What is the realistic measure of a successful hire? I am looking for the things that the AD has to worry about like ticket sales, average attendance, donations, net profit margin, etc. The AD has to build for the long term and wins at the expense of APR failures, scholarship penalties, or even some...

16 is perfect. It's only 4 games to the title and only 2 teams will go that far. All the other divisions do it. And yeah, the MWC champ and the MAC Champ probably wouldn't go far this year, but they deserve the chance. Do you like the fact that the entire MWC along with the rest of the G5 is out of...

Needs to be16 teams. 11 conference champions and 5 wild cards. Puts major emphasis on winning your conference. I think it would be too large and too many games for 16 teams. Realistically, our conference champ (and the MAC's, the Sun Belt's, etc.) would be beaten badly by the big boys this year. I ...

Next year, the BCS is gone and 4 teams will be included in a playoff. Actually, most years, I would say the top 4 probably includes the best team in the nation. This year it would be: 1) FSU vs. Mich State 2) Alabama vs. Clemson With 2 loss Stanford, 1 loss Baylor and Ohio State on the outside looki...

Certainly had to be one of the top 3 available candidates. I don't quite share your enthusiasm, however. That would be the same regardless of who we hire. We have non-head coach underlying issues here that also have to be corrected. Hopefully Burman fighting to keep his job will light a fire under h...

CitizenCane wrote:Lloyd Eaton, Fritz Shurmur, Al Kinkaid, Vic Koenning.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it sucks.

Vic K came from the Dimel staff. Dimel was not a seasoned HC.

The key is the right HC. If Tedford materializes, I think it would be an opportunity to think about this model.

I guess you could say Utah, and Utah State. But I do get your point. It's not all that common. Before us Wyoming fans start worrying about if we will have success if/when Tedford leaves (he isn't even our coach yet!) we should just worry about having success when he is here. Can't have continues su...

This idea we have a guy on staff that can take over if the HC takes another job is laughable.. Signed, Boise State. Boise is no doubt the exception to the rule. What other schools have done what they have done with a string of head coaches? We have to find our own model. Boise State is arguably the...

Wicks wrote:
This idea we have a guy on staff that can take over if the HC takes another job is laughable..

Signed, Boise State.

RTJ has a good idea... I like the idea of Stitt as an OC.. either groom him to take the reigns at UW if a HC wants to leave, or groom him so he can take his own HC job elsewhere. Let the HC decide who is on his staff, and if the door is already being made ready for Tedford to leave before he even a...

Are you related to Stitt? Who knows if Tedford would move on quickly, he was at his last job for 11 seasons. I think this idea is WAY out of the realm of possibilities and is in the realm of were the aliens nice to you when they beamed you up? That is why the caveat of "if the new coach is wil...

At first I thought Tedford might want a lot of money or try to get in a bidding war. After all, he was making 2.3 mill/year previously, <edit> but his agreement with Cal might impact things. The university and Tedford will split evenly any amount he earns in excess of $1.5 million in any year in tho...

I'm curious as to what specific system would be successful in Laramie? I think any system can work if coaches can get the players they need and develops those players. I don't believe that we are getting lesser talent than most of the schools in this conference. Only SDSU, Fresno, and Boise seem to...

Colorado produces about 24 FBS players a year. Of those, the top end choose big 5 programs by a large percentage.

At the end of the day, it is what it is: ID gems in the rough and coach them up.

Again, I'm not against Tedford; just wonder about his system in Laramie.

How does Nebraska do it? They have tons of big farm boys. Oh, is it because we have ranches, where the kids work hard all day so they don't end up weighing 300 pounds, while Nebraska is full of a bunch of tractor riding, corn eating tubby boys? Where do these big boys come from? Nebraska will get e...

With Glenn we had Demo and Wynell. We just never had a QB. If we had Brett Smith for 4 years under Glenn, don't you think we would have won quite a few more games? I guess I don't see why the O-Linemen could block in the run game, but couldn't in the pass game. Difference in opinion, I guess, but I...

Your point 1 is my concern as well. We haven't been able to get linemen forever. I remember Glenn trying to get linemen and smash mouth football. It didn't end well. Naturally, that does not mean all coaches would have the same problem, but I think it is a valid concern. There is a reason most of th...

Dimel was an OC, And a pool shark... I find it ironic and fitting that when he had "fun" with a barmaid, it was the beginning of the end of Wyoming football. Hope Tedford or whoever can save the program but I got a bad feeling about this. That is why part of me hopes we can hire Petrino (...

He historically has ran a pro-style offense. Not sure if he would be able to pull that off here? I wonder that too and also how he would handle losing? I think he would be a solid hire, for sure, and am not bagging him, but this is from a Cal beat writer: Through the years, and in particular when h...

COS Cowboy wrote:
Dimel was an OC,

And a pool shark...