McElwain to Colorado State

RammaJamma10 · Dec 12, 2011

Per Cecil Hurts twitter account.. working on a link now.

Link added

http://www.examiner.com/colorado-st...unce-jim-mcelwain-as-next-head-football-coach

BamaCorvin · Dec 12, 2011

Thanks for all you did for us coach Mc. Good luck at Colorado St.

rickvox79 · Dec 12, 2011

Gotta wonder if he'll stick around for the title game or not. Good luck to him though.

derek4tide · Dec 12, 2011

So, who moves up? I know Coach will promote from within. Who has he been grooming for this job?

RammaJamma10 · Dec 12, 2011

rickvox79 said:
Gotta wonder if he'll stick around for the title game or not. Good luck to him though.

I wondered the same.. I hate having things shaken up like this before the NC game.

GP for Bama · Dec 12, 2011

Congrats Coach McElwain (if this is true)!
47-6 since you have been here...Great job!

CrimsonNagus · Dec 12, 2011

So, he's leaving before the bowl game, wait, not just a bowl game the national title game. Thanks for nothing. Coaching changes before bowl games don't normally turn out too good. I hate how schools allow there staffs to be picked apart before the bowl games.

bamanut_aj · Dec 12, 2011

hope he at least stays for the big game.

teamplayer · Dec 12, 2011

I hate to hear that he is leaving, but I wish him well at CSU. I do hope he stays through the BCSCG, but I'm sure that he wants to start recruiting as soon as possible for his new team. I hope it doesn't become a distraction for our preparation for the title game.

bamanut_aj · Dec 12, 2011

derek4tide said:
So, who moves up? I know Coach will promote from within. Who has he been grooming for this job?

BamainBoston said:
Not surprised. Good for him. Hope he is very successful. Interested to see what direction we go in.

a little sooner, and we coulda gone after Charle Weiss.

DiamondDust · Dec 12, 2011

derek4tide said:
So, who moves up? I know Coach will promote from within. Who has he been grooming for this job?

If it's a promotion from within in the short-term, I'd say Mike Groh would be the logical choice.

Seabass · Dec 12, 2011

I hope he sticks around. It's good for recruiting to have your new coach win a national title before coming aboard, but then again some schools want them asap.

Rama Jama · Dec 12, 2011

Looked at Cecil's tiwtter account and nothing has been posted. Where are you seeing it? There is some guy posting it, but frankly it looks a little sketchy.

rickvox79 · Dec 12, 2011

RollTide1017 said:
So, he's leaving before the bowl game, wait, not just a bowl game the national title game. Thanks for nothing. Coaching changes before bowl games don't normally turn out too good. I hate how schools allow there staffs to be picked apart before the bowl games.

Whoa now, sky isn't falling just yet. If I remember right, Dan Mullen hung around and coached the title game for Florida in 2008 against OU before going to Miss St. Let's just wait to see what happens first.

RammaJamma10 · Dec 12, 2011

Rama Jama said:
Looked at Cecil's tiwtter account and nothing has been posted. Where are you seeing it? There is some guy posting it, but frankly it looks a little sketchy.

He RT'd (retweeted) the story broken from someone reporting from CSU.

CrimsonMapper · Dec 12, 2011

RollTide1017 said:
So, he's leaving before the bowl game, wait, not just a bowl game the national title game. Thanks for nothing. Coaching changes before bowl games don't normally turn out too good. I hate how schools allow there staffs to be picked apart before the bowl games.

I'm pretty sure Dan Mullen coached the BCS NCG after he accepted the MSU job. They beat Oklahoma that year. The doom and gloom gets on my nerves. Good for you Coach, I wish you luck!

ElkhartTider · Dec 12, 2011

Damn.. hate to be selfish but I wish we could've kept him.

Congrats Coach!

Hope he stays for the title...

skipster63 · Dec 12, 2011

Well with Alabama's success, I think we can expect to see this in the future. This is just the season for this sort of thing happening so we might as well get used to it. It is also the price of success. And with this being recruiting season, I would not anticipate that he will stick around for the BCS championship game. I certainly cannot fault this coach for looking after himself and his family. Best of luck and thanks.

RollTideMang · Dec 12, 2011

I would think CSU would be understanding and realize this is a "once in a lifetime" type game (where you have a chance to get revenge on a conference rival in the NCG). Surely they'll allow him to stay and coach it. I can't see a MWC team missing out on some blue chip recruits because they didn't have a head coach for a month.

jps1983 · Dec 12, 2011

Good luck to CJM at CSU. I hate to see him leave right before the bowl game (if he does), but coaches leaving is the price of success imho. CJM did well here and I have faith CNS will bring in someone (or promote someone from within) who will continue us moving in the right direction on offense.

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