Breaking News! Gary Anderson Leaving Bucky to coach Oregon St.

Gary wasn't a Mormon.

He only had one wife?

um, yeah, he came from Utah and recruited Samoans.  

 

Pretty sure if you are white and do that, you are a Mormon

Can we keep the Samoans?

Not a Badger fan or a Badger hater... kind of a neutral observer.  I'll say this though... It looks pretty bad for the UW football program when a 2nd year coach leaves to take the same job at OSU.  That's a major step down in the eyes of most college football fans and would leave me wondering "WTF" if I were a big time Badger fan. 

I like Samoas:

Don Davey thinks you are a dip****

Good point.

Was he on his 2 year mission in Madtown?

.... Don't let the door hit you in the arse on the way out.
Next.

F'em Bucky, dude was sending this program to urbanville or michi-Rich-Rod .... Going fast in the wrong direction.
I would hire someone that will stay with ProStyle and is brilliant with QBs.
Hmmm ....

The WTF moment for me was watching them get blown out 59-0

Seems to me Anderson wasn't the least prepared for Ohio State

Maybe he was on Zillow searching houses and best ways to cook Skate

Anyone buy into the rumor WI was asked by the Big 10 to take one for the conference to get a Big 10 school into the playoffs? I don't know any other way to explain 59-0. 

It is probably the only reasonable explanation outside of the team noticing Gary wearing Ostate boxers in his pre-game snoozer of a speech.  

Yeah, it could not be a overrated team with comparatively slow players, no quarterback and and a coach who had already set his watch to Pacific Time.

 

It had to be a fix.

GA never looked like he even liked Wisconsin, much less was ready to commit for several years. Every time I watched Bucky games it seemed GA was constipated or uninterested. He just never warmed up to the cold of Camp Randall and I don't think the fans ever warmed up to him either.

 

Please, please, get someone like Chryst or at least someone who can develop a QB who does more than just spin 90 degrees and shove the ball into an RB's gut. I don't want a spread guy; I just want a guy who is actually a threat throwing the ball. 

he did have a stupid face on the sideline

If USA TODAY is correct, then why can't they pay more?

FROM USA TODAY: Last year, Wisconsin pulled in more revenue ($149.1M) than any program except Texas. Oregon State was 45th at $65.4M ~mw

no

Barry said when GA was hired that he'd have to adjust his offense to the guys Wisconsin recruits so well: Great tailbacks and hoss O-Linemen, none of that spread option crap. With Tanner McEflop there may have been a lot of tension between Alvarez and Anderson.

Wait, stupid face is good, no?

OhRegan State and Ar-kansas better gigs than $connie  

 

I for one am shocked by this revelation.

They could have given Brent Bielema or Gary Anderson lifetime contract like Dirk Lefrenfz got in Iowa.   Pure genyius!  Nothing stopping us now

Taxslayer Bowl with 11 losses between them. Shhhhhhhhhhh. 

Yes.

 

Oh my damn yes.

quote:

If USA TODAY is correct, then why can't they pay more?

Does Title IX have anything to do with it?  If they pay more to the football coaches, would they have to pay some women's team coaches nobody watches more to compensate or risk a lawsuit?  (Seriously, I don't know precisely how Title IX works in this regard.)

Everything I've read would seem to indicate that academic standards were more of an issue than the payment of coaches. A player he wanted ended up at MSU because of the more rigorous standards at UW.

 

Apparently not a good fit at all and Bucky desperately needs to get some stability back in the program.

Just like WI was a better gig than Iowa for Alvarez.

 

I don't think anyone was shocked by that revelation.

Or that a prize tailback like Melvin Gordon chose Wisconsin over Iowa.

 

If they want continuity of head coaching personality they should just hire a wet sock.

The wet sock already has a job in Iowa.

If the academic standards were Andersen's reason then he's a big weiner. I believe the academic standards are high, but there are plenty of schools with very high academic standards who can still recruit at a high level...Stanford and Duke came to mind immediately. If I had to guess I would say the pressure of being at Wisconsin probably got to him. Alvarez and Bielema set high standards for Wisconsin and after that pounding the B1G championship I wonder if the prospect of annually facing Urban's Buckeyes was unappealing. Add in the pressure I bet he was getting to maintain Bucky's identity that Alvarez established...that may not be the kind of team or style he wanted to run. Can't handle the heat then get out of the kitchen. A lot less pressure at OSU. Kind of the Rich Rodriguez scheme, go where your style works better with lower expectations so you're constantly exceeding them.

I'm sure Chryst will be the next HC, but there are some good options. It's funny that 49ers OC Greg Roman's name isn't being thrown around anymore. His offenses at Stanford were pretty strong, he did a good job with Luck. They played a pretty similar style to Wisconsin, grind it out with the running game with some West Coast passing concepts.

Roman my be head man next year....for the Niners

I thought Jimmy H. got Stanford to let dummer kids in

Despite it being a 'crony' hire I really hope Chryst gets the job. I read in several reports he would have bolted Pitt after only 1 year to take the job before but Alvarez (to his credit) didn't feel comfortable about it.

 

Someone mentioned a scenario where Chryst gets the job and Aranda sticks around, that would be perfect.

 

There are reports Aranda and others plan to follow GA to OSU but that has to be considered a major career step back. I can't imagine all of them being homesick...

There's also a time to un-hitch the wagon. Aranda could prove his worth even as a DC under a new HC and show he wasn't just an Anderson product, not that many should believe that.

Aranda should look to stick around, or move on the the bigger, better deal.  Ostate is not the bigger better deal.  

Talk around Madison today is that the main reason Anderson left is because of the inability to get much of anything from the junior college level in Madison.  And that makes the most sense after looking at Anderson's recruiting classes at Utah State.  At quick glance, during the four years Anderson was the head coach at Utah State, the Aggies recruited a whopping 32 junior college players.  Certainly at a big school you don't need to be fill gaps like you do at a mid-major, but he was probably wanted to bring in 3-5 junior college players per season to fill in the gaps when they lacked depth at certain positions.

 

Interestingly enough, if you look at Oregon State's last three recruiting classes (including the current one), and they have brought in 12 junior college players.  And that number will probably go up since the 2015 recruiting process isn't over. 

 

While at Wisconsin, Anderson brought in 4 junior college players:

QB-Tanner McEvoy

DB-TJ Reynard (has gotten in 13 games over 2 years, not on 2-deep)

DB-Donnell Vercher (denied admission)

LB-Serge Trezy (not cleared academically)

Not exactly a ringing endorsement of bringing junior college players to Wisconsin.  Not saying it can't be done as the Badgers have done it successfully with players like Alex Lewis and Dan Moore in the past, but the former coaches were extremely selective when looking at junior college players.

Except making the hire in the first place. Like you said obviously a bad fit. A bad hire and bad decision by Alvarez. Also, like was already mentioned, they will likely have to bring in and up and comer. No one established will like the idea of living under Barry's thumb.