Coach Scott Satterfield

[bearcated]

FYI. Adam Rittenberg of ESPN wrote the following about Satterfield:

"Although Satterfield's departure is abrupt, he never seemed long for the Louisville job. Things haven't been great since 2019, when Satterfield won ACC Coach of the Year honors in his first season there. Satterfield's dalliance with South Carolina in December 2020 stung Louisville fans, a group of whom would never forgive him. Still, the Cardinals recruited well throughout the summer, returned talented quarterback Malik Cunningham and seemingly had a chance to challenge in the ACC...... He is a good coach who went 51-24 at Appalachian State, his alma mater but always seemed much better suited to a job in his home state of North Carolina."

For what it's worth.

[Lobot]

Here's something you didn't see coming. Satterfield's twitter handle is stuck as CoachSattUofL because Elon Musk is an insecure crybaby and couldn't handle being trolled by people impersonating him. Nobody with a verified account can change the name and handle on their accounts right now due to this.

[Lobot]

I need to clarify my comments for you and London.
I was not endorsing Gino, just stating that we invested an extra 3.5M in Satt by paying his buyout, hoping that hes the right guy. I hope we are dang sure because if there was doubt, we could have stayed internal and gone with Gino the known entity with no buyout cost if we were gonna roll the dice. $3.5M is still a lot of money and we don't have endlessly deep pockets. Its probably 3X what we will get for this years bowl game and thats before conference sharing. The money from Wisc was nice but it would have been great if it wasn't a swap that we then had to send to Louisville.
By the way, if I am reading things right, Deion is paying his own buyout not Colorado. Thats the way it should be so these coaches have some vested interest in honoring their contracts, but thats just not the world we live in anymore.
I hope that clarifies my comments. Sorry it wasn't clearer initially.

That 3.5M came from Fickell's buyout. Net zero for UC.

[GoBearcats31]

I have see several articles taking shots at Coach Satt and how he left Louisville. Could it be Louisville people or wanting click bait?

Satterfield didn't win enough at UL to get the Fickell treatment. Plenty are still annoyed/wish he thanked the fans, but you can't be too upset b/c you respect the heck out of what he did at UC. Seems like the UL fans didn't collectively love him to begin with, so this is just more reason to complain about him.

[leo from jersey]

I have see several articles taking shots at Coach Satt and how he left Louisville. Could it be Louisville people or wanting click bait?

[RedDog]

Oh, additionally Dog, I’m not of the opinion Gino
is a known person entity. As an OC he left some to be desired at times imo (maybe constrained by CLF ?) and the head coach is a whole different ball game.

I think we all wanted Gino to hang around in some capacity. He is a known entity when it comes to personality, recruiting, coaching, and relationship with the players. He would be an unknown and risk as HC. My comment was, if we are not sure externally and somewhat rolling the dice, why not at least check off numerous other boxes, hire the guy some great assistants, put the $3.5M in your pocket, and go with the internal guy? It was just an option with financial benefits and if all other things are equal, why not. If you are convinced Satt is the man, then go that direction with a caveat that he retain Coombs and Gino.

[leo from jersey]

Sure wish Gino would stay around for at least the next season to work on Prater. Plus Satterfield is going to need help to calm down current players.

It looks as though Coach Satt is bringing his QB coach from Louisville.

[Greg7173]

Sure wish Gino would stay around for at least the next season to work on Prater. Plus Satterfield is going to need help to calm down current players.

[SKell82155]

Oh, additionally Dog, I’m not of the opinion Gino
is a known person entity. As an OC he left some to be desired at times imo (maybe constrained by CLF ?) and the head coach is a whole different ball game.

[SKell82155]

I need to clarify my comments for you and London.
I was not endorsing Gino, just stating that we invested an extra 3.5M in Satt by paying his buyout, hoping that hes the right guy. I hope we are dang sure because if there was doubt, we could have stayed internal and gone with Gino the known entity with no buyout cost if we were gonna roll the dice. $3.5M is still a lot of money and we don't have endlessly deep pockets. Its probably 3X what we will get for this years bowl game and thats before conference sharing. The money from Wisc was nice but it would have been great if it wasn't a swap that we then had to send to Louisville.
By the way, if I am reading things right, Deion is paying his own buyout not Colorado. Thats the way it should be so these coaches have some vested interest in honoring their contracts, but thats just not the world we live in anymore.
I hope that clarifies my comments. Sorry it wasn't clearer initially.

Hey RedDog,
totally agree in that coaches should at least in part
be responsible for the buyout.
Not sure I see your logic regarding the “extra”
3. 5 Mill UC had to pay out- wasn’t that a wash with
what Wisky paid for CLF buyout ?
Enjoy your takes.

[Rufus]

This interview bodes well to me. This tells me that Satterfield looks at this job as a destination if he was considering UC the last go around. Even more so now that we're in the big 12. And that JC never had to "court" him to come here. Apparently he submitted his resume to the job. One more thing, in reading the room so to speak in looks like JC knew Fickell's intentions at least before the Tulane game and that Louisville's intentions of going a different direction in their HC was imminent which resulted in preliminary talks. Louisville's athletic dept is on shambles right now. Petrino and Pitino regimes has caused them alot of money, and a coach, any coach is only as good as his budget will allow. So I say let's give this coach a chance.

[JBB]

In his Bearcat journal interview he mentioned he was the runner up to Luke Fickell in 2016. He obviously was attracted to the opening, give his previous desire to be our HC and the toxic mess in Loserville. We got the established D1 coach to lead us into the Big12

[RedDog]

What known entity?

I need to clarify my comments for you and London.
I was not endorsing Gino, just stating that we invested an extra 3.5M in Satt by paying his buyout, hoping that hes the right guy. I hope we are dang sure because if there was doubt, we could have stayed internal and gone with Gino the known entity with no buyout cost if we were gonna roll the dice. $3.5M is still a lot of money and we don't have endlessly deep pockets. Its probably 3X what we will get for this years bowl game and thats before conference sharing. The money from Wisc was nice but it would have been great if it wasn't a swap that we then had to send to Louisville.
By the way, if I am reading things right, Deion is paying his own buyout not Colorado. Thats the way it should be so these coaches have some vested interest in honoring their contracts, but thats just not the world we live in anymore.
I hope that clarifies my comments. Sorry it wasn't clearer initially.

[Bearcat93]

Nice interview-I did not recall he interviewed for the UC job last time and apparently was #2

[Rufus]

I didn't like his answer about not really looking at or knowing the roster. How can you take a job without knowing the roster?

In these days recruits go with a coach rather than a school and so I'm hoping some of his recruits for the '23 year will follow him here. I think playing in the B12 would attract many of them as I think the B12 is a better conference football wise today compared to the ACC. He may know of some of the UC recruits as a result of the recruiting trail but don't know them personally. That's how I took it.