Certainly had to be one of the top 3 available candidates. I don't quite share your enthusiasm, however. That would be the same regardless of who we hire. We have non-head coach underlying issues here that also have to be corrected. Hopefully Burman fighting to keep his job will light a fire under h...

CitizenCane wrote:Lloyd Eaton, Fritz Shurmur, Al Kinkaid, Vic Koenning.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it sucks.

Vic K came from the Dimel staff. Dimel was not a seasoned HC.

The key is the right HC. If Tedford materializes, I think it would be an opportunity to think about this model.

I guess you could say Utah, and Utah State. But I do get your point. It's not all that common. Before us Wyoming fans start worrying about if we will have success if/when Tedford leaves (he isn't even our coach yet!) we should just worry about having success when he is here. Can't have continues su...

This idea we have a guy on staff that can take over if the HC takes another job is laughable.. Signed, Boise State. Boise is no doubt the exception to the rule. What other schools have done what they have done with a string of head coaches? We have to find our own model. Boise State is arguably the...

Wicks wrote:
This idea we have a guy on staff that can take over if the HC takes another job is laughable..

Signed, Boise State.

RTJ has a good idea... I like the idea of Stitt as an OC.. either groom him to take the reigns at UW if a HC wants to leave, or groom him so he can take his own HC job elsewhere. Let the HC decide who is on his staff, and if the door is already being made ready for Tedford to leave before he even a...

Are you related to Stitt? Who knows if Tedford would move on quickly, he was at his last job for 11 seasons. I think this idea is WAY out of the realm of possibilities and is in the realm of were the aliens nice to you when they beamed you up? That is why the caveat of "if the new coach is wil...

At first I thought Tedford might want a lot of money or try to get in a bidding war. After all, he was making 2.3 mill/year previously, <edit> but his agreement with Cal might impact things. The university and Tedford will split evenly any amount he earns in excess of $1.5 million in any year in tho...

I'm curious as to what specific system would be successful in Laramie? I think any system can work if coaches can get the players they need and develops those players. I don't believe that we are getting lesser talent than most of the schools in this conference. Only SDSU, Fresno, and Boise seem to...

Colorado produces about 24 FBS players a year. Of those, the top end choose big 5 programs by a large percentage.

At the end of the day, it is what it is: ID gems in the rough and coach them up.

Again, I'm not against Tedford; just wonder about his system in Laramie.

How does Nebraska do it? They have tons of big farm boys. Oh, is it because we have ranches, where the kids work hard all day so they don't end up weighing 300 pounds, while Nebraska is full of a bunch of tractor riding, corn eating tubby boys? Where do these big boys come from? Nebraska will get e...

With Glenn we had Demo and Wynell. We just never had a QB. If we had Brett Smith for 4 years under Glenn, don't you think we would have won quite a few more games? I guess I don't see why the O-Linemen could block in the run game, but couldn't in the pass game. Difference in opinion, I guess, but I...

Your point 1 is my concern as well. We haven't been able to get linemen forever. I remember Glenn trying to get linemen and smash mouth football. It didn't end well. Naturally, that does not mean all coaches would have the same problem, but I think it is a valid concern. There is a reason most of th...

Dimel was an OC, And a pool shark... I find it ironic and fitting that when he had "fun" with a barmaid, it was the beginning of the end of Wyoming football. Hope Tedford or whoever can save the program but I got a bad feeling about this. That is why part of me hopes we can hire Petrino (...

He historically has ran a pro-style offense. Not sure if he would be able to pull that off here? I wonder that too and also how he would handle losing? I think he would be a solid hire, for sure, and am not bagging him, but this is from a Cal beat writer: Through the years, and in particular when h...

COS Cowboy wrote:
Dimel was an OC,

And a pool shark...

NFL?
Unlikely, but Greg Roman would be awesome as would Dan Quinn.

If a guy applied for a job at FAU we should snatch him. we can and will pay more! I want Ed O I don't get the love for Orgeron. He couldn't win at Ole Miss where you can't walk down the block without running into an NFL caliber football player. Agreed he took over a team that went to two bowl games...

I'm all for an "NFL" guy or at least someone that can sell recruits on the "I can work with you to get you to the next level" angle.

I don't like Ed O as much as everyone else. He did terrible at Ol Miss as coach. 16-27 as a head coach. Not for me. Yeah he won a few games as interim coach at USC this year but that doesn't really tell me a whole lot. No thanks. Yeah, plus a coach we fired beat him twice while Ed O was at Ole Miss.