The leaks have now been confirmed by Northwestern.
Now, go beat Purdue!
Definitely Career Enhancing…
Now - does he go out and find a new OC, or other assistants? or just a new Defensive guy.
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Then again, the last time we got an older, “former” UW coach, we did OK, and, as I understand, there’s a former UW coach out there who is got a pretty goo d Offensive Reputation & record.
Go B1GCats
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Let no one underestimate the task Braun has ahead of him over the next several months, recruiting, coaching staff decisions, oh, and at least 2 more football games.
He’s gone from being a sort-of-boss to being the real boss, and that changes everything.
Coach Roy
If you are thinking about Chryst as the OC , I think it would not work well. He clearly was a finalist for the HC job. Hard to see Braun wanting a guy like that leaning over his shoulder Nothing against Chryst , always heard that he was a good guy and was good on offense but with Braun staying , let’s give him breathing room.
No doubt we need a new OC. Maybe another young guy who has had a good OC record at a small conference or an offensive line coach climbing the ladder from a major program
A DC will be more interesting. Does Braun try to do both HC and DC again, split the DC job with someone , or simply hire one for full time?
Harry
I don’t think he’d be that bad a fit, but I also think Chryst is likely to get a head coaching job, though it might take a year. Kind of depends how many coaches get fired in the next two weeks. I wonder if they’re having second thoughts in Madison right about now, this year is sort of a round-peg/square-hole situation with their primary QB down.
The story on the ESPN site about Braun being elevated to head coach seemed to me to suggest a less than fully enthusiastic attitude at today’s press conference introducing Braun as the 30th head coach at Northwestern.
However, I just watched the entire press conference, and that’s not the attitude I got from any of the speakers there.
A question was dangled towards the end of the press conference that touched on the issue of staff retention, I thought it was carefully deflected.