GrizRealist said:
As someone who is intimately familiar with their fan base, they’d riot. They are talking about replacing DeBoer with Klieman, Fisch, Leipold, Drinkwitz, etc. no way their fans would be on board with an FCS head coach even if he’s coached there before. They think they’re above it. They think they’re a top FBS program.
I live here and talk w some of their fans/alum daily. They wouldn’t riot, per se, but they do think they’re a top FBS program (which they are this season). The sports writers wouldn’t have nice things to say. And some donors would scoff.
I don’t think he’s in the running for the job, anyway.
But now that they’re going to the new conference, and will get less $$ at first, I suspect the Huskies are going to settle back down to earth, and be relatively irrelevant for some time to come (unless they hire their OC as HC, in which case, bets are off).