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I wouldn't mind Jim Leavitt. I seem to remember he got kinda hosed at USF. I can't remember what the circumstances were around his departure.
 
sackman said:
I wouldn't mind Jim Leavitt. I seem to remember he got kinda hosed at USF. I can't remember what the circumstances were around his departure.
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they got the guy i would like to have seen us make a move on in Skip Holtz
 
Mike Leach!!!!
Dont care about him not being a proper "fit" for Boulder. We went for the "fit" and we ended up with Hawkins.
Proven record, ability to run a scheme, can hire good assistants and a tad bit crazy.
 
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GregInAustin said:
Didn't Leavitt hit someone? we need that intensity around here.
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That sounds right. I can't remember for sure, but what you're saying rings a bell. I can't believe the guy hasn't gotten hired already. He's a winner.
 
This guy. Love his resume, love his recruiting acumen.
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http://www.arkansasrazorbacks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=6100&ATCLID=1364555

Former Oklahoma quarterback and Jacksonville Jaguars assistant Garrick McGee is in his third season at Arkansas and is entering his first season as offensive coordinator after being named to the position on Dec. 14, 2009.

Under McGee's guidance, the 2008 and 2009 Razorbacks set the top two marks in school history for points, passing yards, passing yards per game and passing touchdowns.

In 2009, UA quarterback Ryan Mallett led the SEC in passing and total offense in 2009 along with setting or matching a total of 16 different school records.

McGee spent the previous four seasons (2004-07) at Northwestern University where he was the receivers and punt return coach his first two seasons, and the quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator in 2006 and 2007.

Directing the Wildcat's spread offense; McGee's 2007 unit led the Big Ten and was No. 11 in the nation in passing with 307.9 yards per game, and led the Big Ten and was No. 31 in the country in total offense with 427.7.

In 2005, his Northwestern receiving corps had three wideouts ranked in the top 10 on the Big Ten season receptions list for the first time in school history.

They became just the second team in Big Ten history to average more than 500 yards per game with 500.3 per contest, which ranked fourth nationally.

The Wildcats led the Big Ten with 306.8 yards passing per game, which also ranked seventh in the nation.

His first season at Northwestern (2004), Wildcat receivers averaged 237.3 yards per game, NU's best since 2001. He coached two All-Big Ten receivers in Mark Philmore and Shaun Herbert.

McGee was the receivers and kickoff return coach for head coach John Robinson at Nevada-Las Vegas in 2003.

In 2002, he was the receivers coach at Toledo, helping the Rockets earn a spot in the Motor City Bowl with a Mid-America Conference West Division title.

Toledo's receivers combined for 309 receptions for 3,611 yards and 25 touchdowns with Carl Ford becoming the first 1,000-yard receiver in school history with 79 catches for 1,042 yards and a school record-tying nine scores.

Toledo was fifth in the nation in total offense with 472 yards per game, setting school records for total offense (6,752 yards) and passing yards (3,611).

The Tulsa, Okla., native began his coaching career at Langston (Okla.) University where from 1996-98 he coached defensive backs before moving to quarterbacks, receivers and special teams. He also worked as the equipment manager and assisted with track and field.

He was the receivers and kickoff return coach at Northern Iowa in 1999, helping UNI set school records for total offense (5,253 yards) and passing yards (3,722).

In 2001 and 2002, he was an offensive assistant and quality control coach with the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars. He worked as an assistant to the then quarterbacks coach Bobby Petrino, helping quarterbacks and receivers with fundamentals, and assisting in all phases of special teams.

Prior to the 2005 season, McGee was one of 10 coaches selected to participate in the NCAA Expert Coaching Academy. The program is designed to teach and reinforce various aspects of securing, managing and excelling in NCAA head coach positions at the I-A level. In the summer of 2010, he was one of 15 coaches to attend the NCAA Champions Forum in Anaheim, Calif. The goal of the Champions Forum is to link the coaches with athletics directors.

McGee prepped at Booker T. Washington High in Tulsa for his father, the late Larry McGee. He played at Arizona State in 1991 and 1992 under Petrino, went to Northeastern Oklahoma A&M in 1993 and transferred to Oklahoma.

He played two years for the Sooners and ended his career fourth on OU's career passing list with 2,449 yards. He was named the Big Eight Newcomer of the Year by the league's coaches in 1994.

McGee earned an associate's degree from Northeastern Oklahoma A&M in 1993 and his bachelor's from OU in 1996. He and his wife, Tiffany, were married in the summer of 2009. They are expecting their first son in the summer of 2010.
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Leavitt is a fiery guy, but he was a pretty mediocre coach in the Big East Conference. And his teams faded BIG time down the stretch in most seasons. Those are red flags to me. I also wonder if he can recruit to Colorado. His only two coaching stops have been KSU and USF, two schools that admit anyone and everyone.

As far as Leach, I don't mind the guy, but his winning is a bit overstated. His conference records most years were average of just above average. He made a living off of Bill Snyder OOC schedules for at least 2-3 wins a season, sometimes four.
 
valdezj said:
Was he the guy that reeled in the awesome RB Northwestern had a couple years back? That kid was nice.
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no idea. but hes crazy. he tells kids they can't play in the SEC and **** like that. All he does is tell the brutal truth. some love it, some don't. I think CU needs some brutal truth.
 
Boulder Buff said:
As far as Leach, I don't mind the guy, but his winning is a bit overstated. His conference records most years were average of just above average. He made a living off of Bill Snyder OOC schedules for at least 2-3 wins a season, sometimes four.
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And his defenses usually sucked big time.
 
valdezj said:
Was he the guy that reeled in the awesome RB Northwestern had a couple years back? That kid was nice.
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Valdez, check out this site http://web.thisisarkansasfootball.com/website/

Go to the coaches section and to Watch Videos and click McGee's. He's a former PAC and Big 8 guy... and easily the best recruiter on our staff at Arkansas (Pulls guys that have tons of major offers every year). He has been successful wherever he has been and is a fantastic coach... plus a Petrino disciple who would bring the discipline and hard work that has been lacking with this staff. If you are going for a coordinator type guy as the HC, he would be a good one to look at. We would hate to lose him at AR and there is alot of talk that if Petrino leaves, McGee will be the next HC at Arkansas.

Also the recruiting information Snow was referencing

http://www.arkansassports360.com/18774/chris-bahn-mcgee-doesnt-tell-recruits-what-they-want-to-hear

Some of the recruits he has pulled from the past two or three years

http://rivals.yahoo.com/arkansas/football/recruiting/player-Calvin-Barnett-72201

http://rivals.yahoo.com/arkansas/football/recruiting/player-Jatashun-Beachum-89914

http://rivals.yahoo.com/arkansas/football/recruiting/player-Eric-Bennett-79760

http://rivals.yahoo.com/arkansas/football/recruiting/player-Jacoby-Walker-74611

http://rivals.yahoo.com/arkansas/football/recruiting/player-David-Gordon-67854

http://rivals.yahoo.com/arkansas/fo...-Crim-82344;_ylt=Agu9PwNvjvTqUvZCGd6_ah_zq5B4

http://rivals.yahoo.com/arkansas/fo...Jones-61342;_ylt=AkxuyxJOqDFDj.Wl.7ee2czzq5B4

http://rivals.yahoo.com/arkansas/fo...goJr.-73173;_ylt=AqAylWuHtPYm1HDt6myQD.Xzq5B4

These are just a few of his guys from the last two years... needless to say the guy can recruit with the best of them.
 
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McGee is interesting but I think we need to interview as many as possible. If McGee is the best for the job, Im all for it.
 
BuffLuKe said:
McGee is interesting but I think we need to interview as many as possible. If McGee is the best for the job, Im all for it.
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I agree, I would hope that CU could and would have the money to get an established HC. If that's not an option however I would hope McGee might at least get consideration for an interview.
 
Razorbuff said:
Valdez, check out this site http://web.thisisarkansasfootball.com/website/

Go to the coaches section and to Watch Videos and click McGee's. He's a former PAC and Big 8 guy... and easily the best recruiter on our staff at Arkansas (Pulls guys that have tons of major offers every year). He has been successful wherever he has been and is a fantastic coach... plus a Petrino disciple who would bring the discipline and hard work that has been lacking with this staff. If you are going for a coordinator type guy as the HC, he would be a good one to look at. We would hate to lose him at AR and there is alot of talk that if Petrino leaves, McGee will be the next HC at Arkansas.

Also the recruiting information Snow was referencing

http://www.arkansassports360.com/18774/chris-bahn-mcgee-doesnt-tell-recruits-what-they-want-to-hear

Some of the recruits he has pulled from the past two or three years

http://rivals.yahoo.com/arkansas/football/recruiting/player-Calvin-Barnett-72201

http://rivals.yahoo.com/arkansas/football/recruiting/player-Jatashun-Beachum-89914

http://rivals.yahoo.com/arkansas/football/recruiting/player-Eric-Bennett-79760

http://rivals.yahoo.com/arkansas/football/recruiting/player-Jacoby-Walker-74611

http://rivals.yahoo.com/arkansas/football/recruiting/player-David-Gordon-67854

http://rivals.yahoo.com/arkansas/fo...-Crim-82344;_ylt=Agu9PwNvjvTqUvZCGd6_ah_zq5B4

http://rivals.yahoo.com/arkansas/fo...Jones-61342;_ylt=AkxuyxJOqDFDj.Wl.7ee2czzq5B4

http://rivals.yahoo.com/arkansas/fo...goJr.-73173;_ylt=AqAylWuHtPYm1HDt6myQD.Xzq5B4

These are just a few of his guys from the last two years... needless to say the guy can recruit with the best of them.
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I had not seen too much on this guy til now.... but this is exactly what CU needs. Fiery recruiter, young and some experience at a big time D1 school. I am gonna vomit if I hear anything about smaller school coaches or from small conferences that have "potential". I like this guy.... Hope Bohn is looking too
 
I know we're not going back to the Boise well, but let's say Hawk came from anywhere else besides Boise - would Peterson be at the top of most people's list?
 
GregInAustin said:
Belotti, Venables, June Jones (although he's not available), will muschamp (i think he makes more now as an assistant than we can afford)

It's got to be someone with some asshole qualies, with experience.
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Whoever it is, give us a ball coach. Asshole qualities are a must, a vocabulary that doesn't include words like "awesome" or "a little bit." No yelling at press conferences -- only at the referees or at kids who make bonehead plays. Just make sure there's a track record of integrity and not any trace of shadiness to keep the brass happy.

Given the current state of our program, and the fact that most high school kids were born too late to remember CU football's glory days, the selling point to our program must be a coach that gets kids excited.

My vote goes for the EB/Mac combo. That's a vote the comes from nostalgia more than anything else and seems like a pretty high risk pick in my book -- less so at the time we chose the wrong Boise St. coach. A safer pick would be the known quantity and P10 familiarity in Mike Bellotti (would he even be interested?) or Brent Venebles (but why hasn't he been hired as HC since our last coaching search?)
 
For the love of god, please bring someone in here who can install some kind of competent offense, knows how to hire quality assistants, and who can RECRUIT athletes. Leave the rhetoric and the bull****ing to the AD and the pr people... DON'T hire a HC for those skills.

I really think to get a candidate that is going to turn this sinking ship around, CU is going to have to significantly expand their budget. $1mm ain't going to cut it.
 
I now we're not going to hire Peterson, but just to play devil's advocate, let's say Hawk had come here after a successful run at Wyoming - we'd be all over Peterson for the CU job would we not? Better yet, if Hawk had come from TCU, would we be saying hell no to Patterson, but have Peterson at the top of our list? Probably.
 
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