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Maybe you’re right, but the 70 points by West Virginia coupled with Stoops pushing out Venables for Mike Stoops certainly led to a marriage made in football heaven. Don Brown would be an awesome hire. The question is would Manny surrender control of the defense to anyone?

Dabo fired Steele after West Virginia ran up 70 points against Clemson in the Orange Bowl. Clemson’s D was better than Oklahoma’s that season. OU gave up 40+ three or four times in losses, and Bob Stoops brought in his brother Mike and scapegoated Venables after that latter had won awards as a...

A great player that became a great HC is an outlier, really. Position coaches, maybe. Lombardi, Landry, Noll, Shula, Walsh, Madden, Parcells, Johnson, Dungy, Gruden, Cowher, Reid, Bellichk, Shanahan, John Harbaugh, Flores...all won one or multiple Super Bowls but were at best marginal players...