BYU hiring Kalani Sitake
BYU is close to hiring Kalani Sitake, Oreg St. DC, as their head coach per ESPN.
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/14399087/byu-cougars-clo…
December 19th, 2015 at 2:11 PM ^
December 19th, 2015 at 2:25 PM ^
Whenever I go to a sushi restaurante, I get edamame, two California Rolls, and some Kalani Sitake. Mmmmmm...
December 19th, 2015 at 2:11 PM ^
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December 19th, 2015 at 2:18 PM ^
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December 19th, 2015 at 7:45 PM ^
December 19th, 2015 at 2:20 PM ^
Option 1: Lance Anderson, but he's waiting to see if David Shaw goes to NFL and Stanford HC opens up (hence the current "I'm staying, love it here" stance).
Option 2: Aranda, if Anderson takes Stanford.
Option 3: Mattison for 1 year, if Aranda does not want to wait and goes to USC.
Option 4 (in 2017): After Mattison ably holding down the fort for a year with very good personnel to work with, either promote the younger Jackson with another year of additional tutelage under Mattison, or get an option from the 2016 crop (maybe Orlando gets a closer look at that time; maybe Derek Mason is on the market).
December 19th, 2015 at 3:17 PM ^
In addition to saying he loves Stanford, he specifically called out not taking a different DC job:
Lance Anderson: "I'm not leaving #Stanford for another coordinator position. I'm very happy here, love this."
— Andy Drukarev (@StanfordRivals) December 17, 2015
December 19th, 2015 at 2:21 PM ^
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December 19th, 2015 at 2:26 PM ^
Whittingham is spitting out a nice coaching tree.
December 19th, 2015 at 2:39 PM ^
December 19th, 2015 at 2:47 PM ^
Sitake didn't exactly put up great numbers ot Oregon State. Third choice for BYU, at least.
Might be a great recruiter but BYU fans are going to be disappointed after Mendenhall, IMO.
December 19th, 2015 at 2:53 PM ^
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December 19th, 2015 at 3:51 PM ^
but for the past 10 years (2006 through 2015 YTD) they've won 93 games. This would tie them with Georgia for the 12th spot vs all major (P5+ND) teams over that same period. I don't think that's too shabby. Michigan, by the way, has 75 wins over that same period, but none of us are particularly happy about that.
Not arguing at all with respect to your future expectations for BYU.
December 19th, 2015 at 4:15 PM ^
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December 19th, 2015 at 6:40 PM ^
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December 19th, 2015 at 5:07 PM ^
BYU is certainly irrelevant so far today by just about ANY standard, down 35-zip to Utah early in the 2nd Quarter!
December 20th, 2015 at 5:54 PM ^
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December 19th, 2015 at 3:41 PM ^
A much worse hire than hiring Coach Ken from Navy.
December 19th, 2015 at 3:45 PM ^
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December 20th, 2015 at 5:53 PM ^
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December 19th, 2015 at 3:57 PM ^
Wonder if Gary Andersen makes a run to bring Aranda to OSU to replace Sitake? I assume that he tried to bring him when he moved last year, so not sure if anything's changed to get him to go now. Still, have to assume that's who he would want.
December 19th, 2015 at 6:30 PM ^
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December 19th, 2015 at 4:01 PM ^
No way of knowing how good Anderson actually is when he's been dc so few years. The defense wasn't very good this year though. USC, UCLA, Oregon State, Washington State, Oregon, and Notre Dame all scored north of 25 points on them this year.
December 19th, 2015 at 4:02 PM ^
BYU really doesn't care about winning at all. This is a worse hire than Hoke but he's a mormon so if that's the route they want to go then ok.
December 19th, 2015 at 7:22 PM ^
You sound disappointed?
December 19th, 2015 at 8:03 PM ^
No matter who they hire, they always get their pick of Mormon Pacific Islanders which keeps em going
December 20th, 2015 at 3:14 PM ^
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December 19th, 2015 at 4:27 PM ^
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December 19th, 2015 at 8:07 PM ^
Since they demand their coach be a mormon, they sure make it hard for themselves. That's less than 2% of the US population to draw from
December 20th, 2015 at 10:35 AM ^