Posts Tagged ‘Chris Petersen’
Is North Carolina Aiming for the Stars?
By Paul Myerberg // Nov 1, 2011
New North Carolina athletic director Bubba Cunningham steps into a dream job, but that comes with an asterisk. On one hand, he’s inherited one of the premier athletic departments in the country, one that excels not just in the money-making men’s sports — basketball, for instance — but also stands with the cream of the crop in the non-mainstream sports, like women’s basketball and soccer, men’s lacrosse and the like. On the other hand, however, Cunningham inherits a football program under a black cloud, what with the university’s own self-imposed penalties and the specter of forthcoming N.C.A.A. sanctions. That’s one problem, and it’s a pressing issue. But Cunningham has another problem — and this one might be harder to address.
Tags: Boise State, Bubba Cunningham, Chris Petersen, U.N.C
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Thinking About Who’s Next at Arizona
By Paul Myerberg // Oct 11, 2011
Where does Arizona go next? Defensive coordinator Tim Kish will run the show for the rest of 2011, but we know the track record of interim coaches becoming the permanent replacement at the end of their partial-season audition: there have been coaches who parlayed a short stint into the full-time position, but it’s a short list. Barring the near-impossible, the overwhelming odds point towards athletic director Greg Byrne and Arizona opening up the job formerly held by Mike Stoops to a nationwide search. Does the university want someone with prior head coach experience? An offensive-minded coach, a defense-first coach? Perhaps the only certainty is that Arizona wants a coach with a more stoic, less demonstrative manner – the anti-Stoops, in short. Let’s look at a few names the Wildcats may consider:
Tags: Arizona, Art Briles, Chris Petersen, Greg Byrne, Jim McElwain, Kevin Sumlin, Manny Diaz, Mark Hudspeth, Mark Richt, Mike Bellotti, Mike Leach, Mike Stoops, Tim Kish, Troy Calhoun
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One Untouchable Might Bottom Out
By Paul Myerberg // Sep 28, 2011
They’re the untouchables. No coach can really survive an 0-12 season; a coach may keep his job, but the stigma would eventually define his legacy, barring a miraculous winless-to-undefeated turnaround. But there are a batch of coaches would could survive, say, back-to-back 4-8 seasons. That’s as untouchable as you get nowadays. Nick Saban’s one, I think — but seats get hot awful fast in Tuscaloosa. Chris Petersen and Gary Patterson are in this group. So is Gary Pinkel. The Pac-12 has at least two, Kyle Whittingham and Mike Riley, and I think we can include Chip Kelly on the list. Let’s compile a working list, and I promise you: I have a point to make.
Tags: Chip Kelly, Chris Petersen, Gary Patterson, Gary Pinkel, Kyle Whittingham, Mike Riley, Nick Saban, Oregon State
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Big East Wins, Loses: B.C.S. Themes
By Paul Myerberg // Sep 19, 2011
Fittingly, the two programs that left the Big East in the cold — that first left the Big East in the cold — were the conference’s lone losers on Saturday. In a weekend where the Big East fared well, notching two wins over B.C.S. conference competition, the primary development was the league’s impending destruction: Syracuse and Pittsburgh are gone, soon to be joined by at least one, perhaps two conference brethren, and the Orange and the Panthers followed up that disappointment with a pair of disappointing defeats. Thanks for nothing, says the Big East. Touching on that and other themes from Saturday’s B.C.S. conference action:
Tags: B.J. Daniels, Big East, Chris Petersen, E.J. Manuel, Florida State, Illinois, James Franklin, Jeff Tuel, Marshall Loebbestael, Mike Leach, Oklahoma, Pittsburgh, Rick Neuhseil, Seth Doege, South Florida, Syracuse, Texas Tech, U.C.L.A., Vanderbilt, Washington State, West Virginia
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42-21 Must Have Been Very Appealing
By Paul Myerberg // Sep 6, 2011
Few voters seem to, you know, actually watch the games. Hence some puzzling decisions over the years, from Penn State losing votes back in 1994 for taking it easy against Indiana, to Oregon missing in 2001, even to last fall, when Boise State and T.C.U. suffered in the minds of many voters whose gaze rarely – if ever – left the B.C.S. conference landscape. These are the thoughts you consider after two days of reflection, when you sit back and consider how the Broncos finished Saturday night’s win over Georgia. No, not just the final score, but how the game was physically finished: the game’s final snap.
Tags: Boise State, Chris Petersen, Georgia, Kellen Moore
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Can We Put This to Bed?
By Paul Myerberg // Sep 5, 2011
Pop in the tape: rewind, fast forward, stop, play, slow-mo, reverse, three-times speed. No matter how you replay Saturday night’s win over Georgia, you come to the same conclusion. Boise State wasn’t just better-coached than an SEC team, playing in SEC country in front of an SEC crowd; Boise State was just better, pure and simple, and that’s the underlying message stemming from yet another marquee win over yet another marquee non-conference opponent.
Tags: Boise State, Chris Petersen, Georgia, SEC
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Keys to Boise State-Georgia
By Paul Myerberg // Sep 3, 2011
Boise State’s been here before. Well, not exactly here, but close enough: the Broncos took a trip to Athens, not Atlanta, back in 2005, and were on the receiving end of a decidedly one-sided defeat. How things have changed, both for the Broncos and Georgia, both of which enter a second meeting with a slightly different take on life among the nation’s elite. Georgia’s still in that conversation, though mainly due to what was achieved under Mark Richt earlier last decade, not what’s occurred over the last two years. Chris Petersen didn’t take over for Boise until 2006, at which point the Broncos moved from pesky to outright dominant – 61-5 since that fall, and right in the national title mix once again in 2011.
Tags: Boise State, Chris Petersen, Georgia, John Jenkins, Mark Richt, Nate Potter, Todd Grantham
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No. 2: Boise State
By Paul Myerberg // Sep 2, 2011
Last year’s loss to Nevada made the point null and void, but detractors were coming out of the woodwork to belittle Boise State for much of last season, until it became clear that the Broncos were no longer a threat. Hate’s not too strong a word: petty, hoity-toity hate at that, the sort of condescension the old guard throw at the nouveau riche. And that’s not really hate at all, to be honest, but rather fear — fear that for all your bluster, you’d come up well short should you and Boise State meet between the white lines. And you know what? You wouldn’t be the first. Get in line, just behind elite powers like Oregon, T.C.U. and Virginia Tech. You’ll recognize those teams by this simple fact: you don’t hear them crowing about Boise State not deserving a seat the table, since they’ve had their turn and went home with a loss, now firm in their belief that Boise can beat anyone, anytime, anywhere.
Tags: Billy Winn, Boise State, Byron Hout, Chase Baker, Chris Petersen, D.J. Harper, Doug Martin, George Iloka, Jamar Taylor, Kellen Moore, Kyle Efaw, Mountain West, Nate Potter, Shea McClellin, Tyler Shoemaker, Tyrone Crawford
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