October 9th, 2017 at 5:15 PM ^
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October 9th, 2017 at 5:30 PM ^
Paul Chryst was born for the job. Just looking at him all I can think about is beer, fried cheese, and brawts.
October 9th, 2017 at 6:24 PM ^
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October 9th, 2017 at 6:37 PM ^
While they haven’t been truly elite in a while, they’re always good, consistently very good, and sometimes truly great. They’ve been a consistent top 15-20 program since Barry Alvarez was the coach. Andersen would likely still be winning there if he was the coach.
Almost doesn’t matter who the coach is.
October 9th, 2017 at 9:08 PM ^
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October 9th, 2017 at 5:16 PM ^
Hilarious how he wanted to leave Wisky for "academic standards" in recruiting, but did a terrible job at Oregon St.
October 9th, 2017 at 5:24 PM ^
October 9th, 2017 at 5:25 PM ^
He gave up all money he was owed? That's crazy, but I commend him for it.
October 9th, 2017 at 5:27 PM ^
Apparently he told the AD he would walk away if he didn't think he could win, and he did just that. I think it's a class act not often seen from a failing HC.
October 9th, 2017 at 5:32 PM ^
moves I'm seen in my years following sports - resigning as the Wisky head coach to take the Oregon St job. I get he wasn't thrilled with the academic requirements at Madison but why of all jobs would you take Oregon St?
On a side note, it's not a good year for ex-Wisconsin coaches. I wouldn't be shocked if Bert is no longer the Arkansas coach by the time 2018 rolls around.
October 9th, 2017 at 5:41 PM ^
He and hig wife fell in love with the city of Corvallis apparently, and they leapt at the opportunity to move there when Riley was hired by Nebraska.
October 9th, 2017 at 5:52 PM ^
October 10th, 2017 at 1:39 AM ^
IIRC, when this happened I looked it up and it's something like the same total number of Mormons in Madison (pop. 250k) as Corvallis (pop. 50k). The connection between the west and the LDS community is deep seated and intense, I don't doubt it was as much of a factor as anything else in his thinking.
October 9th, 2017 at 5:43 PM ^
October 9th, 2017 at 5:47 PM ^
Off the top of my uninformed head, SEC might be holding coaching fair in late November:
-Arkansas
-Texas AM
-Mizzou
-Tenn
-Florida
-Ole Miss?
-Miss St?
October 9th, 2017 at 5:50 PM ^
October 9th, 2017 at 5:58 PM ^
Anyone with a pulse? Mullen is Miss State's best coach in school history. Sumlin is exceeding expectations with a true freshman QB outside of the UCLA collapse. McElwain is definitely getting another year as he doesn't even have a full recruiting cycle in yet. Bielema is probably getting another year no matter how terrible this season ends as they can't afford his buyout. Odom might get canned at Missouri, but that seems unlikely as this is only his second season.
Tennessee is the only school listed that will likely be looking for a new coach other than Ole Miss, who still has an interim coach.
October 9th, 2017 at 6:32 PM ^
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October 9th, 2017 at 8:18 PM ^
October 10th, 2017 at 1:45 AM ^
Mississippi State is only looking for a coach if Mullen goes to Florida. They're almost a shoo-in to make their 8th(!) consecutive bowl game, which is unheard of. He's their best coach since the 1940s, by a very wide margin.
October 9th, 2017 at 5:48 PM ^
Hopefully there will be a "Hello" post welcoming a certain Tim Drevno!
Then Drevno poaches the staff for Pep Hamilton for OC.
One can hope can't he.
October 10th, 2017 at 4:00 AM ^
Then wins the Rose Bowl in year 1 with an OL that just dominates. This blog is then full of people bitching about how if he had stayed that would be us.
October 9th, 2017 at 5:51 PM ^
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October 9th, 2017 at 6:05 PM ^
As long as you are happy with 10 wins being the ceiling, and Harbaugh has pretty much achieved that already. Wisconsin's record is always inflated by playing in the Big Ten west. They dodge both PSU and OSU this season and had a cake-walk OOC schedule.
October 9th, 2017 at 7:53 PM ^
October 9th, 2017 at 10:59 PM ^
They've won 11 games 4 of the past 7 seasons.
October 9th, 2017 at 6:18 PM ^
but it's really not that surprising - Barry A. still looms large in Madison. Things will change/fall apart once he is gone...
October 9th, 2017 at 8:47 PM ^
Bert was an assistant to Alvarez and the hand picked successor. Anderson was a head scratcher. Chryst was an assistant at Wisconsin for 7 years before he took the head job at Pitt.
October 9th, 2017 at 6:17 PM ^
Gary Anderson leaving Wisconsin is, at least to me, one of the most perplexing coaching moves of the last 15 years. Why would you leave an almost permanently comfortable and nice situation like Wisconsin for Oregon State, only to realize that winning Corvallis is likely a gargantuan effort for which few if any would even be remotely qualified? We may never know.
October 9th, 2017 at 9:54 PM ^
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October 9th, 2017 at 9:58 PM ^
can't use that an excuse when Wazzu is unbeaten. Getting to Pullman is a true task.
October 10th, 2017 at 1:56 AM ^
Oregon State, while not an illustrious place by any means, does have some things going for it. It's no harder of a sell for recruits than most of the Pac-12 outside of California, UW and Oregon. It's got a Heisman winner and under Riley and Erickson they won 9 games five times in 15 years. They're one of those schools, like NC State, who are always going to flirt with relevance for a decade before spending another decade in the gutter... good from the 30s-40s, good from the 50s-70s, and good in the 00s but completely shitty the rest of the time. nbsp;
October 9th, 2017 at 10:05 PM ^
I get a sense that he was sick of Oregon St. not really going anywhere, and he's a good enough coach he'll land somewhere solid. It always seemed like a weird fit for him, but it also seemed like he was tired of coaching at Wisconsin and Alvarez.
October 10th, 2017 at 1:08 AM ^