What if CU hired Scott Frost away from UCF?
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What's the biggest "What if" in CU football history?
- Thread starter The Alabaster Yak
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We’d be a poorly coached, underachieving team, with coaches who prey on coeds. Is this some sort of trick question?
No trick question. Perhaps a hangover induced wishful thought.
I understood why he took the job, but he must have some dark, introspective moments wondering what might have been, if he had stayed at UCF.
Nebraska for “a pox on your house”
Some great questions in this thread. End of the day, the one that hit me hardest in the gut was “what if CU had done a national search after McCartney retired?”
I was young when this went down and did not appreciate the gravity of how poorly CU ( Was it Marolt?) handled that hiring. its difficult to imagine now, but on the national stage, CU was roughly where Clemson was a couple years ago. Upstart, hugely talented underdogs with a dynamic coach who players loved. Two NATL title games in two years and just barely missed out on a third.
We could have had our pick of coaches and kept the momentum rolling. Instead, we made an internal hire of a 32 year old QB coach and became a national joke in the process. That is the moment we went bush league.
The amazing thing about rick is he convinced two other programs to hire him after he took the Ferrari McCartney left him and drove it off a cliff. The fundamental problems he created at CU were totally obvious after just 3 years.
He must be great at interviewing.
What if Mike Mac played Laviska his freshman year? Would he have been worth the 3 pts at AZ? Maybe we win that UCLA game.
If so Mike Mac goes 10-2 and possibly 7-5 in back to back years. Would he still be coach?
If so Mike Mac goes 10-2 and possibly 7-5 in back to back years. Would he still be coach?
Ties into, “what if Eddie Crowder hadn’t retired so early?” Or, ”what if Eddie Crowder had hired Don James instead of Bill Mallory?”
Probably would have gotten an SEC job and bailed like he was rumored to have been trying to do, but would have set CU up in a much better financial situation, and maybe RG hires someone better than Tucker who actually sticks around.
Give you one that is more significant than anything posted so far.
What would have happened had either Gordon Gee not gone to Ohio State and instead stayed at CU or had the Regents followed him by hiring another President with a strong value placed on athletics, especially football as the face of the university?
What would have happened had either Gordon Gee not gone to Ohio State and instead stayed at CU or had the Regents followed him by hiring another President with a strong value placed on athletics, especially football as the face of the university?
That was huge! Gordon Gee was the man
Should have played landman more his freshman year too.
Fify
Those guys didn't give a damn in that Fiesta Bowl, it was obvious from jump. They wanted to be in the big one and ****ing Nebraska got the nod.
What if DScott didn't like donuts?
I know I didn't want to go school after that, I was in elementary, but I knew I'd have my ass mocked because of it. My dad put that **** to bed real quick.
Rob DeVere
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Woulda been tough, they were recruited in different years!
Rob DeVere
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What if Mac ordered Uzelac to let Kordell throw the ball to his two AA WRs, instead of running against a 9 man front all day at NU in '94???
Rob DeVere
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Okay, Old Timer : What if Eddie Crowdedr hires his old Defensive Coordinator, Don James, instead of Bill Mallory.??
He had other options, too. I don't think he and his wife ever really wanted to go to Lincoln, but Alberts had to land him & made an offer that Frost couldn't turn down.