OT - Dan Hawkins Canned

Makes complete sense if your guys are playing frantic and tight football and making mistakes. 

Colorado has some serious debt, they're buying their freedom from the B12 and now the Hawkins buyout.  Either some donors have come up big or they're borrowing against future PAC10 revenue I guess.

and the payout they have to make to the BIG12.

hope that PAC12 tv network has been talking to Rotel for CU's sake.

i can't imagine him going to a PAC12 school, seems like a step down, at best lateral move.

a top SEC team? i can see that, but it would have to be one of the elites like UT of UGA.  unfortunately for UM, i see him at MSU for a while, at least until Tressel is gone and then....

Would a cash strapped, average institution like Colorado really be an upgrade over a place like State?

I dislike State as much as the next person on here, but Dantonio seems to have a pretty good track record around these parts and I don't see him leaving until Mr. Tressel leaves osu... I think he's going to hold out for that job.  Unless a Tennessee does come along.

But not Colorado. lol.

At what point do we start a Dantonio watch-list?

Never.  He's not a top-notch coach, despite what some of our frightened fans think.  He's in his mid 50s and is almost certainly at his final school. 

ban

douche. 

I believe his name is Rich

Ha - Dick/Rod... the two words are related and you used them in a sentence to describe the coach, whose name also happens to be similar to the words dick and rod.  You are so clever.

Really classy.  I suppose every fanbase has to put up with ass clowns like you.

Some of the small school coaches will have found themselves in a good situation which they can't replicate, due to lucky recruiting or a good staff. Others are the real deal.

It's just not always easy to tell in advance.

The other view is how much of Hawkins success at Boise State was due to having Petersen around as the OC?    Also, given the fact that not only Hawkins but also his predecessor at BSU (Dirk Koetter) failed miserably when they moved to relatively decent programs, it might give a school a reason to pause before looking at Chris Petersen as an automatic upgrade to their program.

That being said, hiring a coach from a successful non-BCS school in the mountains seems to have worked out pretty well for Florida.

Boise was an established program with a full roster when Hawkins left and they play in the WAC. Colorado was a total mess and they play in the B12. It is surprising Hawkins was not able to make more progress than he did, but it is a much tougher project to rebuild CO than just roll with Boise with your toughest games being one Pac 10 team and Nevada or Hawaii every year.

The Hawk was never really a football "coach" and was always more of a football administrator.  Under Koetter, he was the rah, rah guy and handled all the stuff like event/fundraiser/charity organization.  He had the role of "assistant head coach" but he never had an X's and O's background at the D-1 level.  He inherited a strong program and went 8-4 in year one, then hired Petersen (who I think has proven to be an extremely strong X's and O's coach) and the program took a big step up (three straight one loss seasons and four straight conference titles). 

I think CU fans started to second guess the success when they saw how BSU continued to win and even improved after he left (Petersen has only lost 4 games in nearly five full seasons in Boise).  Most seemed to be willing to give Hawkins a chance to rebuild, but when year four rolled around and they weren't any better than when he'd arrived (they went 3-9), most had completely lost faith in the guy.  He got yet another shot because of the financial situation at the school and needless to say it hasn't gone well this year.

I think Greg Schiano just spit up his morning coffee reading that entry.

Speaking with the Alums and fans much more familiar with the program than I, PSU's next coach is universally expected to be Al Golden from Temple.  He's a former PSU Player, been coaching since 1994, still friendly with the PSU, and has turned around a miserable Temple using the PSU blueprint.

He's young and fits the mold for a university that likes to keep coaches around a very long time.

Its Big 12 Football baby, if you dont like it go play intramurals

I couldn't believe it hadn't been mentioned yet, either (and only beat you by a few minutes).

HA! I saw what you did there.

I hear Tim Brewster is looking for a job.

One Leslie Miles has mentioned how much he loved Boulder.  Plus, CU can use some of that devil's magic after Hawkins' nepotism and Barnett's mistreatment of the female kicker.