OT: Ed McCaffrey named HC at Northern Colorado
December 12th, 2019 at 8:25 PM ^
Here's to hoping Dylan doesn't follow him.
He may be injury prone, but we still need him.
Go Blue!!!
December 12th, 2019 at 8:29 PM ^
Injury prone?!
I mean he got blasted in the head by a bullshit Wisconsin player, so, sure?
December 12th, 2019 at 8:36 PM ^
I don't think he's injury prone, just unlucky so far. But, he has also broken his collarbone.
December 12th, 2019 at 9:15 PM ^
When he fell forward with the ball he landed in the classic "break your collarbone" shoulder/arm angle. It's the way most collarbone breaks occur. The break would have happened to anyone and more muscle wouldn't have helped. It's just about the first thing you teach in judo or other martial arts that involve frequent falls. I'm surprised no one is teaching those concepts in football.
December 12th, 2019 at 11:33 PM ^
All of these assumptions were made about Stafford early in his career and up until this year, he has been pretty healthy for the most part.
December 13th, 2019 at 10:05 AM ^
Collarbones are surprisingly easy to break.
December 12th, 2019 at 9:08 PM ^
Broken collar bone or cheap shot in Wisconsin, an injury is an injury. I wish neither happened, but they did.
December 12th, 2019 at 11:16 PM ^
Being hit by a car doesn't make you more prone to being hit by other cars. There's no correlation between his injuries
December 13th, 2019 at 12:40 AM ^
They both happened on a football field while getting tackled.
December 13th, 2019 at 8:11 AM ^
A good life skill to have is knowing when to leave something alone...
December 13th, 2019 at 10:01 AM ^
Maybe it's just me, but he's gotta start being more of a QB when he's running rather than a running back.
I've seen him take far too many unnecessary dives when he could have just slid.
He's a risky runner. And he's far too valuable to be doing it that way.
December 15th, 2019 at 12:18 PM ^
That's something that will be stressed if and when he becomes the starting QB. He's a kid that probably was used to scrambling in HS without issues with his size and speed. I doubt you'll see him lowering his shoulder to take on a LBer next year.
December 13th, 2019 at 7:15 AM ^
And it was the 2nd blast to the head on successive plays that knocked him out.
December 15th, 2019 at 12:25 PM ^
Injury prone what an ignorant statement. The guy broke his collar bone his redshirt freshman season, at a time when he needed to bulk up anyway. He gets a concussion this year which could happen to anyone and generally only keeps you out a week or two. That makes him injury prone. Oook.
December 12th, 2019 at 8:26 PM ^
Yikes. Going lose Dylan to Dad ?
December 12th, 2019 at 8:35 PM ^
Can’t imagine he’d transfer to play for his dad unless he loses the job... would be sabotaging any NFL hopes
December 15th, 2019 at 12:29 PM ^
He's not losing the job. As much as so many fans are clamoring for Milton because of a strong arm, I think it's safe to say McCaffrey is much more polished as a QB. Milton was a raw project type, that was rated like 3rd or 4th best in Florida. McCaffrey was top5 in the country. Still, Milton should stick around at least next year in case McCaffrey were to get dinged up on a scramble. He's going to have to learn to slide or get out of bounds to avoid big hits.
December 13th, 2019 at 8:19 AM ^
Yes, that's gotta be right, right? He's going to move on from being the probable starter for what's going to be a top 10-15 ranked powerhouse football factory with a coach known for putting players in the NFL, to play for his dad at a small FCS backwater that just went 2-10.
(BTW, Ed McCaffrey's coaching experience is the last 2 years as a high school HC.)
December 12th, 2019 at 8:30 PM ^
He'd sit out a year?
December 12th, 2019 at 9:30 PM ^
I didn't think you had to sit out when transferring from D-1 to D1-AA.
December 13th, 2019 at 7:21 AM ^
You do, but he could petition for immediate eligibility. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to when the NCAA approves of denies.
December 13th, 2019 at 8:15 AM ^
Unless they changed the rule, last I checked you do not have to sit if you drop down the ladder from FBS to FCS or FCS to D2.
December 13th, 2019 at 9:06 AM ^
Football players who go from an FBS team to an FCS team (or from FCS to FCS teams that don’t offer scholarships) don’t have to sit a season, as long as they have two years of eligibility left. Same for anyone transferring to the non-scholarship Division III.
One-time transfer exception:
If you transfer from a four-year school, you may be immediately eligible to compete at your new school if you meet ALL the following conditions: You are transferring to a Division II or III school, or you are transferring to a Division I school in any sport other than baseball, men's or women's basketball, football (Football Bowl Subdivision) or men’s ice hockey. If you are transferring to a Division I school for any of the previously-listed sports, you may be eligible to compete immediately if you were not recruited by your original school and you have never received an athletics scholarship.
December 13th, 2019 at 1:50 PM ^
I believe that's right - if you're moving between divisions like that, you do not have to worry about sitting out a year.
December 12th, 2019 at 8:35 PM ^
Do any of you really think a pro athlete father would wish upon his son to be demoted from Michigan to Northern Colorado? Good for Ed, and no threat to Dylan!
December 12th, 2019 at 8:42 PM ^
Agreed. And if he wants one of his sons to play for him he can take the one who plays for Nebraska.
We need Dylan next season in Ann Arbor
December 12th, 2019 at 9:10 PM ^
No, not really, but then again, Tyrone Wheatley was.....pro athlete father....
December 12th, 2019 at 8:46 PM ^
The guy with the neck problems?
December 12th, 2019 at 8:56 PM ^
From a father's perspective, not sure I understand this. 3 incredibly athletic sons playing football at the highest level and not be able to see them play ?
December 12th, 2019 at 10:06 PM ^
Ed seems to have career goals. Sometimes you sacrifice personal things for your professional career. A lot of coaches don’t get to see their kids play.
December 12th, 2019 at 10:17 PM ^
Perhaps you're right. Not trying to be dramatic, but I wouldn't trade watching my boys play in athletic events for anything....and that's only HS sports.
December 13th, 2019 at 10:13 AM ^
On the other hand, he coached his youngest son Luke for his senior year, and was definitely around for all his other sons' HS football games.
Now that they're all playing professionally or in college out of state, maybe he felt now was the time to go chase a new dream of coaching college ball. It sounds like an "empty nester" sort of thing.
It's not like he was going to travel to Nebraska, Michigan, or wherever Christian and Max are playing every weekend. I would assume he records and watches all his sons' games. Also, he only coached HS for 2 seasons, so N Colorado seems like a reasonable step up.
December 12th, 2019 at 9:17 PM ^
If Shea gets his 5th year it would not surprise me if Dylan enters the portal to play for Daddy!
December 15th, 2019 at 12:22 PM ^
If Shea Patterson got a 5th year I wouldn't blame all the QBs if they walked. Guy is Wilton Speight with more mobility. Why any Michigan fan would be excited for another year of overthrown passes to guys wide open downfield is beyond me. Or unforced turnovers like in the OSU game. That's a damn freshman mistake from a Senior. Good riddance.
December 12th, 2019 at 9:48 PM ^
This is an odd way for me to find out that we just lost our high school football coach. Oh well, it was a fun 2-year ride. Hate to be the guy that has to follow that.
December 12th, 2019 at 10:22 PM ^
Valor football will be fine. I don't begrudge you guys for it, but you probably the biggest structural advantages of any school in the state.
December 12th, 2019 at 10:58 PM ^
Serious question. I won't even bring up Pedophile State U. But how does Valor have "structural" advantages... other than supposed cachet from their insane tuition costs? They've been previously kicked out of their conference and people bellyache about having to play against them. It's pretty much Valor against the world.
December 12th, 2019 at 11:09 PM ^
Dude - I know you don't like me, but the "Pedophile State University" comment is completely irrelevant to this thread. My comments were on Ed McCaffrey, Valor, and Northern Colorado Bears football (I do live in the Denver Metro).
I know I'm a guest here, but come on.
December 13th, 2019 at 8:38 AM ^
Nittany - as I recall (maybe incorrectly), you have previously stated that UM is your #2 team after psu. If that's true, then you aren't really a guest here but another fan-type (not diehard, but something akin to bandwagon perhaps) - and you can stop the "guest" defense. You are one of us.
ONE OF US. ONE OF US. ONE OF US...
Don't fight it.
December 13th, 2019 at 11:10 AM ^
Nittany, we're all guests here
December 13th, 2019 at 11:37 AM ^
I know you don't like me
I've never met you. So there's no way to know that I don't like you.
I do not however, like your posts defending, twisting words, deflecting -- however one wants to characterize it, of what happened at Pedophile State.
That community as a whole has shown little to zero remorse for what happened, accountability, or lessons learned from what happened.
the "Pedophile State University" comment is completely irrelevant to
Nah, seems to me you find a way to work in defending that institution into seeming unrelated conversations so I'm just following your lead.
Like another poster replied to one of your posts recently, "your program is an embarrassment. Time to find another team."
My comments were on
And my comment is what structural advantage does Valor supposedly have? Serious question.
They are a private school.
There's a fair share of people who don't like them (partly because of their success I assume).
Other than the perception it's an elite school to which the "new money" from Cali expats and pro athletes whom send their kids there, what other advantage does Valor have, especially structurally, over say a Pine Creek (who can kinda hang with them)?
December 13th, 2019 at 1:18 AM ^
I won't dispute that, but I do think it's been exaggerated a bit over the years. Also, it's a tiny student body compared to the Cherry Creeks and Ponderosas of the state. But yeah... I can't image how a QB or receiver could resist having Ed McCaffery in one ear and Brandon Stokley in the other. I'll never know 'cause my son is on the mountain bike team. :-)
December 13th, 2019 at 8:28 AM ^
Mountain bike team? HAHA!!! You know 'structural advantages' are real when your high school has a mountain bike team... :)
December 13th, 2019 at 9:55 AM ^
High School mountain bike teams are pretty common in Colorado. Terrific sport.
December 12th, 2019 at 10:06 PM ^
Good luck to Ed, for certain. But that is NOT an easy place to win. UNC was successful at the D-2 level, but it's been a rather rough go since they moved up to D-1AA (FCS). 0 playoff appearances in 16 tries.
Looking it up further, their best season among their 16 at the FCS level was a 6-5 record. Yeesh.
I don't think Dylan McCaffrey would even consider transferring there. It's just too far down the FCS pecking-order, especially for one with NFL aspirations.
This is very "nerdy" (talking Colorado high school football), but Andy Lowry from Columbine is the one who I think would be the CO HS football coach most suited to moving up to the collegiate level at a school like UNC. Lowry may be getting too old though at this point. McCaffrey is still only 51.
Colorado is a beautiful state, for the most part. Greeley, where UNC is located, is, well, the "other" part.
December 12th, 2019 at 10:55 PM ^
I was blown away and sadden when I saw this. I played my college ball there and can’t believe they would hire Ed. The guy has only coached high school football for two years and now he’s a head coach at a DI-AA Level in one of the toughest conferences in the country. Makes no sense what so ever and can’t believe they couldn’t find a better candidate
When it comes to HS coaches in the state Logan would’ve been a better choice
Greeley is actually a very nice city
December 12th, 2019 at 11:13 PM ^
The Greeley comment was mean-spirited. Apologies.
It is weird, UNC is in the Denver Metro but the local media treats it as if it is some other galaxy. The non-football sports are pretty good, compete well in the Big Sky.
December 12th, 2019 at 10:24 PM ^
Dylan McCaffrey's gonna go there and be a monster.
December 13th, 2019 at 8:12 AM ^
CSB but my old highschool teammate just recently graduated from UNC as their all time scoring leader. Also I was born and grew up in the same town as the McCaffreys. Two weird coincidences.
