Kevin Wilson available
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He was transformational in implementing overnight, one of the most successful offenses in modern college football history, at Northwestern in 2000, and for that the program fans should be forever grateful. that was a generation of college football ago. Would not be a value ad as a head coach, possibly short term as offensive coordinator to bring some experience and creativity to the scheme.
Highly doubt that he would come here, I’m sure he can get other head coaching and or better OC positions would work out good as an offensive analyst though.
And tell him what? He wouldn’t move the needle much at the end of the day you need skill position players and we have nobody especially at the quarterback position you can thank Saint Fitz for that…. Lujan isn’t getting canned so theses post are basically pointless It’s like beating a dead horse every week, let him bring in his players to fit whatever system he’s trying to run, and it starts with a quarterback… just my two cents.
He’s also a grade-A asshole. Bridges were burned at NU.
grade-A asshole is putting it mildly. Sat next to him on a flight from ORD to DFW years ago and wanted to kick his ass ten minutes in.
But is literally anybody from the era the bridges were burned in still here? NU pretty publicly burned all its own boats and bridges to the past.
From ESPN
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Indiana University officials conducted two investigations into former football coach Kevin Wilson's treatment of injured players, according to a report from the Indianapolis Star on Saturday. Wilson, who resigned as Hoosiers coach Thursday over what athletic director Fred Glass called "philosophical differences," was initially questioned about his treatment of injured players in April 2015, according to the report. In April 2015, Glass hired an outside law firm to conduct the inquiry, and he did so again in the past four to six weeks, sources familiar with the second investigation told ESPN.
According to the Star report Saturday, the initial investigation was prompted by complaints about the IU football program's treatment of former lineman Nick Carovillano, who played for the Hoosiers in 2014. On April 8, 2015, Carovillano's father, Dean, contacted IU associate athletic director Anthony Thompson to make a complaint on his son's behalf. Six days later, according to the Star, IU retained a law firm to investigate the allegations.
Dean Carovillano told ESPN on Saturday that his son suffered a back injury in practice in September 2014. When Nick Carovillano asked an Indiana trainer to examine his back, the trainer asked him if he had numbness in his legs. According to his father, when Carovillano said he didn't, the trainer told him, "Then I won't treat your injury." A few days later, according to his father, Indiana's trainers told Carovillano that he was suffering from shin splints and needed to stretch better. But when Carovillano returned home to Cincinnati a few weeks later, his parents noticed he could barely climb out of his car. That weekend, a doctor noticed Carovillano struggling to walk across the room at a social gathering. The doctor told him he needed to stop playing sports immediately, according to his father. When Carovillano returned to Bloomington after the weekend at home, he told trainers a doctor advised him to stop playing. He was examined by Indiana's trainers and sent to a specialist in Indianapolis. The specialist diagnosed him with having bone fragments and three injured disks in his back.
"He'd been called every name in the book to keep practicing," Dean Carovillano said. "He was a 19-year-old kid. He wanted to please his coaches, not be ridiculed, and wanted to make the team."
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"The trainers would hate to go up and tell him about injured players because Wilson would [curse] them," said the player, who requested anonymity. "Then he'd go into the training room and tell the players, 'No, you're going to [expletive] practice,' and, of course, the players would go practice." The player said Wilson also ridiculed Indiana's players constantly for their poor play.
"As a human being and a person, he didn't treat people around the program with a lot of respect," the player said. "He cursed us up and down, and I'm sure that goes on [at] a lot of other places. But when someone is telling you from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day that you couldn't play on Oklahoma's practice squad, it wears you down."
Report: Wilson investigated twice for IU conduct
IU conducted two investigations into former football coach Kevin Wilson -- one in 2015 and another just weeks before the sides parted ways Thursday -- over his mistreatment of injured players.
Indiana University officials conducted two investigations into former football coach Kevin Wilson's treatment of injured players, according to a report from the Indianapolis Star on Saturday. Wilson, who resigned as Hoosiers coach Thursday over what athletic director Fred Glass called "philosophical differences," was initially questioned about his treatment of injured players in April 2015, according to the report. In April 2015, Glass hired an outside law firm to conduct the inquiry, and he did so again in the past four to six weeks, sources familiar with the second investigation told ESPN.
According to the Star report Saturday, the initial investigation was prompted by complaints about the IU football program's treatment of former lineman Nick Carovillano, who played for the Hoosiers in 2014. On April 8, 2015, Carovillano's father, Dean, contacted IU associate athletic director Anthony Thompson to make a complaint on his son's behalf. Six days later, according to the Star, IU retained a law firm to investigate the allegations.
Dean Carovillano told ESPN on Saturday that his son suffered a back injury in practice in September 2014. When Nick Carovillano asked an Indiana trainer to examine his back, the trainer asked him if he had numbness in his legs. According to his father, when Carovillano said he didn't, the trainer told him, "Then I won't treat your injury." A few days later, according to his father, Indiana's trainers told Carovillano that he was suffering from shin splints and needed to stretch better. But when Carovillano returned home to Cincinnati a few weeks later, his parents noticed he could barely climb out of his car. That weekend, a doctor noticed Carovillano struggling to walk across the room at a social gathering. The doctor told him he needed to stop playing sports immediately, according to his father. When Carovillano returned to Bloomington after the weekend at home, he told trainers a doctor advised him to stop playing. He was examined by Indiana's trainers and sent to a specialist in Indianapolis. The specialist diagnosed him with having bone fragments and three injured disks in his back.
"He'd been called every name in the book to keep practicing," Dean Carovillano said. "He was a 19-year-old kid. He wanted to please his coaches, not be ridiculed, and wanted to make the team."
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"The trainers would hate to go up and tell him about injured players because Wilson would [curse] them," said the player, who requested anonymity. "Then he'd go into the training room and tell the players, 'No, you're going to [expletive] practice,' and, of course, the players would go practice." The player said Wilson also ridiculed Indiana's players constantly for their poor play.
"As a human being and a person, he didn't treat people around the program with a lot of respect," the player said. "He cursed us up and down, and I'm sure that goes on [at] a lot of other places. But when someone is telling you from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day that you couldn't play on Oklahoma's practice squad, it wears you down."
Why is this board obsessed w us trying to hire terrible head coaches? Yay let’s go after the guy coming off 7-16 at… Tulsa.
The only coach - head or assistant - worth hiring these days needs to bring a boatload of starters with him.
Nope. Coached at Oklahoma at the time. Just an abhorrent jag off.
You right, @Gatabowl ! So are @No Chores and @CoralSpringsCat .
Why hire a fresh terrible coach when we can just bring Fitz back, just like Rutgers rehired Schiano?
Confirmed. Players hated him even at his “peak” as a coach (2000s).
Players were relieved when Bob Stoops hired him to “modernize” Oklahoma’s offense after 2001.
Dunbar (RIP) and Walker (RIP) and Patton (Miami OH) were all better men, fathers, and coaches than Wilson.
McCall and Bajakian too.
False. Walker got the spread from Rich Rod and figured out how to tweak it for the Big Ten (he made it run heavy).
Aaron Kromer was more important to the 2000 Big Ten championship than Wilson. Ask around.
The question going forward is can we get offensive coaches/players remotely close to what we had for many years?
Lujan’s hiring is a mystery to me. Braun needed an OC that could bring in a Big Ten QB immediately.
I believe this. From the stories at the time I recall it was Walker’s idea to visit Clemson and learn about the spread. Wilson did I have to successfully implement it a coach it through the season though.
Yep. RichRod also gave Walker the fastball play that Fitz used to try and win the Alamo Bowl.
The only catch was that Walker’s teams could never use it if they played a RichRod team. 😆
