Matt Campbell to Iowa State
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Iowa state is not a better job than RU even if it pays more. Second class in its own state, no talent in state to recruit, hard place to get kids to live, etc etc. Poor choice by Campbell.
The point is Rutgers waited way too long and are now way behind in the process.
ISU has an aggressive AD that went out and got his man. Good for them.
He'll fail miserably, just like every other coach they've ever had.
He'll fail miserably, just like every other coach they've ever had.
The name Matt Campbell sounds familiar but I'm not quite able to place it. Was he the head coach at Cal who was hired by Nebraska to replace their good coach (Solich) only to have a losing season or two and drop into irrelevance (kinda like what happened to them this year)?
I hope someone can correct me if I am wrong about this.
I hope someone can correct me if I am wrong about this.
Are you excluding these former ISU coaches whose career stature has far exceeded the Rutgers standard? Johnny Majors, Earle Bruce, Gene Chizik, Dan McCarney. Can we cite Rutgers head coaches who have moved on to significant careers and high regard among their peers?
Thanks for this. I realized I was confusing him with someone else when I saw the 1979 birth date! Interesting to see that the MAC schools don't pay all that much to their coaches (which to me is a more rational thing that what occurs in P5 universities nowadays) so it might well be that the MAC schools are a good place to look for our next coach, particularly the one just 80 miles or so down the road.
ISU is also lucky in that Toledo lost the other day removing them from the MAC CCG and essentially freeing Campbell up earlier than might otherwise have been the case.
The point is that we have been talking to candidates. It's not like this just started happening.
McCarney had a record of 56-85 at ISU, with one 9 win season begin the high mark an nothing else better than 7-5. Not exactly Knute Rockne-like success. He was unceremoniously fired from his rebound gig at North Texas after losing 66-7 to an FCS team on homecoming. Ouch.
Chizik was a stellar 5-19 in Ames, bought himself a Heisman Trophy winner at Auburn, then was fired a whole 2 years after winning a natty by going 0-8 in the SEC.
The first two guys on your list I've never even heard of before (I'm only 40), but a quick check shows me that Bruce was unceremoniously dumped on his *** by a real football school after losing to Iowa in 1987. LOL
I would not say that those 3 guys went on to have anything even remotely resembling "significant" careers or high regard among their peers. I'll give you Majors.
You're thinking of Bill Callahan, former Oakland Raiders HC, and currently the OL coach of the Washington Offensive Native American Stereotypes.