Cr1028

Lesser rival?

Caponi and Alex Grinch have one thing in common. Their head coaches both come from a certain coaching tree that is well known for ignoring the defensive side of the ball.

Maybe they want a chance to play in the postseason somewhere. Maybe they don’t like the new offensive philosophy. Maybe they are tired of losing. Maybe they are just done with football. Maybe they are looking for a NIL payday. It could be many things.

Been happening for a long time. I remember it was a very sparsely attended game when Patrick Cobbs and Nick Bazaldua had senior day. I felt for them. Seemed like there couldn’t have been more than 800 people there.

Todd Dodge got eviscerated for this with Derek Thompson. It ended up not mattering as DT ended up redshirting in another season but folks did not take kindly to wasting a year of eligibility for one game. That was pre-portal but I think you still have to play it as if you’ll have the player for their entire career.

UNLV was a lot better than folks gave them credit for when they beat us last season. That quarterback of theirs is pretty good. They were 4-1 with a six point loss on the road to the Cal Bears as their only blemish before he got hurt.

The AAC gifted SMU a spot in the title game since they didn’t have to face Tulane or UTSA and only have Navy left on the schedule. Tulane and UTSA will cannibalize each other next week and it will likely be Tulane squeaking by into the title game as Traylor is likely distracted by the goings on in College Station.

I thought Passwaters was actually pretty good. He was highly motivated and was being taught by one of the best in the business (Bennett). The ones that had/have a problem with Passwaters mostly had that problem because he was related to Bennett and it wasn’t “fair” he got that job but they rarely complain about the actual product on the field just dismissed it by saying it was all the players and he had zero to do with their development.

Well @MAX KOCHwould say Kansas was foolish for taking Bean when Kason Martin is the real superstar.

It might be good for them to hire someone like him at a lesser contract to kind of reset the market before they go stupid again trying to get someone big time. Right now any big name coach is going to want over what Jimbo got. They need to change that to where Jimbo is no longer the last coach.

You are correct. They were going to pay him $600k until the regents stepped in if memory serves.

About $200k more. He got $400k to be OC at FSU and Todd Dodge got around hald of that. Not only that, if you recall our coordinators only made $93k at that time. I’m not sure that would have been enough to pull the staff that Jimbo would’ve required to come here. Dodge was making $90k as head coach of Southlake Carroll.

Rice played the top 3 in succession. I don’t put Memphis in the same class as UTSA, SMU, and Tulane. I expect SMU to beat them this week.

One off scenario. They only fired him because they were forced to hire someone on staff last year. It is not good optics to fire the entire staff because the head coach dies. This year they can conduct an actual search for Leach’s replacement.

Are you freaking kidding me? He had a decent season in D2 and now he should’ve been our starter? The kid was a leader and a great teammate but he does NOT have a D1 arm. He absolutely lacked the velocity to be a starter at this level. He was offered to try and woo his teammate Garrison Johnson. Martin had a nice deep ball, that was it. He couldn’t force the ball into tight windows against a D1 secondary. Although it was frustrating with their decision making at times, Aune and Ruder had substantially better arm strength to fit the ball into those windows. It is nice that Kason had his team out to a 7-0 start this season. He is a good dude. He was replaced by quarterback Keegan Ray on October 21. I don’t know if that is due to injury or not but Kason hasn’t been their guy as of late.

I’m not part of that, just remembering what his dad had said during the quarterback battle in the spring/fall.

I don’t know if he would come back anyhow but Jace Ruder does have one more year of eligibility.

Not only Peterson but the guys before him like Hawkins and Koetter.

I know that. I’m saying they had a string of successful coaches that were hired away that built on top of what their predecessors had done. Unless you inject your program with T Boone type money to fast track things, it is a crap shoot on your hires until you find the success that Boise did with coaches being hired away.

Because the coaches we have fired weren’t as good as the ones Boise had hired away? Until you drop Boone Pickens money it’ll be a crap shoot until we hit Boise level success. While Dickey was winning Sun Belt titles, Dan Hawkins had Boise consistently ranked in the top 20 while compiling 1 loss seasons and WAC titles. It has only gotten worse since. I guess by your logic we should have fired Dickey during the conference championship run because of expectations.

Don’t be ridiculous. If we had the level of success that Boise has had over the last 25 years then of course we would have similar expectations but expectations have to be grounded in reality. We just fired the guy with the highest win percentage of any coach since Hayden Fry because he elevated the expectations of this program. Now we are expecting more from Morris than Littrell was able to achieve and hopefully more still from Morris’ successor but don’t get crazy thinking that we have anywhere close the level of success that Boise has had from which to set our expectations.

We have had 4 coordinators who are known around here for being the worst of the worst over the last 20 years. Mendoza, Cosh, 2nd stint Bowen, and Caponi. Mendoza, Cosh, and 2nd stint Bowen were all one and done that were fired after that single season. Caponi should join them.