Chryst has risen.
"How are the mighty fallen. "
2 Samuel 1:27
I'da thought he could find an HC gig in the MAC or somewhere similar. Maybe he just didn't want the headache in this NIL world.
Sort of weird. He was let go early enough that he should have had enough time to land a good gig. Maybe he sees a couple of jobs that will open up next year that are appealing to him. (MSU? TX when Sarkisian falls off the wagon.)
It is like a game of chess; always plan your next move. The NIL aspect is also a good point.
They won’t fire $ Mel anytime soon.
That’s a good hire! He’s been successful and is very respected in the coaching community.
As he should be. Seemed like a good man and kind of got the shaft. Although I was treated like shit the only time I ever went to camp Randall, I always respected the style of football Wisconsin played. You may beat them but your dam sure gonna feel it the next day.
He never impressed me as being particularly gifted on offense once you got past a running game behind a corn-fed OL. When an effective passing game would have made a difference, it was nowhere to be seen.
I mean...they had one of the most powerful running games in all of college football for several years. That's like saying "I was never very impressed with Mike Leach as an offensive coach because his teams didn't run the ball very well."
There are very few teams/coaches who both run and pass the ball exceptionally well. In fact, there are probably just a couple who do it well on a regular basis in Nick Saban and Lincoln Riley (perhaps a couple others with shorter track records). So I think it's good to learn what you can from the run game guys and the pass game guys, and see what you can meld between the two.
Yeah, this seems like a low-risk/possibly high-reward move to me.
I think the disconnect is that many of us (fairly or not) associate prolific passing offense with coaching “genius” much more than we do so for prolific rushing offenses.
If Jim had space he'd have hired him, I'd bet.
I guess Texas did hook 'em.
I always got the vibe that Chryst was probably the coach closest to Harbaugh in the Big Ten.
He did after shemy
If you want to win championships, you run the ball and become a bully. That doesn't mean they can't have a decent to great passing game, but I've yet to see a champion that only passes the ball...
Sark finally realized what the rest of us knew: that being a good/great offensive mind does not make you HC material. It's smart of him to surround himself with successful former HCs.
Chryst and Texas go together like brats and brisket.
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Oh man that looks delicious 😋
None for me thanks, high cholesterol.
Always loved his taste in quarterbacks.
As did our defense
Mertz still has nightmares of Dax after that hit.
Damn that defense was nasty.
Watching that reminds how great the push and pressure Hutch got was.
It's the white with blue pants... We've played our best in that uniform.
Ok, but I just don't want then to get too cute by half and add the yellow stripe down the side like this pictures of possible uniforms showed.
I watched that Dax Hill blitz about fifty times. Amazing acceleration.
That was a significant win early in the year, especially considering the past performances at Camp Randall.
Chryst is a solid coach but he basically walked into a fully-operational battleship in the far-weaker division and then rode that plus Jonathan Taylor for some great seasons. His QBs were never above-average even with a great offensive line and a dominating running game, and his playcalling apparently wasn't particularly creative or dangerous on gameday per reports by players when he left. I'm sure he'll help Sark a bit in Texas but this feels a bit like Sark trying to pull off the Saban School for Wayward Coaches routine and I'm not sure it'll work out as well for him. Texas is going to have to replace the Doak Walker winner and a rare first-round draft pick at RB with guys who probably aren't going to lead the nation in yards after first contact and will instead have to rely on an inconsistent QB who's on his 2nd team in 3 years and knows Arch Manning is waiting in the background to take his spot ASAP.
Agree with all that --- Chryst is ultimately "just a dude." An average coach: nothing special at all.
We'll see how things go with Fickell, but Wisconsin isn't what they were. They're a combined 0-13 against OSU (8 losses) and PSU (5 losses) in the 2012-2022 era. 3 wins against Michigan in that era but they feel like they have asterisks: 2 at home in that era when U-M beat nobody decent on the road, and another in that stupid COVID year.
They can't afford a 3rd straight not above-average coach (Alvarez and Bielema were, Gary Andersen and Chryst weren't).
Fickell is a home run hire. Their best coach since Alvarez. He’s now only the third coach in the B1G to lead a team to the CFP
So he also landed on 3rd base.
Disagree, he coached at Wisconsin as qb and OC/qb coach before leaving to Pitt after the 2011 season, ie 44ppg at Wisconsin. He returned as hc, 2015.
being hc is different than oc but he did just fine as the oc and hc. 2012 after he left Wisconsin the offense avg less than 30 a game.
Sure, but that 44 pt year he also had Russell Wilson at QB.
Maybe he'll be a really good OC, but it also stands to reason that his Pitt offense were always mediocre and his Wisconsin offenses got way worse as they lost a transcendent RB. And Wisconsin was great because of elite offensive line play and Texas decidedly doesn't have that and will be even more behind the eight ball when they go to the SEC.
I just think Chryst is an average coach who probably isn't going to recapture the magic at Texas, or at least not enough to make a markedly different outcome for a UT team that already has Sark calling plays. But I'm fine being proven wrong.
31.5, 41.8 and 44.1 2009-2011…. Russel Wilson was one season!
Not to mention, it shows he can have star players and not hinder them.
They still have a guy Worthy of 20 targets a game.
He's a good Xs & Os coach, but allegedly hates recruiting and it was starting to show with their roster. Him taking an analyst position is curious. Perhaps he really wants nothing to do with recruiting.
Wonder if his buyout has anything to do with it?
Surprised this is the best he can do. UW was flatlining a bit but his overall record (67-26) was still pretty good. He couldn’t get even a MAC job?
By the time he was fired, there weren't many positions open. He will be a P5 candidate for head coach or coordinator after next season's terminations. An analyst position at a major program is a great job in this situation. He has to move but it allows him to spend more time with his family for a year before another move. That's desirable over immediately taking a head coaching job from a small and undesirable list.
Chryst was fired last October. It may be that he didn't want a lower-level job, but it shouldn't have been an issue of timing.
Anwar tweeting about Sa(a)dat, and it isn't about Egyptian politics? Impressive.
Maybe Sa(a)dat was brought in to (Menachem) Begin some major agreement with an old rival.
I'll show myself out now...
So..................??????????
How is he involved with U of M?
What am I missing?
Paul Chryst is basically the textbook low-risk hire because he is, well, just a guy in a lot of respects. He walked into a ready-made program in Wisconsin - relative to the other teams in the Big Ten West anyway - and had a decent run. He never struck me as particularly gifted if you were looking for innovation, but then that has never been needed at Wisconsin (or Pitt).
Grind it out Wisconsin football is not going to work in the Big 12
“Special” assistant to the regional
manager.
I’d like to introduce something that I’ve been working on for a couple years now. I call it the Sanford-Hynes Principle. I won’t call them bad so… subpar coaches are subpar.
John Hynes was a not great coach for the New Jersey Devils and got fired. The Nashville Predators had a playoff caliber team, saw Hynes available and said, “this is a good idea!” They have not reached the playoffs since his hiring and just this season blew up their team to rebuild.
Mike Sanford was the offensive coordinator for Notre Dame the first time I heard of him. And the only reason I heard of him then was because Notre Dave played NC State in a literal hurricane and his play calling was so bad (pass heavy, in a hurricane) I had to look up who the OC was. Fast forward a couple years, after winning back to back conference titles WKU announces him as their new head coach and promptly has back to back losing seasons and he is fired.
I like Paul Chryst as a person but this hiring gives me Hynes-Sanford vibes and also makes me feel better about the 2024 matchup with Texas at the same time. His Wisconsin offenses were not inspiring and the way he used quarterbacks was bad but, maybe as an analyst it won’t have as much effect.
You can come up with a new name for a derivative if you like, but it's all some form of the Peter Principle. Someone does something good at some level then get promoted past their level of competence. Sometimes they look competent for a while (Wile E Coyote year, or took over a program in good shape), but it usually ends up with a firing in a few years.
Brady Hoke?
I like Paul Chryst as a person but this hiring gives me Hynes-Sanford vibes and also makes me feel better about the 2024 matchup with Texas at the same time.
I think we're making too much of this. He's not their OC, just an analyst - a guy in the film room.
As Oc/qb coach at Wisconsin his last three seasons he avg 31.5, 41.8 and 44.1 ppg.