New Colorado Coach Thread

[Pete]

Who's it going to be?  I know that their athletic leadership is incompetent, at best. 

However, the beautiful campus recruits on it's own. 

If they get a decent coach.....

[steve dave]

Can you imagine what a Gary Patterson could do there 

[hemmy]

Would just dominate the north, scary.

[fatty fat fat]

Jeremy Bloom.

[steve dave]

Jeremy Bloom.

Klatt?

[BostonPancake]

Just a hunch that it won't be the Boise St coach.

Could go with the Whittingham (Utah), Turner Gill (good jab at NU) or Gary "It's Patterson" Patterson.

[WildCatzPhreak]

I would be like, really heartbroken of Patterson went anywhere other than tcu or KSU.

[steve dave]

I would be like, really heartbroken of Patterson went anywhere other than tcu or KSU.

Do you ever feel bad for playing into their hands? 

[Pete]

I would be like, really heartbroken of Patterson went anywhere other than tcu or KSU.

Do you ever feel bad for playing into their hands? 

If Gary Patterson goes to CU, we are &@#%ed.  Fracked.

[kst8cat]

Good news is that CU can't afford a new coach right now.  They don't have the cash to buy out Hawkins and sign a decent coach.  Not saying it can't happen, but their boosters would have to step up in a major way to make it happen.  Sucks to be a Buff.  

[fatty fat fat]

Good news is that CU can't afford a new coach right now.  They don't have the cash to buy out Hawkins and sign a decent coach.  Not saying it can't happen, but their boosters would have to step up in a major way to make it happen.  Sucks to be a Buff.   

lmao. go cats!

[steve dave]

I would be like, really heartbroken of Patterson went anywhere other than tcu or KSU.

Do you ever feel bad for playing into their hands? 

If Gary Patterson goes to CU, we are fracked.  Fracked.

FRACKED!

[WildCatzPhreak]

I would be like, really heartbroken of Patterson went anywhere other than tcu or KSU.

Do you ever feel bad for playing into their hands? 

Not really.  I still love Patterson.  I just hate Wefald and Krause.

[fatty fat fat]

I would be like, really heartbroken of Patterson went anywhere other than tcu or KSU.

Do you ever feel bad for playing into their hands? 

Not really.  I still love Patterson.  I just hate Wefald and Krause.

wasn't krause the guy who wanted patterson??

<==still heatbroken ovr the entire thing

[JTKSU]

Good news is that CU can't afford a new coach right now.  They don't have the cash to buy out Hawkins and sign a decent coach.  Not saying it can't happen, but their boosters would have to step up in a major way to make it happen.  Sucks to be a Buff.  

Dude, those boosters are probably already scratching out checks as we speak.  If they want Hawkins gone, he's gone.

[KSU78]

Ron Prince would be a pretty good choice. I don't think K-State's defense was as atrocious as Colorado's at that level of play.

[kst8cat]

The guy they really want is Mike Shanahan, but most agree he would be too expensive and is likely to take another NFL job.

[steve dave]

The guy they really want is Mike Shanahan, but most agree he would be too expensive and is likely to take another NFL job.

Plus he would bomb at the college level.  They would be retarded not to hire Patterson.

[WildCatzPhreak]

I would be like, really heartbroken of Patterson went anywhere other than tcu or KSU.

Do you ever feel bad for playing into their hands? 

Not really.  I still love Patterson.  I just hate Wefald and Krause.

wasn't krause the guy who wanted patterson??

<==still heatbroken ovr the entire thing

Well, I don't know exactly what went down at the end, but I was lead to believe by Patterson's agent that they were talking with K-State.  He asked me to take the site down so that the attention would die down.  From the sound of it, the appeal of being near his family was bigger than the money or coming back to his alma mater. 

Krause sent me an e-mail saying he wanted to talk to me about the site, then when I replied he ignored me.

After GPC released the "It's Patterson" story I called his agent and he said I could put the site back up if I wanted.  I assumed it was because "the cat was out of the bag" .  It made sense to me that they would deny any deal with K-State while football season was still in progress at tcu.  

I don't know exactly what happened with the talks.  Patterson could have made the decision to back out, and Snydez was the backup plan.  Or Weefer / Snydez butted in, forcing the door shut on Patterson.  Krause would take blame either way because as AD at the time, he had a legit chance to bring in an awesome coach who was apparently interested, and it didn't happen.  If Weefer forced his hand (very possible) it's even worse.

The only reason the site was put up anyways was to raise fan support and pressure the AD to fire prince and look at Patterson.  Seems like it was pseudo effective in that regard at least.

[kst8cat]

Good news is that CU can't afford a new coach right now.  They don't have the cash to buy out Hawkins and sign a decent coach.  Not saying it can't happen, but their boosters would have to step up in a major way to make it happen.  Sucks to be a Buff.  

Dude, those boosters are probably already scratching out checks as we speak.  If they want Hawkins gone, he's gone.

You might be right about that.  They better have some rich donors, though, and historically CU hasn't gotten the kind of booster support that other Big 12 schools get.  They are way behind in facilities as it is.

Funny post by CU Fan:

This is an enbarrassament worse that any rape of murder charges or any other
terrible scandal that can happen to any school. This is not intramurals Coach Hawkins!

[SuperG]

Can you imagine what a Gary Patterson could do there 

I truly believe he wouldn't be able to to crap. Bouldertown hates genetically modified foods, black people, women, poor people ... but most of all sports. The true intention of this university is to become a private university so they can conveniently do away with those pesky "in staters". To do that, they'll need to first eliminate any interest in the sports program. A prime example of this doctrine at work is the hiring of the mouth-breathing neanderthal, Dan Hawkins.

I still think they'll kick our ass this year.

[Del Tremens]

The guy they really want is Mike Shanahan, but most agree he would be too expensive and is likely to take another NFL job.

IIRC, Shanahan has more connections to CSU, anyway.

[FecalBuff]

Funny thread, but Hawk is going nowhere.  The school is broke, but I would love Patterson now that you mention it.  Our defense kind of needs it.

[QuinnMac]

Can you imagine what a Gary Patterson could do there 

don't you even go there

[steve dave]

Can you imagine what a Gary Patterson could do there 

I truly believe he wouldn't be able to to crap. Bouldertown hates genetically modified foods, black people, women, poor people ... but most of all sports. The true intention of this university is to become a private university so they can conveniently do away with those pesky "in staters". To do that, they'll need to first eliminate any interest in the sports program. A prime example of this doctrine at work is the hiring of the mouth-breathing neanderthal, Dan Hawkins.

I still think they'll kick our ass this year.

They have a NC though

[Winters]

Can you imagine what a Gary Patterson could do there 

Don't say that SD. 

[The1BigWillie]

Funny thread, but Hawk is going nowhere.  The school is broke, but I would love Patterson now that you mention it.  Our defense kind of needs it.

Kind of?? 

[kst8cat]

Sound like CU us up a sh1t creek with Hawkins.  They still have a massive debt from their last coaching change and buyout of Barnett.  Sounds like their athletic department is in no position to fire him at the moment.  A Hawkins buyout would be in the $3 Million range.  Check out this Kyle Ringo article for details:

http://www.buffzone.com/ci_13329737?source=most_viewed

The athletic department remains in deeply in debt with the majority of an $8 million loan from the campus and the CU system in 2006 still to be paid off. Part of that debt was caused by the last coaching change when Bohn fired Gary Barnett at the end of the 2005 season and hired Hawkins.

CU was heavily criticized for having to pay Barnett approximately $4 million when it fired him. The terms of Barnett's contract, negotiated by former athletic director Dick Tharp, required the settlement, and that led to CU trying to limit its obligations in Hawkins' contract.

The department would have to borrow money to buyout Hawkins and it would be hard-pressed to do so in the current economic climate in which state funding is being significantly trimmed and some CU employees have already lost their jobs.

Paying a coach millions of dollars not to coach might be hard to justify, maybe even more so than living with the results he is producing on the field.

 

[michigancat]

Who's it going to be?  I know that their athletic leadership is incompetent, at best. 

However, the beautiful campus recruits on it's own. 

If they get a decent coach.....

[rundown87]

I would be like, really heartbroken of Patterson went anywhere other than tcu or KSU.

Do you ever feel bad for playing into their hands? 

If Gary Patterson goes to CU, we are fracked.  Fracked.

Remember how he would have been here, if your website hadn't fracked that up.  Fracked.