I like Braun and based on what I saw today I would not be opposed at all to retaining him as DC if he were open to that.
Me too but I just don't think that will happen unless he wins 4+ games. And if he does, he will probably be offered some pretty good jobs.
Unbelievable, I am in with Corbi on some things. I like where you are going with this man. A guy who can get an offense to outscore TCU, and has HC experience already. Mirrors that somewhat of my Uncle and he is in the Hall of Fame. Lewis might not be who we get, but the type of man we get to get this show going.
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Hartline May be great but I want a proven head coach. Lewis is such an attractive candidate because at such a young age he already has a pretty good track record as a head coach having done a remarkable job bringing the Kent State program back from the dead.
Dave Clausen of Wake Forest. He’s the only active Division 1 coach who has won championships in 4 different Division 1 conferences. We need a coach who has proven he can built championships
Why would he leave the great situation he has at Wake Forest to take the NU job? We need to be realistic and look for candidates that may want NU as much as NU wants them.
3 of those 4 are really bad suggestions.
I am an EMU alum, I like Creighton exactly where he is, but he would make a great HC at NU. He changed the culture there in Ypsilanti after decades of average to mediocre football.
You're assuumption that the house will be cleaned is based on what, at this point? Do you have some inside information?
He recruits with no academic standards. He could not do that at NU and probably would not want the job because of it.
Would he stay more than a year? Guy changes jobs every year like clockwork.
@ Corbi and kaTnap
NU has already taken some risks and we see how that is working out. This may be a long ordeal. Where does the sorting out begin and with whom? Sounds like a football coach goes parachuting and accidentally lands in Ryan Field.
NU having higher academic standards for football player admissions is bunk? Not sure what world you are living in. Right off the bat I am confident in saying that NU can’t recruit 75% of D1 caliber HS football recruits in every class. When your pool of recruits is 1/4 the size of most other schools, recruiting well is very challenging. That’s not bunk.
I am well aware of the academic restrictions argument. Under these same academic restrictions, NU had the following national ranking for defenses:
LOL, are you actually preaching to me that the right coach, who knows how to sell NU can compete at NU? I know that. We had that coach and his name is Pat Fitzgerald. My point is that not all coaches can or want to do that. Unless you have coached and recruited at a school like NU, it’s unlikely that coach will have the contacts and the know how to successfully recruit for a school like NU that is pulling from a pool of recruits that is probably 1/4 the size of other schools.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
This was all Mike's doing. Look at the records/ratings before and after he was at NU.
Oh yes, I forgot about Saint Mike. It was all him. Did he take a vacation in 2019? Please spare me.
That is definitely not Dr Gragg. This is the thing, I feel with the right leadership we could land a good coach. That being said, no dice with our leadership.
So you truly feel with Gragg and Schill in place a great coach will say, yes to working for these two?
Coaches see this as a program where you can average 5-6 wins without big pressure and make a lot of money. The program has the financial resources to build a competitive team. There are some foundational issues that are being dealt with as of now that will help attract a coach and build the program. With all the vitriol for Gragg and Schill, I'm told that they are working to revolutionize NU football and have strong support. Dissect and dissent as you please, but if i tell you a rooster chews tobacco, look under His wing and you will find a can of Skoal!
