Please. Absolute no-brainer that he was going to Oklahoma over Miami.
Aside from back-to-back Heisman quarterbacks—the Sooners program has been in better shape than the Hurricanes for two decades now.
A consistent BCS team, that never won another title after 2000—they're always in the hunt and a well-oiled machine under Bob Stoops, before Lincoln Riley was gifted the keys.
Would love to see what Riley looks like if he didn't take over a program that reloads every year, while the Hurricanes have been rebuilding with every coach since Butch Davis left.
Riley was 34 years old when he got the Sooners gig; an OC there for two years—prior to that, East Carolina's OC for three years and a Texas Tech position coach before that. Manny Diaz's resume was literally better than Riley's—but he took over a machine of a program and Diaz got ....well, modern day Miami.
Tony Elliott and Jeff Scott at Clemson ain't much better. The 40-year old Elliott was the Tigers' running backs coach for five years before given the co-OC title—a three-year wide receivers coach at Furman and two years at South Carolina State in the same gig before that—while Scott spent seven years as Clemson's wide receivers coach, one year at Presbyterian's wide receivers coach and one year at Blythewood High School, before the co-OC gig for the Tigers—which just landed him the South Florida head coaching gig with Charlie Strong getting the boot.
Funny how so many "great" coaches wound up falling upwards into great programs and gigs—despite weak-*** resumes, where time was ultimately everything.
But yeah, of course Hurts chose OU over Miami—the Sooners literally in the Playoffs the last two years—while the Hurricanes have won the garbage Coastal Division once in 16 tries.
This literally needed to be turned into a knock on garbage-*** Enos—as if OU's body of work doesn't speak for itself? Please.