… but then I remind myself of Cam Cameron: He was a rising star as a coordinator and assistant in college before he went on to good success with Washington in the NFL. He then took IU’s HC job, and well… it’s Indiana U. football; Montanna in his prime couldn’t save that program if he both coached and suited up. You’d think that’d be a black mark, and I think there are things he could’ve done better coaching the Hoosiers (not surrender to the fact that IU is lower on the recruiting totem pole than other universities is one of them), but at the same time, the fact that it was IU is, in a funny way, a shield against negative judgements: No one blames him for not being able to raise the program far.

After that, though, Cameron has had only 1 honestly bad NFL experience (the Dolphins). Yet, he had multiple good ones (Washington, San Diego, and currently Baltimore). He may never get a head coaching job ever again, but no one questions his abilities as a coordinator. I think he Peter Principled out, then sank back down to his level of competence. My point here is that we can’t judge NFL coaches performances by what they did in college. Cameron is proof of that. He’s an argument that a bad college resume doesn’t necessarily spell doom in the pros.

And didn’t Caldwell have a somewhat average to mediocre college record too?

Successful college coaches coming to the NFL and having great success are rare; Jimmy Johnson is the only one I can think of offhand, although there have to be others. But what I’m getting at is that what matters in the pros is how you perform in the pros, and if they don’t have professional experience, the most you can do is give them a chance to demonstrate what they could do. If Prince has passed muster with Polian and Caldwell, I’m fine with them giving him that chance.

I am a huge KSU Football supporter and I was excited when K-State first hired Prince. However after watching him manage a game, and managing the clock, he has left me very unimpressed. He was in over his head. Maybe he will have better luck next year in his new role.
Good luck.

The knocks on him are game and roster management, responsibilities he will have with us.

I don’t see how any of the criticism is really relevant for this position.

His experience as OL coach is more relevant and he seems to handle that well, according to geo.

that he prefers smaller, more athletic O-Line’ers. I was hoping that we were going to start leaning toward bigger guys who can run block better. I’ll withhold judgment for now, but will be quick to pull it out if we continue this line of thinking, so to speak.

was also despised by K-State fans, I attended college there for two years, because he failed to win football games. The man had some good players come through there and he just couldn’t get it done. He also was known as a bit of a tyrant and he was especially rough on his players. Just my experience living in these parts and watching most of the games he coached.

At the end of the day he really won’t have much input as an assistant offensive line coach so there is little chance for him to do any damage, and hell, maybe he can light a fire in Tony Ugoh.

They always played the Longhorns tough. Colt McCoy’s worst loss statisticly was against the Wildcats.

And, Vince WAS a good college QB.

So you’re saying Tebow isn’t Jesus?