I've advocated making a decision quickly up or down but this weekend moved the timeframe up a bit. Jimmy Lake punched a player, Cal lost, Stanford looked out of sorts. Rumors are Chip is out in Westwood. How much tread is left on the Karl Dorrell retread in Colorado. Herm appears on his last legs in Tempe. Bottom line: lots of jobs will be open in the conference. Both for coordinators and HC.
There could be 5 or 6 other jobs open around the conference by the end of the season meaning two things: 1) Jake Dickert is going to be a name kicked around for a HC gig at a lower tier school that loses its head coach. Or he'll get a big payday to be a DC at another Pac-12 school. Bottom line is he's gone if he's not the HC. 2) All the names we've kicked around here as replacements are going to be candidates for more prestigious jobs. We may not be in contention with USC and UCLA for a head coach, but Cal or ASU would be interested in the same pool. Same for UW and Colorado. Then Stanford might snatch up someone we would be interested in too. I don't think we end up with a better candidate than Dickert.
There could be 5 or 6 other jobs open around the conference by the end of the season meaning two things: 1) Jake Dickert is going to be a name kicked around for a HC gig at a lower tier school that loses its head coach. Or he'll get a big payday to be a DC at another Pac-12 school. Bottom line is he's gone if he's not the HC. 2) All the names we've kicked around here as replacements are going to be candidates for more prestigious jobs. We may not be in contention with USC and UCLA for a head coach, but Cal or ASU would be interested in the same pool. Same for UW and Colorado. Then Stanford might snatch up someone we would be interested in too. I don't think we end up with a better candidate than Dickert.