Wristen got the gig

by gilbert on Jul 4, 2007 12:51 AM PDT

According to CSU-Pueblo's official athletics website, Wristen has been hired as their head football coach. Wristen, for those of you who haven't been keeping up on the diaries, was the special teams and tight ends coach at UCLA in 2006 and recently resigned to pursue this position. (That's what the press release said, at least.)

Official release from CSU-Pueblo

Congrats to Coach Wristen and best of luck to him.

It looks like he'll need that luck -- I didn't realize that the job he was up for was for a newly reinstated football program that doesn't begin play until 2008.

I need to work on making my diaries 200 words.

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My apologies to Coach Wristen

I thought he was a puss for bringing his parents along for his interview. Well, the laugh is on me, his parents must have said somthing magical because some how he landed the gig. Congrats Coach and good luck, maybe an underacheiving Dorrell team will play CSU-Pueblo in the MAC-Computer/ Nuts Bowl.

Victory or until next year!

by ncrpz2 on Jul 4, 2007 8:17 AM PDT reply actions

Did KD have anything to do with this hire?

It seems like he didn't.
And if he didn't, then what we have here is a KD assistant who preferred to use his PARENTS as a reference instead of his head coach.

Could you imagine a Howland assistant not using his relationship with Howland as a reference for getting a gig?

by bornagainbruin on Jul 9, 2007 8:40 AM PDT reply actions

We Can't Criticize Wristen

First, and most important, he got the gig he wanted, so what he did obviously worked.

And think about it. Would you want the word "Dorrell" anywhere on your resume? I don't blame Wristen one bit for not soliciting any help from Mr. Dorrell in his job search. Can you imagine the glowing recommendation from Mr. Dorrell, who more and more reminds me of Mr. Lumberg from "Office Space" -- "Uh, yeah. Wristen? Uh, Yeah. He's making good progress. He's turning the corner. (Takes sip of coffee.) He's really moving out the learning curve. And he puts the cover sheet on his TPS reports."

by Fox 71 on Jul 9, 2007 9:26 AM PDT up reply actions