January 29, 2007
Scapegoat #2: It’s Official, Colletto Out As OL Coach
As expected, Jim Colletto is no longer our OL coach. Sure, the headline will read “Colletto hired as Detroit Lions OL coach” but it’s obvious to anyone following Bruins football that Colletto was gone anyway. To make it look good Dorrell gave him time to look for another job. How else does one explain it? Colletto has been an NFL coach many times before. The Lions job is not a “step up” for the journeyman coach. Any coach that has been around as long as he has would much rather stick around for a big winning season than leave for another retread position.
Next season the stars are aligned. So why is Colletto leaving?? Because he was asked to leave. We all expected it. Another 6-loss season requires more than 1 scapegoat and Dorrell got his second today. We might see more. We expect that the next to get the ax from Dorrell, if he does go after another coach, is John Wristen, 1st year tight ends and special teams coach. Wristen is next in line due to the awful play of special teams last year. But it can also be DJ McCarthy, wide receivers coach since our receivers made no progress last season. We’ll soon see what Training Jay and Dorrell come up with.
As for who will get the OL coaching position any guess is good right now. No experience needed right?! Expect an announcement soon.
3 Comments on Scapegoat #2: It’s Official, Colletto Out As OL Coach
January 29, 2007
Stan Gomez @ 4:57 pm:
Looks like KD is looking for an invitation to join the SWAC conference. We’ll see how that works out, making UCLA a training ground for coaches. DG needs to wake up and smell the coffee to see that this program is heading the wrong direction with wins and losses. Dosen’t KD have enough on his hands teaching highschool stars about the college game, without having his coach doing the same? Sure would love to have Rick Nuheisel pulled away from Baltimore for 2008.
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January 31, 2007
John Marrone @ 4:29 pm:
Rick would love to come back home and coach the Bruins. He’d do a great job too!
February 9, 2007
mike morgan @ 3:58 pm:
You may be right, DJ McCarthy will be leaving the Bruins soon to go to U of Washington (Maybe he was told to look) but this will allow KD to hire a top quality WR coach that we are lacking.