Austin Hansen resigns

[sdsu_drake]

Re: Austin Hansen resigns

Maybe he can get U.N.C. to move to the Summit.

[TK22867]

Re: Austin Hansen resigns

I'm of the Brian Kelly mantra. If you interview for a lateral move, you better be damn sure you are going to get it.

[Jacked_Up]

Re: Austin Hansen resigns

Kind of a weird, risky move. I guess it could look good on his resume to go to a bad program like UNC and help make it better. Of course, he also could get fired in a coach housecleaning. Oh, well. Thanks, Coach Hansen, and good luck.

[joeboo22]

Re: Austin Hansen resigns

Its one of 3 things, or quite possibly a combination of all 3.

#1 larger salary- I couldn't find what their current assistants are making, but my guess is its not much of a pay raise. Their head coach made $105,000 base salary (plus incentives) but still no more then $130-$140 tops
#2 he wanted to get out of Brookings- He will always be the home state, former player, he will always be in Nagy's shadow, etc.
#3- B.J. Hill was an assistant at SDSU when he played, so I'm guessing there is some type of relationship. He probably looked at UNC and sees a better program then he saw at SDSU when he took over and says if he can help improve UNC in the next 2-3 years he will be a hot commodity.

He will always be mentioned as the next SDSU head coach, but I'm wondering if some or someone at SDSU advised him that if he really wanted to be the next HC at SDSU he needed to leave and prove himself somewhere else. Its risky because most believe BJ Hill to be on the hot seat at UNC if they struggle this year and he is let go in a coaching housecleaning.

Good luck to Austen, will be interesting to see how SDSU adapts, seemed that Austen did a bunch of the in game coaching, at least in the games I saw.

[Nidaros]

Re: Austin Hansen resigns

Its one of 3 things, or quite possibly a combination of all 3.

#1 larger salary- I couldn't find what their current assistants are making, but my guess is its not much of a pay raise. Their head coach made $105,000 base salary (plus incentives) but still no more then $130-$140 tops
#2 he wanted to get out of Brookings- He will always be the home state, former player, he will always be in Nagy's shadow, etc.
#3- B.J. Hill was an assistant at SDSU when he played, so I'm guessing there is some type of relationship. He probably looked at UNC and sees a better program then he saw at SDSU when he took over and says if he can help improve UNC in the next 2-3 years he will be a hot commodity.

He will always be mentioned as the next SDSU head coach, but I'm wondering if some or someone at SDSU advised him that if he really wanted to be the next HC at SDSU he needed to leave and prove himself somewhere else. Its risky because most believe BJ Hill to be on the hot seat at UNC if they struggle this year and he is let go in a coaching housecleaning.

Good luck to Austen, will be interesting to see how SDSU adapts, seemed that Austen did a bunch of the in game coaching, at least in the games I saw.

No doubt BJ Hill is the mover and shaker in this move. BJ has had one great year at UNC,where they edged out Monatana and went to the big dance. They were one and done at the BD. This past year was not so good, so he needs some help to keep his job, and the answer seems to be Austin Hansen. Whether AH can solve this problem, its hard to say. Seems like Nagy was at a low in job esteem five years ago, when he hired Austin away from Morganthaler. And who might have been the Nater man? AH I believe is the answer. Good luck Austin, I hope you can help BJ out.

[JimmyJack]

Re: Austin Hansen resigns

According to TV's story, it's not money (same money at UNC). It's an opportunity to expand his recruiting territory and work with somebody new for a while. The story does mention that Austin would like to come back to SDSU as head coach someday. I think ADs probably would see experience in more than one place as a plus in a head coaching candidate.

http://www.argusleader.com/article/2...thern-Colorado

As somebody who is leaving SDSU (in two days) for a new challenge, I can understand what Austin is doing here. I hate leaving, but I can't continue to advance my career unless I leave.

[MontanaRabbit]

Re: Austin Hansen resigns

According to TV's story, it's not money (same money at UNC). It's an opportunity to expand his recruiting territory and work with somebody new for a while. The story does mention that Austin would like to come back to SDSU as head coach someday. I think ADs probably would see experience in more than one place as a plus in a head coaching candidate.

http://www.argusleader.com/article/2...thern-Colorado

As somebody who is leaving SDSU (in two days) for a new challenge, I can understand what Austin is doing here. I hate leaving, but I can't continue to advance my career unless I leave.

This is right on. In order to advance his career he needs to leave to gain experience elsewhere. Many times when universities hire professors, they look for candidates that got their PHD at another university. This allows them to expand the expertise of the faculty (ie the new candidate specializes in a area that no one else does at the university). It's much the same here. Austin can learn a new recruiting area and learn from a new coach. There are more ways to run a program than the way Nagy does. It can only help to broaden his knowledge of the industry.


I would bet Austin will be towards the top of the list when we need a new head coach.

[Nidaros]

Re: Austin Hansen resigns

I would bet Austin will be towards the top of the list when we need a new head coach.

I would hope we have the resources to do better. Are ever going to get away from being a local yokel image?
Nothing against AH, but we need to do national searches when we fill these important jobs. Otherwise in full agreement with your comments and JimmyJack's.

[MontanaRabbit]

Re: Austin Hansen resigns

I would hope we have the resources to do better. Are ever going to get away from being a local yokel image?
Nothing against AH, but we need to do national searches when we fill these important jobs. Otherwise in full agreement with your comments and JimmyJack's.

He's attempting to put himself into position to be viable on the national stage. Just because you come from SD does not mean you can't compete on a national level.

[jackmd]

Re: Austin Hansen resigns

Hard to understand a lateral (at best) move to a program with a 255 RPI whose coaching staff could be gone in a year if things don't get a lot better, even if the salary is a bit higher. He would be a favorite for the Jacks job if Nagy were to leave - maybe he believes that isn't going to happen anytime soon.

Why do people think he would be a favorite for the head job? That is not my understanding. When Nagy was considering the Ball State position I think other names came up before Austins.

Must have been the right opportunity for him. Multiple factors likely contributed. Salary, lifestyle, family opportunities and perhaps an opportunity to become a head coach sooner. Any interactions I have had with him have been good ones. He will continue to be successful and I wish him the best. I would welcome him back with open arms, not that that matters in any way.

[Nidaros]

Re: Austin Hansen resigns

He's attempting to put himself into position to be viable on the national stage. Just because you come from SD does not mean you can't compete on a national level.

I agree he can compete at the national level, but SD folks applying for SD jobs, that's what I am referring too. Maybe AH will be our guy when we need a new HC. Only time will tell. Justin Sell is not from SD, but is doing a great job at AD, and I would like to see more hires like this. Outsiders can often see things that we natives can not. As much as I think of Fred Oien as a person and his qualifications, at this point in time, I don't dare put Fred in the same class as Justin Sells. I guess that's what I mean by local yokels. They are often blinded by local bias. Fred was local as was his two predecessors, Harry Forsythe and Stan Marshall, which I suspect might explain our slowness to consider a move to D1. Who did come up with the D1 idea? Peggy Elliot Miller who is not from SD.

[Nidaros]

Re: Austin Hansen resigns

Why do people think he would be a favorite for the head job?

Excellent question. I for one don't see him as a favorite, but do think he is an excellent coach. If our program is going to move forward, we need new people with new recruiting networks and new ideas. Otherwise the local yokel image takes over and local we are.

[MontanaRabbit]

Re: Austin Hansen resigns

Why do people think he would be a favorite for the head job?

At this point in his career he probably isn't and may not get there by staying at SDSU and working under Nagy.

It certainly won't hurt for him to gain experience in a different program that recruits a different area, uses different techniques for recruiting, different systems, etc. I'm guessing he is positioning himself to be a viable head coaching candidate.

Still think he will be towards the top of the list when we need a new head coach although I'm not saying he will get the job.

[joeboo22]

Re: Austin Hansen resigns

I doubt Hansen would be the hands down favorite, because again you never know who is interested, etc. But I can't imagine a short list that his name is not on when the opening occurs. For Hansen I think its big as he will gain new recruiting territory, he didn't really have a recruiting zone while at SDSU, from the sound of things he was the SD/Minnesota guy, but that isn't much of a recruiting zone. With UNC he will be able to gain a new recruiting area and get out of Nagy's shadow.

I do hope SDSU begins playing UNC and hopefully this can help make it happen.

[goon]

Re: Austin Hansen resigns

Coaching and recruiting to SDSU are not like coaching and recruiting to say the east or southern schools. getting kids to get to go to a small town cold weather school in SD is not the easiest or sexiest place to choose. Having a head coach who understands the ins and outs of that dynamic are very valuable. thats just as important and how good they are at practice and calling x and os during the game IMHO. Austin knows that dynamic well. which i think gives him the chance to move up the short list of coaches unless say a proven coach with ties to the upper midwest applys, I would think Austin has a good shot at it. I would have him perfered to go for a coaching job like D-2 or even naia so he can show how he can run a program, or go as an assistant at a major confrence would have been better for his development and to expand his recruiting base. Whose on the short list to replace him? Any names floating around yet?