A brief history of the only GREAT Pac 12 football HC hires in the past 30 years
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Won a Rose Bowl
Never won the Pac
Never won the Pac
Yeah, w/o question. Harbaugh overachieved bigly at Stanford. Won some huge games he wasn't supposed to. Set the program up to be a perennial Pac contender after he left.
Can the same be said of Pete? Pete was a good (not great) hire with the benefit of hindsight.
Decent hire. Turned out not to be a "great" one.
Harbaugh would have won more than a few Pac titles if he stayed at Furd.
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greenblood
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From an objective view point, he didn't accomplish anything. But I'll give you this: Riley's worst year in 14 years at Oregon St. is better than all but 2 years since he's left.
He wasn't a great coach, but in their history, he was a great hire.
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From an objective view point, he didn't accomplish anything. But I'll give you this: Riley's worst year in 14 years at Oregon St. is better than all but 2 years since he's left.
He wasn't a great coach, but in their history, he was a great hire.
There's been lots of "good" hires over the years. This where I put Shaw, Whittingham, Pete, Riley, Toledo, Snyder, Tedford, etc.
The point of the OP though is that there have really only been like 2, maybe 3, gland slam hires in the recent history of this league. They mostly always end up in failure with some occasional good ones.
greenblood
New Fish
From an objective view point, he didn't accomplish anything. But I'll give you this: Riley's worst year in 14 years at Oregon St. is better than all but 2 years since he's left.
He wasn't a great coach, but in their history, he was a great hire.
There's been lots of "good" hires over the years. This where I put Shaw, Whittingham, Pete, Riley, Toledo, Snyder, Tedford, etc.
The point of the OP though is that there have really only been like 2, maybe 3, gland slam hires in the recent history of this league. They mostly always end up in failure with some occasional good ones.
I'll give you that
GrundleStiltzkin
New Fish
From an objective view point, he didn't accomplish anything. But I'll give you this: Riley's worst year in 14 years at Oregon St. is better than all but 2 years since he's left.
He wasn't a great coach, but in their history, he was a great hire.
There's been lots of "good" hires over the years. This where I put Shaw, Whittingham, Pete, Riley, Toledo, Snyder, Tedford, etc.
The point of the OP though is that there have really only been like 2, maybe 3, gland slam hires in the recent history of this league. They mostly always end up in failure with some occasional good ones.
I'll give you that
Useless without hearing from @iDawg
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I would actually give two Great Hires for the Chipper. 1. Hiring him as OC 2. Hiring him as HC. Both were also seriously balls moves too, especially HC. For what Washington was at the time, who I assume they would have hired otherwise and guys like Mora seemingly turning it down, and what the program is looking like quickly after Petersen, he was a borderline great hire.
I would consider calling Riley and even Leach great hires given what else those programs have done. Consider Shaw too. I know Harbaugh totally set him up and he slid over time the way we all thought he was but that was a situation where someone easily could have driven the joke that is Stanford football off a cliff, let alone kept them winning Pac-12 championships for a while.
I would consider calling Riley and even Leach great hires given what else those programs have done. Consider Shaw too. I know Harbaugh totally set him up and he slid over time the way we all thought he was but that was a situation where someone easily could have driven the joke that is Stanford football off a cliff, let alone kept them winning Pac-12 championships for a while.
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Pitchfork51
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I really look forward to stanford being garbage again
"Look forward" - aren't we there already outside of against Washington?
Pitchfork51
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You have to beat them first.
But I mean real garbage. Like my first 2 years of ever caring about pac football when I was a freshman and soph in 07 we beat them by like 35 each time.
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Pitchfork51
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We should fire cohen imo
BennyBeaver
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Uncle Denny >>>>>>>>Mediocre Mike
And it's not even close.
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Uncle Denny >>>>>>>>Mediocre Mike
And it's not even close.
GOAT Boov team.
GhostofMosster47
New Fish
From an objective view point, he didn't accomplish anything. But I'll give you this: Riley's worst year in 14 years at Oregon St. is better than all but 2 years since he's left.
He wasn't a great coach, but in their history, he was a great hire.
There's been lots of "good" hires over the years. This where I put Shaw, Whittingham, Pete, Riley, Toledo, Snyder, Tedford, etc.
The point of the OP though is that there have really only been like 2, maybe 3, gland slam hires in the recent history of this league. They mostly always end up in failure with some occasional good ones.
That's every conference.