Colorado State hired Alabama OC Jim McElwain

[Matt Stephens]

Official announcement coming Tuesday. He won't be coaching in the BCS title game.

 

[Alma]

last guy out was a WCO guy. So's this guy. No dif.

 

[buckweaver]

We need a new thread for everything Colorado State does?

 

[dreunc1542]

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/87374/

 

[slappy4428]

It's Colorado State. The running thread isn't good enough and stifles self-promotion.

 

[Matt Stephens]

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/87374/

Didn't see this one, thanks.

Not sure what you're talking about, Buck. And now Slappy is just spewing more nonsense.

 

[printdust]

This is not a promotion.

 

[buckweaver]

Not sure what you're talking about, Buck. And now Slappy is just spewing more nonsense.

Colorado State AD moves: http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/87467/

Colorado State club baseball: http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/83217/

Colorado State test scores: http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/84973/

Maybe you're mistaking the board here for this one: http://coloradostate.rivals.com/

 

[Versatile]

So, where, pray tell, did ya go to school, Matty?

 

[LanceyHoward]

On another CSU note I saw Natalie Meisler, the longtime Denver Post beat writer, took the recent buyout. Will the Post continue to cover CSU with another beat writer?

 

[LanceyHoward]

And I just read McElwain's bio in Wikipedia. The entry said he is making 1.5 million ayear. Can that possibly be true? Are Mountain West coaches other than Chris Peterson pulling down that kind of cash?

 

[Versatile]

And I just read McElwain's bio in Wikipedia. The entry said he is making 1.5 million ayear. Can that possibly be true? Are Mountain West coaches other than Chris Peterson pulling down that kind of cash?

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/7346447/colorado-state-rams-hire-alabama-crimson-tide-coordinator-jim-mcelwain-football-coach-sources-say

Seems so. Crazy to pay a guy three times what he was making at his last job. Fairchild made $700K last year, according to USA Today's coaches' salary guide. You can sort by conference. Given that Boise State and San Diego State are Big East-bound and TCU is Big 12-bound, Dave Christianson was the big earner in the last fiscal year at a Mountain West school. He made $843K with a possible maximum bonus of $260K.

If you go back to 2010, USA Today has assistant coaches' salaries. It seems McElwain made less than $500K even with maximum bonuses in the 2010 fiscal year. Unless he got a huge raise, Colorado State would seem mildly crazy to triple his salary and give him a head-coaching gig. But he might have been reluctant to leave.

 

[Matt Stephens]

Not sure what you're talking about, Buck. And now Slappy is just spewing more nonsense.

Colorado State AD moves: http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/87467/

Colorado State club baseball: http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/83217/

Colorado State test scores: http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/84973/

Maybe you're mistaking the board here for this one: http://coloradostate.rivals.com/

And how far apart were those created? If you don't find any of those pretty interesting topics in terms of general sports stories, then I don't know what is. Only one that possibly wasn't was the ACT thing, but that story I found very odd due to my personal experience.

On another CSU note I saw Natalie Meisler, the longtime Denver Post beat writer, took the recent buyout. Will the Post continue to cover CSU with another beat writer?

Chris Dempsey covered CSU this year with the NBA dealing with the lockout. Doesn't look as if the Post is going to be adding anyone new soon. Dempsey will likely continue to cover the team.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Yeah, never a bad idea to keep it all on one thread...

Hell, Texas A&M didn't get its own thread. Penn State will merit its own thread when it makes a hire.

We're glad you're excited about any and all moves your alma mater makes, but we don't need new threads on all of them.

 

[Matt Stephens]

I didn't pay enough attention and wasn't looking for a running coaching change thread. I agree that this didn't need a thread now. If CSU hired no name from FCS school x, I wouldn't have even thought about making one, just the name of McElwain made it stand out. I completely for moving this to lock/kill status.

 

[TigerVols]

Not sure what you're talking about, Buck. And now Slappy is just spewing more nonsense.

Colorado State AD moves: http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/87467/

Colorado State club baseball: http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/83217/

Colorado State test scores: http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/84973/

Maybe you're mistaking the board here for this one: http://coloradostate.rivals.com/

Very well played.