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The Montana Grizzlies Football program finds itself in one of the most unique college football coaching searches in quite a long time. Not only will their next coach inherit a team plagued with off-the-field allegations regarding the most tawdry of crimes, but he will also be forced to take over a team and install his own philosophy and style of play without a single spring practice with his new players. Coming to Missoula, he will find a fan base that has gone to the National Championship Game more than half a dozen times in the last fifteen years. The learning curve and patience for a new coach will be very, very small.
The rumor mills have already started buzzing, but unfortunately the names that are being presented are recycled coaches coming off horrendous stints at previous schools, unproven assistants unprepared to take over such a volatile situation, or FCS head coaches looking to make a lateral move. For a university that promised to improve its “integrity,” nothing exudes integrity less than a coach leaving his players behind at the end of spring practice in order to take a career step sideways.
Dan Hawkins has been put out there as the fan favorite to be the next Montana head coach, but nothing can be further from the truth. Any real fan of college football in the state of Montana knows that the majority of the success Hawkins had at Boise State can be attributed to his young assistant who kept bringing in great recruits and revolutionizing their offense. Maybe you heard of him before: Chris Peterson.
Yes. Dan Hawkins has experience taking over a trouble program riddled with accusations of player misconduct and sexual abuse. Unfortunately, that experience was simply bad. Following an infamous “Ten wins, no excuses” boast to start a season, he finished with just 3 wins. His 28 point fourth quarter collapse against Kansas was the worst in the 131 years of Colorado Football, topped only by the fact that Hawkins, who was seemingly a lame duck coach, allowed his quarterback (and son), despite a 28 point lead to keep airing it out in a flagrant attempt to break Colorado’s all-time passing record.
Given Paul Wulff’s experience at Eastern Washington and the Big Sky Conference, it can be expected for him to be a candidate for the Montana job. But he went a lackluster 53-40 at Eastern Washington and didn’t win a single playoff game during his time there. In the FCS, you can’t make it to the National Championship if you can’t coach playoff football.
Wulff surely did not add to his coaching acumen at Washington State. He won just nine games in 49 tries and his .184 winning percentage is the worst ever in the history of Washington State Football.
A dark horse but a name I’ve heard mentioned on more than one occasion has been Ed Lamb of Southern Utah. It would be a lateral move for Lamb (read above again about integrity) and at best, you’d get a coach that is 18-20 in his career and one who never won more than six games in a season.
Neither a Hawk, a Wulff, or Lamb is the right fit to lead the Grizzlies.
The rumor mills have already started buzzing, but unfortunately the names that are being presented are recycled coaches coming off horrendous stints at previous schools, unproven assistants unprepared to take over such a volatile situation, or FCS head coaches looking to make a lateral move. For a university that promised to improve its “integrity,” nothing exudes integrity less than a coach leaving his players behind at the end of spring practice in order to take a career step sideways.
Dan Hawkins has been put out there as the fan favorite to be the next Montana head coach, but nothing can be further from the truth. Any real fan of college football in the state of Montana knows that the majority of the success Hawkins had at Boise State can be attributed to his young assistant who kept bringing in great recruits and revolutionizing their offense. Maybe you heard of him before: Chris Peterson.
Yes. Dan Hawkins has experience taking over a trouble program riddled with accusations of player misconduct and sexual abuse. Unfortunately, that experience was simply bad. Following an infamous “Ten wins, no excuses” boast to start a season, he finished with just 3 wins. His 28 point fourth quarter collapse against Kansas was the worst in the 131 years of Colorado Football, topped only by the fact that Hawkins, who was seemingly a lame duck coach, allowed his quarterback (and son), despite a 28 point lead to keep airing it out in a flagrant attempt to break Colorado’s all-time passing record.
Given Paul Wulff’s experience at Eastern Washington and the Big Sky Conference, it can be expected for him to be a candidate for the Montana job. But he went a lackluster 53-40 at Eastern Washington and didn’t win a single playoff game during his time there. In the FCS, you can’t make it to the National Championship if you can’t coach playoff football.
Wulff surely did not add to his coaching acumen at Washington State. He won just nine games in 49 tries and his .184 winning percentage is the worst ever in the history of Washington State Football.
A dark horse but a name I’ve heard mentioned on more than one occasion has been Ed Lamb of Southern Utah. It would be a lateral move for Lamb (read above again about integrity) and at best, you’d get a coach that is 18-20 in his career and one who never won more than six games in a season.
Neither a Hawk, a Wulff, or Lamb is the right fit to lead the Grizzlies.
