Mac promoting Ash for Wisconsin Job

Harry · December 15, 2012

Dan McCarney, who was Alvarezs first defensive coordinator with the Badgers from 1990 to 1994, is promoting Ashs cause as a possible head coaching candidate, according to multiple sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the ongoing coaching search.

McCarney, currently the head coach at North Texas, was the head coach at Iowa State for 12 years, from 1995 to 2006.

Ash started out as a graduate assistant under McCarney in 2000 and 2001, then was the Cyclones secondary coach from 2002 to 2006.

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GrayEagle · December 15, 2012

What? How many times has a coordinator with no head coaching experience been promoted to HFC in a university like Wisconsin? Off the top of my head (where the only gray matter left is my hair) I can't recall any.

Mean Green 93-98 · December 15, 2012

What? How many times has a coordinator with no head coaching experience been promoted to HFC in a university like Wisconsin? Off the top of my head (where the only gray matter left is my hair) I can't recall any.

Both Alvarez and Bielema were hired (or promoted) from coordinator positions with no prior head coaching experience.

GrayEagle · December 15, 2012

What? How many times has a coordinator with no head coaching experience been promoted to HFC in a university like Wisconsin? Off the top of my head (where the only gray matter left is my hair) I can't recall any.

GrayEagle · December 15, 2012

Both Alvarez and Bielema were hired (or promoted) from coordinator positions with no prior head coaching experience.

The post was meant to be for promotion only; not hiring. You may have hit on the only in-house promotion, that of Bret Bielema. He was hired by Alvarez from Kansas State two years before he retired, supposedly as his handpicked successor. Alvarez was a coordinator at Notre Dame when he was hired by Wisconsin.

Mean Green 93-98 · December 15, 2012

The post was meant to be for promotion only; not hiring. You may have hit on the only in-house promotion, that of Bret Bielema. He was hired by Alvarez from Kansas State two years before he retired, supposedly as his handpicked successor. Alvarez was a coordinator at Notre Dame when he was hired by Wisconsin.

That's kind of like the situation with Jimbo Fisher at Florida State, Joe Paterno at Penn State, and what had been the intention with Will Muschamp at UT.