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Coaching changes: coaches hired and fired, comings and goings

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Narduzzi adds another Buckeye, John Peterson, to his staff at Pitt as OL coach. Peterson played at OSU from '86-'90, was a GA in '93-'94, and was Ohio State's TE coach and recruiting coordinator from '04-'11.

Bruce Feldman ‏@BruceFeldmanCFB 58s59 seconds ago
#Pitt has hired former #Spartan Renaldo Hill (CBs), John Peterson (OL), Tim Salem (TEs) & former Pitt player Tom Sims(DL) as assts.
 
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Dryden said:
Narduzzi adds another Buckeye, John Peterson, to his staff at Pitt as OL coach. Peterson played at OSU from '86-'90, was a GA in '93-'94, and was Ohio State's TE coach and recruiting coordinator from '04-'11.

Bruce Feldman ‏@BruceFeldmanCFB 58s59 seconds ago
#Pitt has hired former #Spartan Renaldo Hill (CBs), John Peterson (OL), Tim Salem (TEs) & former Pitt player Tom Sims(DL) as assts.
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Didn't Tim Salem coach at OSU previously?
 
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Wisconsin's admission standards pushed Gary Andersen to Oregon St.

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Before Gary Andersen goes on, he wants to make one thing clear.

A part of his surprising departure from Wisconsin had to do with admission standards.

"It's been well [documented] there were some kids I couldn't get in school," the Badgers' former coach said. "That was highly frustrating to me. I lost some guys, and I told them I wasn't going to lose them.

"I think they did what they were supposed to do [academically] and they still couldn't get in. That was really hard to deal with."

Until this recent moment in Andersen's new Oregon State office, even that much wasn't certain. It had been referred to, but not out loud by Anderson, as the reason he left a Top 25 Big Ten gig for a Pac-12 bottom feeder.

Now we know. Admissions was probably the reason the 50-year-old Andersen arguably caused the biggest stir of the coaching silly season.

"That's not Wisconsin's fault," Andersen added. "That's Wisconsin's deal ... I want to surround myself with those kids I can get in school."

The Salt Lake City native has spent most of his career in the West. He came up as a JUCO lineman first at Ricks College (in Idaho), then moved to Utah. Andersen was on Urban Meyer's staff during the Utes' undefeated season in 2004. In his fourth season as Utah State's head coach, the Aggies won 11 games in 2012.

Entire article: http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...tandards-pushed-gary-andersen-to-oregon-state
 
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[shrugs] sounds reasonable to me.
It sounds like he identified some kids on the bubble who he thought would qualify if they improved their grades... they did, and he looked a liar because it wasn't enough for Admissions.
He doesn't bash Wisconsin, at least not in that article. They had a disagreement and parted ways.
Not sure I agree with the academic smack either. Those kids would probably be accepted at other B1G schools... one of the players mentioned is at Michigan State. Another ended up at Kansas State.

A Fox Sports report stated Wisconsin requires 17 high-school units for admission. That's higher than Ohio State and Nebraska (16), Oregon State (15) and Michigan State (14), according to the report.
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"I thought we talked about that during the interview process," Alvarez said. "You're not going to bring truckloads of junior college kids or make a living with junior college kids here."

"We haven't changed," Alvarez added. "You're not going to change our admissions policy here. You're not going to change our academics here. ... All you have to do is check our track record."
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"He (Alvarez) never one time stepped on anybody's toes in the football office," the coach said. "Please don't make Wisconsin sound bad in any way, shape or form. I love those kids. I truly love them."
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kujirakira said:
[shrugs] sounds reasonable to me.
It sounds like he identified some kids on the bubble who he thought would qualify if they improved their grades... they did, and he looked a liar because it wasn't enough for Admissions.
He doesn't bash Wisconsin, at least not in that article. They had a disagreement and parted ways.
Not sure I agree with the academic smack either. Those kids would probably be accepted at other B1G schools... one of the players mentioned is at Michigan State. Another ended up at Kansas State.
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Agreed. Seems like a good guy in a difficult situation. Wiscy may have to evaluate how it deals with that.
 
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I'll give Wiscy credit. They were one of the schools that recently released data to CNN on football players' test scores, and they easily showed the best of those schools that did and, safe to say, the many schools who refused to provide data.

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2014/01/us/college-scores/

That being said that average ACT of 23 still is 5-6 full points lower than the average for a normal freshman.
 
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