Blue cheese dressing reporting that Mike McIntyre is out at CU at the end of the year. Honey Mustard confirms
CU was 5-0 to start the season, and they're now 5-5. Including losing to Oregon State, which was the first time OSU had won on the road since beating CU in 2014. He's probably improved CU back to being a .500 team or so, but they've had more than 2 Pac 12 wins once in his 5 years there (I'm assuming they won't beat Utah or Cal this year).
He probably should have tried to jump ship in 2016 for a better program.
Jim Leavitt was mostly responsible for the one PAC12 South title. CU went back in the dumpster when he left for Oregon.
Isn’t he like 90?I wonder if CU will try to bring Bill McCartney back again. There was some serious talk about that before McIntyre was hired, if I remember correctly. That would be insane, but fitting with how CU has approached its recent coaching hires.
Isn’t he like 90?
Probably can't do any worse, even with dementia.He's in his late 70s. He retired when he was 54, believe it or not.
I forgot, though, he has dementia. So he's probably not an option
Probably can't do any worse, even with dementia.
What we're really learning is that San Jose State is clearly not the championship pipeline we once thought.
Yeah, probably. There's not really any fertile recruiting ground that close. The best CU teams have always had a lot of players from Texas and California, so if CU can't draw players from there, it's going to be a struggle. Leaving the Big 12 probably didn't help with recruiting in Texas. Colorado, while improving, does not have enough high school talent to sustain a power 5 program. It doesn't help that the top recruits from Colorado normally go out of state on top of all that.
@DeadMan, Michigan is among the blue bloods, but has the decline in the fortunes (and population) of industrial Michigan hurt UM's recruiting over the past few decades? I would imagine that during the 50s and 60s, when Detroit and other auto industry-related towns were booming, that Michigan was as fertile a recruiting ground as Florida, Texas, and California are now.
But I'm guessing that Michigan, like other bluebloods, has such a big name that their recruiting base is essentially national in nature.
@DeadMan, Michigan is among the blue bloods, but has the decline in the fortunes (and population) of industrial Michigan hurt UM's recruiting over the past few decades? I would imagine that during the 50s and 60s, when Detroit and other auto industry-related towns were booming, that Michigan was as fertile a recruiting ground as Florida, Texas, and California are now.
But I'm guessing that Michigan, like other bluebloods, has such a big name that their recruiting base is essentially national in nature.
I can't speak with a ton of authority to Michigan's recruiting base when Detroit was booming, but I don't think population changes has hurt Michigan more than any other northern program. Michigan always recruited a ton of players from surrounding states, especially Ohio. They also have strong recruiting in nearby states like Illinois and Pennsylvania. Michigan has maybe pivoted to more national recruiting to make up for slightly less fertile ground in Michigan, but I don't know for sure. The difference between a place like Michigan and Colorado is that the regional recruiting area in Michigan is much stronger. It takes almost as long to drive from Boulder to Omaha as it does to drive from Ann Arbor to Philadelphia.
Second call should be to Chris AshSo much south OC poon went to Boulder or Fort Collins when I was in school. Remarkable really.
Not sure what Colorado can do. Lure of the program just isn't there. Even when they "won" the South, the Bowls picked SC to go to the Rose Bowl instead because Washington went to the playoff. That was telling.
First call would be to Dino Babers, dough.
Why would he go there just to fail lolRumors that OU is going to open up the pocketbook and go after Golding from Bammer for DC. Please let this happen.
Why would he go there just to fail lol
Not a chance in hell he takes that job.
Are you sure about thatMaybe, maybe not. I just want OU/Riley to show they care at least a little about defense, no matter who they hire. Nowhere for this unit to go but up.
Are you sure about that
There's a guy who coordinated a national championship winning defense, who is priced to move.There’s a guy who coordinated a title winning defense for a Big 12 team on the market
There's a guy who coordinated a national championship winning defense, who is priced to move.
He poured herbicide on his own garden.Doesn’t he still have a garden to fence?