2013 College Football coaching carousel

I agree. Colorado looks both outmanned and clueless. But even if Embree brings in a new staff how good will they be? This is a school that has historically had trouble paying competitive salaries to assistants. CU will not make guarantees that schools like Auburn does to asistants. And anyone coming in as a new coach will have inferior talent and have to be concerned that Embree will get broomed in a year and the staff will also get the bounce. The only coaches who will take those jobs will be those who can not get another one. The school needs to blow it all up and start over.

 

Whenever you find yourself outcoached by Mike London, the seat should be hot indeed.

 

Colorado's success from 1988-2004 was based on: recruiting Southern Cal/Texas and having football hostesses that also took their "jobs" seriously. Colorado won but the football program was a cesspool of sex, drugs and running the option. Once Texas beat them 70-3, the school wanted to start over.

I think Colorado is a great job to take now. It is at rock bottom and will never be worse. This is the kind of job a Petrino takes. A resurrection job to former glory.

Yet I do believe the landscape of the west has changed. When Colorado was a Top 10 program, the only other western school even close was Washington. UCLA was better but USC and Oregon weren't the national players they are now. For Colorado, they won't ever get that California/Texas pipeline back.

 

Petrino won't have to leave the SEC for his next gig. I'll be very surprised if he doesn't wind up at Auburn.

 

Colorado's biggest mistake was getting rid of Gary Barnett. For all his faults, the guy was a really good coach and made some pretty mediocre teams pretty decent.

 

Seriously. Who cares about that whole "yeah the girl got raped but she was a terrible kicker so that's OK" thing? Or all the others sexual assaults and the drugs and all that? They won some games!

 

I don't disagree, but they didn't fire Barnett for the comments about the kicker or the sexual assaults. They fired him when he lost 70-3 to a Texas team that won the national title.

If they were going to get high and mighty about Barnett, fine... Shitcan him the second he made the kicker comment. But they didn't do that.

 

Given the way that school swept some serious shit under the rug under Barnett, Neuheisel and McCarney I have a hard time feeling bad that they're getting a rectal exam every Saturday. Kinda' like how seeing Miami as just another football program now makes me smile.

 

They'd probably rather have that than what they've had under Hawkins and Embree.

The reports that Kentucky "would not consider" Petrino made me laugh... The six people who care about Kentucky football would be doing cartweels (sp?) if Petrino was hired.

 

I don't understand why so many people are so quick to annoint Bobby Petrino as the savior for every BCS program looking for a coach.

The guy is a great offensive mind but that's about it. His teams will score a bunch of points but he's not a program builder. And the off-the-field baggage far outweights what he brings to the table at this point.

If I'm handing a guy a $4 million contract. I want to hand it to somebody I'm pretty sure isn't going to bail at the first opportunity and isn't going to lie to me and put my employer in a position to get sued.

 

That might be part of the reason why Petrino looks like a good option now. He has something to prove. He's damaged, so that would prevent him from getting a job at some programs. He might even cost a little less now.