Crisis averted: Muschamp to Florida, Coach Pete lives to fight another rumor

But close….I imagine Pete’s dream job is in the NW, at either Washington or Oregon, so that he can have that BCS mojo without having to move across the country. But if the Broncos somehow get AQ status before one of those jobs opens, maybe he would go all Joe Pa on us……hope so, but who knows? All I know is that without any good jobs left, Pete will guide us into MWC territory and have been here for all four years of Kellen…that’s good enough for me.

I think right now this is his dream job…but that doesn’t mean it will be forever. All I know is that he’s happy here and he’s winning. What more could a guy want.

Well, maybe. The more Boise State has success, he’ll stay. I think if Boise State goes mediocre for a few years, the fan base might not keep showing up. And if the perfect PAC-10 job opens up, he’d be tempted. Even then, he may not go, but I’m not going to be one to expect that he’ll stay here forever. And if/when he does leave, I’ll be happy for all the great moments.

Did anyone find out what Colin Cowherd’s acronym S.T.A.B. was supposed to stand for, I couldn’t listen in this morning.

Kids keep getting older; son’s health seems stable. We’re getting better facilities, but we’re still bush. My sense is Pete’s a West/Northwest type guy. So we’re talking Pac 12 mostly. For em it’s not if Pete goes, it’s when. If Harsin is still here, then no problem. Coach K is also a possibility although the last D-coordinator who headed the program near killed it for a decade.

Is going to drive this.I don’t think he would go to the SEC any school/conference where it’s win at all costs. With Boise he has the ability to go after character above talent and actually coach the talent into kids. I don’t see him leaving that until his kids are out of college (10 years). It would take Coach Pete at least 4 years and probably more like 6 to get a fanbase behind his character and integrity first style of coaching which is why I don’t see him leaving until his own kids are out of school.

Does he like it at Boise, is Boise continuing to grow, can Boise St. crack through the glass ceiling and get into a NC game?

I think Pete likes it here and I don’t think he’s a money guy. Everyone has a different ceiling when it comes to cash but once you pass that ceiling anything over that is gravy. Pete’s contract increases as the University grows.

At Boise St. I think you have the opportunity to see your coaching skills make a real difference. You can see what you’re made of rather than think you make great game plans but it’s actually the athletes winning IN SPITE of you (Chip Kelly). I think many coaches like to have control of the football program, Pete runs this thing from the ground up AND has the lattitude from the fanbase, University, and local media to do it pretty much in the shadows…we don’t hit him with a barrage of questions. When he’s vague on something we let it ride b/c we’re on board with how he does things.

There’s a lot to be said for literally building a program into a giant. Boise St. has a long ways to go; it needs a ton more cash, it needs better training facilities, it needs a larger stadium, and it remains to be seen how the fanbase does in attendance (especially in the colder months) as there has not been tremendous hype and success for long enough to establish a trend of hype and fandom support at the stadium just yet (my impression). But Pete has probably more lattitude and freedom of movement here than anywhere else in the country would even dream of giving him without holding an axe over his head with a countdown timer of an ultimatum. Money can’t buy trust and that’s what he has here.

So, if Boise St. continues it’s rise to power, if the players continue to perform and meet Pete’s demands, if the University continues to grow and build itself and the football program, and if Boise St. can continue to gain so much popular support that a century old game is forced to change the way it “does business” then I think Pete stays here utnil retirement. But those are a lot of If’s.

If Pete was offered an opportunity at Florida and turned it down, we’ve got a great thing going in Boise. Florida is a premier destination. To stay at Boise State with that on the table shows us all about what Coach Pete thinks about what he has in front of him. We’ll probably never know if they really did contact him, but if they did, and he turned them down to stay at Boise State. Maybe he just wasn’t interested in going that far south or east, who knows. Maybe he’s holding out for a spot in the PAC10 to open up. Or maybe, just maybe, he really means it when he says he’s got a great thing going here. You never know what might come up, but Boise State is a great place to be coaching right now. If the program continues its ascent, and stays progressive in its growth, I think we could see Coach Pete stick around for quite awhile.

Sat(and practically every other day of the week). And what do we see? Pete was one “point after” kick away from at least a Rose Bowl. Since ‘06 he’s been to 2 BCS games (including a GOAT candidate) and should have been to a 3rd. 2 Bear Bryant awards, and squired his QB around at the Heisman where his protege made a great ambassador for the program esp when compared to “Cam the Scam”. Loved and admired, he’d leave to a program that either )needed rehabilitation or )was at such a high level that anything less than a NCS is a disappointment. We have ahd 2 “disappointing” seasons in recent memory: ‘05 and ’07. Hawk left after ’05; I do not know what the reaction was in ’07, or what Pete’s take on it was, but he’s still here. Like I said I don’t know what the outside stuff is liek. Does a coach look in “the pipeline” to see what’s coming? If Hawk did he blew it. I guess I come back to the same question others have posed: is it the coach or the place? If he left would harsin?K pick up?

This is the first real year we have ever had in FBS that the thought of BSU in a national championship, while still not likely, was a possibility. Although with one loss it became a Maaco Las Vegas Bowl appearance and not even a BCS trip.

I won’t expand on the thoughts stated above by Mikrino and pjohn about the ascent and growth of the program, because I agree and think that as long as things kept trending up Pete will be connected to the University and the job. The question in my mind is if we have reached a ceiling and if BSU will still have to keep putting up undefeated seasons to get into the big or bigger bowl games. The move to the Mtn West, while not what we had in mind in June, will it produce the SOS and an argument that the level of football being played in Boise is relevant on a national landscape. If the answer to the questions are a “yes” or “maybe”, then I think it bodes wells because I think a large factor that keeps Pete here is that his teams are pushing past boundaries. Not unlike what Joe Pa and Bowden did with Penn State & FSU. Although if the next five years have the same hurdles to the big games, we start getting ranked lower(i,e. 19th,20th) in the preseason because we don’t have 21 starters returning, and we never break out of the BCS buster stereotype, then I think Pete has to question staying or going.

If Jeremy Foley (Florida) really did talk to Pete and got a “no”, then we really did dodge a bullet and got some real insight into his thought process about leaving. Make no mistake, Florida is a top 5 job in College Football. Although it has been stated by Foley that Muschamp was his number #1 choice and no one other was even talked to about the vacancy. If that is true, then we are back to square one and have to go through this debate for years to come.

BUT…Then I got to thinking: What are all the “high profile” jobs that have come available since he has been here:
Oregon
UCLA
USC
Washington
AZ St
AZ
Texas Tech
Nebraska
Colorado
Arkansas
Notre Dame
Michigan
Tennessee
Alabama
Florida
Florida St
Miami
Boston College
West Virginia
Now I know I may have missed a few, and some of the positions were not interested in Pete when they came open, but I am sure that more than a few of them contacted & wanted him. The fact that he has stayed through all of that makes me wonder if he is, in fact, here for the long haul.

BUT…Then I got to thinking: What are all the “high profile” jobs that have come available since he has been here:
Oregon
UCLA
USC
Washington
AZ St
AZ
Texas Tech
Nebraska
Colorado
Arkansas
Notre Dame
Michigan
Tennessee
Alabama
Florida
Florida St
Miami
Boston College
West Virginia
Now I know I may have missed a few, and some of the positions were not interested in Pete when they came open, but I am sure that more than a few of them contacted & wanted him. The fact that he has stayed through all of that makes me wonder if he is, in fact, here for the long haul.

Muschamp was tired of waiting, huh?

Hope our Coach Pete sticks around until he retires! I really, really, really, do! And I have more respect for Coach Pete than just about any other coach I’ve ever seen. But the last 15 or so years have made me a skeptic, which I hate. I wanna be a young, innocent believer again, but I don’t know how to get back. Prove me wrong, Coach Pete, and make me believe again!