a case for Ken Niumatalolo

[stampy]

Calhoun is an Air Force alum. I'd be surprised to see him leave for CU.

I wouldn't, at $600k, he makes slightly more than half the amount of the lowest paid coaches in the B12.

 

[White_Rabbit]

There is current hating on small conference coaches only because Hawkins is a small conference coach, but anyone who turns that into a blanket example should read the bios of Urban Meyer and Jim Tressel.

I'm not sold 100% on this guy either, but the Johnson hire and his offense has been enormously successful, this is his protege, and I like the prospect of re-introducing the option to the foothills.

Their bios include coaching at big time BCS programs before they got their HC gigs at smaller schools. I could be wrong, but I think someone said Niumatalolo has none of that. I too wouldn't overly mind the option since we can't seem to get a big time QB in here, but I just don't think we really want to go down that route unless we can get Johnson, which we can't. We have nothing but pro style QBs here now and coming in. I guess Hansen and Spond could be decent option QBs in a pinch, but then what do we do with Evans and Hirschmann?

Nonetheless before I wander too far off point, the option is pretty bleak. It's basically coached by what, 4 coaches? We can't get Johnson. Calhoun and Niumatalolo aren't that great of candidates and Solich? Yikes.

I think we can all agree that we don't really care what kind of offense the next coach runs, so long as it puts up points. I'm not a huge fan of the spread, but if we can get Brian Kelly in here I'll be ecstatic. It doesn't seem like the pro style offense is going over particularly well this year, but if we can get someone that coaches that well and it'll put up points then great. If we hire Niumatalolo and the option runs over the Big12 en route to numerous championships, you can hold it over my head until the end of time.

 

[aik]

I only want us to interview coaches who run the ski gun, dammit!