FootballScoop: Maturi interviewed Jeff Jagodzinski

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"Minnesota: A few weeks ago, we told you that Minnesota AD Joel Maturi had interest in Omaha Nighthawks head coach Jeff Jagodzinski. We had heard that Jags was on Maturi's initial list on candidates. Now, from what we understand, Maturi has indeed recently interviewed the former Boston College head coach."

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So do not want!

He did good things at Boston College, no doubt. In fact I think he would be a good head coach, but he is going to flee to the NFL the first chance he gets.
 

Midwestern guy, solid two years as head coach at BC, been in coaching a long time, young. Looks good, right?

We might get two years out of him before he moves on to something bigger and better. He more or less went against the orders of his AD to interview for the Jets HC job. If Maturi is okay with this level of insubordination, why not take a flier on Leach?

I don't know. He's better than some, I guess. He's clearly a very good coach...I just feel like he's gone at the first sniff of success.
 

Wheaton said:
So do not want!

He did good things at Boston College, no doubt. In fact I think he would be a good head coach, but he is going to flee to the NFL the first chance he gets.
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I feel like there's almost no way to tell if he did great things at BC or not. He inherited a team with Matt Ryan, that had gone 9-3, 9-3, 10-3 the three years prior and went 11-3, 9-5 with them. Since he left, the team has gone 8-5 (last year) and 7-5 (this year, with a bowl game left).

Maybe he coached them up, maybe he just had one of the best college QBs of the past 10 years, maybe he rode in and looked good for two seasons before getting the NFL itch and leaving. Too small a sample size to really tell.
 

If our main concern about Jagodinski is that he would leave, then why not put one of the huge buyout clauses we've read about on his contract?

Buyout in years 1-3 = $2+ million
Buyout in years 4-6 = $1.5+ million, etc.
 



Might as well hire Leach...at least he might not bolt...
 

I would shy away from hiring this guy even as a last resort. I think his success is coincidental rather than the result of knowing what he's doing. He certainly bombed in the NFL with Tampa. Now he's coaching in Omaha.
 

Maybe with a new AD and President coming, the strategy is to get someone who will win quick and not worry about how long they will stay. It rights the program and then lets the new people make their own hire.
 

Go Gophers Rah said:
If our main concern about Jagodinski is that he would leave, then why not put one of the huge buyout clauses we've read about on his contract?

Buyout in years 1-3 = $2+ million
Buyout in years 4-6 = $1.5+ million, etc.
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Yes, but then you run the risk of being out that much money if he fails in MN.

Also, I would be worried about him leaping to the NFL. What is 1.5 or 2 million dollars to an NFL team?
 



Winnipegopher said:
Maybe with a new AD and President coming, the strategy is to get someone who will win quick and not worry about how long they will stay. It rights the program and then lets the new people make their own hire.
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I sincerely doubt that.
 

Let me be the first to say that I wouldn't mind Jeff being the next coach. He did well at BC and if you're worried about him leaving put a $2 million buyout on him. That way if he leaves at least the U makes a quick couple mil.
 

The best man in my wedding spent a considerable amount of time around Jeff when he was at BC. He is also a MN alum, so knows the situation here. In his words, "Don't effin do it."
 

Does anyone have any information showing Footballscoop has ever gotten anything right? I really don't know if they've proven themselves as being in the know in the past or they are just another website that throws things out there just to attract attention. They certainly claim to know much more about the search than anyone around here. Just asking.
 

Doogie said:
The best man in my wedding spent a considerable amount of time around Jeff when he was at BC. He is also a MN alum, so knows the situation here. In his words, "Don't effin do it."
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By that do you mean we shouldn't hire him or he shouldn't take the job?

If the former, this probably means he's our new coach. Time to re-up the bourbon supply.
 

I don't know the details, but between BC and TB there are red flags waving all around this guy. To ignore them would be beyond foolish. If we're going to stick our head in the sand, let's at least hire Leach while we're down there.
 

In my man's humble opinion, stay far away from Jeff J.
 

I think Jags is a good football guy, but there are a lot of those hanging around. I think his dismissal from BC and his inability to rise back to the top since that dismissal says "Something's not quite right here."

Not the guy.
 

Doogie's posts from a source with knowledge of him personally aside, I haven't seen anything other than "he'll bolt for the NFL" that makes him seem like a bad candidate.

Personally, I agree with what Jagz did in interviewing for that job. The AD was the person in the wrong. If I have a chance to move up in my career and my boss tells me not to, I've made my choice to leave one way or the other.
 

I recall reading that he was fired by the Tampa Bay Bucs because he couldn't communicate the offensive plays correctly, or quick enough... something of that nature. This guy does not sound good.
 

gopherguy said:
I recall reading that he was fired by the Tampa Bay Bucs because he couldn't communicate the offensive plays correctly, or quick enough... something of that nature. This guy does not sound good.
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Oh yeah, I forgot about the early dismissal from the Bucs. It's hard to know if that was a fluke though. It seems like the only thing that MIGHT be football-related for which he was canned. That said, if we got Golden, I'm happy.
 

year of the gopher said:
Doogie's posts from a source with knowledge of him personally aside, I haven't seen anything other than "he'll bolt for the NFL" that makes him seem like a bad candidate.

Personally, I agree with what Jagz did in interviewing for that job. The AD was the person in the wrong. If I have a chance to move up in my career and my boss tells me not to, I've made my choice to leave one way or the other.
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He's not bad, but for the $$ the "U" has to offer, they can do better than a guy who is a couple years removed from the college game, and who spent an entire year last year away from coaching.
 

Doogie said:
He's not bad, but for the $$ the "U" has to offer, they can do better than a guy who is a couple years removed from the college game, and who spent an entire year last year away from coaching.
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I don't disagree. I'm just saying I haven't been convinced that he wouldn't be successful here, not that we should throw $3M at him.
 

Wheaton said:
Yes, but then you run the risk of being out that much money if he fails in MN.

Also, I would be worried about him leaping to the NFL. What is 1.5 or 2 million dollars to an NFL team?
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The buyout clause does not have to be bilateral. Normally coaches compensation, if fired, is tied to their base salary and number of years remaining in the life of the agreement. :cool:
 

Jeff Jagodzinski will never get an NFL head coaching job. He was exposed so badly as an offensive coordinator that he was fired during his first preseason. Yes, you read that right...the guy got fired in the preseason! He was in over his head to such a degree that Tampa Bay had to promote a position coach.

The worry with Jagodzinksi is not that he would bolt for the NFL, it's that he might not be a very good football coach.
 

There are some giant question marks when it comes to Jeff J.

First, he doesn't seem to get along with anyone. He was fired from BC despite winning and being popular amongst their fans for interviewing for the Jets job. It was implied amongst everyone that his relationship with the AD was terrible and he was hated throughout the athletic department. Essentially, it was like the Leach thing where they were looking for an excuse to let him go, and they found one.

Second, he was also prematurely let go from the Bucs. This smelled of something more than simply not getting the playcalls in fast enough. Jagodzinski was a succesful (at GB) OC who had a ton of experience in the NFL and he was fired a week and half before the regular season started. That is exceptionally rare, especially by a rookie HC with only defensive experience.

There seems to be a pattern of him being let go at the first chance his employers can let him go despite being a succesful coach. That should be his biggest cautionary flag.

Now is the question of him bolting to the NFL, which could be a little worrisome. I am personally not exeptionally worried about this because if we wrote his contract in a smart enough way he wouldn't leave to become a coordinator in the NFL. He would need a long run of success here to be considered for an NFL job, so I would probably take that at this point.
 


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