Your posting on here so fervently about this topic wreaks of desperation. Bottom line is the MN program has serious momentum right now and the WI program has just lost momentum. Paul Chryst might be a nice guy, and a guy from Wisconsin, but he doesn't have near the head coaching experience and success of Gary Anderson or Jerry Kill. You are what your record says you are after 3 years at a program. He didn't inherit anywhere near the mess Kill did. So keep trying to convince yourself he's better than Andersen and we'll see what happens in Minneapolis next fall. I'd love to see WI play Oregon State anytime in the next 5 years. I got a dollar Oregon State is better than WI.
"Wreaks of desperation"?
Like I said. First world problems. Wisconsin could shut its football program down and I wouldn't even approach a feeling of desperation. It's a game people. Chill.
Here is a good article on Chryst and the Wisconsin perspective on the hire.
I have to caution some of you though. Lots of big words.
http://host.madison.com/sports/coll...cle_e008168e-6613-51f6-b12f-41d37fe067dd.html
But Chryst is perfect for the UW job not only because he has a working knowledge of the program but because of what he brings as a coach. If the three seasons since he left his job as UW’s offensive coordinator have shown us anything, it is the Badgers missed his fertile offensive mind, his ability to get the most out of his assistants and his knack for developing quarterbacks. By layering an NFL-style passing game over UW’s traditional ground-and-pound running game, Chryst created one of the nation’s most productive offenses.
I’ve said this before, but Chryst’s game plan for Alvarez’s final game as a full-time coach — a 24-10 win over Auburn in the 2006 Capital One Bowl — should be bronzed and hung in the football offices. And the 42.9 points per game the Badgers averaged during the 2010 and 2011 seasons stick out of the UW history books like a sore thumb.
In the four seasons prior to the current one, Chryst coached four quarterbacks — Scott Tolzien and Russell Wilson at UW, Tino Sunseri and Tom Savage at Pitt. Three of the four are in the NFL and the fourth (Sunseri) is playing in the CFL. That’s important, given that shaky quarterback play and questionable quarterback decisions have held UW back in the three seasons since Chryst left.
Pitt had only a 19-19 record under Chryst, but don’t read too much into that because the program was a train wreck when he took over. He was the fifth coach —including interims — at the school in 13 months.
