I believe that Colorado’s is currently the longest running
coaching search as they are the only ones left who fired their coach and have
not been able to fill the position. The rest of the ten or so school left lost
their coach to another school. Besides
Wisconsin, CU is the last major conference program left with a vacancy.
It is of utmost importance to get a coach in here by the end
of the week at the absolute latest in order to take advantage of the last weekend of allowable face-to-face
contact with prospects before a long holiday “dead period”. The recruiting window re-opens in January 3rd,
leaving only a month before signing day to finish the class. Fortunately, it is a relatively small class
to fill, depending on any more attrition of the current roster, and as Tom
Kensler of the Post points out, their current 12 commitments do not appear to
be heavily recruited by others.
CU did finally lost its first commit of the process when 3-star DE Marcus Loud of Houston re-committed to Missouri. Most of the other dozen are scheduling visits elsewhere. Supposedly Kanavis McGhee is still recruiting greyshirt DE Kisima Jagne very hard in Arizona to keep him in the fold, as he is technically a free agent prospect now. Three-star WR/DB Devin Ross is definitely looking at other schools and is one of the few who could end up at another Pac-12 school. I wonder if Kanavis might be kept on as recruiting coordinator, although I am not sure he would even accept it out of respect for Embree.
There is nothing really to report on the actual search except rampant
speculation. Fresno’s Tim DeRuyter and SJSU’s
Mike MacIntyre seem to be the most talked about still, but that may not mean
anything. It is being reported that
coordinators are back on the table but there have been no concrete names out
there. Mostly it is random people postulating
random names like Jim Fassel. The trendy
wish and post is “I hope it’s a big surprise!” Be careful what you wish
for. Stuart compiled a list of the most
mentioned candidates: http://www.cuatthegame.com/2012/coaching-change-at-cu/
Michael K. at AllBuffs.com called Bohnhead “the Barney Fife
of this strange comedy…He needed a big splash, but instead he’s been throwing
pebbles at a sheet of ice.” Poor Barney
Bohnhead can’t get anyone to go to the dance with him-the only girl who
considered him was using him as a backup plan in case no one else asked her.
FYI-Butch Jones took less annually than he was offered
here ($3.5M per year for five), reportedly 6 years for $18M (flat $3M per
year). Cincinnati AD Whit Babcock also
said, “Colorado threw a lot more than a
very generous guaranteed salary at (Jones). This room would be shocked at all
the things they threw at him. It was an
impressive list.” While some think it is good fit, Tennessee fans are not all
that psyched and many are predicting that before long he’ll end up back in the
MAC where he belongs. Regardless, there
are a few more Colorado fans that probably never cared much, but will now root
against the Vols almost as fervently as Nebraska, Texas and Notre Dame.
I will end with the same question still looming out
there, hanging over the Dal Ward and all of Boulder: Who is their right mind, given the lack of talent, the academic limitations,
losing mentality in the program, few if any guaranteed contracts for
assistants, an untrustworthy administration who looks more foolish at every
turn (unless of course they are just plain greedy after seeing the $13.5
million Jones left on the table, a sum which will almost assuredly be more for
whomever ends up with the job), would anyone want to coach
this team in this situation?
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