Reach out to Urban Meyer/Rick Neuheisel

[dgibbons]

Since most of these ideas are ridiculous here is another:

Contact the Saudis. we need LIV money. Gets them into the US College football market, be the best g-5 school money can buy, and you make the playoffs every year. While they are at it. get them to throw a couple 100 million into research dollars, so now we are a football school and academic powerhouse.

As long as Biggs has to wear a burka....

 

[VandallHuskerJulie]

Thomas Ford?

Yes.

 

[425cougfan]

For the unconventional path, you're talking about plucking a crusty old dude from FCS, DII or something like that?

Potentially. I could see either the "last job" type of hire, where it's a well-known college or football coach mainly just doing it because he wants to coach again and maybe wants to help his son get an onramp into coaching (and which is dangerous; if you aren't careful, you'll get some kind of terrible retread held out as legit for this purpose like Neuheisel), or more of the crusty old dude, which is primarily what I was getting at. Someone in the lower ranks who is just a good football coach. For a really long time, I used to wonder why we'd have these guys at places like North Dakota State who would just kick ass year after year but not typically step up to FBS. We've finally started seeing more of those guys hired (e.g., Leipold, De Boer, Klieman), and at this point, it's probably harder to find one at FCS. What I like about this kind of move is the increased stability and lowered dependence on high-level talent. More about coaching and scheme with a pretty simple shopping list for recruits that can be satisfied without much NIL money.

 

[PeteTheChop]

As long as Biggs has to wear a burka....

... with the face veil as well?

 

[ShockandAweWSU]

Gary Patterson want to coach still?! Our Deputy AD is from TCU. Kellen Moore, Kirby Moore, Harsin, some good choices out there. I'd be happy w Vigen...he can say I coached Josh Allen. I hope someone has connections...

 

[How_did_this_happen?]

What original P12 programs aren't steppingstones? UW's coaching carrosel is as bad as ours over the past 30 years. Oregon State? Oregon? Stanford? Cal? Colorado? UCLA? USC? ASU? Arizona?

Correct.

 

[AlwaysSpokanesFault]

Someone with name and cache that doesnt need the money but still wants to coach .

Short term they probably should step out of the bowl game .

Timing sucks as Jason Eck would have been a nice fit.

Neuheisel? Get back on your meds, Gramps.

 

[CougEd]

Neuheisel? Get back on your meds, Gramps.

Because he has won ? Or what's the issue? He knows how to be a CEO. Doba did not. Dickert was learning on the job how to be a CEO.

RN can recruit. May have some issues with talent evaluation, but with all the extra people around in the "scouting department", it would be easier than last time he had a gig. And UCLA was taking off just as he was let go.

 

[UberCougars]

Ed

Dickert just doubled his salary, has a real conference, a budget for assistants, a President, a real athletic director and a substantially easier road logistically for recruiting.

Wake Forrest is a much better job today than WSU.

 

[CougPatrol]

Ed

Dickert just doubled his salary, has a real conference, a budget for assistants, a President, a real athletic director and a substantially easier road logistically for recruiting.

Wake Forrest is a much better job today than WSU.

I don't disagree that Wake Forest is a good job, but recruiting is not going to be substantially easier. I'd argue that it's going to be exponentially harder, in fact. Wake Forest is one of the smallest D1 schools in the P4 and they have one of the lowest academic acceptance rates. They consistently rank dead last in the ACC in "football viability."

With that said, they're generally patient with their coaches, and North Carolina is a great place to live. Wake Forest alumni worry about the same types of things we found out the hard way. Power conferences want big schools with big stadiums.

 

[Coug90]

I don't disagree that Wake Forest is a good job, but recruiting is not going to be substantially easier. I'd argue that it's going to be exponentially harder, in fact. Wake Forest is one of the smallest D1 schools in the P4 and they have one of the lowest academic acceptance rates. They consistently rank dead last in the ACC in "football viability."

With that said, they're generally patient with their coaches, and North Carolina is a great place to live. Wake Forest alumni worry about the same types of things we found out the hard way. Power conferences want big schools with big stadiums.

It’s the Stanford of the East cosst. Nice digs, good salary, long leash, low expectations. Dickert didn’t think he could make it big or he’d never have taken that shitty job. It was an off ramp that will set him up financially. F’’n pussy.