DexBuffsteen
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Football coaches and used car salesmen are pretty much at the same level on the evolutionary scale.
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Leavitt to Oregon
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I dont hate him for taking what hes worth. He doubled to nearly trippled his salary. We came in at half that. Its only a couple of times in your life that your a hot commodity with people trying to hire you. Especially when you are in a business where you can go from hot to not quick.
Im a little mad at CU for low balling.
What are you talking about? Low balling? Reports I saw had us offering somewhere in the neighborhood of $900k which would have made him the highest paid PAC 12 assistant and top 20 in the country.
And he is making $1.2m/yr at Oregon, but has a 4 year deal there which was not an option here.
Why was a 4 year deal not an option?
As much as we may not like him now he is a very good coach. He proved it at South Florida and has proven it since then, most recently here.
He wants to be a head coach and unless things crash around him at Oregon he will get another shot, either at a P5 school or at an upper end G5 school and at his age he will take it.
Oregon better be ready to see him go after members of their staff and their recruiting class when he does. Nature of the business and how he does it.
Would have liked to have him here another year or two but I don't expect him to be at Oregon long either.
I don't understand that.
I work with a guy who is a KState grad and who's brother is tight with the AD. When I mentioned Leavitt's "out" in his contract if KState offers, he gave that little "whence" look and said, sort of, "Welllllll, I'm not so sure we would offer him the job....". So that's what I base my opinion on.
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I don't know that he would get the K-State job but I have no question that somebody is going to want him in the next couple years.
K-State also may have an exaggerated opinion of the value of their job. Minus Snyder KjSU isn't a great destination. Last time he retired he left the program in solid shape and it fell apart quickly. This time the new coach will have less going for him.
KjSU no longer has as big an advantage with JuCos as they used to. They don't have a great fan base, it isn't looked at as an elite football school (or even one of those schools that will always be good.) Kids don't go there because they want to spend 4 years on that campus and their position in terms of conference isn't good.
I don't see a line of great coaches wanting to follow Snyder. They may have to go to JL by default.
Put on your reading glasses. His BROTHER is tight with the AD. Not "some guy." I have no reason to not believe. He also said "not so sure," as in they could hire him but there is a good chance they won't. He also really likes Leavitt, so it isn't as if he has an agenda.
I know all, you bastard!!
It's a BIG plastic pill case, thank you very much!
I don't have a problem with head coaches taking other jobs and bringing recruits with them, that's fairly common especially when it's from a G5 to a P5.
I do have a problem with Leavitt and Clark taking lateral jobs to an in conference team and trying to flip our commits. That's low class, and not nearly as common.
I do have a problem with Leavitt and Clark taking lateral jobs to an in conference team and trying to flip our commits. That's low class, and not nearly as common.
They both owe CU a great deal of gratitude. To go to a rival is one thing but to try to take recruits is slimy.
How does a recruit feel when a coach suddenly changes his mind over night?
"Come to CU! We're awesome!! We're building something special and we want you to be part of it! That campus is so awesome!"
"Nevermind, I've changed my mind. Disregard what I've told you so far. Oregon is awesome!"
I know this is apples and oranges, but if I were to go to the private sector and helped my new company bid on jobs I had direct knowledge of, I'd be guilty of an ethics violation. CU employed Leavitt and Clark to recruit these guys to CU. To me, for them to use relationships that CU paid them to develop and then turn around and use those relationships for the benefit of one of our competitors is unethical. Illegal? No. but unethical and dishonorable.
This just tells me that Oregon's old staff was absolutely clueless in all phases (obviously not a big statement there), but their new staff is offering almost every player CU has targeted. Leavitt obviously doesnt like anyone on D they are bringing in from the old staff.
Maybe it's all Leavitt.... but its a good sign for the evaluations our staff has done.
I don't mind Leavitt and Clark going after Slade-Matautia and Barnes, guys who are high on our board but are uncommitted. I definitely hope our new DC and DB coach continue to try to recruit uncommitted targets (or targets who committed to other teams than they coached for) they've built relationships with. It would feel dirty to poach ones they worked to get a commitment for their previous team tho.
They help cultivate the relationships at CU and then use the Oregon brand to try and flip.