Reports are that San Jose State has settled on a coach and
it’s not one of their current coordinators, freeing them both up to follow Mike
MacIntyre to Colorado. San Diego coach
Ron Caragher is going to move north and take over; most of the current guys who
have been offered the chance to go to CU should follow, unless a position coach
is offered a coordinator job, we are just not sure who that might be. DL coach Jim Jeffcoat is likely to come here
even if he were offered OC as he is close with MacIntyre.
All indications are that Brian
Lindgren and Kent Baer to assume their respective offensive and defensive coordinators
positions in Boulder. MacIntyre has high
praise for both of course. Baer has been
a DC at seven different schools so has a ton of experience-“He really has seen everything and knows how to adjust and
fix things. He does a great job preparing for games, but he does a great job at
halftime adjusting”; Lindgren has been an OC for four years, running the
Pistol at Northern Arizona before his year at SJSU. His offenses have gained a lot of yards (457
yards per game last year) and scored a lot of points (35.3 per game) and broke
some records with QBs that are very efficient. MacIntyre said of the two coordinators’
influence: “Basically, we won every second half, offensively and defensively.”
It is possible that the SJSU o-line coach, Gary Bernardi, stays
there as he has worked with Calagher when he was receivers coach at UCLA, but I
have no idea if MacIntyre was planning to take him (fine either way, as long as
we don’t retain Marshall). I don’t know
much about the rest of the SJSU staff, nor if any of the current CU staff stays
in any capacity.
A lot of talk about young offensive mind and recruiting prowess
of Duke’s Matt Lubick, but I don’t think he comes here for a position. I am curious who MacIntyre has in mind for
the secondary. Brian Howell of the
Camera still thinks Greg Brown would take a demotion and pay cut to stay in
Boulder. I can’t really see this
happening, but how about his protégé Ashley Ambrose, who was let go in the Cal
coaching switch?
Although MacIntyre is being a bit coy about it, the staff
should start to leak out soon, even if they are not officially announced until
after the San Jose bowl game vs. Bowling Green on Dec. 27. It was believed that MacIntyre had guys lined
up, depending on what happened with Baer and the SJSU HC job, but now he says
he is still not sure who else will come from San Jose or if he will retain any
of the current staff.
Hopefully, though, this also means that at least some actual
recruiting can get started as well. MacIntyre
said he might still be guy or two short depending on how things shake out, but
will try to be as set as possible for the end of the dead period in early
January.
In the meantime, even though they can only make phone calls,
position coaches, when hired, would least be able to contact their prospective
position players who are current commits, SJSU commits they want to invite to
CU, or other guys that CU targeted or others they know about, especially in
California.
MacIntyre has said that his coaches will recruit Colorado
strongly, trying to connect with every in-state high school coach, much like he
did at SJSU and like McElwain did last year at csu (and now has six in-state
commits). This was a criticism of the
past two staffs, with some Colorado prospects feeling like Embree’s staff didn’t
know much about them. CU hasn’t had more
than 2 Colorado recruits in a class since 2009; last year 22 players went to
play at FBS schools, only six staying in state and only 2 at CU.
I had not heard of Grandview’s Tanner Gentry, but the Denver
Post has the wide receiver as the sixth best prospect in the state, and he is
committed to Wyoming?! If this kid is
really talented, and isn’t a fourth generation Cowboy, MacIntyre should be all
over him.
I would love to see our “Mac” steal one from the “Mac” up
north, like OL Blake Nowland (Douglas County) or Jake Bennett (Bear Creek), or
DL Austin Berk (Grand Junction), or maybe even Gateway’s OL Zach Goldwitch, who
felt slighted by Embree.
It appears that Chaparral TE Mitchell Parsons is leaning
toward Ole Miss and the SEC (Vandy is another possibility for him). Many were hoping MacIntyre could lure him
back but there have been no indications so far that it could actually happen.
I saw a post that also listed DB Jeff Hall as considering a
transfer, in addition to the oft-mentioned Kenneth Crawley and Yuri Wright (both
DBs), WR Gerald Thomas and TE Vincent Hobbs.
Stanford QB Brett Nottingham, once thought to be the heir
apparent to Andrew Luck, but who has fallen to third on the depth chart, is
looking to transfer. Colorado is one
possibility as he was originally recruited here as well. However, I believe he would have to sit out a
year before being eligible for only one more year.
Here’s a Q&A with new coach Mike MacIntyre with ESPN: http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_/id/74110/qa-colorados-mike-macintyre
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