Boise State's Hawkins to take Colorado job

[Irish Envy]

Being reported by ESPN and it looks like he is taking a majority of his staff with him. Wow, this is a very nice hire for Colorado and I think Hawkins is the guy that can turn that program around.

I fear what he can do with a bigger budget and a better talent pool.

 

[jiggafini19]

Is his son going with him?

He was Boise State's top QB recruit:

"We'll see what happens," Hawkins said when asked if he plans to follow his father to Colorado. "I'm kind of trying to figure stuff out right now. But I'm sure in the end, we'll figure out what the best situation is for me.

"I just want what is best for my family, my playing situation and where I would have an opportunity to win a championship."

Hawkins said he has heard great things about Boulder.

"I have been to Boulder, I went there about three years ago," he explained. "We stopped by to visit my uncle, who lives outside of Denver. We stopped by and looked at the stadium and I thought it was really cool.

"Growing up Colorado was one of my favorite schools. But after all the scandal, stuff things got a little shady. But Boulder is a great place to be and if I end up playing there, then it will be fun. If I end up staying here [at Boise State], I'll make the best of that too."

Does Hawkins have a time table for when he hopes to make a final decision?

"I will make the decision when we have all the pieces to the puzzle put together, whenever that is," he replied.

At 5-11, 180 I don't think he'll hold up as a QB in the Big 12 unless he is Drew Tate.

 

[scooper]

This is a great hire. He is seen as one of the young offensive gurus in college football, but his offense is less gimmicky than the pope's. It may take a couple years to restock. Don't mistake their run in the B12 North as having good talent. The North plain and simple sucks. But I think he has the system, attitude and personality to build it back up. The question is, will the fans in the Peoples' Republic of Boulder ever really get behind their football team? They're like Stanford without the academics and with a lot of mountains.

His character is also a good fit coming out of the scandals. I don't think he'd performed on a stage big enough to jump to ND, but I wasn't dissapointed that his name was being thrown around when it was.

 

[jiggafini19]

I would like to see the Big 12 North get some credibility back. Maybe Hawkins can help get Colorado back to where they were ON THE FIELD and change the way they've done things OFF OF IT.

I'd like to see ND get a few Big 12 teams on the schedule, but the next three years appear locked in. It can only augment the already powerful recruiting base they have.

 

[Irish Envy]

I would like to see the Big 12 North get some credibility back. Maybe Hawkins can help get Colorado back to where they were ON THE FIELD and change the way they've done things OFF OF IT.

I'd like to see ND get a few Big 12 teams on the schedule, but the next three years appear locked in. It can only augment the already powerful recruiting base they have.

I think he will. He did some very impressive things at Boise State all things considered. I also never heard anything bad about the way he runs his program, which is something Colorado desperately needs.

 

[Aerosmith777]

I don't get this guy. Last year his name was just starting to be mentioned for the ND job (along w/ everyone else), and then he takes an extension from Boise before either he or ND could really gauge their interest in one another. Now a year later he leave for Colorado? I'd think even last year that ND was still a better job than Colorado....oh well, good luck to him...

 

[Irish Envy]

I don't get this guy. Last year his name was just starting to be mentioned for the ND job (along w/ everyone else), and then he takes an extension from Boise before either he or ND could really gauge their interest in one another. Now a year later he leave for Colorado? I'd think even last year that ND was still a better job than Colorado....oh well, good luck to him...

I don't believe he had any shot at Notre Dame and he knew this. I can't fault him for taking advantage of the media throwing his name into the hat and capitalizing on it at Boise State.

 

[bigdon]

I don't believe he had any shot at Notre Dame and he knew this. I can't fault him for taking advantage of the media throwing his name into the hat and capitalizing on it at Boise State.

Absolutely--It was a better personal decision to bow out gracefully rather than being rejected. He was NEVER going to get the ND job. They wanted someone with a higher profile.

 

[Aerosmith777]

I don't believe he had any shot at Notre Dame and he knew this. I can't fault him for taking advantage of the media throwing his name into the hat and capitalizing on it at Boise State.

At the time he took the extension, I'd have to disagree. Later on when it became so obvious ND wanted to hire an ND guy (Weis & Clements were the only finalists) then I think I could see it. But when he signed that extension it was right after the Urban Meyer debacle and no one had any clue who was gonna be the next Irish coach, and Hawkins seemed to really fit the bill. He's young, a good coach, and a devoted Irish Catholic on top of that. It just seemed to me that his taking that extension was really him taking his hat out of the ring for the Irish job b/c he wanted to stay at Boise, which is fine, but I don't understand how you go from that to leaving for Colorado a year later, a team that is going to be even more of a rebuilding project than Notre Dame was last year, I think.

 

[bigdon]

I don't believe he had any shot at Notre Dame and he knew this. I can't fault him for taking advantage of the media throwing his name into the hat and capitalizing on it at Boise State.

Absolutely--It was a better personal decision to bow out gracefully rather than being rejected. He was NEVER going to get the ND job. They wanted someone with a higher profile. Four super bowl rings did it.

 

[Aerosmith777]

Absolutely--It was a better personal decision to bow out gracefully rather than being rejected. He was NEVER going to get the ND job. They wanted someone with a higher profile.

I think some of us have forgotten how far the program had fallen last december...Notre Dame couldn't get a high profile guy last year, no one with a decent resume wanted to come be the Notre Dame head coach (see Urban Meyer, Steve Mariucci, John Gruden, and Mike Shannahan).

To say a guy who had just come off a perfect regular season wasn't good enough for Notre Dame at that time is really revisionist. He wouldn't gotten the job in the end, true, but at the time he signed the extention no one could have known that. Don't forget, Notre Dame did end up hiring an offensive coordinator with no head coaching experience. Now, obviousy you, I, and everyone else in NDnation knew it was a great hire after Charlie's first press conference, but the point is that ND still had to take a candidate who hadn't yet made his mark as a head coach, and who not too many people outside of diehard football fans knew about at the time.