Subscribe Feed (RSS)… it’s worse than that. His pants are on fire. Really, he should be gone by the end of the day.
I thought it was the right move to hire him — but only with Mouse Davis as his offensive coordinator. When he started messing with Mouse’s offense, he had to know Mouse would walk. Bad move.
The result was that then they couldn’t play offense OR defense, because as we all have seen this season, the only thing Jerry knows about offense is that he can’t stop it.
Tags: Dwight Jaynes, Jerry Glanville, Mouse Davis, Portland State Vikings
I was for taking a risk and hiring Jerry and Mouse. Walsh put out winning seasons but his brand of football was predictable and boring…
Unfortunately this risk didn’t pay off. I hope PSU will remain willing to hire a coach who can provide a flair of excitement for the program
Jerry is not gone yet. He meets with the AD today. He ought to retire and just spend the time as an consultant like Dwight and have a blog to manage or get into broadcasting.
Too bad PSU just doesn’t have the money to draw a big name coach. Maybe we should tap a smaller college coach like from Linfield or Willamette?
PSU may not have the money, but they have something almost as valuable. They have a football program which can be marketed to some young assistant out there as a stepping stone to a better gig. Portland State can and should become a coaching factory. The key is finding the right first guy. Like the PSU AD, I have no idea who that might be.
As long as PSU is where it is in the grand scheme of NCAA athletics, it will always be a stepping stone job. Look at Schroyer who jumped to Wyoming, or Bone who jumped to Wazzu, the Women’s soccer coach jumped to Oregon, Pokey went to Boise State, etc. I’m happy being a stepping stone for now (until we can move up to the WAC), as long as we get a couple good years and conference championship contenders out of them before they go.
Judging by the lack of commentary on this item it is clear that the Portland State Football team has become completely irrelevent. I had high hopes that Glanville would be really successful and then retire. Hot shot young coaches would have been fighting to get the job in a fun city to live in before moving on to some Big 10, Big 12 or Big East city.
Instead we have a train wreck. Someone is going to have to be really ambitious to want to take this job now. No one even comes to mind except maybe some local high school coaches. Maybe Steve Coury from LO could be talked into stepping up.
PSU Football program needs to step up to the plate or just walk away. No one in this state cares about Division I-AA football now that Oregon and Oregon State have elevated to top 25 programs over the past decade. Oregon has had the ESPN game day crew at Auzen I think 3 times in the past few years. PSU could hire Jon Gruden tomorrow and I don’t think you would see much change. PSU Football has a large alumni base in the Portland metro to draw from if they could do two things:
1st: They need a legitimate stadium. PGE Park could fit the bill if they take out the suites and put back conventional seating and continue the seating bowl (lower and upper levels) to the east side to mirroring the west grandstands. This would create a true horseshoe design and seat 35,000-40,000. You could add some seats in the South end zone near the MAC and put 3-4 levels of suites on top. In the grand scheme of things for major college football this wouldn’t cost much to accomplish. It would also work great for the MLS Timbers (not that I care, but you could kill two birds here)
2nd: They need to join the WAC.
Until they can do these two things I don’t see much changing for PSU Football.
When they remodel the current PGE Park (name rights end next year)for MSL soccer, the configuration you speak of will occur. PSU will play their home games in the Hillsboro stadium next year while the remodeling takes place.
The current plans for remodeling PGE Park are quite different from what I am suggesting. The current plans for remodeling PGE Park will add NO additional seating capacity (17,000 seats). The plans will only add seats below the wall on the East side. They have no plans to continue the seating bowl for the upper seats above the eastside wall to mirror the Westside grandstands. They are going to remove/screen off the seats in the upper bowl on the North end zone where they currently have put green tarps covering about 5,000 seats. The current plan also keeps the suits which take up a large block of good seats. These suits where built for baseball viewing, they are awkward for football/soccer. I wish they would just continue the seating bowl across the eastside mirroring the west to give the stadium a symmetrical look and bring capacity to roughly 35,000 – 40,000 seats.
Watching Jaynes on Talkin Ball tonight after the Blazer game as he was talking about Glanville. Don’t know where he got his facts but they had the wrong record for the last two years under Walsh. In 2005, we were not 10-1. That would have definitely got us into the I-AA playoffs. We actually were 6-5. In 2006, we were not 6-5, we were 7-4.
Addressing the issue with the WAC, after listening to the Oregon fans talk about Boise State’s scheduling woes, how would joining the WAC benefit Portland State? Is not the goal every year for every team to be playing for a national championship? If Portland State were to go undefeated in the WAC (like Boise can do this year), the best we could hope for would be the Humanitarian Bowl. If Portland State stays in the Big Sky and goes undefeated (like Montana), we would have the opportunity to play for a national championship. Isn’t this what everyone strives for? If playing Hawaii can’t help Boise’s chances of playing for a national championship, how would playing Hawaii help Portland State? As Oregon fans showed towards Boise State after the Ducks beat USC, Portland State would be just as irrelevant in the WAC as they are now in the Big Sky. The difference is that in the Big Sky, the Vikings have a chance every year to play for a national championship, something that would be lost if the Vikings moved to the WAC.
Give Glanville another year. Portland State played 15 true freshmen this year (23 total freshmen played this year). Davis left right after spring ball, basically leaving the program in a lurch. McBride at Weber State got four years to turn that program around and last year they won the Big Sky conference title. Barometers for next year should be 6-5 at least and/or a win over Montana (Griz are at Portland next year). For what the Vikings have coming back that should be doable. If he doesn’t do it, then his contract is done, he is gone and PSU fulfilled his contract. That would also show his successor that you will honor your word to the end.
If I understand your post: You would rather be in Montana’s shoes over Boise State? Montana might play for a DIV I-AA national title, but Boise State & Utah are bidding for a BCS Bowl games. I would take any DIV I-AA bowl game over a DIV I-AA national title. Boise State & Utah are top 25 programs and Fresno State is always tough. Big Sky is minor leagues and no one will give them the time of day when big brothers: Oregon and Oregon State are competing for Rose Bowl berths. PSU needs a 40,000 seat stadium and step up to DIV I-A to start generating excitement and support. You have the alumni base here to make this happen, the program needs to step up to plate.
There has to be a good young coach that needs a stepping stone. I agree with others who would look to smaller colleges or even big high schools in the Pacific NW for coaches who would see PSU as a step up for them and an opportunity to make a splash before getting a better gig.
For something completely different: maybe Tom Smyth could give it a try for a couple years and bring in a young guy he could groom to take over for him.
in 1965 i was a freshman at jesuit high school. our football coaches primarily were john allen and matt tuey. i think that mr allen has passed but wonder if mr tuey would like the job. man o man i’ll tell you there was some basic football taught between the 2 and there was discipline aplenty. the only thing i know is that in those years jesuit was laying the groundwork for championship teams for many years to come due to the attitude and work ethic started by mr allen and mr tuey.