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He went from 1-12 to 5-7 to 10-2. If he's a combined 6-19, is CU touching him? If he goes let's 5-7 this season at SJSU, he looks worse. He could play his cards and see if he can repeat at San Jose St, but that's not a given. If he doesn't end up working at CU, we're going to say we hired someone off one great season.
You're ignoring his success at Duke though, a good amount of those players on that team were recruited by MacIntyre. If he goes 5-7 at SJSU his last year no one would touch him, but the same applies to every coach in the country who is at a WAC/MWC/MAC/Sun Belt school. You perform above expectations and you get promoted, that's exactly what MacIntyre did. Sorry, I'm not seeing much validity in your comment about 'striking while the iron is hot'. He didn't go 5-7 in his third year, he won 10 games and had his team ranked, you can't take that away and come up with another scenario, it happened and sports are a result oriented business.
Not really, he doesn't get as much credit because he wasn't head coach. All I'm saying is he took the CU job at the perfect time. Timing is everything in terms of these jobs. If he went back to San Jose, a job of CU"s caliber might not be there next year if he couldn't repeat the success. Teams might think it was a fluke. At 10-2, that would've been difficult to repeat, but not unachieveable.
So all hypotheticals...gotcha. SJSU was outscored by 270 points in his first year (2010), and then 70 points in his second year (2010), and then SJSU outscored their opponents by 175 in his third year...it's not like they didn't show improvement and then all of a sudden he won 10 games, every year his team showed improvement in point differential and record wise, that's not a fluke. He recruited a NFL QB as well, I don't see why, with basically the same team coming back, that he wouldn't have gotten even better record wise and point differential in 2013. When you take over a team that is about to be dropped and turn them into a ranked team and a 10 game winner in three years you're a damn good coach.
He got hired because of his progression but largely because of one year. That's all. That's striking while the iron is hot because he might not get this opportunity again if SJSU can't put up similar or better numbers next year.
He got hired because his progression each year lead to him winning 10 games in his third year. What did you expect his first two years with the state of that program?
I don't know, my point is he stroke while the iron was hot with CU. I don't think there's that much debate here. If you were him, would you have gone back to SJSU and tried to parlay that into a better job?
He would have had a greater chance of success staying where he was. He didnt exactly improve his odds of continuing success when he came here with the full cupboard.
I think he made the right move, who knows if he'll have another opportunity. It's not like he was Gus Malzahn.
With Petersen maintaining and becoming even more successful at SJSU that's why I think it's more impressive. If HCMM, had stayed at SJSU and kept it going that might've changed my opinion.
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Clearly I meant Boise in the first part instead of SJSU.
That OOC schedule his first year was nasty as well, @Alabama and @Wisconsin
I don't think Kiffin was such a WTF hire when he was hired. He turned into one. Embree was praised in many corners. Petersen isn't a slam dunk, but I think it was solid.
