorado. He's in the right place. Perfect fit for Boston College.

However, I am a huge fan of his Offensive Coordinator. If we could get Scot Loeffler for OC/ QB Coach I think we'd be very happy. Makes sense as a possibility if the hire for HC is someone who comes from the Urban tree or is more of a defensive or smashmouth type philosophy. Loeffler was OC at Temple, Auburn and VA Tech before the BC job. He's developed the traditional pro style offense built around OL, TEs and a pro style QB (think Michigan when he was QB coach for Brady, Griese and Henne) into a no huddle, fast paced power attack. Very creative and it would fit the in-state talent in Colorado. Someone coming out of the Lloyd Carr and Urban Meyer coaching trees (he coached Tebow at Florida) to run our offense, develop our identity and coach our QBs would not suck at all.
 
http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries/

I know this link was posted somewhere else but, couldn't find it. Hypothetically speaking if Rick George is able to spend $4 million per season on a coach and push CU into the top 25 of coaching salaries who of the potential candidates would be worth that kind of pay day?

My thought would be that only Dana Holgorsen, Matt Campbell, and Jeff Brohm would be worth shelling out that kind of money. Don't think any of the P5 assistants like Lake, Aranda, or Tucker would be worth paying that without already having P5 head coaching experience.

Had to chuckle at Lovie Smith making a cool $5 million on that list. Ouch!

Also a note on Holgorsen, I think WV would let him go if CU were to offer him a raise to the $4 million range.
 
I think Aranda would absolutely be worth $4m/year and that’s probably what it would take for him anyways. Tucker would probably demand close to that as well, IMO. Lake would be cheaper because of only having one year of experience as a coordinator, but if he’s the guy RG identifies as the right coach for CU, then go get him and pay him accordingly.
 
GoBuffs7 said:
http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries/

I know this link was posted somewhere else but, couldn't find it. Hypothetically speaking if Rick George is able to spend $4 million per season on a coach and push CU into the top 25 of coaching salaries who of the potential candidates would be worth that kind of pay day?

My thought would be that only Dana Holgorsen, Matt Campbell, and Jeff Brohm would be worth shelling out that kind of money. Don't think any of the P5 assistants like Lake, Aranda, or Tucker would be worth paying that without already having P5 head coaching experience.

Had to chuckle at Lovie Smith making a cool $5 million on that list. Ouch!

Also a note on Holgorsen, I think WV would let him go if CU were to offer him a raise to the $4 million range.
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Brian Kelly at only $2.1M? That can’t be right.
 
GoBuffs7 said:
http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries/

I know this link was posted somewhere else but, couldn't find it. Hypothetically speaking if Rick George is able to spend $4 million per season on a coach and push CU into the top 25 of coaching salaries who of the potential candidates would be worth that kind of pay day?

My thought would be that only Dana Holgorsen, Matt Campbell, and Jeff Brohm would be worth shelling out that kind of money. Don't think any of the P5 assistants like Lake, Aranda, or Tucker would be worth paying that without already having P5 head coaching experience.

Had to chuckle at Lovie Smith making a cool $5 million on that list. Ouch!

Also a note on Holgorsen, I think WV would let him go if CU were to offer him a raise to the $4 million range.
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I'm down with that Holgorsen plan.

I also like the idea of hiring a guy like Schiano ($1.5M at tOSU right now) at around $3M (what he made as the Tampa Bay HC). But having a 50% or so bump to the entire coaching salary pool so that he could hire elite coordinators (especially OC) and build a staff of assassins on the recruiting trail.

Or, if Schiano's reputation was unfairly destroyed by Tennessee last year and it's simply not politically feasible to name him HC, I'd be down with hiring a HC like Jedd Fisch and bringing in Schiano as a $1.5M-$1.8M defensive coordinator. He's still only 52 years old. Kind of guy on staff who would mitigate the concerns with Fisch (inexperienced as a HC and could jump in 2 years if he gets offered another job that intrigues him based on his vagabond history).
 
Buffnik said:
I'm not big on Addazio for Colorado. He's in the right place. Perfect fit for Boston College.

However, I am a huge fan of his Offensive Coordinator. If we could get Scot Loeffler for OC/ QB Coach I think we'd be very happy. Makes sense as a possibility if the hire for HC is someone who comes from the Urban tree or is more of a defensive or smashmouth type philosophy. Loeffler was OC at Temple, Auburn and VA Tech before the BC job. He's developed the traditional pro style offense built around OL, TEs and a pro style QB (think Michigan when he was QB coach for Brady, Griese and Henne) into a no huddle, fast paced power attack. Very creative and it would fit the in-state talent in Colorado. Someone coming out of the Lloyd Carr and Urban Meyer coaching trees (he coached Tebow at Florida) to run our offense, develop our identity and coach our QBs would not suck at all.
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Yes. Like him.
 
manhattanbuf said:
You don’t think the search firm has already been hired?
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Yeah I was going to say that would be an extremely slow timeline. It’s been 5 days since MM has been fired and Rick George has known it was coming for the last 2-3 weeks. IF there is even an actual search firm, I’m assuming they’ve been hired and working on the process for at least 3-4 days now. I don’t think it’d be surprising if a hire announcement was made by next Wednesday/Thursday.
 
TSchekler said:
Yeah I was going to say that would be an extremely slow timeline. It’s been 5 days since MM has been fired and Rick George has known it was coming for the last 2-3 weeks. IF there is even an actual search firm, I’m assuming they’ve been hired and working on the process for at least 3-4 days now. I don’t think it’d be surprising if a hire announcement was made by next Wednesday/Thursday.
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I'd be shocked if it was any sooner then Dec 3rd
 
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