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DeBoer Just Drew His First Coaching Rumor — Here's Why It Won't Be the Last

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  • haie
    haie Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 24,602 Founders Club

    haie said:

    ntxduck said:

    haie said:

    First thing I thought of when I saw that NW fired Pat Fitzgerald TUFF.

    He didn't want the Purdue and Nebraska jobs, otherwise he would have forced Jen to give him a real raise.

    Northwestern is a harder job than Stanford, no clue who their candidate pool will even be. They probably can't even poach Jonathan Smith.

    Beav is a better job than NW
    Absolutely.
    It's not like they would fire you for losing there. Not the worst gig if they pay you well. I don't know the in's and out's of nw football, but it seems like they care more than Stanford over the last few years. They had as much success as anyone in the west division outside of Wisconsin I think at first glance. That's not saying much as that division is terrible. But still.
    Seems like it's terrible to recruit there compared to Beavlet.
  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 69,983 Founders Club
    edited July 2023
    ntxduck said:

    haie said:

    First thing I thought of when I saw that NW fired Pat Fitzgerald TUFF.

    He didn't want the Purdue and Nebraska jobs, otherwise he would have forced Jen to give him a real raise.

    Northwestern is a harder job than Stanford, no clue who their candidate pool will even be. They probably can't even poach Jonathan Smith.

    Beav is a better job than NW*
    *Unless Beav ends up in the Mountain West
  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,825 Swaye's Wigwam

    ntxduck said:

    haie said:

    First thing I thought of when I saw that NW fired Pat Fitzgerald TUFF.

    He didn't want the Purdue and Nebraska jobs, otherwise he would have forced Jen to give him a real raise.

    Northwestern is a harder job than Stanford, no clue who their candidate pool will even be. They probably can't even poach Jonathan Smith.

    Beav is a better job than NW*
    *Unless Beav ends up in the Mountain West
    Even then. I'd rather be OSU going into the stronger, scrappy MWC than the corner schools latching onto the carcass of the big 12. It may seem grim at first but will work out better over time.
  • theknowledge
    theknowledge Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 5,912 Founders Club
    haie said:

    First thing I thought of when I saw that NW fired Pat Fitzgerald TUFF.

    He didn't want the Purdue and Nebraska jobs, otherwise he would have forced Jen to give him a real raise.

    Northwestern is a harder job than Stanford, no clue who their candidate pool will even be. They probably can't even poach Jonathan Smith.

    Elko, the coach at Duke would be my first call.
  • ntxduck
    ntxduck Member Posts: 6,253
    chuck said:

    ntxduck said:

    haie said:

    First thing I thought of when I saw that NW fired Pat Fitzgerald TUFF.

    He didn't want the Purdue and Nebraska jobs, otherwise he would have forced Jen to give him a real raise.

    Northwestern is a harder job than Stanford, no clue who their candidate pool will even be. They probably can't even poach Jonathan Smith.

    Beav is a better job than NW*
    *Unless Beav ends up in the Mountain West
    Even then. I'd rather be OSU going into the stronger, scrappy MWC than the corner schools latching onto the carcass of the big 12. It may seem grim at first but will work out better over time.
    Yup. NW will be vandy in the expanded big ten. Historically, they are vandy aside from a few spike years (rose bowl team that lost to Keyshawn)
  • ntxduck
    ntxduck Member Posts: 6,253

    haie said:

    First thing I thought of when I saw that NW fired Pat Fitzgerald TUFF.

    He didn't want the Purdue and Nebraska jobs, otherwise he would have forced Jen to give him a real raise.

    Northwestern is a harder job than Stanford, no clue who their candidate pool will even be. They probably can't even poach Jonathan Smith.

    Elko, the coach at Duke would be my first call.
    Agreed. They won’t be able to get him after Duke goes 9-3 this year though.
  • AtomicDawg
    AtomicDawg Member Posts: 7,360

    Quite honestly I didn't know that Shaw left Stanford

    He was done years before he left. Not sure if he dgaf or lost complete support from the admin but they sucked.