Colorado hired a guy who has no recruiting ties to the west coast . Genius
Jon Embree Part Deux
Jon Embree had good recruiting ties to the West Coast and had never been a coordinator. So basically little in common with Tucker other than being "so well spoken". Good call dude.
Anyway, a HC's recruiting ties are overrated. Assistants do most of the recruiting and the HC comes in to close. Plenty of outstanding coaches over the years have succeeded in places where they previously had little in the way of recruiting ties in that team's recruiting footprint. Urban at Florida, Saban as LSU, McCartney at CU and the list goes on.
Saban and Urban fit in well with southern football culture despite being Yankees. That kind of hard nosed balling is par for the course as is a bigger respect for authority and football is 1,2, and 3. What else is there?
Saban has said he doesn't think he would work in LA. Sorry Trojan fans
Flip it. Does Pete do at Bama what he did at SC? Prolly not.
I highly doubt that He would. Bama, despite its tradition, was a 2nd level job when He took over S.C. Unlike now,They were way down the trough of a place that top Southern Croots would go. Back then it was all Miami, Florida, FSU, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Texas and others that were more attractive schools to go to. USC, despite some down years before Pete arrived, was still USC and could still wave the wand to get The best Kids in the West. He did and took them and ran to Natties.
All Buffs are very exicted for a real SEC coach coming in. Coach Mac is a great man and brought CU back and brought excitedment back to the fanbase. Coach Tucker is taking to the next level. We interviewed Jim Lake but he just wasn't good enough for the Buffs. Coach Tucker os from The Saban Tree. You pups shoul be vry nervous. Your time is over
On field results are a mixed bag but Tucker is recruiting really well for a 5-6 team. And doing it mostly outside the P12 footprint.
We didn't want you in the Pac 12 anyway.
It's a good thing for the conference. Bringing in more talent from outside the footprint increases the talent level in the league, especially with the Bamas of the world recruiting nationally more than ever.
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It means “ruffalo soldiers buffs” sux and we a LONG way from a Rose Bowel... much less a CFP
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