He already did that. At Kansas, where he is from, which is his alma mater, and where his wife wanted to get back to.
He ain’t coming back to NU.
Sean Lewis Should Be At The Top of NU’s Head Coaching Candidate List
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He already did that. At Kansas, where he is from, which is his alma mater, and where his wife wanted to get back to.
He ain’t coming back to NU.
How about a Brian Polian AD and Sean Lewis Football Head Coach combo at NU next year? Lewis and Colorado’s offense looking good again this week.
Says the guy who insisted that Coach Prime would be a disaster for Colorado.
LOL
This will be the first full reset of the program since Barnett arrived. And it will have to happen at a time when we are basically a nomad program while they build the new stadium. And that’s before you account for the stuff surrounding Fitzgerald.
They may get lucky in finding someone who can navigate all that. But that’s what it will be - an educated guess. I’m just not sure that there are any real proven program builders out there for us.
They may get lucky in finding someone who can navigate all that. But that’s what it will be - an educated guess. I’m just not sure that there are any real proven program builders out there for us.
As great as Colorado looks, how much of that is due to players that are only there because Prime himself is the HC?
Our situation is just so different, not sure how well that transition would work. They're going to overperform on recruiting and transfers as long as he's there (regardless of the rest of the staff makeup).
Not sure any of that would translate here with Lewis, but as @NUFan0207 says above, there's not really any clear proven HC we could grab.
Guys like Fritz at Tulane, Clawson at WF, Elko at Duke are the types of situations we'd want to emulate, but take Fritz for example, his first 6 years were relatively unremarkable.
And obviously, we're in a way tougher conference than any of those guys moving forwards. Succeeding in the ACC or Big 12 or AAC is one thing, competing in the upcoming 18 school Big Ten with a ton of big brands is something entirely different.
Our situation is just so different, not sure how well that transition would work. They're going to overperform on recruiting and transfers as long as he's there (regardless of the rest of the staff makeup).
Not sure any of that would translate here with Lewis, but as @NUFan0207 says above, there's not really any clear proven HC we could grab.
Guys like Fritz at Tulane, Clawson at WF, Elko at Duke are the types of situations we'd want to emulate, but take Fritz for example, his first 6 years were relatively unremarkable.
And obviously, we're in a way tougher conference than any of those guys moving forwards. Succeeding in the ACC or Big 12 or AAC is one thing, competing in the upcoming 18 school Big Ten with a ton of big brands is something entirely different.
What does that have to do with Lewis? Never said he’d be a disaster either. Stop making shit up.
Lewis was a head coach at Kent State and made a moribund program that was winning 1 or 2 games per year into a MAC champion that made two bowl games in the five years he was there. He also has been credited for leading very successful offensive units for Coach Dino Babers at both Bowling Green and Syracuse. He is a young, innovative coach who is originally from Chicago's South suburbs and has strong Big Ten ties having played at Wisconsin. These are the main reasons he was on the radar of several people on this board well before this year. What he is doing at Colorado so far is just further confirmation that he is one of the better up and coming young offensive minded coaches in the nation. I am not sure NU is going to be able to do much better than someone like him and that assumes he would be interested given that I think he will be a hot commodity after this year.
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Lewis is obviously doing great as Colorado's OC, and if we do go for a coordinator that's been HC before it makes a lot of sense to go for an OC so Braun can re-slot as DC.
A choice like that does make a lot of sense if we're sort of just looking for a new HC that can pick and choose which staff to keep (and focus on re-jiggering the offense which is where we need a lot more work) as opposed to someone that will bring over a full staff.
A choice like that does make a lot of sense if we're sort of just looking for a new HC that can pick and choose which staff to keep (and focus on re-jiggering the offense which is where we need a lot more work) as opposed to someone that will bring over a full staff.
We’re not going to be able to afford Lewis if their season keeps up like this.
A bigger program with more NIL backing and easy admissions will offer him more $$$.
We missed our shot to get him.
Here you go. This post is from September 27, 2016. Now you guys can shut up about it.
Heh, every once in a while a blind squirrel finds a nut…although my Art Briles prediction was way off. A little suprised he hasn’t gotten a gig given the southern universities will hire any coach with a track record of success regardless of their backstory.
On Lewis, his former OC at Kent State (Sowder) is now the TE coach at Minnesota. In the wild (mythical?) scenario NU were to land him, I’d imagine Sean would be able to bring his former assistant back as well.
When I first saw what Briles was doing at Houston in the mid 2000s, I thought that system would eventually take over college football. The horrific events at Baylor delayed the proliferation of the scheme, but thanks to Babers and Heupel, the veer & shoot is becoming entrenched across college football.
I think future of the system may be safe as well given how much RPO is in play across the NFL.
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I could have written this myself, word for word. Agree in every way.
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