Quote:We reached out to a few folks for an update and a few names we hear that administration has liked thus far include Toledo quarterbacks coach Scott "Izzy" Isphording, Colorado Pueblo head coach John Wristen and Buffalo Bills running backs coach Tyrone Wheatley among others.

http://footballscoop.com/the-scoop

Very interesting. I assume this mean that all of them applied.

Pueblo is one of the top D2 teams. They host GVSU this weekend.

Izzy was on Genyk's staff. Wasn't he the OC his final year?

Wheatley...I still don't think EMU should look at anyone that never been at least an OC or DC.

In the same 'scoop' is whom UConn is supposedly looking (and not looking):

http://footballscoop.com/news/11739-update-at-uconn

Maybe some candidates that UConn likes will be on our radar.

I found Rob Ambrose interesting. He and his Towson team beat UConn in the season opener.

Ambrose will be in the FBS is a year or two. Might be a good get for EMU. He took Towson out of a hole, and has been solid in his time there.

(11-27-2013 05:58 AM)fbgab Wrote:  Ambrose will be in the FBS is a year or two. Might be a good get for EMU. He took Towson out of a hole, and has been solid in his time there.

Agree, but UConn is supposedly interested so that mean:

EMU 450 - 500k, and a school with a very poor record of success vs.

UConn - 2 x the salary and a school he coached at and which has had success.

Lot of 1st choices on the EMU Eagles Nest could go elsewhere.

The notion that the choice for an Ambrose or Babers, etc. is a dichotomy: Stay FCS or come to EMU @ 2x the salary is both naive and tunnel vision.

Probably by Sunday morning there could be say 8 - 10 FBS jobs which will be open and we will migtht be the least attractive opening.

As a reminder, USA Today has had FBS coaches salaries and 400 - 450K is in the lowest 10% (10 percentile for those who think statistics). MAC HC salaries are poor even compared to C-USA, Sun Belt, etc. Find the chart and look at the 25th percentile, 50th percentile, 75th percentile, etc. There has been an explosion in HC salaries.

I haven't 'done my homework' but I wouldn't be surprised if every school hiring a new coach next month will offer more, probably much more, than EMU in salary, with Miami (O), being ball park. Otherwise, can we compete vs USC, UConn, etc.? Even Florida Atlantic?

There could be a LOT of additional openings, e.g., (maybe), Illinois, UVa, Texas (retirement?), MSU (Mississippi State), Wyoming, even Nebraska (?), etc. etc.

A good non AQ-BCS team might lose their HC to be a bigger school (e.g., Illinois) and they'd compete with EMU for a new HC.

Steve,

Well, the salary situation of MAC schools is one of the very obvious things that separates the MAC from CUSA and other conferences with similar sized schools. Yet, and this is a big YET, NIU is getting it done and competing, even with BIG schools, and NDSU is sitting at 11-0 and beat Kansas State (who had a lousy record), without paying their coaches in the $1M range. In other words, it can be done.

Rob