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WULFF FIRED AT WSU
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WaGriz4life said:
I am a Michigan fan, so I am quite happy w/Brady Hoke, but you are right. If Rich Rod would have ever taken the time hire a competent D-Coordinator he would still be the head coach at Michigan.
OptimusPrime
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Totally agree.RobGriz said:
Bluenoser
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ALPHAGRIZ1 said:
Say what you want about his problems with alcohol, his recruiting of thugs, and leaving on a whim and I wouldn't disagree with you, but as far as "He is a known quantity and you know your program will never turn around or go anywhere with him there." Mostly from Wiki:
Idaho
Building on his reputation as an offensive innovator, Erickson became Idaho's all-time winningest head coach in just four seasons with the Vandals (1982–85), taking them to the I-AA playoffs in his first and fourth seasons. In his first season of 1982, Erickson took an underachieving (and injured) 3–8 team in 1981 and immediately turned it into a 8–3 playoff team, led by decathlete quarterback Ken Hobart. Erickson's overall record with the Vandals was 32–15 (.680), 31–13 (.704) in the regular season and 1–2 in post season. He went 4–0 in the rivalry game with Boise State, a team which had dominated the series by winning the previous five games.[6] (The winning streak against the Broncos reached 12 games until it was broken in 1994 when BSU advanced to the I-AA finals.)
Before 1982 the Vandals had posted only four winning seasons in over four decades, and had not had consecutive winning seasons since 1938. Idaho had three consecutive winning seasons only once (1903-05), and never had four. With Erickson's arrival as head coach, the program embarked on 15 consecutive winning seasons (1982-96) and 11 appearances in the Division I-AA playoffs.
Wazzu
He returned to the Palouse after just 13 months in Wyoming, then led the Cougars to 3–7–1 in his first year, the same record the Cougars had the year before under Jim Walden. Erickson turned around the Washington State program quickly, going 9–3 in the 1988 season and leading the normally pedestrian Cougars to a post-season victory in the Aloha Bowl, their first bowl win since the 1931 Rose Bowl.
Miami
Erickson led Miami for six seasons (1989–1994), winning national championships in 1989 and 1991. That gave Erickson more national championships than any other Miami coach. Erickson's 0.875 winning percentage (63–9) at Miami remains the highest in the history of the program. NCAA record 58-game home win streak.
Oregon State
In his first season, Erickson directed the Beavers to a 7–5 record, the program's first winning season in 29 years. The following year, Oregon State went 11–1, snapped a 33-year losing streak to the USC Trojans, and earned a share of the Pac-10 conference championship for the first time since the conference expanded to ten teams in 1978. It was the first time the Beavers won at least a share of a conference championship since 1964, when they were part of the AAWU. Oregon State began to develop a national reputation for its high-powered offense and a swarming defense. In fact, the team barely missed an invitation to play in the national BCS title game due to a late-in-the-game missed field goal against Washington. The win over USC did, however, help Erickson's crew clinch a spot in the Fiesta Bowl against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Oregon State won the bowl game 41–9, in what is generally considered to be one of Erickson's crowning career achievements.
At the close of the 2000 season's bowl games, the Beavers were ranked fourth nationally in the Associated Press top 25 College Football Poll[17] with some national media stating that Oregon State would have been a favorite to win the BCS Championship at the Orange Bowl had they been selected
Before the 2001 season, Sports Illustrated ranked Oregon State as the number one team in the nation at Oregon State!?!?!?
Arizona State
He immediately paid dividends at ASU, leading the Sun Devils to a 10–3 record, a share of the Pac-10 title and a berth in the Holiday Bowl in 2007. Erickson was named the Pac-10 Coach of the Year; the first to ever win the award at three different Pac-10 schools.
Let's see:
- - Two National Championships
- Five Conference Championships
- Only Pac 10 Coach of the Year at three different schools
- Six top ten finishes
- Eight top 20 finishes
- 11 bowl appearances
- Career record of 179-96-1
- Never a career losing record at any school he's coached
Yeah, why would anyone want any of that?
Uh huh.
I feel bad for Wulff. Somebody will soon benefit for his having recruited the youngest team in the
PAC-12. As for Erickson, hire him and the first thing you'd get would be a necktie party in the Palouse. Since hightailing it out of Moscow after one season there'd be a fight to see who had the honor of providing the rope, tree and horse they'd be using. And the Vandals were dumb enough to hire him TWICE!
PAC-12. As for Erickson, hire him and the first thing you'd get would be a necktie party in the Palouse. Since hightailing it out of Moscow after one season there'd be a fight to see who had the honor of providing the rope, tree and horse they'd be using. And the Vandals were dumb enough to hire him TWICE!
Bluenoser
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Silvertip said:
Completely agree he'd be a bad hire there, but to say "If you placed all the coaches in North America from the high school level up in a big hat and picked a name out of it................that name would have more upside than Erickson." is really a obtusely hyperbolic twisting of the facts. I'm not a fan of his methods either, but you can't deny he's had a good career success-wise.
Mike Leach will just laugh at an offer. He was a great coach at Texas Tech and will end up at a school and begin winning right away. He would fit in with the UNLV school but will not end up in Vegas.
Wulff might be interested in the UM special teams position. 4 years with his record, he had to go!
Wulff might be interested in the UM special teams position. 4 years with his record, he had to go!
