(01-13-2020 01:08 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  

(01-09-2020 04:09 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(01-08-2020 09:12 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  I hear Jerry McGuire off Rhule's staff is whom the players want. For some reason, players' choices don't tend to work out well. But this is one case where it might.

I guess Jerry had them at 'hello'.

Baylor got paid a $6 million buyout for Rhule. If we ever had a successful Head Coach, we could use that kind of money (but first, we'd need a successful Head Football Coach--there's the rub)

Simply put, Matt Rhule did too good a job of revitalizing Baylor — now the school needs to sustain what he started

Quote:“Coach Rhule certainly leaves the program in a better place than when he arrived,” Baylor President Linda Livingstone said in a statement, “and we have a bright future ahead for Baylor football.

Would be nice to have Leebron be able to make that kind of statement for a change.

You better add to your last statement “... and have it be the case.”

(01-13-2020 01:52 PM)Tomball Owl Wrote:  

(01-13-2020 01:08 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  

(01-09-2020 04:09 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(01-08-2020 09:12 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  I hear Jerry McGuire off Rhule's staff is whom the players want. For some reason, players' choices don't tend to work out well. But this is one case where it might.

I guess Jerry had them at 'hello'.

Baylor got paid a $6 million buyout for Rhule. If we ever had a successful Head Coach, we could use that kind of money (but first, we'd need a successful Head Football Coach--there's the rub)

Simply put, Matt Rhule did too good a job of revitalizing Baylor — now the school needs to sustain what he started

Quote:“Coach Rhule certainly leaves the program in a better place than when he arrived,” Baylor President Linda Livingstone said in a statement, “and we have a bright future ahead for Baylor football.

Would be nice to have Leebron be able to make that kind of statement for a change.

You better add to your last statement “... and have it be the case.”

You make a very good point, but I'm not so sure if we'll be able to see it come true here any time soon, unfortunately.

Here's the Washington announcement:

Welcome Home Aaron Keen as WashU Football Coach

Quote:Washington University in St. Louis Director of Athletics Anthony J. Azama announced the hiring of 1994 WashU graduate and former assistant coach Aaron Keen as head football coach.

Keen arrives on the Danforth Campus after spending the past six seasons at Eastern Michigan University. He served as the team's offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach the last three seasons. Prior to taking over the offense, he was the Eagles special teams coordinator and tight ends coach for three years. EMU's 379 points and 5,271 total yards of offense rank second all-time at EMU.

Keen has over 25 years of collegiate football coaching experience at different levels. Prior to EMU, he spent three seasons at Minnesota State University. Keen joined the staff in 2011 as offensive coordinator before serving as acting head coach in 2012 and 2013. He was the American Football Monthly NCAA Division II National Coach of the Year in 2012, and led the Mavericks to a 24-2 overall record in two seasons. Keen spent three seasons as the offensive coordinator, quarterbacks and receivers coach at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, and five seasons as head coach at Illinois College.

Looks probable that Baylor's next Head Coach will be one of these three: current interim and associate head coach Joey McGuire, Arkansas State head coach Blake Anderson and LSU defensive coordinator Dave Aranda. of course, you never know.

Bobby Petrino: Here's how much Missouri State's new head football coach will reportedly make

Matter on college football: Here's Bobby! Missouri State gambles big on Petrino

Had previously seen that Art Briles was to be named. What a pond they're fishin' in up there at Mo State.

(01-16-2020 12:57 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  Bobby Petrino: Here's how much Missouri State's new head football coach will reportedly make

Matter on college football: Here's Bobby! Missouri State gambles big on Petrino

Had previously seen that Art Briles was to be named. What a pond they're fishin' in up there at Mo State.

“Fast track to winning at any cost” Pond.

WSU Prez: Rolovich to be football coach at Washington State

Quote:The president of Washington State University tweeted Tuesday that Hawaii’s Nick Rolovich will take over as the Cougars' head football coach, replacing Mike Leach.

School President Kirk Schulz tweeted that WSU had picked "a dynamic new head coach @Nick Rolovich'' to succeed Leach, who left for Mississippi State.

The school scheduled a Thursday event to introduce Rolovich in Pullman, Washington.

Rolovich, meanwhile, has changed his Twitter profile to identify himself as the head football coach at Washington State.

Hawaii went 10-5 overall, losing to Boise State in the MWC title game but rebounding to beat BYU in the Hawaii Bowl.

Rolovich has overseen a significant turnaround with the Warriors. When he took over at Hawaii in 2016, he inherited a program that had won 11 total games in its first four seasons in the Mountain West. He’s won at least seven games in three of his four seasons. The 10 wins this season were the most for the Warriors since 2010, when they won 10 games and were co-champs of the WAC with Nevada and Boise State.

Guess he didn't need a year Zero...or a year 1, 2 or 3. Nice job, Nick.

...and over at UH:

The next UH head football coach faces challenges even Rolo couldn’t fix

Quote:The UH Foundation CEO says the foundation is eager to partner with the athletic department to find creative ways to support the football program.

"We'd like to tap into the community's passion for football to help UH achieve success," he said.

Good idea. Maybe it could work here, too?

(01-16-2020 12:53 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  Looks probable that Baylor's next Head Coach will be one of these three: current interim and associate head coach Joey McGuire, Arkansas State head coach Blake Anderson and LSU defensive coordinator Dave Aranda. of course, you never know.

Sounds like they went with the most expensive and high-profile of those three options.

We lost our TE coach (Best) to Nevada, where he’ll be the O line coach.

(01-17-2020 12:06 AM)RiceOwls2019 Wrote:  We lost our TE coach (Best) to Nevada, where he’ll be the O line coach.

I don't know whether he was a good coach or a bad coach, but our TE's didn't exactly make a huge impact last season. Of course, if they were great blocking TE's, I probably would not have noticed.

Here's the Baylor announcement:

Dave Aranda Named Baylor Football Head Coach



Baylor’s hire of Dave Aranda sends statement about the school, has major implications for Bears and LSU

Quote:To get to the next level, Baylor hired a new head football coach who was part of a national championship this week.

LSU defensive coordinator Dave Aranda will replace Matt Rhule at Baylor, the school confirmed Thursday.

Aranda, 43 and the nation’s highest paid assistant coach at $2.5 million, has been at LSU since 2016. Although LSU’s defense struggled at times during the regular season, the unit was strong late in the season and in the playoffs, containing Oklahoma’s Jalen Hurts and Clemson’s Trevor Lawrence.

In December, Aranda’s name had been mentioned as a possible candidate at UNLV. Baylor is a much, much better job, in a power conference and coming off an 11-3 season that included a berth in the Sugar Bowl (where they lost to Georgia.)

By landing the defensive coordinator of a national champion, Rhoades has shown that Baylor is a desired destination, just three seasons after it was viewed as a train wreck.

Rhule showed there was life after Art Briles. Now Baylor has contended in the Big 12 under two different coaches and schemes in the past decade, while opening a new stadium.

Jimbo Fisher tried to hire Aranda at Texas A&M and later gave him a rave review to the Baton Rouge Advocate.

“Look at the results he’s got,” Fisher said Wednesday. “Dave’s a tremendous coach. Just look at the film. Those guys are tremendously sound, and he’s very creative. He understands coverages, how to take guys out of the game, how to bracket guys. Their blitz packages. Their run packages. (He’s) a very knowledgeable guy who’s had a tremendous amount of success, and the kids relate to him and they do a great job. Dave’s one of the outstanding coordinators in this country. No doubt.”

Would love for Rice to transform into a destination from the train wreck we have had for 13 seasons.

Marcus Mariota endorses Craig Stutzmann for University of Hawaii head football coach

Quote:In a communication with athletic director David Matlin, Tennessee Titans’ quarterback Marcus Mariota has endorsed Craig Stutzmann for the vacant University of Hawaii football coaching job, according to a person briefed on the exchange.

Stutzmann, who was UH’s passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach this past season, was a graduate assistant at UH when Mariota was in high school at Saint Louis School.

Here's the Indiana announcement:

Dietz Promoted to Head Coach at DePauw

Quote:DePauw University has named its football team's offensive coordinator as its new head coach. Brett Dietz has served in that position since 2010, and will now lead the Tiger's football team after Bill Lynch announced his retirement in November.

Dietz played professionally in Finland and the National Indoor Football League, where he was named co-Rookie of the Year in 2007.

Virginia offensive coordinator Robert Anae eyes UH football coach opening

OBIE-Lost-Kenobi Dept:

Anderson to step down as Oberlin Yeomen head coach

Quote:Oberlin athletic director Natalie Winkelfoos announced head football coach Jay Anderson has stepped down from his position to become the defensive coordinator and assistant head coach at Notre Dame (Ohio), a Division II school.

Anderson led the Yeomen to a 12-48 record in six seasons at the helm. During his tenure, he mentored two of the top three quarterbacks in program history in Zach Taylor (6,471 yards) and Lucas Poggiali (5,508 yards). They respectively rank second and third all-time in career passing yards and have three of the program's top four single-game passing totals. Taylor tied for the most touchdown passes in school history (48) while setting the Oberlin record for total offense with 7,557 yards.

n 2018, the Yeomen offense totaled a school-record 3,862 yards and Ryan Gleeson became the first wide receiver in school history to surpass 1,000 yards receiving in a season as he finished with 1,084 yards and a school-record 13 touchdowns.

Anderson, who produced 24 All-NCAC selections as head coach, also mentored three of the program's top five tacklers in school history. Von Wooding is second all-time with 324 stops while Bennett Jackson '18 is third with 294 tackles. Justin Bute ranks fifth in Yeomen history with 269 tackles.

A national search for Oberlin's next football coach will begin immediately.

(01-21-2020 12:22 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  Virginia offensive coordinator Robert Anae eyes UH football coach opening

FTR, UH = University of Hawaii, in this case.

(01-21-2020 01:26 PM)Almadenmike Wrote:  

(01-21-2020 12:22 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  Virginia offensive coordinator Robert Anae eyes UH football coach opening

FTR, UH = University of Hawaii, in this case.

But of course. Is there any other?

(01-21-2020 12:27 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  OBIE-Lost-Kenobi Dept:

Anderson to step down as Oberlin Yeomen head coach

Quote:Oberlin athletic director Natalie Winkelfoos announced head football coach Jay Anderson has stepped down from his position to become the defensive coordinator and assistant head coach at Notre Dame (Ohio), a Division II school.

Anderson led the Yeomen to a 12-48 record in six seasons at the helm. During his tenure, he mentored two of the top three quarterbacks in program history in Zach Taylor (6,471 yards) and Lucas Poggiali (5,508 yards). They respectively rank second and third all-time in career passing yards and have three of the program's top four single-game passing totals. Taylor tied for the most touchdown passes in school history (48) while setting the Oberlin record for total offense with 7,557 yards.

In 2018, the Yeomen offense totaled a school-record 3,862 yards and Ryan Gleeson became the first wide receiver in school history to surpass 1,000 yards receiving in a season as he finished with 1,084 yards and a school-record 13 touchdowns.

Anderson, who produced 24 All-NCAC selections as head coach, also mentored three of the program's top five tacklers in school history. Von Wooding is second all-time with 324 stops while Bennett Jackson '18 is third with 294 tackles. Justin Bute ranks fifth in Yeomen history with 269 tackles.

A national search for Oberlin's next football coach will begin immediately.

So in six years he had two of the top three passing QBs in school history and went 12-48? Hmmm.

(01-21-2020 04:59 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(01-21-2020 12:27 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  OBIE-Lost-Kenobi Dept:

Anderson to step down as Oberlin Yeomen head coach

Quote:Oberlin athletic director Natalie Winkelfoos announced head football coach Jay Anderson has stepped down from his position to become the defensive coordinator and assistant head coach at Notre Dame (Ohio), a Division II school.

Anderson led the Yeomen to a 12-48 record in six seasons at the helm. During his tenure, he mentored two of the top three quarterbacks in program history in Zach Taylor (6,471 yards) and Lucas Poggiali (5,508 yards). They respectively rank second and third all-time in career passing yards and have three of the program's top four single-game passing totals. Taylor tied for the most touchdown passes in school history (48) while setting the Oberlin record for total offense with 7,557 yards.

n 2018, the Yeomen offense totaled a school-record 3,862 yards and Ryan Gleeson became the first wide receiver in school history to surpass 1,000 yards receiving in a season as he finished with 1,084 yards and a school-record 13 touchdowns.

Anderson, who produced 24 All-NCAC selections as head coach, also mentored three of the program's top five tacklers in school history. Von Wooding is second all-time with 324 stops while Bennett Jackson '18 is third with 294 tackles. Justin Bute ranks fifth in Yeomen history with 269 tackles.

A national search for Oberlin's next football coach will begin immediately.

So in six years he had two of the top three passing QBs in school history and went 12-48? Hmmm.

Same place we got our AD from. I guess they know how to pick 'em.