Colorado job to Jon Embree

**Tornado man** · 12-02-2010, 12:25 PM

So says the Denver Post, according to Bill McCartney. Now the TE coach with the Redskins.

McCartney: Embree offered CU head coaching job - The Denver Post

**Knownothing** · 12-02-2010, 12:38 PM

Minnesota thinks hiring an NFL tight end coach for the head coaching job is stupid.

**cygrads** · 12-02-2010, 12:41 PM

Wow that was out of left field!

**drlove** · 12-02-2010, 12:58 PM

Originally Posted by cygrads

Wow that was out of left field!

This report isn't confirmed from others close to the situation.

Embree isn't all that much out of Left Field. Embree played at CU and interviewed in 2005 (token interview). The hope is that he would be able to bring Eric Bienemy with him.

**Frak** · 12-02-2010, 01:12 PM

Still, it sure seems like a reach to me...hire an NFL TE coach with no coordinator experience as HC. Then hire another NFL position coach as OC. What are they going to do, offer Alfred Williams and Kanavis McGee co-DC spots? Maybe bring in Darian Hagan to coach the QBs and Charles Johnson to coach WRs? Most of that team were Cally guys, so I guess that they should be able to recruit Cally pretty well in that conference. I'd worry about being out-scheme-ed with that little experience at the top. I wish that they were still on our schedule because I'm betting it ends badly.

**coachdags** · 12-02-2010, 01:15 PM

Originally Posted by Frak

Still, it sure seems like a reach to me...hire an NFL TE coach with no coordinator experience as HC. Then hire another NFL position coach as OC. What are they going to do, offer Alfred Williams and Kanavis McGee co-DC spots? Maybe bring in Darian Hagan to coach the QBs and Charles Johnson to coach WRs? Most of that team were Cally guys, so I guess that they should be able to recruit Cally pretty well in that conference. I'd worry about being out-scheme-ed with that little experience at the top. I wish that they were still on our schedule because I'm betting it ends badly.

Almost sounds the the Fred Hoiberg situation...?

**Go2Guy** · 12-02-2010, 01:26 PM

What the ****:

"....It was neverabout me doing it again," McCartney said in an interview with The Denver Post. "It was about setting the table for a black man to come in (as head coach). And he (Mike Bohn) hired one...."

**1100011CS** · 12-02-2010, 01:32 PM

It was about setting the table for a black man to come in (as head coach)

What does being black (or white) have to do with anything?

**Frak** · 12-02-2010, 02:35 PM

Originally Posted by coachdags

Almost sounds the the Fred Hoiberg situation...?

Yeah it does, BUT MBB and FB are two totally different things. Fred hired Lutz as his main Xs and Os guy, which would be similar to a coordinator in FB.

**ruxCYtable** · 12-02-2010, 02:49 PM

Originally Posted by 1100011CS

What does being black (or white) have to do with anything?

It means CU cares more about appearances than hiring the best possible candidate for the job. And it should come as no surprise -- it is the most liberal campus west of Iowa City.

**dualthreat** · 12-02-2010, 03:01 PM

you have to interview minority candidates too

you can go the other way and ask why the hell you have to do that ..

**Cybone** · 12-02-2010, 03:52 PM

I think Eric Bienemy would have been a better choice given his connections to California. He was a running backs coach and recruiting coordinator for UCLA. Seems to me that given their move to the PAC-12, it would be in their best interest to get a guy with existing recruiting ties to California.

I guess I don't care much as they won't be playing us anymore.

**CyJack13** · 12-02-2010, 03:54 PM

Originally Posted by Cybone

I think Eric Bienemy would have been a better choice given his connections to California. He was a running backs coach and recruiting coordinator for UCLA. Seems to me that given their move to the PAC-12, it would be in their best interest to get a guy with existing recruiting ties to California.

I guess I don't care much as they won't be playing us anymore.

According to Stewart Mandel, Bienemy will be offensive coordinator.