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Darrin Chiaverini relieved of his duties as Offensive Coordinator

InTheBuff said:
Wonder if this keeps any players from entering the portal.
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From an anonymous player on AMA Reddit



Is there ever a lot of talk about transferring in the locker room? Do teammates know someone is planning on transferring or do they usually learn when everyone else does?

Depends on how close you are with those players. Similar to leaving a job I’m sure, you generally tell the people you trust so it’ll stay low. But if you just ask guys will normally vaguely hint at their answer. And yes, there is. Unless some people get fired
 
WarBuff said:
From an anonymous player on AMA Reddit



Is there ever a lot of talk about transferring in the locker room? Do teammates know someone is planning on transferring or do they usually learn when everyone else does?

Depends on how close you are with those players. Similar to leaving a job I’m sure, you generally tell the people you trust so it’ll stay low. But if you just ask guys will normally vaguely hint at their answer. And yes, there is. Unless some people get fired
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Has anybody posted this before?
 
GawainBuff said:
I have to say, if I had an employment contract like these guys have, I would be thrilled to be fired. Hang at home with the wife. Ride my bike for hours every day. Still have huge checks deposited into my bank account. Buy a super-high-end bike. No responsibility. Just free money. Fire me, please!!!

Hey. Maybe this is the explanation for play-calling all along?
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Yup. It's THE dream to be a fired college FB coach. 100%.
 
Bracing for the obligatory Chev self-promo campaign. After a couple months of near silence, watch his socials turn to 150% “Chev is the best thing ever” content over the coming weeks.

Good riddance
 
CU IT guy said:
Yup. It's THE dream to be a fired college FB coach. 100%.
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I didn't realize he only has one year left on the contract: $650,000. That ends up at $300,000 or so in the bank. Shoot. That's not THE dream, completely. At some point, he's going to have to go back to work--or move to Guadalajara and live on tortas and pitayas. Tough call. I don't see Chev making the Ted Lasso shift to coaching soccer.
 
J.R. Ewing said:
Unless the new OC is given free reign to implement their offense, I fear most of this will be rearranging deck chair on Titanic.
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According to coach speak, KD wants to go differently, implying he wasn't or won't be involved in OC'ing:
"I believe it’s just time to go in a different direction. We need a new perspective, which can bring new life and a different energy along with it."
 
OsideBuff said:
Agreed..this clearly wasnt Chevs offense..
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I was looking at Chev's resume. I guess I'd forgotten the short relevant history as OC: he only made it to Power 5 in 2014 as the special teams/outside receivers coach at Texas Tech for two years. In 2016 he was brought to CU as a co-offensive coordinator with Lindgren (who called the plays). When Lindgren left in 2018, Chev became OC.

So, he had one stretch of 5 games in 2018 where we went 5-0 and had a productive offense, before going 0-7 to finish the year, averaging under 20 points a game (with a junior, returning starter QB). Mel Tucker came in in 2019 and demoted Chev to just receivers' coach. Then KD a year later promoted him back up to OC after the late hire. I don't recall us having much in the way of good, creative, or interesting offenses over any of the time he has been in charge of it.

So, I think it's overstating it to claim that "this wasn't Chev's offense," as if he has some history of successful offenses with his stamp on them.
 
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GawainBuff said:
I didn't realize he only has one year left on the contract: $650,000. That ends up at $300,000 or so in the bank. Shoot. That's not THE dream, completely. At some point, he's going to have to go back to work--or move to Guadalajara and live on tortas and pitayas. Tough call. I don't see Chev making the Ted Lasso shift to coaching soccer.
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300,000 after taxes to NOT come back to work and basically be paid to look for a job? He will land SOMEwhere....that's now football coaching is....might get a pay cut down to 300k before taxes at the next school, worst case.
 
GawainBuff said:
I was looking at Chev's resume. I guess I'd forgotten the short relevant history as OC: he only made it to Power 5 in 2014 as the special teams/outside receivers coach at Texas Tech for two years. In 2016 he was brought to CU as a co-offensive coordinator with Lindgren (who called the plays). When Lindgren left in 2018, Chev became OC.

So, he had one stretch of 5 games in 2018 where we went 5-0 and had a productive offense, before going 0-7 to finish the year, averaging under 20 points a game (with a junior, returning starter QB). Mel Tucker came in in 2019 and demoted Chev to just receivers' coach. Then KD a year later promoted him back up to OC after the late hire. I don't recall us having much in the way of good, creative, or interesting offenses over any of the time he has been in charge of it.

So, I think it's overstating it to claim that "this wasn't Chev's offense," as if he has some history of successful offenses with his stamp on them.
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Once defenses figured out how to stop Viska, Chev ran out of ideas.
 
Duff Man said:
He is not near the bottom either. What difference makers is he landing on the DL?
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This is a huge question.

I thought the effort on defense this year was more than acceptable but outside of a very few players we had no playmakers, no guys who regularly won one on one matchups, especially on the D-Line.

When we went with a basic 3 man rush they might as well have been working on one of the left over blocking sleds, engage and get tied up in a stand-off.

We rarely busted a pocket or disrupted a running play in the backfield if it wasn't on a blitz, the same blitzes that left us open to big plays in holes left by the blitzer(s.)

Coaching matters and can make a difference but ultimately talent makes the difference. Give Chev Ohio State's offensive talent or Wilson Georgia's defensive talent and they would win a lot of games, maybe a few less than the current coaches but still win a lot of games.

Problem with that idea is that nobody "gives" you talent, the only way to get it is to go out and recruit it, and before somebody brings up the portal that requires recruiting effort as well to get the players that other teams also want.

We can change coaches and still need to make some coaching changes but until we have a recruiting based culture we will never be better than those teams that out recruit us, which right now is most of them.
 
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