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I like Grimes a lot, but he should convert himself into a G5 or lower HC, so he can be judged on that. He has so many boxes checked, but lack of any HC experience gives me caution, even though he feels like a great option, but below some others right now.
Plenty of examples of coordinators becoming P5 HCs without G5 HC experience. Of course, you have to have leaders in the athletic department who excel at understanding how to interview and vet a candidate to determine if he’s the right person for the job.
Understood, but I guess I have Embree/Hackett syndrome, where they are learning on the job, and I do not care how much experience and brilliance a guy has, the ability to learn the nuances of leadership and running a program are a big deal. Someone should put a chart together with all the factors that we think RG will be using to hire someone, and maybe we can compare all these candidates in a fair way.
Wouldn’t a search committee be a good idea for this reason? Somehow it seems they got focused on “stability” with the last hire. I would hope we’re looking at more than just one thing and have a whole list of criteria?
That's why I want someone who has recently been successful as a HC, has significant P5 experience, and who brings a program identify that fits CU culture.
Embree was not qualified in any way shape or form, so just throw him out as an outlier in this discussion. Hackett is 5 games in and obviously having issues with “his” side of the ball, but the defense and ST look to be the best they’ve been in a while. Regardless, he could still be a failure, as you said.
Previous HC experience should be a tie breaker, not determining factor
I have been trying to remember anything related to the KD hire and what and how he filled any parts of a qualification chart or energizing the fan base.
Not to me. I'm very risk averse with this hire and there is a great pool of candidates this year who fit that profile.
I looked through this thread, and I found a bunch of places where you said you think he's "a really good coach."
I think that Bronco M is a much more likely candidate than Herman. Barring a huge change in admissions/transfer policy getting Herman is not realistic, as he'll have much better choices than CU if he wants to get back in now. Wish that wasn't the case and I'd like to be wrong.
Fits what culture exactly? The culture now that Dr. Phil and RG have built? Genuinely curious.
CU is not a place that can hitch its sail to donor culture or a plan that would be a football factory with a university loosely attached to it.
What’s CU’s culture?
Again, though, Hawkins and MacIntyre were risk averse coaches. If you’re talking about guys who have P5 HC experience, then I can get on board, but I don’t see how Cigneti (for example) is any more risk averse than Grimes.
Don't get me wrong. I'm a big Calhoun fan as a Service Academy HC. Or as an Ivy League or Patriot League FCS HC. The guy is tough as nails but has coached in a very different situation than he'd find himself in at CU and I doubt he'd be very successful in the transition.
Don’t want that search history on my personal device. I’ll wait until I get back to work after the long weekend.
Of course we can't. I'm just making fun of Howell that Matt Rhule wouldn't be a top choice here.
I think Nebraska makes him a “Mel Tucker” kind of offer.
The Panthers owe him $40m over the next 4 years, so assuming he has a similar offset in his Panthers contract that most coaches do, CU could pay him their going rate of $4m and he would still get $6m from Carolina. If that's the case, his salary over the next 4 years is likely to be the same whether he's coaching in Boulder, Lincoln, Madison, Tempe or Auburn.
Nebraska is going to make a "Mel Tucker" kind of offer for a couple of coaches before settling for a "Mel Tucker"
I'd assume that if Rhule wants to work, he'll negotiate a lump sum buyout like Chryst did so he gets more than half that money owed immediately and is free to sign a new contract without offset complications.
