Is anyone else hearing that Darrian Miller might be leaving, too? That would be KU's two top recruits from last year both leaving.
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The only place I heard that was on a message board.
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Friday, December 2, 2011
http://media.lawrence.com/img/staff/...1a4892028de933 Keegan Pat Ruel knows keys to winning By Tom Keegan Coaching searches provide an excuse to call guys about whom you’ve heard so many good things but never had a chance to visit with on the phone. Golden Pat Ruel, lifelong assistant coach, qualifies as one such man. Ruel has coached football at eight different universities and five different NFL teams. He has spent the past seven seasons working for Pete Carroll at USC and with the Seattle Seahawks. Ruel, 60, and working in his fifth decade as a football coach, had the courtesy to return my phone call Thursday when he had a long break between game-day meetings preparing for a night clash with the Philadelphia Eagles in Seattle. Ruel’s longest career stop was in Lawrence where he worked for Glen Mason from 1988 through 1996 as offensive line coach and offensive coordinator. He thought he would replace Mason, but the job went to Terry Allen. A number of Lawrence residents believe Ruel, an unconventional pick, deserves a serious look. So, Pat, are you interested? “Am I interested? Yeah,” said Ruel, the Seahawks’ assistant offensive line coach. “But I also understand the dynamics. If it’s about splash, I’m not the right guy. If it’s about getting a guy who understands how to get it done, then I’m the guy.” Ruel said he still has a special place for the university that employed his wife, Marti, as vice president of student affairs. “Great environment, great place to live,” Ruel said. OK, now that that’s out of the way, let’s talk football. Ruel has worked for, among others, Lou Holtz (Arkansas), Jackie Sherrill (Texas A&M), Nick Saban (Michigan State), Bobby Ross (Detroit Lions) and Tom Coughlin (New York Giants) and has a long history of being on the winning sideline. All that experience taught Ruel that a good quarterback makes a good coach a great deal better. “The past five weeks all anybody in the NFL is talking about is (sidelined) Peyton Manning,” Ruel said. “They’re asking, ‘How can one guy make that big a difference?’ I tell them, ‘How can you guys be that stupid not to figure that out?’ A quarterback is handling the ball on every play. He can make decisions on every play that can beat you.” Examples abound to back up that point. The hottest candidate for most of the top job openings is Kevin Sumlin, who has coached Houston to a 12-0 record so far. In games Case Keenum started the past three seasons, Houston has gone 24-5. In games he missed with injury, Houston went 3-6. At Kansas, Todd Reesing took a 25-6 record into a Colorado game in which he suffered a strained groin. Starting with that game, Reesing finished 0-7. Ruel said that during most of his time at Kansas, quarterback was the one position the staff didn’t recruit well while sending linemen and players from other positions to the NFL. “You’ve got to go all over the country to find that guy,” he said of the quarterback. “You can’t say, ‘I’m going to find that guy in Kansas City or St. Louis.’ He might be in Missoula, Mont. He might be in Boston, Mass. Look at (Todd) Reesing. He had a little something to him. He raised the level of play of everyone on the field. That’s why Boise State’s always so good. They always have good quarterbacks.” Reesing also illustrated one of Ruel’s strong beliefs. “You can’t put parameters on a player’s dimensions,” he said. “Is he a football player or not? That’s what you need to ask. Can he perform or not? Look at Barry Sanders. Tony Sands.” Ruel has definite ideas on how to put together a quality staff. “You need five really good recruiters,” Ruel said. “If you’re going to sacrifice recruiting ability, do it on coordinators.” Every recruiting visit to a school, he said, must involve asking about juniors as sophomores. “You tell a coach you like a sophomore, you go back that next year and that junior already knows you like him,” Ruel said. “And tell the kid you’re recruiting not to talk about your school. I would always tell them, ‘If a coach from another school asks if you’re serious about Kansas, say you just want to take a visit there.’ That way, the coaches will kill each other (in negative recruiting) and leave you alone.” Once the quarterback is recruited, Ruel said, he can’t be rushed into action. “You can ruin a guy really easily if he’s getting hit every play because he doesn’t understand blitz checks,” Ruel said. “That guy doesn’t think he can play anymore, and now you’re fighting that battle.” Playing in a conference that has schools that recruit more big, blue-chip athletes, necessitates running an offense that spreads the field, Ruel believes. “Traditional doesn’t get it done,” Ruel said. “Oregon was running a traditional offense in the Pac-10 and getting their butts beat on a regular basis. They asked themselves, ‘How can we come up with an equalizer to the talent at USC?’ Where you nullify some of those good players is you put the ball out on the perimeter, out in space. It can look a little herky-jerky at times, but eventually things pop.” Kansas popped under strict disciplinarian head coach Mark Mangino, with the undersized Reesing running offensive coordinator Ed Warinner’s spread attack. Pairing that with Bill Young’s defense, which included several Dave Doeren recruits, led to a 12-1 season and an Orange Bowl victory. Before that, the last double-digit victory total came 12 seasons prior, when Ruel worked under Mason for a 10-2 record. Nobody’s in the mood to wait until 2019 for another double-digit victory total. Kansas athletic director Sheahon Zenger didn’t land the coach who would have won the press conference and games. Mike Leach went to Washington State. Now the issue isn’t winning the press conference, just winning games at a school that has lost 23 of its past 24 Big 12 games. |
.Something seems odd about that article. Why would anyone think to call that guy, and why was he so quick to say that he is interested. It makes me wonder if KU might have leaked something
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Ruel sounds like a pretty reasonable guy. He's been around for a long time. However, there's probably a reasons he hasn't been a head coach. He's 61, already.
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From coachingsearch.com:
Kansas: Keep an eye on Southern Miss head coach Larry Fedora. http://www.coachingsearch.com/coachi...ch-ticker.html |
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I read Tom Keegan's assessment of Ruel in today's LJW. I have to admit, I found it quite interesting. He's older, has never been a head coach, but has served as an assistant to some of the best football coaches in college football history. If Zenger is looking for the next Bill Snyder....?
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Looks like Fedora is going to become the hottest Coaching candidate on the market. Bring him in Sheahon.
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Agree AH, what a game for Southern Miss.
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I've been reading some twitter rumors that say that Sheahon wanted Leach but BGL said no.
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Ill have to go through a new pair of undies if we get him. Lots of jizz incoming. Posted via Mobile Device |
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BALLSACK!!!!
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Someday we might be as cool as you are. |
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This is a more realistic hire that can push the program forward. KU isn't the most appealing job and Fedora can land better. Posted via Mobile Device |
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Not sure if this is just an opinion or if there is anything to back it up.
@dennisdoddcbs Dennis Dodd Kansas may have just gotten the it coach of the moment. Larry Fedora |
Fedora would be just fine with me.
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Rumor about administration blocking leach hire is BS:
bobfescoe Bob Fescoe Ku administration never said no to leach. He was suing ESPN AND TECH. KU asked him to drop suits. He said no. Deal fell apart #kufball |
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Fedora may not be a home run but would def be a bases clearing double.
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The Ballsack strikes again!!! |
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Hoping the coaching search is done early this week. Ready for it to be over already.
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Starting to see and hear rumblings from buddies that Larry Fedora has or is going to accept the job at KU...
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Kansas fans...... Rumors have surfaced over the last hour that Larry Fedora has accepted the KU Head Coach position. If this is true....... PRICELESS!
A text from a buddy... Take it for what its worth... |
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IMHO, if it's true, that in the very day his team was playing in the C-USA championship game I'd say he's an asshole and a one who sucks the penis. He should be fousing on his TEAM, not his job at this point. |
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Fedora out as candidate for Old Miss
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I'll go on record as saying it's a pretty good hire given the options. I don't have a strong opinion either way. His resume looks a lot like Gill's. He won the conference championship game against a team that dominated the conference and had a stud QB.
It's hard to be completely objective since I'm a Mizzou fan, but if I were a KU fan, I'd be excited about the hire. |
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as a very casual ku football fan, that would be far and away the best hire they could make... |
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I really hope this Fedora stuff is true. He has a way better resume than Gill. Mikey is dumb.
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Gill was never a coordinator, Fedora was the best OC in college for a time w/ stints at Florida and Ok State... Fedora never won less than 7 games, culminating in this season's 11-2 conference championship..Gill only won 7 games once, ending with a 5-7 season before being hired by KU *edit gill was 8-6 once |
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2006 2-10 2007 5-7 2008 8-6 2009 5-7 Total 20-30 Fedore Head Coaching Record 2008 7-6 2009 7-6 2010 8-5 2011 11-2 Total 33-19 Notice the Zero losing seasons. |
Article on WSU hiring Leach.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports...=pm_sports_pop One thing that popped out to me in the article: Moos had his eye on Leach ever since the WSU season started falling apart with five straight losses after a 3-1 start. He said he flew to Key West, Fla., in the week prior to the Nov. 19 Utah game and spent several hours with Leach. |
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KU admin nixed Leach
his refusal to drop his lawsuit being the main issue, if you believe rumors... |
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holdenkc Do you think that BGL was instrumental in us not going fully after Leach?
Matt Tait Nope. I've been told by multiple sources that there's no truth to that and that she had nothing to do with Leach not coming to Kansas. She'll have some input here, as well she should, but thus far she's been letting Zenger run the show and it looks like that will continue... |
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caboni . @SPORTSbyBROOKS Your unsourced and unsubstatntiated theory about KU admin is unequivocally untrue 12/3/11 3:50 PM |
we'll never know...i'm not even blaming them if it were true...i can understand not wanting to deal w/ leach
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If I were a KU fan, I wouldn't be able to rationalize passing on Leach. He would make the program instantly relevant and more profitable. At this point, the university desperately needs to establish both of these qualities for the program.
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all any program needs to do is hire a good coach, the rest takes care of itself....
Fedora seems the best 2nd option by quite a bit...but who knows |
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