OT: Minnesota Coaching Targets
From Twincities.com
The Gophers have targeted, in order of priority, Boise State's Chris Petersen, Stanford's Jim Harbaugh and Texas Christian's Gary Patterson to replace the fired Tim Brewster.
And in other news I am looking to fuck Jennifer Aniston, Gisele Bundchen or Jessica Alba this weekend. He if Minny can aim that high why cant I???
November 4th, 2010 at 3:59 PM ^
I guess it would be wise for us to not look in the mirror then since the jury is still out.
November 4th, 2010 at 4:13 PM ^
By most any measure Rodriguez was the most successful head coach in the history of WVU football. Stop ignoring facts just because you are mad.
November 4th, 2010 at 4:39 PM ^
I think you'd get a vigorous argument from many WVU fans, even some of those who aren't RR haters, that Don Nehlen was the most successful WVU coach in history.
RR had a better winning % compared to Nehlen, 69% vs 59%, but Nehlen coached a lot longer, had 149 victories vs RR's 60, and got into one game for the NC, losing to ND. RR came within an injury to Pat White's thumb of getting into a NC game of his own.
However, I have to think that if RR had stayed on at WVU for as long as Nehlen did that he would have passed him easily on the total wins, and would have gotten a NC win.
November 4th, 2010 at 4:48 PM ^
Not to downgrade his success there, but the significantly higher winning percentage and the fact that they had never won a major bowl game until Rodriguez got there (under Nehlen or anyone else in their 100 year history) I think tips the scales in his favor.
Even if you want to make the argument (and I don't think WVU fans would make it if Rodriguez hadn't jilted them for the Michigan job), pretending Rodriguez was "just an offensive coordinator" is ridiculously dumb.
November 4th, 2010 at 5:23 PM ^
But it is worth noting that RR's success as a head coach has come when he had Jeff Casteel running the defense. Since their separation, Casteel has continued to field excellent defenses while RR is having a hard time winning. It makes one wonder: what would RR's record at West Virginia have been if he had a guy like GERG coordinating the D?
November 4th, 2010 at 1:13 PM ^
"The Pistons would be willing to consider trading Rip Hamilton for Josh Smith." Yeah and I'd be willing to trade Kurt Thomas for Dwight Howard for the Bulls, whoopdy freaking doo.
November 4th, 2010 at 1:17 PM ^
There's no way that Peterson or Patterson would leave programs they've built into top-5 and somewhat-legit NC contenders for a program that's as downtrodden as any in the Big 10. Mike Bellotti had pretty good success at a PAC10 school with huge bankrolling from Nike and access to California players; Minnesota would be a definite step down. If Phat Phil is really interested, that's a sign of desperation on his part. Minny's best route is to look for either an excellent coach at a non-BCS school right now who's below the radar, or for a coordinator at a major program who appears to have true HC potential.
November 4th, 2010 at 2:01 PM ^
several years ago (after he drove TCU to NCAA violations).
They like the TCU connection for some reason.
November 4th, 2010 at 2:33 PM ^
Dr. Jay you are a funny guy. Great post. Always good for a little humor in this year of infinite pain...ver 2.0
November 4th, 2010 at 2:40 PM ^
If Rich Rod loses his job here, I bet Minnesota interviews him and maybe hires him.
How much would that suck? He turns Minnesota around, but couldn't do the same here.
November 4th, 2010 at 4:16 PM ^
Given that we would be back on our feet and beating Minnesota, I don't tink it would be a big deal. I do think a Minnesota or Colorado level job is about where he'd end up if he was fired, but I wouldn't be scared of our team playing against him - short of utter transitional chaos.
November 4th, 2010 at 5:31 PM ^
Why would Minnesota hire a coach who has a worse record (both overall and in conference) at Michigan than the guy they just fired?
November 4th, 2010 at 4:46 PM ^
I really like Jim Harbaugh, please do not let him go to Minnesota.