Carson Field Football Board

If the hire anyone besides Chuck Amato then I'm canceling my season tickets.

Does he have any past head coaching experience?
I already have season tickets however depending on where your seats are located maybe I could buy yours as my being a bearcat fan and supporter isn't predicated on whomever is/isn't hired to be the new coach.

Please not Coombs!!

Ditto on Combs. No.
The ACC and Big12 would laugh at UC for making such a little time hire.

You don't hire a guy based on the fact you think he won't leave. That's a stupid criteria. You hire a guy that will win.

BTW he already did leave for tOSU so I don't even think he can play the "hire me I won't leave card."

Having narduzzi would be awesome. I always hated diaco

Based on? His current defense is #1 in scoring defense, #4 in rushing defense, #21 in fewest passing yards, and #12 in pass efficiency defense. I wonder what would have happened if he and BK had stayed at UC???

I'd like to think most coaches would enjoy having a bio that said 'former assistant under Brian Kelly, Butch Jones, and Urban Meyer.' Each of these guys wanted to work with Coombs. There is nothing laughable about that.

I have no idea what the future holds for Coach Coombs. However, if you spent 5 minutes around him and his positive energy, you would know exactly why he is a winner.

He was fired at NCST after not being able to win once Philip Rivers left. He was just 15-20 after Rivers went pro. I really don't want someone who has already been a failure once. He finished his head coaching career with 7 straight losses and losses to Akron and East Carolina. I think there would be more people upset about Amato getting hired then people who would be happy.

I wasn't going to start a thread about this, but I did read on other sites that Narduzzi wants to be a head coach and if the Cincinnati job would open up he would want the job. I'd take Narduzzi, but I'm not sure UC would want to go down the same road they've already been. Hiring a Big 10 defensive coordinator already bit UC once with Dantonio. Hiring Narduzzi would probably just keep UC on the merry-go-round. If Narduzzi has two or three successful seasons he would probably move on.

True. Which is part of the reason why I do not think Coombs is a viable candidate right now. Just making the point that because he left while an assistant doesn't necessarily mean he would look to jump ship as head coach. Coach Coombs may actually be BETTER in a head coaching position than as a secondary head coach- whether it's been because of personnel or bad breaks or lack of time to install his techniques and systems his secondaries have not performed at a very high level... but he seems to have all the right characteristics for a more broad encompassing position such as HC.

Exactly.... I would be one of the people very upset if we were to hire Amato. I don't want a coach who has been fired. I want an up and coming coach who is good with recruiting and runs the spread offense.