What is the opinion of Chuck Long as next head coach?
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Has SDSU done anything since Marshall Faulk was there? It's not exactly a power house. I bet Ferentz is glad he wasn't judged on his record at Maine... I think Long is a great football mind that knows how to play call and setup defenses. I think he can coach up qbs and teach them how to attack defenses. Weather he's a head coach material or not who knows. But he's certainly OC material and I can't comprehend why he's not on the staff
Their administration starves the program from funding, the stadium is an empty dump with lease issues. The PAC-12 invite isn't coming because the big schools in California like it this way. San Diego has boatloads of talent, multiple college football hall of famers are from there and all played for other teams.
tweeterhawk
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MiniMoeHawk
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Chuck wouldn't recruit well enough....He was said to be a lazy/poor recruiter. You need to bring in a hungry salesman to close the deal on bringing the top athletes to IC
imported_ankle23
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his reputation is that of not having a strong work ethic.
which offensive coordinator has sucked at oklahoma?
why isn't he coaching now?
and this from the 'kirk ferentz is too loyal to fire any assistant coach'......wonder why long only served as an assistant for ferentz for one season?
which offensive coordinator has sucked at oklahoma?
why isn't he coaching now?
and this from the 'kirk ferentz is too loyal to fire any assistant coach'......wonder why long only served as an assistant for ferentz for one season?
biasedHAWKEYE
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No to HC, no to OC. Maaaaaybe give him a QB coach job or something...
SmokeTownHawk
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Even if one were to look among Hayden's progeny for the next HC Long would not even be a consideration. Give me someone with a better track record as HC than that. Even a guy from the mid majors.
Chuck Long is the best QB ever to play at Iowa. That makes him better than "decent". He was drafted in the 1st round of the NFL draft and voted best Big Ten QB of the '80's by BTN.
Most of Hayden's QB's were better than anything KF puts on the field, other than maybe Banks and that was more of a squirrel meet nut situation. Tate would have been Hayden's like 5th or 6th best QB.
imported_ankle23
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Please name 5 QBs under Fry that would have started in front of Drew Tate.
Chuck Long is #1, you fill out the remaining 4 slots.
TychoBrahe
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Chuck Long was a terrific college QB, and most years he did not have such a great supporting cast. His main WRs were Happel and Helverson, or Dave Moritz, and Robert Smith was fast but had stone-hands. Chuck had good TE's, but TE's weren't used like they are now. He had Harmon as HB, but really only for one full season, the rest of the time it was other lesser guys, though Owen Gill was a solid back.
In sum, Long's supporting cast was good but not great. Rumor was that when he was an asst at Iowa that he spent a little too much time with his family and on the golf course, and Ferentz declined to invite him back. I don't know first hand if this is true, but that's been the story for many years.
AT SDSU, Long also was canned and left it in a really weird way. I may have the details wrong on this, but I remember reading that he was kind of fired, but could still draw a paycheck as long as he showed up for work (or something like that), so he just kept going and going in to work even though he basically had no job and nothing to do. I thought it was really odd at the time, and so did a lot of other people, who I think lost respect for Chuck because of it.
In sum, Long's supporting cast was good but not great. Rumor was that when he was an asst at Iowa that he spent a little too much time with his family and on the golf course, and Ferentz declined to invite him back. I don't know first hand if this is true, but that's been the story for many years.
AT SDSU, Long also was canned and left it in a really weird way. I may have the details wrong on this, but I remember reading that he was kind of fired, but could still draw a paycheck as long as he showed up for work (or something like that), so he just kept going and going in to work even though he basically had no job and nothing to do. I thought it was really odd at the time, and so did a lot of other people, who I think lost respect for Chuck because of it.
OK, #5 is a stretch but I said 5th or 6th. Also, Tate might have been higher on the list if he played under Hayden and Snyder. QB's were almost always the strength of Hayden's good teams besides maybe 1981.
1. Chuck Long
2. Chuck Hartlieb
3. Matt Rodgers
4. Mark Vlasic
5. Dan McQwire
6. Drew Tate
