He was the AD at Oregon. Stepped down after a single year. No idea if Mr. Nike had anything to do with that or not, but long post short, he's with ESPN now.
haha, just saw frozo's response McCartney had a very difficult situation when he was last wining at Colorado. In a nutshell, he was a Promise Keepers leader, but his players kept getting his daughter pregnant. Sounds bad, but is the truth. He quit for family reasons, which wouldn't exist anymore because his grandkids are old enough to be in college now... like the ghost of Sal Aunese:
who has NFL experience with the San Francisco 49ers under the Walsh family tree along with the Oakland Raiders.
badj, You've got it a little backwards. McCartney founded Promise Keepers following the death of Sal Aunese and the birth of Sal's (who was the only player to impregnate his daughter) and daughter Kristy McCartney's son, TC. He didn't retire from football "due to family reasons", which was following his 1994 11-1 season, but to follow his higher calling first with Promise Keepers, then another organization he founded, Road to Jerusalem. Here's what Jim Murray of the LA Times wrote lo those many moons ago about the whole affair:
Side note: Les Miles, along with McCartney, basically was the one who recruited Sal to Colorado. He held a scholarship for TC at LSU, though I don't think TC was regarded as an SEC caliber QB/athlete. So yes, Les does have a heart.
From what I've read, it wasn't just Sal, but other football players that got with his daughter to the point that it got to be too much. Sal was just the first. Thus, there seemed to be family reasons as well as "higher calling" reasons that he quit. I just mentioned Sal's son specifically because it was the most notable one. EDIT: another sidenote - TC McCartney was a walk-on, not an LSU scholarship athlete, so Les doesn't have a heart after all (just kidding)
What Scott D said... and you have to understand how provincial Minnesotans are. They are perhaps the worst. Yes, even worse than Texans. If someone farts in Timbuktu, Minnesota press will try to find "the Minnesota connection" because that's what sells. So with Trestman being a TC native, and given his pretty successful career, it would be one of those "one of ours coming home" stories that would indeed make a big splash here. Also, about Minnesota not being a job to touch with a ten foot pole, OUthunder nailed it. I was going to post something similar yesterday. The right guy could be VERY successful here. Simply put, since Jim Wacker the local talent pipeline has been neglected. The right guy will keep players like Larry Fitzgerald, James Laurinitis, and Seantrel Henderson here.
You are so right... my old man memory is shorting out these days. I'd forgotton about Kristy's other daliance. (Or maybe at that time in my life with OU football SUCKING A** I just didn't care what was going on elsewhere.) I have to say it's all a pretty incredible journey by all involved. Though, I really think CU is making a bad move if they do bring McCartney back. So much has changed. Can he recruit?
Agree - but KSU bringing their old fart outta retirement isn't the end of the world for them, so perhaps CU can find some way to win with their former coach too?
Hooray for this thread! Hey TD, I have seen two diff links that list BV as a front runner for Colorado as well
They were both average but that Colorado team had the 5th down game against mizzou that they shoulda lost and a phantom clipping call against ND in the Championship on a PR for a TD or ND wins
