Cowherd Reveals His Mystery Candidate

Submitted by slama on

@ESPN_Colin reveals his mystery Michigan candidate....it was Buffalo's Doug Marrone. #HERDSource #DidntHappen

— Herd w/Colin Cowherd (@TheHerd) December 31, 2014

Obviously he had no clue like the rest of the national media minus a select few.

This illustrates the great job Hackett did keeping the coaching search in house.

MGoBoard
Football

slama

January 1st, 2015 at 2:52 PM ^

"So I know three of the college football agents," he continued. "There's about five guys, biggies, I call them occasionally to try to root some information out and I know enough reporters around the country. Here's the story. There's a very interesting -- and this is not in a message board, you'll find it nowhere -- there's a name right now being circulated in the agent world for Michigan's head coaching job. You will like it if you're at Michigan. You have no idea it's coming. I think it's a really good call, I can't believe I didn't think of it and it will make sense."

Joined: 05/05/2014

MGoPoints: 1974

Gameboy

January 1st, 2015 at 3:01 PM ^

I am not sure why everyone is bashing this. It is obvious now that Marrone wanted out of Buffalo and his agent was doing his job to see what his options were. Checking to see if Michigan would be interested is something that his agent most definitely should have done.

We ended up with our undisputed #1 choice, but if that did not work out, Marrone would have been a pretty good Plan B candidate. I have to agree with Cowherd that it would have been something Michigan fans could have liked.

Joined: 11/28/2010

MGoPoints: 9656

Dunder

January 1st, 2015 at 4:22 PM ^

he has done a fine job at difficult stops. When that news broke yesterday, my first thought was: glad Nebraska and Wisconsin already filled their spots - Michigan is the only college program to have filled their vacany with a better hire than that guy would be for a school.

Joined: 09/04/2010

MGoPoints: 8072

Canadian

January 1st, 2015 at 2:49 PM ^

Thought he said we would be excited? Marrone is a good coach but not close to the excitement I'd feel for three college names that were being thrown around

Joined: 06/02/2012

MGoPoints: 13364

CoverZero

January 1st, 2015 at 2:58 PM ^

Thats BS, he is just throwing that out there to cover has ass because Marron stepped down and gives him an out

Joined: 08/30/2014

MGoPoints: 14571

Mr Miggle

January 1st, 2015 at 3:12 PM ^

One of our more reliable sources, JUB, reported on WTKA that sitting NFL coaches other than Harbaugh were interested.

I think he fails the Michigan fans would be happy with him standard, though.

EDIT: I see Winterblue beat me to the punch. Sam Webb said more than once that Sean Payton was on Michigan's short list. I assume that's because there was mutual interest. Marrone being the other coach makes the most sense, even if Cowherd said so.

Joined: 10/07/2010

MGoPoints: 47648

LSAClassOf2000

January 1st, 2015 at 3:12 PM ^

I have to say that I am a little disappointed here - all those threads that were trying to make sense of the nonsensical ramblings of a man whose very job at ESPN is to bloviate at such a pace that even the most vapid person in the world is humbled by the emptiness, and the answer to the mystery is Doug Marrone. That's weak indeed, but what did I expect from Cowherd? Not much. 

Joined: 01/07/2011

MGoPoints: 130627

Towelette

January 1st, 2015 at 3:32 PM ^

I posted on this earlier in the CC thread about Cowherd. He showed his sealed envelope back in studio, as Cowherd is in LA, and his producer opened the envelope, nothing was inside, he walked up to a sitting station and grabbed a piece of paper out of view and held it up and unfolded it as Doug Marrone. It was all a bunch of crock from Cowherd.

Joined: 01/01/2015

MGoPoints: 242

Mr. Yost

January 1st, 2015 at 3:39 PM ^

...because we have Harbaugh and we can be arrogant.

However, there would definitely be people behind a Doug Marrone hire if Harbaugh said no...however he didn't, so we'll never see those folks get excited for Marrone, Wheatley, and that staff.

Joined: 07/25/2011

MGoPoints: -9898220

Moonlight Graham

January 1st, 2015 at 3:55 PM ^

plausible, I just don't understand the "Zill Tellichek" thing. He said we'd find out "that weekend" and when it didn't happen he throws that out? Maybe Marrone's agent asked him to cover his tracks with that. 

I've tried to like Cowherd but he's trying too hard to be even a poor man's Malcolm Gladwell and fails even at that. He has the talent to be in a major market I suppose but shouldn't have a national ESPN slot. 

I do like SVP and Russillo. They're always fun listen. 

Joined: 09/12/2011

MGoPoints: 7559

DJEasy12

January 1st, 2015 at 5:24 PM ^

Happy to say that this is my FIRST post! While Cowherd is certainly an asshat, his job kind of requires him to be an asshat to get attention (a la First Take). But worse are guys like Jason La Canfora, who actually masquerade as legitimate reporters. Listen to the Harbaugh character assassination here: 

https://soundcloud.com/eye-on-football-podcast/is-49ers-owner-jed-york-the-next-daniel-snyder

And for a guy supposedly so well-connected, he completely buys the bullshit Harbaugh accepted the job in 2011 line and basically equates him to an indecisive teenage girl when it comes to coaching jobs. 

Joined: 01/01/2015

MGoPoints: 777

mgoblue0970

January 1st, 2015 at 9:17 PM ^

He's trying to save face.

Weeks ago he said it was Belichick and was just screwing about with Michigan fans.

Joined: 11/22/2008

MGoPoints: 18648