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Would Jon Embree have lasted longer in the CFL?

MtnBuff said:
After the way he handled his exit from CU I don't think he is ever going to get the chance but I'm not sure that Embree couldn't be a decent head coach someplace down the road.

He would need to have some time as a coordinator working under a head coach who is good at developing coordinators into head coaches. I can and do blame JE for how things ended and for going into a me against the world panic mode in his last year but I do think he is an intelligent guys who is hard working and based on his history I think could relate well with pro players.

I don't think his personality and expectations work well with college players. I also think that he was thoroughly unprepared to be a head coach when he took over the CU job. He had never been a coordinator, never been in a position where he was responsible for a side of the ball, never been the person in charge of coordinating or making final recruiting decisions, etc.
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Never say never IMO, he'll have to pay his dues but I wouldn't say down the road he couldn't get one. In fairness, he was set-up to fail at CU IMO.
 
cubuffs85 said:
Never say never IMO, he'll have to pay his dues but I wouldn't say down the road he couldn't get one. In fairness, he was set-up to fail at CU IMO.
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He set himself up to fail at CU. He had plenty of resources upon which to draw, why didn't he use them?

If I was him, I would have had Mac in my backpocket from Day One. Then I would have sat in a room with all my assistants who were former HCs and picked their brains clean on what they did wrong and what they did right. Why he didn't do that remains a mystery.
 
WizzersGhost said:
He set himself up to fail at CU. He had plenty of resources upon which to draw, why didn't he use them?

If I was him, I would have had Mac in my backpocket from Day One. Then I would have sat in a room with all my assistants who were former HCs and picked their brains clean on what they did wrong and what they did right. Why he didn't do that remains a mystery.
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He had mac in his pocket, he had at least one former HC on staff.
 
Hawkins was definitely a better coach than Embree. Neither knew wtf they were doing on game day but Hawkins could at least recruit. A lot of his high-profile guys didn't pan out, but I think that at least some of that is small sample size stuff. Embree couldn't coach or recruit.
 
Lmao Embree couldnt coach Alabama to a bowl game. He will never be a HC again and rightfully so
 
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