2013 College Football coaching carousel

It's interesting that CU is looking at Mangino. Not a good fit, no pun intended. OK, maybe it was intended.

 

I recall reading that somewhere.

 

He's a good coach and he has something to prove. Oh, and he'd probably work cheap and no one else would ever hire him away... Perfect for Boulder...

 

All by himself he would raise the per-capita meat consumption of Boulder by 14 pounds a year.

 

I still say no way they would actually hire him, but I wasn't joking about them probably wanting someone on the cheap who is damaged enough that no one else would hire them away...

 

When Croom interviewed at Bama, I was hoping he'd get the job, but it was hardly because he was a lock to be great, but the most promising of a weak crop of emergency candidates. He was never on anyone's radar before interviewing with Alabama, and the only argument anyone gave for why he would win big at State was "all the black players in the South will flock to him," which was really shallow and patronizing thinking.

 

Croom is a great guy and a very good NFL assistant, but he was never going to be the guy who gets kids excited to come play for him. Very few guys his age can pull that off...

It's ridiculous to think that kids are going to snub programs like Bama or Florida just to play for an African-American head coach.

 

I'm not sure the thinking was so much that they would snub Bama and LSU, but mostly Ole Miss, which is part why Cutcliffe got fired. He was not much of a recruiter.

 

I always wondered if Cutcliffe lost his value the second Eli went to the NFL.

 

Well, yes and no. I never thought Embree was a great coach, but he didn't have much to work with either.

But McCartney is right. Black persons in most professions, not just coaching, do face a tougher road. I can't deny or argue with that. It's still a white, male-dominated world.

 

If Embree was fired after going 4-8 or 5-7, he might have a legitimate gripe. Hell, if they were 1-11 and most of the games were close, he might have a valid complaint.

He lost to a FCS school. He lost to Colorado State, a school that doesn't have anything close to the resources that Colorado does. He should have been fired at the end of the first quarter of the Fresno State game when they were losing 35-0.

His only win was a gift. The team wasn't competitive in most of its games this season.

He has nothing to complain about. He really should just shut up and move on.

 

Well, I get that. The question, it seems, is how much time should a coach get when he enters a rebuilding job.

If I'm a new guy coming into the Colorado situation, I want an iron-clad promise from the AD that he's going to stick with me for the full five years or whatever the contract states. None of this jump ship and buyout. That program is a mess and it's going to take a while to get things straightened out. If I'm not guaranteed that chance, to get my program in place and show I can do it, then I'm not taking that job.