Alford to CU?

[Riddickulous]

I don't think CU's decision makers watched what happened in South Bend from 2005 to 2009.

Their standards of success aren't as high.

 

[ND NYC]

Both of those guys had been Head Coach at some level, in these cases the NFL. Got any good examples of someone w/ no head coach experience being successful at the college level? I doubt it.

you mean no HC experience in the NFL right?

so...when does the "clock start"...their first college HC job after leaving the NFL as anything but a HC right?

last question How do you define "successful at the collge level"? (winning a NC?...winning a bowl game?...X wins over X amount of years?...graduating all their players?...X amounbt of college lifetime wins?)

 

[phork]

Running a program successfully over a period of years. Meaning turning programs into championship caliber competing teams. See Kelly, Brian or Hoke, Brady, etc.

Graduation of players is also a good thing. Being an NFL head coach has zero bearing on your ability to coach college age kids and in my opinion counts for nothing.

 

[kmoose]

Both of those guys had been Head Coach at some level, in these cases the NFL. Got any good examples of someone w/ no head coach experience being successful at the college level? I doubt it.

There is one in sitting at #2 in the BCS right now, and playing in the NC game next month. Is that a good enough example?