Huh..that is right. He is an Iowa product. Now I hate him.
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Huh..that is right. He is an Iowa product. Now I hate him.
sacraig
- The desert
If he wins games at a respectable rate (and let's be honest, I'd be happy if we could average 8-4) without doing anything else to embarrass the program, then he could have a Hawkeye neck tattoo and I could probably overlook it.
Doing a little Internet searching on that, this occurred at Charleston Southern in 14 and 15. He was an extremely young head football coach (37) and was at a small school that had only had a football program for about 15 years. Maybe it could be chalked up to an inexperienced coach at a school that didn’t have a robust compliance infrastructure. Or maybe not.
If you’re Whitman, I don’t think you’re in a position to exclude a candidate outright, but he has to do his due diligence.
Not out of the wishbone.The modern-day triple option is RPO. I would be fine with that offense.
Coaches get a lot of leeway by using buzz phrases and what not but that would absolutely not fly here and you have to consider a coach's entire body of work. It's unlikely that Chadwell didn't know what was going on. See: most recent coaching scandals
Lance Liepold has been mentioned a ton in this thread already. He also has what I’d call a “Jerry Kill resume.” He’s a little older than I’d want, but beggars, choosers, etc.
How was Bielema's recruiting?
Ron Turner offered Bielema a preferred walk on spot but Iowa offered a full ride and he took it. Captain his senior year.
Was hired at Wisc with the full knowledge of everyone that he would be Alvarez's replacement. He and Alvarez were virtually inseparable at Wisc the whole time. A big winner, I have no idea while he left but it ranks as one of the dumber college decisions ever. His wife burned a few verbal bridges on the way out of town.
Got reprimanded at Iowa for calling the Iowa State coach a P**** and telling him how much he enjoyed beating Iowa State for 4 straight years. This was during the post game handshake.
Got fired after losing to Missouri as he was walking off the field.
Was hired at Wisc with the full knowledge of everyone that he would be Alvarez's replacement. He and Alvarez were virtually inseparable at Wisc the whole time. A big winner, I have no idea while he left but it ranks as one of the dumber college decisions ever. His wife burned a few verbal bridges on the way out of town.
Got reprimanded at Iowa for calling the Iowa State coach a P**** and telling him how much he enjoyed beating Iowa State for 4 straight years. This was during the post game handshake.
Got fired after losing to Missouri as he was walking off the field.
Illiniaaron
- Geneseo, IL
As a casual observer, I was mostly impressed by him at Wisconsin although he inherited a position that was set up for success. Probably most people are down on him from his crash and burn at Arkansas. I remember back in the 70s and 80s Arkansas was a pretty good program, I guess moving from the old Southwest Conference to the Southeast has been tough for them.
KrushCow31
Former Krush Cow
- Chicago, IL
I wrote out most of my feelings in a following reply. #435
After you've read my reply there, I guess my question would be what about his resume makes you think he would be more successful than Lovie? Wouldn't you rather take a young up and coming coach? I just think it's a boring hire.
Of course I don't speak for everyone. For me, the Iowa stuff has no bearing at all.
It is not a very difficult offense to defend unless a coach is stuck on the 60s way to defend it.
Well besides hitting on cheerleaders and suing the last school he was involved with plus the many accounts that he is a miserable human being I would prefer we stay away.
Also re: Liepold...
He was HC at Whitewater at the same time Whitman was AD at conference rival LaCrosse.
Figure they must be at least familiar with one another.
He was HC at Whitewater at the same time Whitman was AD at conference rival LaCrosse.
Figure they must be at least familiar with one another.
Have we all forgot or now no longer care about Sean Lewis? Guy is super young, runs an exciting offense, is from Chicago, played at Wisc, and has strong ties to Midwest recruiting and turned around a program that is the Illinois equivalent of the MAC. If he can whip the ball around in Northern Ohio he sure as hell can do it here and guys seems like a rising star that is decently connected. Alvarez even had good things to say about him. I know he lost to Liepold this year but he beat them last year. Seems to be an okay recruiter and can get kids to go to what is viewed as a bad place to go. Seems custom made for Illinois and where we are at now. Plus he and JW wot make a sexy HC, AD combo with that former B1G TE look.
Ubermensch
BOOM! Feed my ego.
lol. These names. Same thing every time.
sacraig
- The desert
I believe, if I recall correctly from back then, he was drawn in part by the allure of coaching a program that has historically been quite good and coaching in the SEC. He was also frustrated by having too small a budget to pay his assistants at Wisconsin. Obviously it didn't work out for him.
Who? There's no coach out there with the resume that Bielema has. 3 Rose Bowls in the conference you want him to coach in. I feel like some of you people just don't want to hire a Rival coach for personal tastes. I don't care about any of that. I want to win. Would you take Fitzee? i would. Fleck? You bet. Would you say no to those coaches too?
sacraig
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I am more concerned about the first of those things than the second. He's well within his right to sue over breach of contract. If found in his favor, then that's on Arkansas for signing a crappy contract with him and then breaching it.
I posted on this before, but I don’t think the ACC in Johnson’s early years at GT was as good as B1G is now. And GT’s 0-4 record in bowls during those years seems to bear that out. Maybe I’m wrong, but I think it was about 2012 when top teams in ACC really started becoming formidable on a consistent basis. I think Johnson’s last 4 years are really the ceiling on what triple could accomplish in B1G and really don’t think it would even be that consistent. If the goal is to be about a .500 team in conference (yes, I know that is an improvement over what we’ve had) then triple could achieve that, though I have my doubts. And I think when hiring a new coach should be striving for more than that.
Paul Johnson reminds me a lot of Monken in that they will play some wildly close games against a powerhouse but then also play close against a small program. Not suprising because Monken is from the Johnson coaching tree.
I would fully support Monken as HC but what scares me is it's for a lot of rhe reasons I was also very supportive of Lovie. Monken seems like a great guy, but they've been outcoached more than once.
I know nothing...but before Lovie got fired there were sources out of Vanderbilt that were saying Monken was close to a deal with them. Vanderbilt has now hired Lea from ND. Does this mean that Monken is Whitman's guy?
Your line of thinking seems to be correct
His entire family is still a big part of HS football in northern Illinois. His brother Cory coached Morrison for 11 years with 2 state titles. Then resigned a couple years ago to become principle. He's as much of an instate Illinois guy as anyone being discussed other than the Monkens
How about your beach house?
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