SIAP - OT - Cristobal takes off the interim tag
http://www.nbcsports.com/northwest/oregon-ducks/breaking-oregon-name-mario-cristobal-new-head-coach
About 70 Oregon players signed a petition lobbying for Cristobal to take over the program. He was named interim coach for the team's Dec. 16 meeting with Boise State in the Las Vegas Bowl.
The push now is to keep defensive coordinator Jim Leavitt on as defensive coordinator. He wanted to replace Taggart as head coach, so it will be interesting to see if he is willing to remain at Oregon given that he was passed over for another assistant.
December 8th, 2017 at 2:48 PM ^
December 8th, 2017 at 2:59 PM ^
Leavitt is a solid coach, but with Cristobal the Oregon players won't have to worry about catching right hooks at halftime.
December 8th, 2017 at 5:26 PM ^
That's how you end up with Ed Orgeron as your head coach.
December 8th, 2017 at 7:24 PM ^
that old dude that replaced rich rod at wvu
December 8th, 2017 at 7:37 PM ^
December 8th, 2017 at 2:53 PM ^
December 8th, 2017 at 3:25 PM ^
In basketball, a bunch of players pushed for Jamie Dixon to replace Ben Howland at Pitt. That's the big example that pops into my head when this conversation comes up.
December 8th, 2017 at 3:51 PM ^
December 8th, 2017 at 4:08 PM ^
How is Cristobal comparable to a 23yr old with 1yr experience as an assistant?
December 8th, 2017 at 4:50 PM ^
Cajun Brady Hoke and the Clay Helton at USC are doing okay
December 8th, 2017 at 5:06 PM ^
Is when Miami Hurricanes players demanded Larry Coker be hired to replace Butch Davis instead of Barry Alvarez, who had agreed to take that job. What a world that would have been.
I think players going to bat for Dabo played a part in him getting the Clemson job, but that was also based on Swinney accepting an insanely low guarantee for his contract with tons of incentives built in instead.
December 8th, 2017 at 6:09 PM ^
December 8th, 2017 at 7:04 PM ^
Tractor Traylor (RIP) said he'd leave for the NBA if Ellerbe weren't named coach.
The Michigan Administration failed to consider the following truth table:
| Tractor Traylor | |
| Ellerbe not named coach: | Leaves for the NBA |
| Ellerbe named coach: | ??? |
December 8th, 2017 at 2:54 PM ^
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December 9th, 2017 at 4:15 AM ^
WD is out of control..with his fat little girlfriend.
December 9th, 2017 at 11:40 AM ^
Dude, leave his girlfriend out of this. She hasn't done anything to you, no need to insult her.
December 8th, 2017 at 3:00 PM ^
December 8th, 2017 at 4:07 PM ^
The crystal ball took off the interim tag. Can you not read?
December 8th, 2017 at 3:01 PM ^
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December 8th, 2017 at 4:08 PM ^
How are there two Julian's? I'm looking at both usernames and they are identical (as far as I can tell). I feel like a little kid looking at a Highlightes magazine trying to find out "what's different".
December 8th, 2017 at 7:14 PM ^
The third letter in the two consecutive posts above produces an ASCII code of 108 in the first, while the second produces a 73.
December 8th, 2017 at 3:04 PM ^
December 8th, 2017 at 3:06 PM ^
They could have done much worse, especially this year.
December 8th, 2017 at 3:17 PM ^
This has been the craziest year for coaching changes in quite some time. It probably isn't over either. There will be one or two who are canned after the bowl games, and then you still have the coaching carousel going on as the opennings are filled. Last one filled is usually screwed.
December 8th, 2017 at 3:24 PM ^
He interviewed at Pitt back when they hired Paul Chryst.
December 8th, 2017 at 3:26 PM ^
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December 8th, 2017 at 3:21 PM ^
Guy built FIU from literally nothing and was fired for no reason and then became a recruiting ace for Saban.
No real reason for Oregon to rock the boat and implement a new system, this makes a lot of sense.
December 8th, 2017 at 4:32 PM ^
after delining slightly the year before. Given what he accomplished there, seemed way premature. Too bad our friends to the west aren't so impatient.
December 8th, 2017 at 8:49 PM ^
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December 8th, 2017 at 3:28 PM ^
was hoping the Vols were gonna do the same with Hoke ha
December 8th, 2017 at 3:57 PM ^
December 8th, 2017 at 4:07 PM ^
Good hire. Will keep the team together and if it doesn't work out they can start with a fresh slate of coaches next year. No reason for them to settle right now.
December 8th, 2017 at 4:08 PM ^
would be just as big as making Cristobal the HC. Leavitt is a damn good DC and probably should be an HC sometime in his career. That would be a big loss if he leaves.
December 8th, 2017 at 4:10 PM ^
This is an underrated hire imo. FIU was a laughingstock before him. He won a conference title and went to back to back bowl games, building it up from a nothingburger. They surprisingly fired him after 1 bad year and became a laughingstock again upon firing him in 2012. It wasn't until this year when FIU hired Butch Davis that they recovered.
In the meantime Cristobal became OL coach under Saban and was ranked the best recruiter in the country in 2015.
December 8th, 2017 at 4:34 PM ^
Or does that apply only to mattress tags?
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December 8th, 2017 at 4:50 PM ^
I keep seeing rumors around that Kansas State wants Leavitt after Snyder retires (or dies).
December 8th, 2017 at 4:52 PM ^
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December 8th, 2017 at 6:09 PM ^
Leavitt struck a player in the locker room. USF school officials found that Leavitt was not truthful about what happened, and also found that he had interfered with the investigation. Leavitt's interference, which included telling several players and coaches to change their stories was the biggest factor in the decision to fire him.
December 8th, 2017 at 5:31 PM ^