2013 College Football coaching carousel

Didn't the Louisville AD claim publicly that he'd make Strong the highest paid coach in the country if that's what it took to keep him?

 

Epic hypocrite Bill McCartney calls CU's firing of Embree race-based:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/28/football-bill-mccartney-_n_2203560.html

 

I get that he's protective of Embree because he was a guy who Mac recruited and was on that first Colorado team to be worth a shit in 1986, but the whole racial crap here is just ridiculous.

If you go 1-11, you can't complain about anything. Turner Gill only got two years and they probably invested a hell of a lot more in him than Colorado (notoriously cheap) did in Embree.

He was fired because he was a shitty coach.

 

This.

 

Which recent coaching hires were you surprised didn't go well?

Gill at Kansas really jumps out at me. I thought that was a great hire and a great fit.

Hawkins at Colorado is another one. Sherman at A&M is another, although Sherman definitely did not leave the cupboard bare since he recruited and signed Johnny Heisman.

 

Are you saying all the message board insiders might be wrong?

 

RichRod at Michigan. Dooley at UT (thank God). And while I didn't think Ellis Johnson would have a great year, I didn't think he'd turn USM into the Wreck of the Ol' 97.

 

I figured Neuheisel would do better at UCLA than he did. I didn't think he'd do it cleanly, but I thought he'd win.

 

Gill's entire resume before the KU job was pretty much one winning season at Buffalo. His introductory press conference at KU had a lot of fans worried when he was asked about his plan he said "Recruit, recruit, uh beat Missouri and recruit." He sounded like a guy who didn't actually have a plan. There were a lot of of KU fans ready to fire him after one game when it was clear he was in way, way over his head. And people I was hearing this from weren't typically out on the lunatic fringe.

The guy inherited, on paper, the best recruiting classes KU had hauled in since the 60s left the program a huge mess two years later.

 

Yeah, I thought RichRod was a decent hire at the time, but I think he was burning bridges in Ann Arbor before he had coached a single game...

I thought Dooley was a terrible hire.

Sylvester Croom was another one who I thought would have fared better. I thought Houston Nutt was going to do well at Ole Miss.

 

He was hired purely because of his McCartney ties. I feel bad for Embree. I'm sure there were a lot of old school Buffs that wanted to bring back the glory years and he felt he had to and wanted to do it for all of those reasons. The surprise is that he didn't insist on a better contract and more financial commitment to the team from the university. That's really what coaches are talking about when they say "it's not about the money" - they want to know how invested the university is in a successful football program. In Colorado's case the answer appears to be "not much."

 

Having dealt with Gill quite a bit over the years, I thought I he was going to be a master recruiter. He's a great guy, and players seemed to love him...