03-27-2025, 12:51 PM
Kingsbury is certainly charismatic, young (45), has oodles of college and NFL experience, and seems to be a sharp offensive mind. My question is this: with Luck as the GM, does Stanford have different selection criteria than it used to have? Are many of the organizational traits you'd like in head coach including recruiting and raising money completely under Luck, so you concentrate on an X or O guy with the charisma to still be an important part of the duel-headed public face of the program?
2011 Houston play caller: averaged 50 ppg and 600 ypg
2012 Texas A&M OC: Voldemort QB, lead SEC in rushing, passing, total and scoring offense. Only NCAA offense ranked in top 15 in all categories
2013-18 Texas Tech HC: Aggregate record 35-40 (19-35 B12), best finish was his first year at 8-5 then consistently mediocre, never had a winning conference record, but Mahomes
2019-22 Arizona Cardinals HC: 28-37-1 Why did they hire a 0.467 coach and expect better? His NFL win percentage is 0.432 with a single winning season (2021) where he lost the wild card game to the Rams 11-34
Seems like a better OC than HC. Does that work with the new paradigm?
Coach Niumatalolo is a good coach and great human being. We had sandwiches and coke next to each other during my son's Induction Day picnic. My son was not present. :) He seemed genuinely interested in everything related to the Yard, and he sure didn't need to be slumming with Plebe parents in hundred degree heat. But I watched him greet not only football players coming off the busses but "regular" Plebes too. I was a Paul Johnson fan and my son was trying out for Sprint Football, so at least we had some talking points. Not sure what happened at Annapolis other than I think they tired of his voice and how they handled COVID didn't help. No contact practices then getting destroyed by Air Force was probably what did it. And he stopped beating Army.
Coach Monken is a superstar. His resurrection of West Point Football was singular. He'd be foolish to leave before they erect his statue, but I wouldn't mind him in Palo Alto if only to get him off the banks of the Hudson.
2011 Houston play caller: averaged 50 ppg and 600 ypg
2012 Texas A&M OC: Voldemort QB, lead SEC in rushing, passing, total and scoring offense. Only NCAA offense ranked in top 15 in all categories
2013-18 Texas Tech HC: Aggregate record 35-40 (19-35 B12), best finish was his first year at 8-5 then consistently mediocre, never had a winning conference record, but Mahomes
2019-22 Arizona Cardinals HC: 28-37-1 Why did they hire a 0.467 coach and expect better? His NFL win percentage is 0.432 with a single winning season (2021) where he lost the wild card game to the Rams 11-34
Seems like a better OC than HC. Does that work with the new paradigm?
Coach Niumatalolo is a good coach and great human being. We had sandwiches and coke next to each other during my son's Induction Day picnic. My son was not present. :) He seemed genuinely interested in everything related to the Yard, and he sure didn't need to be slumming with Plebe parents in hundred degree heat. But I watched him greet not only football players coming off the busses but "regular" Plebes too. I was a Paul Johnson fan and my son was trying out for Sprint Football, so at least we had some talking points. Not sure what happened at Annapolis other than I think they tired of his voice and how they handled COVID didn't help. No contact practices then getting destroyed by Air Force was probably what did it. And he stopped beating Army.
Coach Monken is a superstar. His resurrection of West Point Football was singular. He'd be foolish to leave before they erect his statue, but I wouldn't mind him in Palo Alto if only to get him off the banks of the Hudson.