What about Jeff Brohm HC at WKU or Dave Aranda LSU DC?
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What about Jeff Brohm HC at WKU or Dave Aranda LSU DC?
I wouldn't mind some form of the option...even the relf option...but I'm a big fan of ball control and pounding the rock.
Once the current fiasco is over and done I'd like a flexible coach that allows coordinators to game plan and execute that plan. Micro managers never do well it seems.
One thing I always like in a HC is if the players play for them...obviously this weekend has put a spot light on that. But I've always admired the fact that players were willing to run thru a brick wall for miles and O. Now that doesn't mean I want them as HC but it is a trait that I'd look for in the next guy. Even when we were #1 I never felt the players played FOR Mullen.
Also, I'm as Christian conservative as anyone but I think it's absurd that being Mormon would even be thought of as a mark against a coach. And along that same lite, I understand what all occurred at Baylor but if briles would take the job here (with a decent buyout) I'd jump all over it in a heartbeat.
That doesn't matter. You sign 25 every year. That's 125 scholarship players if you redshirt everyone. You can only have 85. You play about 50. We can find 50 players to compete if we have a great QB. That's Mullen's greatest strength. That's why I hate to see him go just b/c of his O-line coach and lack of O-line recruiting.
Agreed, I don't think it matters if our coach worships the sun as long as he wins. But a lot of denominations of Christianity don't consider Mormons to be Christians (for example, the Catholic Church - largest denomination in America and the world - and the Southern Baptist Convention - largest denomination in Mississippi). Also, the whole bit about Mormons believing that blacks were destined to be servants until God "changed his mind" in 1978 (that's a good bit after the Civil Rights era) won't play well either, even though there are faithful and sincere black Mormons nowadays.
I'm extremely skeptical that any school (other than maybe Auburn) will try to hire Art Briles as a head coach. Imagine the outcry from the whole country and from within whatever fanbase hires him. We're talking about a guy who covered up several rapes committed by his players and bullied and intimidated a women's track athlete and had her scholarship reduced because she told on Sam Ukwuachu (who was found guilty and sentenced to jail, so it's not a he-said, she-said thing). Who would want to send their daughters to school at MSU if Art Briles were our coach?
About Tulsa and their defense- his DC’s (has co-DC’s) are both old guys. Bill Young has been around forever and then the other one is Brian Norwood who was a coach at Baylor who was not known for the defense. Young is a native of Oklahoma. If we hire Montgomery I would hope that he would bring in another DC- hopefully Shaw from Vanderbilt.
About Fleck- My hope there would be that he would at least keep Buckley and then promote the recruiting triplets to on the field coaches- Gibson, Peterson, and Austin. That would be a good start and then he could go from there with building the rest of the staff. Does anyone know what Austin’s background is? Offense or defense?
I would like Orgeron simply because it would drive UNM insane and he would do everything in his power to make their life a living hell. Plus he knows all their recruiting tricks so it would be fun to watch them squirm as they will be hamstrung even further after the NCAA hammer falls.
Quaors- I’d add Mike MacIntyre from Colorado to the list as well. His record is bad, but he turned San Jose State into a 10 win team and then took over a dumpster fire and now they are playing pretty well. He used to coach under Cutcliffe and his Dad was the head coach at Vanderbilt.
Just thinking. Whoever we hire needs to be a BIG splash hire. If we need to pony up 5 mil to get that person then it needs to happen. The timing of this combined with what the NCAA is about to do up north could (more or less) end UNM's football program for a loooooong time.