Walsh was also out of coaching for four years prior to joining Stanford. He was successful the first year at least. The next two didn’t go well, of course.
How did some lax player from the midwest, who no one has ever even heard of, get a full ride to UNC????
Hit piece? He gets some digs in I guess but makes plenty of valid points. The list of former NFL coaches who were going to bring NFL style to college football is full of failures. The ones who succeed adapt like Bill O’Brien.
funny story on that walsh first year in his 2nd time back at stanford he had a top 10 team a num 1 def led by S john lynch LB Ron georeg and others but once they lost to Wash they fell fast walsh turned out to be a bad recuiter and went 10-3 his first year but 7-19 after that
I agree not a real hit piece. Though I would note one difference between O'Brien (and Belichick) and that list is O'Brien and Bill were good NFL head coaches and the rest there were bad NFL coaches.
The December transfer portal window is open right now and he'll need to be active in it right away. There's also the April transfer portal and late signing day for high schoolers is February 5.
Yeah, I mean, Herm Edwards and Lovie Smith didn’t bring good programs to college? College should get in line.
I’ve seen stuff on twitter that UNC is upping from 4 million to 20 million in NIL for football. BB has the backing to improve this roster quickly.
it’s not a hit piece.
This is the best part of the deal. We don’t have to listen to this blowhard anymore pretending he’s not Bill’s puppy.
I think it’s pretty simple. Another couple years of success at Washington and he’d get a shot as HC for a team on a rebuild that will require a quick turnaround. By going this route, he simply steps into his HC job with the work of building his program already underway……and maybe getting a pay bump from his previous $1.2m a year to boot along the way.
When did he ever pretend that. Im jus sad I won’t get to hear him talking about Atlanta’s march to the Super Bowl
No one is signing up for the 2022-23 BB experience. I’m sure teams wanted to see evidence that he’s learned from that experience — which, practically speaking, probably meant an openness to working with a personnel guy with some degree of autonomy, and hiring an OC with whom he hasn’t previously worked (though McDaniels might be acceptable).
I think it's more likely he understood there wouldn't be an opportunity to achieve said records in the NFL. Taking a reported 3 year, 30 million dollar deal at UNC doesn't scream "I could have had a job in the league if I wanted one".
Yes to all of this. This was a smart move by BB, in the sense that he wasn't going to get the NFL offer that he wanted. He's not ready to retire now. He doesn't want the end of his narrative to be "got old and had to retire because he couldn't get a job." So this is a way to go out in a different way and more on his own terms.
I think this works too especially when he’s getting 20 million in NIL to work with. Could he schmooze more money out of Michael Jordan for even more NIL? UNC has a soft schedule next year that they can be extremely competitive and even compete for the ACC title with buying the right players.
Good season: a winning record, possibly a bowl game.
Winning conference record probably would be considered a success.
They won the National Championship in 2018, which was after Watson and then made it to the final again in 2019 and Semi-Final in 2020. Less success the last 4 years, but perennially ranked in the Top 20.
It just might be that he wants to work with his dad who he is really close to. Side note, I listened to a huskies podcast last night that discussed who night replace Steve and they said he was one of the top play callers in college football and no way would they be able to match that with his replacement. Also they thought he was at most a two year at wash hire given that everyone there thought he would be DC on his dad's next team.
