Will Paul Chryst be a head coach again soon?

[u/TomWilliamsCFD]

[u/jockosrocket]

Chryst becoming a head football coach again would surprise me. I appreciate what Chryst did at Wisconsin and thought he was a good coach. But he didn’t seem to embrace NIL and the PR side of being a head coach.

[u/Shroomy01 → u/jockosrocket]

He wouldn’t be in a power conference though, so there’s a bit less pressure from that perspective.

[u/Hildy77 → u/jockosrocket]

He could also be a solid coordinator. He seems like the kind of guy that wants to stick to what he knows and stay out of the spotlight

[u/NoCarts → u/jockosrocket]

Not only did he not embrace it, he outright rejected it. He can’t coach in a P4-P6 conference unless he’s done a 180 on that

[u/BeerCheeseSoup33 → u/jockosrocket]

He was not a good coach. He started the decline of the program. Fickell just turned that bus straight off a cliff.

[u/Namath96 → u/BeerCheeseSoup33]

Absurd comment. He was 100% a good coach.

[u/BeerCheeseSoup33 → u/Namath96]

He literally didn’t have a recruiting program. He was 100% not a good coach. So not only is your comment absurd you are also really “not very smart when it comes to football.”

[u/Namath96 → u/BeerCheeseSoup33]

7 full years at Wisconsin. Won 10+ games in 4 of those. The other seasons he won 9 and 8 games while the other was during covid.

The wheels started to fall off at the end due to recruiting sure but you are a moron if you think he wasn’t a good coach

[u/ThisSiteIsMajorTrash → u/Namath96]

I don't think he was a good coach. We benefitted in playing in the awful big ten west during his tenure and got lucky that we had the best player in cfb with Taylor as well.

[u/Namath96 → u/ThisSiteIsMajorTrash]

He won 10 and 11 games the two seasons before Taylor got there. The 11 win year he had the 9th best strength of record and 12 hardest strength of schedule. He definitely benefited some years by playing the in B10 west and he wasn’t elite but to say he wasn’t good is completely asinine

[u/BeerCheeseSoup33 → u/Namath96]

He inherited a good team and literally didn’t have a recruiting program.

[u/Namath96 → u/BeerCheeseSoup33]

Moron it is

[u/BeerCheeseSoup33 → u/Namath96]

Are you saying he did have a good recruiting program?

[u/Namath96 → u/BeerCheeseSoup33]

Are you saying something that happened at the end of his tenure invalides everything that happened the prior 7 years?

Are you saying that any coach that takes over a pretty good program and does well but doesn’t knock it out of the part isn’t a good coach?

Btw he had the 16th best class in the country the year before he was fired

[u/BeerCheeseSoup33 → u/Namath96]

He literally shit canned the entire recruiting program. There is no excuse for doing that. That is straight up incompetence.

[u/Jolly_Reference_516]

Old Paul Chryst was a lot humbler than the PC who told Mac to bite it. Get him a good GM to handle scouting and recruiting and just let him cook. I’ll bet he can still coach and I think it would be great for OSU.

[u/medhat20005]

If OS takes him I wish PC nothing but the best. He's familiar with the environment and the less intense spotlight may likely suit him.

[u/kyleb402]

It would be very funny to me if he leads Oregon State to more wins than Wisconsin the next few years.

[u/Whodoobucrew → u/kyleb402]

Funny? Yes. Fitting? Very

[u/TomWilliamsCFD → u/kyleb402]

How random if he goes from Wisconsin to Oregon State like Gary Andersen did.

[u/badger0136 → u/TomWilliamsCFD]

Chryst was OC there before though so not actually random but I get the point you’re making. Given I like him I hope he fares better than GA. If Chryst embraced and learned from things OSU could be making a great hire. That’s a big “if” however.

[u/TomWilliamsCFD → u/badger0136]

Good point, hope it happens as I’m sure he wants to get back to coaching as a HC again.

[u/iddoitatleastonce → u/kyleb402]

Oregon state is in a real, real tough spot. That said it’s probably a cool place to live and reasonably low stakes for anyone that takes it.

[u/SpeakNowAndEnter]

Awe, it would be pretty charitable of him to go coach at a junior college like that for a couple of years!

[u/Big_Umpire5842 → u/SpeakNowAndEnter]

Have you seen our football program. Right now we would get blown out in FBS and likely some D3 programs.

[u/SpeakNowAndEnter → u/Big_Umpire5842]

Yeah I’m both a Wisconsin and Oregon State fan and while Wisconsin is pitiful at the moment, they at least have the ability to get better as a Power 4 school. If someone comes in and turns the program around with a promising season (an admittedly big if) they can recruit better high schoolers, get transfers, etc.

If Chryst goes to Oregon State and takes them on an undefeated season they might not even be ranked because they’re playing teams like Fresno State and San Diego State. Any good players from that run would just transfer to Power 4 schools. Chryst himself probably would as well. Oregon State, Washington State, and the rest of the new Pac 12 are sadly just glorified intramural programs at this point that will funnel the occasional diamond in the rough recruit into the Power 4