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Bohl interviewed for Iowa State

If Bohl goes, it'll open up the door for us to get Gary Andersen when he gets fired. Even though he too only had 2 wins this year vs an FCS school and an FBS team with a losing record, he has shown success against many of the teams we now face in the MWC. Out with the old, in with the new. I'm sure I saw a tweet somewhere about Andersen being fired.
 
cowboyz said:
If Bohl goes, it'll open up the door for us to get Gary Andersen when he gets fired. Even though he too only had 2 wins this year vs an FCS school and an FBS team with a losing record, he has shown success against many of the teams we now face in the MWC. Out with the old, in with the new. I'm sure I saw a tweet somewhere about Andersen being fired.
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The job was filled by Matt Campbell from Toledo.
 
ragtimejoe1 said:
First, no credible reports confirming this yet, so nothing but a rumor as of now.


All the rest of this brick by brick, foundation, bleed brown and gold crap is nothing more than hot air. Bohl is committed to building a winning program here until he's not. I have no doubt that he'll do the best job he can do while he's here and I have no doubt that he will take advantage of any opportunity that betters his personal situation. It is called reality; deal with it.
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I think this sums up the argument. You would think there would be better substantiation of this interview, if it really occurred other than some clown on twitter. Although, twitter is a hotbed of good initial information. This sounds a little out of character for Bohl, although he probably is feeling a little heat right now from this board.

Maybe somebody can dig a little deeper (hint) Gags, Holmgren, (whoever) to press some other details, if available.
 
I've said it once and I'll say it again, Beav, you're an Oregon State fan, you should be less of a troll than you are. You watched Mike Riley suck for how many years and you had to have Nebraska take him away or he was never going to leave. And Gary Anderson went 2-10 this year and 0-9 in conference. What are your thoughts? Are you ready to fire him because according to your logic he should be gone. Doesn't matter that it was only year one he should be fired. I don't know if Bohl slept with your mom or what, but it seems you just have something against him and only can seem to troll.
 
If he (or his agent) talked to Iowa State I hope he can use it as leverage to increase our budget and get a larger salary pool for better assistants.
 
djm19 said:
He probably dropped his coffee mug if someone called for a job interview after you post a solid 6-18 (25% W percentage) on his resume. More shocked than anyone.

Last year some idiots on here were speculating he could go to Nebraska. Wow. Time for the aliens to return and clean out the petri dish.
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Amen to this and the other post, if he was "interviewed" it was likely a quick phone call as we (ISU) knows nothing you (Bohl) say will sway us from going with our guy. For the record, count me in the camp of you need to give a college coach 3 years min more like 4-5 before judging them one way or another. Am I content at 2 wins in a season, no, but Bohl has taken a bottom program built it up and then moved it to the next level and won at the next level before. Granted that at the lower level success was able to come faster than at this level, but that is only an argument to give more time.

IMO we were getting worse under D.C. Take Glen's teams from when the MWC was stacked and we were beating then BCS now P5 teams and put them in today's conference. I remember watching as we took the 2006-2007 Boise team and gave them arguably their second hardest game that year. DC never came close to beating any decent team and our defense was neglected. That takes time to repair.

When you are at or near the bottom and repeatedly so, you are not likely to find success by bandaids or cutting corners. You have to make the long term investments (recruiting and developing players) sometimes at the expense of potential short term expense. Look at the Cubs, you had fans moaning and complaining about "the process" as things got worse yet those same fans were cheering the loudest this year and are now saying they are the favorites to win this next year. Bohl, while making mistakes and admitting to them, at least is trying to do it the right way. Will he be successful, maybe, or perhaps the budget constraints will hamstring him like it did Glenn. Time will tell. Oil, coal, and natural gas all being in the tank right now sure isn't going to help. People are concerned about food on the table and their jobs, getting more money from the State for what is ultimately a game isn't likely and may backfire if things get real bad economically in the state. That is the reality on the ground,at least in the Powder River Basin now. Burman really needs to start developing some other revenue streams.

I am getting tired of a certain narrative that we need to go spread as the Pro Style O and strong defense mindset won't work at Wyoming. Spread can work, but if you have a mediocre spread offense you will gas your D awfully quick. At least with a mediocre pro-style you give your defense a chance.
 
It would look like if he interviewed for the job that they offered someone else not bohl , this happened last week since then it has been filled . So if he did interview he didn't get it .
 
Expat_Poke said:
but Bohl has taken a bottom program built it up and then moved it to the next level and won at the next level before.
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I see this a lot about how Bohl built a program at NDSU and I don't ever understand that. Sure, the year before Bohl took over up there, they had 2 wins. Before that?...
7
12
9
7
9
6
10
9
7
10
14
etc. etc.

It wasn't like Bohl took a program in shambles and built it up from scratch. I'm not dogging Bohl or anything, but I never understood the often used phrase of "he built" when referring to NDSU. He took over a good program, sustained that success, then took another step forward with 3 NC.
 
McPeachy said:
Expat_Poke said:
Beaver,

I am going to wait until this is verified by more reliable media. If this is true that tells me Bohl realizes the tough task he has in front of him at Wyoming and saw a possible out. Not a good sign. That said, that is IF it is true. I have a hard time believing Iowa St or any P5 school will come a calling right now.

So far this is all that I have seen is a forum post and a tweet from Chris Williams.

"Source: Bohl got an interview
Now hearing that Wyoming head coach (formerly of NDSU) Craig Bohl got an interview. Don't think he's getting the job, but I'm hearing he interviewed." a posting by Chris Williams on a forum. That isn't really a report in my opinion more rumor mill. Even if true was it a simple informal telephone call. Hard to know more with a grand total of two sentences. Well three counting the tweet.

Either way I think the thread should have been titled Bohl reportedly interviewed as I have not seen it verified by another source and even that source doesn't list it as a certainty.
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^ This

I would expect the ever-coveted Ryan Holmgren to report something on this - either way - if he really is worth a good god damn.

Logic says, no way in hell did Iowa State interview a coach who has decimated a G5 level program, finishing the second season of his tenure at 2 & 10, in a SHIT conference, with an even SHITTIER out of conference schedule.
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I asked Gags and Holmgren flat out on twitter about this. Holmgren responded that he would look into it and get an answer
 
LanderPoke said:
Over on Gags' live chat Gags said that he doesn't think Bohl actually interviewed.
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My bet is that the 3rd party search committee floated his name out there because they had to come up with more than 1 candidate. I'd also be surprised if they actually interviewed many (if any) other than the Toledo coach.
 
Who knows if he interviewed or not but just because he is 6-18 his first two years at Wyoming doesn't mean someone wouldn't still look at him because of his past success.

Gene Chizik went 5-19 in two years at Iowa St. and then got hired by Auburn and won a national championship there. So it isn't like it couldn't happen that Bohl would be interviewed.

Not saying he did or didn't get interviewed. Would need some sources to confirm obviously but wouldn't be the strangest thing that ever happened.
 
Gags pretty much said he didn't interview.

Also he said they are doing a national search for a WR coach. This is good to hear.
 
LanderPoke said:
Gags pretty much said he didn't interview.

Also he said they are doing a national search for a WR coach. This is good to hear.
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The search should begin and end in zipcode 84321
 
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"From some digging that I did, I have it on good authority that Bohl may have been on Iowa State's list. However, I don't think he interviewed for the job. Campbell was the second interview Iowa State did, and they cancelled all others after that. I also heard the AD there "looked into Bohl" and wasn't impressed what he's done at UW so far." - Robert Gagliardi
 
ragtimejoe1 said:
Expat_Poke said:
but Bohl has taken a bottom program built it up and then moved it to the next level and won at the next level before.
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I see this a lot about how Bohl built a program at NDSU and I don't ever understand that. Sure, the year before Bohl took over up there, they had 2 wins. Before that?...
7
12
9
7
9
6
10
9
7
10
14
etc. etc.

It wasn't like Bohl took a program in shambles and built it up from scratch. I'm not dogging Bohl or anything, but I never understood the often used phrase of "he built" when referring to NDSU. He took over a good program, sustained that success, then took another step forward with 3 NC.
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Looking at it though you are right they were not a program in shambles. Thank you for pointing that out. From 1963 to 2003 they had a total of 2 losing seasons. If only Wyoming could have that sort of consistency. I think part of it has to do with them going from Div 2 to FCS while under Bohl. I would be surprised if say NDSU, Montana, or any FCS team went up to the FBS level and achieved success as rapidly as NDSU did when moving from Division 2 to FCS. I dunno maybe it is more common to see that sort of rapid success happen when going from Division 2 to FCS.

Now thinking on it, I think it also comes from those gameday airheads. I remember watching when they were hosting gameday at Fargo, and I recall them going on about how Bohl built that program.
 
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