Haven’t been to Missoula but Bozeman, Montana State’s home, is a great town. MSU isn’t a fabulous campus but if I was from within 200 miles of Bozeman I would be intrigued. Seems like a blue collar state with some Whitefish, O&G and ranching wealth. Not many people.
Wazzu, Boise State and U of Wyoming? Boise is a relatively big town. Wazzu in the middle of nowhere. Wyoming in Cowboy country.
And the WVU AD (Shane Lyons) that extended Neal Brown’s contract with a stupid huge buyout, just got fired.
A quick scan of his bio and… I’m not impressed. Looks like a very successful high school coach (in Maryland, which I’m not sure is the most competitive environment) with a couple years at Michigan. Not a bad hire, necessarily, but it doesn’t seem like a particularly ambitious one.
Coaching hires are highly unpredictable. I am sure everyone in this board thought that the following recent hires were slam dunk -
Scott Frost for Nebraska
Tom Herman for Texas
Jimbo Fisher for ATM
And these are just few examples but perceived ‘slam dunk’ more often then not proves to be damp squib. That is why I know what CKS means that winning is hard. Hence, fans clamoring for firing needs to take the risks and potential rewards.
And just as importantly, we all thought Sam Pittman, Ed O, and Brian Kelly were head scratchers.
Missoula is a great town, but there is a pulp mill there. If the wind blows a particular way the whole town has a pretty rank smell…
Sounds like Pineville, LA
Did not think Herman was a slam dunk for Texas. Tom was still at UH when I was in a 45 yard line suite at DKR talking to some mid tier UT BMDs. All were asking about Tom Herman and I told all of them this: He will probably have some short term success but his whole, we are “100% honest” and we all love each other deal is a house of cards that is a short term motivation tactic that will not weather well, especially the 100% honest deal. 2. The “how will he deal with 5 star egos when he is the head guy” is unknown and 3. He won with someone else’s players. He really hasn’t shown an eye for recruiting his own talent.
All this was brushed aside, and they asked, “can he motivate a team on game day?” I said, sure, he’s done that, you’ve seen that but that will crumble along with all the rest of what I said.
He recruited some good players to UT, one of them being Bijan. He convinced Ed Oliver to come to G5 UH when he was on his way to LSU. He got D’eriq King and some others too. I think he had a pretty good eye for recruiting.
Ed Oliver was not all Tom Herman. Levine had more to do with that than Tom.
Citing a few pieces vs. the team as a whole, proves my point more than any other point.
Lmaoooooo what? Stop
Ed Oliver came here for 2 reasons
And Tom Herman absolutely got Ed here along with King and Kyle Allen
No. Big Eds dad said UH.
You should have stopped at 1.
Marcus got Ed here.
Big Ed’s dad didn’t say anything. Ed wanted to play with Marcus.
Edit:
Big Eds brother said UH.
Marcus coaching at Westfield these days.
Their AD after decade + as their HC before joining the UH staff in 2015.
Not even close
He had that event on campus where he invited the Houston area kids and showed them the video about how we could be the next Miami by keeping the local kids home. That started the “H-Town Takeover”. I understand how bitter a lot of y’all are because he left. The man produced some of the best years of Cougar football around here in two seasons.
FIFY.
Oliver’s father had already determined that Ed would play with his brother in college. So, Levine gets the credit because he landed Marcus.
No, we’re bitter because he was a fraud and a liar.
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