Carson Field Football Board

Am I the only one who assumed bearcatshane was being sarcastic about Amato?

Hiring the MAC conf. champ has been a winning formula for us. But if BE is not part of the major bowl system it will be hard to get now we are on the level with the MAC, CUSA, MWC and Sun Belt. May have to get an assistant coach. Kyle Flood got RU a conf. title. Maybe Diaco would not be bad or an assistant out of Alabama like Kirby Smart.

I think we need to keep a spread offense guy, are they?

Kliff Kingbury is in his first year at TAMU. Luke Fickell tried HC job did not work out. I hope the top five list is mostly made up of winning HC.

A thought on HC experience...Oregon, Florida, and Oklahoma didn't think it was that important, every1 is a first time HC once, get whoever you think is the best.

Kingsbury is my #1 choice, think he will be a star, has already proven he can run an offense at Houston and Texas A&M

After him in no order it's Kirby Smart, Narduzzi, Willie Taggert, Brent Pease (Florida OC) Hazzell, Mike McIntyre

No to any of those.

Then who?

Hey Skip Holtz is available.

The answer is Jim Tressell, period. UC needs to go into "Rally the Flag" mode at this point and there would be nobody better. People in the Tri-State... heck the state... who are luckwarm on UC football would show up to watch Tress coach again. The national media would eat it up... ESPN would be covering this program non-stop following the disgraced man who was given a second chance.

Just to clarify, JT would have have to sit out the first 5 games and would not be eligible to coach in our bowl game in 2013. After that I that needs to be done is Whit needs to fill out a form to the Infractions Committee every six months to confirm he is in compliance. Tressel can recruit, he can hire assts... it is a win-win.

Only concern is that'd he jump after a few years to the SEC or something after we gave him the second chance. If I were Whit, make his buyout $10 million for the first five years. We give him the second chance and he rewards us by staying at least 5 years.

I too would love to have Tressel but I agree with BJ's concern about the style of play he would run and the fit with our current personnel. If we can get past that, I personally would rather have him than Butch.

I would say in addition to Campbell's age, he has only been a head coach one year, right? Too big of a gamble at this point in my mind.

I assumed it was a joke

My dream scenario would be hire Tressel as hc and hire former psu dc Tom Bradley as associate hc/dc and let him coach the 1st 5 games and the bowl game that tressel would not be able to coach because of the show cause. I would also make sure he hires young oc that runs spread offense.