Sources: Dan Hawkins Likely Keeping Job
by Bob_Bell on Nov 7, 2010 7:56 AM MDT
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PrintAccording to John Henderson of the Denver Post, Dan Hawkins will likely keep his job until the end of the season.
An interesting rumor has been floated in the Henderson article and by Kyle Ringo at Buffzone that a major reason Dan Hawkins will retain his job is due to his son, Cody, approaching CU passing records and concern about how he would react if his father was fired. From the Kyle Ringo article:
Bohn would not address specific factors that will play a part in the decision, but it`s possible the school could be concerned how assistant coaches and senior quarterback Cody Hawkins respond if Dan Hawkins is fired. Cody Hawkins is the only healthy quarterback on the roster with any experience and if he opted not to complete his senior season because his dad was fired, the Buffs would be forced to ask true freshman Nick Hirschman to burn his redshirt.
With ideas of breaking Colorado passing records on the fore front, many will begin to question the coaching staff's motive this past weekend throwing the ball 20 times in the second half with a 20+ point lead for most of the time. Clearly, if the Buffs run the ball and kill the clock in the fourth quarter like most teams would do, we wouldn't be having this discussion today. It will be interesting to keep tabs on that the last three games of the season. Former Buff QB Joel Klatt is the only player remaining ahead of Hawkins in career passing yards. Hawkins has 6,778 passing yard to Klatt's 7,375.
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Impossible!
I refuse to believe that
1) They won’t fire Hawk this week
2) Cody would quit if his dad is fired
Just look how ridiculous that sounds. I mean how did anyone ever think this was going to be a good idea to have a father/son coach/qb team. If he were to quit F! him. He doesn’t deserve a spot in the buffs record books but for now I’m giving him more credit than that.
I concur
I have to believe that Cody has better character than they’re giving him credit for, and that he would continue to play hard for this team out of personal pride. If he has designs of being a coach in the future, I don’t think it would look good for him to bail on a team in need because his dad was let go 3 games before the end of the season. I also don’t believe that the poor decision to continue to pass in the 4th yesterday was an attempt to get Cody more yards toward a record. I choose to believe they are just inept and not devious.
That's about the dumbest thing I've ever heard
We can’t fire the old man because we’re afraid of what his kid might do?
You gotta be kidding me.
Folks, this is as bad as it gets.
call codys bluff
fire hawk and call his bluff. As an institution if you are held hostage by a student athlete, you automatically should be fired as the leader of the institution.
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by CUPRIDE on Nov 7, 2010 8:42 AM MST via mobile reply actions
no doubt
By announcing he will not return but letting him coach out the remainder of the season is just a slap in the face of the fans.
If a change isn’t announced things are really going to get ugly for Bohn. He has skirted a lot of the blame given his work round the PAC 12 move but this is going to get pretty nasty pretty quick.
Bohn should offer to let Hawk coach the rest of the season...
…in exchange for Hawk publicly stating that he’s resigning, effective immediately after the Nebraska game. That way Hawk gets to coach his son the final three games, we don’t have to buy him out, and the search for a new coach can begin immediately. Seems fair to me.
Hawkins WON'T Resign
Think about the it logically. You know you are going to lose your job but you have 2 options 1) be bought out and get more than a million dollars or 2) resign and get nothing. hhhhmmmm what would you do? He’s here until the end of the season and it’s going to be a brutal 3 more weeks.
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by ksballa11 on Nov 7, 2010 9:28 AM MST reply actions 1 recs
Please fire Hawkins NOW!!!!!!!
Yesterday made me sick! I hope we get a bad ass new coach
by BuffythePeliniSlayer on Nov 7, 2010 9:49 AM MST reply actions
I was thinking about this after Tyler went down
if they wouldn’t be able to fire Hawk cuz they would also be left without a QB. I think I agree that Cody probably has a little more character than that and would play out the season. If he did quit, whatever. Don’t burn the other kids redshirt, just play scotty at qb or some crap. This never should have a been a concern, coach/qb-father-son is not a good idea.
Fire Hawkins and grab a kid outta the student section to play QB for the rest of the year.
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Daily Camera is reporting
That a decision will be made by the end of the week. My guess is they will more than likely announce Hawk will be kept for the remainder of the season but let go after the Nebraska game. This would be a gesture to an enraged fan base, not sufficient in my eyes, by announcing the already inevitable.
http://www.buffzone.com/ci_16543298
Shoulder to Shoulder
article says "could make an announcement" later in the week...
doesn’t say a decision “will” be made by the end of the week
What these articles indicate is more troubling to me than Hawkins horrid coaching
If Bohn and the admin are more worried about Cody and his “records” then that says all the wrong things about this university. After yesterday’s embarrassing loss we should throw the baby out with the bathwater.
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It is unsettling to say the least
Why it has taken even this long (24 hours) to make a decision is beyond me. I can not think of one valid reason for letting this coach finish out the season. Not one single reason. What changes later in the week? We have seen five years of poor decisions out of Hawkins, any of which should have justified his immediate dismissal.
At this point he is not only a liability to the football program but a liability to the University at large. A cancer on an otherwise proud institution. Just disgusting.
I thought this wasn't Intramurals...???
Cody’s going to take his ball and go home to pout?
No way that happens. A couple reasons why:
1) Cody has way to much character to allow that. He may not be a great player, but he is a great person.
2) This is Division 1 football.
3) Cody wants to be a coach. A move like that would kill any and all chances he’d have at fulfilling his dream.
Just not going to happen.
by Buff-in-CA on Nov 7, 2010 11:35 AM MST reply actions 1 recs
I'm with you on this one
I have a whole lot of respect for this kid. Sure I don’t think he is a very good QB, but Cody deserves a whole lot more respect than he is getting. Put yourself in his shoes. You hear people going after your Dad constantly and you are supposed to sit there and take it? I sure as hell wouldn’t be able to bite my tongue if you went after any of my family. So I don’t begrudge him for sticking up for his Dad even though his Dad is a terrible coach.
I’m calling out every single CU fan that wants to go after Cody and telling you to shut your mouth. His father is fair game, Cody and every other player on that team is off limits. They are kids, not professionals. Pretty sure the “fans” that want go after Cody are the same ones who embarrass the rest of us every home game and treat the opposing team’s fans like shit. I’m a die hard CU fan and it is stuff like this that makes me agree with just about everyone who says that our fans are the worst.
by clbuff28 on Nov 7, 2010 1:35 PM MST up reply actions 1 recs
Agree 100%
All anger should be directed at Dan not Cody. That kid is giving it his all and that is all I ask.
by CleBUFFS on Nov 7, 2010 8:28 PM MST via mobile up reply actions
Who's running the zoo up there?
The administration is so spineless, gutless, ball-less that they’re letting the Hawkins boys and a few assistants hold the what’s left of the program hostage? Give me a break!
FIRE HAWKINS NOW! If anyone – ANYONE – wants to quit, good riddance.
i dont see why we would keep him till the end of the season!
codys not going to quit what a load of bs! and if he does f em this should not factor into the decision! Maybe bohns just trying to collect the money to pay this schmuck?
The people running the show are the very worst in the country
Benson – clueless
Distefano – liar
Bohn – spineless
Hawk – the worst
When you have leadership that doesn’t care, a coach who is the worst in all of division 1-A, and local media who are as soft as melted butter, this is what you get. Horrible results and nobody is held accountable. Is there another bcs program that would let hawk finish his 5th year after the hell he’s put people through? Of course not, only at CU is he allowed to keep his job. Unreal. Just wait until next year when we face the pac 12 along with ohio state and hawaii both on the road – it will be UGLY.
The road back to respectability is going to be a very long one. As far as the road back to being a top 10 program? With this leadership, I don’t think we’ll EVER find the way. CU football will never be what we used to know it as and THAT IS SAD.
Benson needs to go
We need a president who cares about Colorado Football, it starts at the top! Bye Benson
by BuffythePeliniSlayer on Nov 7, 2010 12:35 PM MST reply actions
This mess was well underway when benson showed up in 2008
Not to mention his tenure began in what was the beginning of the worst economic environment in 80 years….I’m not saying he is blameless in this but he has had more important things to worry about the past 3 years than football.
University Presidents aren't elected
They are appointed
by AllBroncsallday on Nov 8, 2010 9:39 AM MST up reply actions
since when do we let playeres decide when a coach leaves?.
I posted during the game that hawkins was some how trying to make sure cody would break as many records as he could before he graduated and that the wins meant nothing to them and how they have fucked the whole senior class out of possibly playing in a bowl.
Grow a pair or deal with the empty stadium and you can explain to the seniors why the fans are not there Bohn.
i dont think Kansas would take him as AD damn it.
who can fire Bohn?
Is it one person or is it a vote? Why do I get the impression Bohn feels like he’s safe? He’s just as responsible for all the BS we’ve dealt with, he needs to be canned.
by The Notorious R.O.B. on Nov 7, 2010 2:30 PM MST up reply actions
Mac
It’s the only choice. He needs to be the head coach and EB the off coordinator. EB takes over the program when mac steps down and we keep the same system in place. We recruit well from day 1 and we build a tough, north-south offense with speed on the outside.
If we hire anyone else I’ll be PISSED.
What is this? Fantasy football? Do we need Cody to put up 275 yards and 2 TDs next week so we accrue enough fantasy points to beat Billy’s Beavers (who is 7-1 this season)
This makes no sense, but nothing makes sense with CUs current football program.
Pac 12 play with a new coach and AD can’t come soon enough
Josh McDaniels took an average team and made it one of the worst in the NFL. We are a team without heart, soul or brains. We are not improving. This squad is the opposite of the team McDaniels promised and that is exclusively the fault of Josh McDaniels (not Shanahan, injuries, bad refs or meanie fans).
Cody Hawkins has been getting a free education for 5 years!
If they don’t fire Dan Hawkins out of fear that his son will leave, then good riddance, that tells us all we need to know. If he doesn’t have the sense to play three more games for a school that gave him $100K+ in scholarships, then he shouldn’t be on the team anyway. Fire Hawkins immediately and I bet Cody stays, he’s never seemed as petulant as his dad.
You start the game with a penalty!
How many times in his tenure has coach Hawk allowed a penalty either at the start of a game or on a new possession? Exactly, I can’t count that high. This problem is directly a result of a terrible coach. Thanks Bohn, yet another CU alumni is not going to donate money until Hawk is gone. I rest assured that if Hawk is fired, we could raise enough money to pay off is salary now. We have some wealthy alumni who would love to donate to a great cause!
Freaking disgustsing
Keeping him as coach so his son gets records that are meaningless, if that is the only reason, then Bohn better hit the road with Hawkins after the season also.
I am hoping he gets intercepted every play from here on out or sacked.
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Who givesaflyingratsass
about this season or Cody Hawkins.
Just run the freaking wildcat. We aren’t going to win anyways
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