The Next Coach
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@Wigs2 Beatty had four seasons. It’s his baby. He ran the show, and chose the wrong path. He didn’t get the athletes here for the system he chose to run.
The key is the right coach. I do think success can be achieved here. It’s been proven. It seems wildly pessimistic to think it can’t when there is clear evidence that it can. Further, “success” is relative. I’m suggesting we can be what Iowa St. has been. Or even KSU or OSU. Again, we’ve proven before that we can be that good.
I’ve said this before, and said this before Keegan did a full column on it, one path to respectability is to run the flexbone like GT, or Army, etc. It will not win you a national title, it won’t likely get you to some respectable bowl game, but you’ll win. And you’ll get to (less respectable) bowl games. That is what I think Beatty should have done. Beatty tried to run a system offensively that he was sorely undermanned to operate successfully. It’s his fault.
But with a new coach coming in, and hopefully better recruiting, there may be better paths than the flexbone. But I can assure you this, if we can’t recruit much better, running the flexbone is really the only option to increase success.
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Shortening the game is HUGE when you are at a talent disadvantage. A run heavy scheme also greatly benefits the defense.
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Woodrow said:
@Wigs2 it’s not just about a coaching change. It is about a culture change. This program needs a reboot.
Absolutely agree with you. A good deal of the KU fan base seems to be of the opinion that because it has an elite basketball program a mediocre to average football program is all we can expect. Yes, at this time the floor is pretty low but he ceiling is the same as any other P5 school. I also understand that a much longer and steeper set of stairs is needed but if it had started building slowly a few years ago the program would be much closer to the ceiling than to the floor. KU needs to find a superior coach and pay him accordingly and move on. I seem to recall reading that in recent years KU has paid more to (former) coaches for not coaching than coaches for actual coaching; this trend needs to stop and the culture needs to change.
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@BShark Exactly. The longer the game, the more likely the better team wins. Further, the flexbone is a preparation nightmare not just because of the run focus, but the nature of how the run plays develop (significant misdirection and different angles of attack) and play action passing. Much different than the more conventional run focus by a team like KSU.
@JayHawkFanToo It appears we might have been better off paying the coaches this season to NOT coach as well …
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Soo has anyone heard anymore about Beaty? - - they suppose to have a conference at 12:00 but haven’t seen anything officially to announce anything
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@jayballer73 just a release today, and a presser once the new coach is hired. At least that’s last I knew
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KU hasn’t released anything. There was never a PC scheduled for noon today. That was just a rumor.
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KC stations reporting but citing another station as source so reliability is suspect.
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FarmerJayhawk said:
@jayballer73 just a release today, and a presser once the new coach is hired. At least that’s last I knew
Oh so today they jut announcing he has been let go and such - -then a press release when we DO hire a new coach
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jayballer73 said:
FarmerJayhawk said:
@jayballer73 just a release today, and a presser once the new coach is hired. At least that’s last I knew
Oh so today they jut announcing he has been let go and such - -then a press release when we DO hire a new coach
Which might happen tonight.
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Sounds like it. I won’t believe it until he puts on the hat
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@HighEliteMajor As I said previously, I’m not saying Beaty’s the guy. I just think way too much of the blame has been put on him. And people who think a Miles or Doeren, or anyone else is going to all of a sudden make KU a consistent winner–or even a.500 team–is probably going to be disappointed.
I may be wrong but I just don’t think it will happen.
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@Wigs2 I’m just going to assume you don’t watch the game, are related to Beaty, or related to someone on the staff.
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Presser for firing or is a hiring happening today? Not a lot of options if we are hiring someone. Miles, Beilma, Mora, Jones are about the only guys I can think of if we hired someone right now
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I don’t think a presser has been confirmed.
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It’s in Long’s release.
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@Woodrow Wrong on all counts. Although I will say it has come to the point that I don’t really care what they do.
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@Wigs2 at this point, he’s a problem. Look at how unorganized this team is. We run a trick plays almost every game but can barely execute a normal play. Our o-line play is a joke. Small schools are able to put together a line capable of not letting their QB get killed. Our playcalling gets stale as games go on. There is nothing even close to special about our offense. We are an “air raid” offense that can’t score 20 points.
Maybe someone else can’t fix it either, but Beaty has shown that he definitely can’t.
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@Kcmatt7 100% agree, it’s sad that Nichols has a better oline than us. There isn’t a excuse for that in year 4.
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Woodrow said:
I don’t think a presser has been confirmed.
They gave the press release - -said they would have more around 6 tonight
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@Wigs2 Ok, I said “on the horizon” and you seemed to discount that possibility. I think we all agree nothing willl be “sudden.”
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@HighEliteMajor Before I looked into all the history of the program, I was kinda hopeful that a new coach could come in and turn it around. But I didn’t realize that, in the last 60 years, every coach except Mangino had a losing record. His was only 50 wins and 48 losses over 8 years. I’m just not real confident that another new coach can make this a respectable program. I have been a fan since I was a kid in the 1950s, so I hope I’m wrong. Also I hope it doesn’t take so long that I won’t be around to see it.
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I think most of us are realists. But, 6-39 isn’t going to cut it. I’d gladly take a guy with a .450ish winning percentage and puts out a product that sees a bowl game every 2-3 seasons and just generally puts out a football team that at least has a chance to win most weekends. Make the KSU rivalry fun. Pull off an upset every so often.
Just don’t be a laughing stock at this point.
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The next coach is going to be Les Miles. The people that expect him to replicate his LSU success will be in for a disappointing tenure because that won’t happen. Miles replicating what he did at Oklahoma State is a realistic possibility. While OSU wasn’t in the same boat KU is in now, they weren’t a good program when he took over. An occasional 7 or 8 win season mixed in with a lot of 3 and 4 win seasons was the better part of OSU’s recent history prior to Les Miles.
Next year, the defense will take a step back because of what they’re going to lose along the front 7. The secondary will be the strength of the defense next year.
The offense won’t be exciting because Miles runs a pro style offense, but he will at least be able to get the ball to Pooka in open space via screens and read options with Stanley or Kendrick at QB next year.
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@Kcmatt7 completely agree. I think the majority of fans just want a team that is competitive on almost every Saturday. Beatys teams haven’t sniffed that. Sure there are going to be days that you run into a OU hitting on all cylinders and you get beat by 30 like KSU did last week. It shouldn’t happen week in and week out to teams that are not very good though.
I’d be happy if you told me our team would win somewhere between 4-8 games every year.
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https://twitter.com/petethamel/status/1059215935796637698?s=21
Decent list here by Thamel.
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Well just got through listening to Longs talk. Kind of interesting he states that Age will not be a factor.
He stated that because of the Early Signing period and transfers where a pat of the reason for announcing now about the change.
He said just since the announcing of this today has had multiple inquiries from potential Coach’s. - – Hmm found it interesting WHY some media would even ask about being open to minorities . – Of Course he would - if he finds someone who would be interested and they meet the qualifications - -why wouldn’t he. - -As long as they can get this turned around - -I don’t give a rats ass whether he is White – Black - -Red – Blue - -Yellow = I’m not interested in his skin color - -I’m only interested in someone that can help dig us out of this hole.
He says the fans are a big part of the solution . got to get them back. - -
I think in a way he kind of countradicted himself - -He said he has no timeline BUT yet on the other hand he talked about the Early signing period and transfers - -makes me think he is wanting to get this done soon. - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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I thought along did a fine job. Took all the questions and answered them nicely. There could have been some better questions but that’s on the media.
@jayballer73 I just don’t think he want d to put a specific timeline on it. He didn’t want to say this will be done in 10 days, because if something happens and he doesn’t meet that timeline then people freak out. I feel pretty confident that he will have named a new coach by Dec 1 at the very latest.
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A couple thoughts.
-Long has a plan, and he’s sticking to it. He was never going to rush into anything, like firing Beaty after Nicholls. Agree or disagree with the plan, but he’s had one and now we can all see the wheels are in motion.
-He really wants fan support. He’s not blaming the fans like some like to bitch about, but you could see he was pissed at ISU having more fans than KU at Memorial yesterday. Could he have been more artful? Sure. But I kind of liked seeing some emotion. He’s just asking for fan support. What kind of CEO doesn’t ask for consumers to try their product or service? We’d all hate him for being apathetic and mailing it in if he didn’t mention getting fan support, and rightly so.
-He has a list of candidates in his head, and knows who’s serious and who isn’t. Guessing that those who are actually serious called up Long before today. Those who just called are probably in the camp of trying to get a raise from their current employers. Could’ve been a jab telling those guys to not even bother.
-Related to the process, I like that he’s taking charge and not hiring a stupid search firm that comes up with the same list that we could here, just for seven figures more. Keep it in house and make the decision. Also was clear there has to be a formal process. We can’t just call up Les and tell him he’s the guy tomorrow. KU is public so there are some EEOC type things we have to do first. Which is fine, that’s the nature of the beast, but I don’t expect the list within the list to be very long.
-On the timeline, it’ll be done quickly. By keeping it in house and calling it “all encompassing,” Long has staked out that he’s going to do this right and do it quickly so the new guy can start recruiting immediately to have a semblance of a class together by the early signing period. That tells me it’ll be done no later than December 1.
-At the end of the process, I still think it’s Miles. He checks all the boxes Long articulated both on Twitter and in his presser. Doesn’t seem like the type to outsmart himself.
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Rumor is that Long is asking donors for the money specifically for Miles.
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The last KU game is on Friday November 23, so I expect the announcement to come about one week later or at the end of November or very first part of December.
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Grunhard was on 810 this morning and said he talked to Doreen and he is not interested. Grunny said KU passed on him twice and that ship has sailed.
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@Woodrow Not surprising that he isn’t interested anymore. It’s really hard to believe that anyone would pick Weis or Beaty over him. Hopefully Long at least uses common sense unlike Zenger. Supposedly when KU hired Gill, Harbaugh and Tuberville were both highly interested in the job.
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Heard during the Duke-UK game last night that Miles is coming for a Visit to KU - -well actually this morning watching the replay that is what they has said
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@jayballer73 It’s going to be Les.
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BShark said:
@jayballer73 It’s going to be Les.
Ya I think so - -and actually I think it’s going to ve soon. - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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Read where the QB Coach might have an interest , he was the Arkansas offensive Cordinator 2015-17- -His name is Dan Enos. - -He ran pro style under Enos coached Brandon Allen ( 2016 threw for 3,000 yds Brandon led the Nation in QB efficiency threw for 3,440 yards and 30 TD’s in 2016. - -that’s great but we don’t have that Caliber of QB.
Was 4 Seasons at Michigan State as assistant Coach
Left Central Michigan wit a 26-36 record- -last loss to - - KU 24-10 and this is the Coach we would want? lol 3 6 win seasons - -went to 2 bowl appearances 1-1 I dunno - -think I would pas. ROCK CHALK ALLDAY LONG BABY
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jayballer73 said:
Read where the QB Coach might have an interest , he was the Arkansas offensive Cordinator 2015-17- -His name is Dan Enos. - -He ran pro style under Enos coached Brandon Allen ( 2016 threw for 3,000 yds Brandon led the Nation in QB efficiency threw for 3,440 yards and 30 TD’s in 2016. - -that’s great but we don’t have that Caliber of QB.
Was 4 Seasons at Michigan State as assistant Coach
Left Central Michigan wit a 26-36 record- -last loss to - - KU 24-10 and this is the Coach we would want? lol 3 6 win seasons - -went to 2 bowl appearances 1-1 I dunno - -think I would pas. ROCK CHALK ALLDAY LONG BABY
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@BShark Ya that’s what I thought to. - - ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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Oh and that is a real link for anyone wondering.
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Enos more likely is interested in being Les’s OC. Locksley, not Enos, calls plays at Bama. Enos is looking to get back after it. If the rumored names for assistants work out, it’s going to be a hell of a staff.
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@FarmerJayhawk Enos could be a solid guy to have on the staff, not sure he would be ready or able to tackle this job as a HC.
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FarmerJayhawk said:
Enos more likely is interested in being Les’s OC. Locksley, not Enos, calls plays at Bama. Enos is looking to get back after it. If the rumored names for assistants work out, it’s going to be a hell of a staff.
Article says he is the QB Coach and associate head Coach for Saban - -so ya your right. – ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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Some Smoke coming out about Justin Fuente… I doubt the trigger gets pulled but I’d love the hire.
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Kcmatt7 said:
Some Smoke coming out about Justin Fuente… I doubt the trigger gets pulled but I’d love the hire.
Where are you seeing this? That would be amazing. But there’s no way it’s happening since the search is done.
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I’m looking, but I can’t find it again. If I come across the link again I’ll shoot it to you. I doubt he gets fired regardless, but it would immediately have become my #1 choice.
I know Les is probably the guy, but I’m going to keep my ears and eyes open until there is some pen to paper.
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Al the rumors about Fuente are from a year ago when FSU and Tennessee( among other big programs) were allegedly interested. He was not interested then and does not seem to be interested now and, if he wants to leave, he would be at the top of every list and KU would have zero chance of getting him…short of making him the highest paid coach in college football.
