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cookies said:
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Monken was only at GA Southern for his transfer sit-out year before taking the Army job; in other words, you’re correct. GA Southern would beat UF 26-20 to end that year (2013). I thought we were back when we beat UF by a similar margin earlier in the season:roll-canes2:

Anyways, Favian played for 4 head coaches and 4 offensive coordinators in 5 years: Mario, Monken, Fritz, and Tyson Summers who is the current DC at Colorado State. Dell McGee was his interim HC when he won GoDaddy Bowl MVP.

OCs: Tim Cramsey (just got hired at Arkansas for OC from Memphis), Brent Davis is the TE coach for Pitt after being VT’s OL/TE coach, Doug Ruse was recently an analyst at South Alabama, and David Dean currently HC at Delta State University (didn’t know this existed). DD was Valdosta State’s HC prior to that.

Last coaching tree tidbit, Mario’s former OC Bill Legg was at Minnesota with Hetherman in 2024.


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Great post. But, when you are mentioning the Ga Southern beatdown of the gators you have to mention that GS threw ZERO passes!!!
 
MedleyCane said:
I believe Viti replaced Davis as OL coach at Army when the latter went to VT.
Some folks mistake the Triple Option run at the academies with the old Oklahoma, Bama, Texas, etc wishbones.
These offenses have evolved over time.
Calhoun at AFA was an NFL assistant at one point during his career. His and the Army/Navy offenses are sneaky good at passing when they have to.
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Agreed, there is variation and modernization that has taken root. As Mario has made abundantly clear: he’s not trying to time travel to bring the past to the present.

I want Fletcher and Pringle on the field together; and Lofton can help clear the way for them. He can also catch outs and curls, too. Likewise with our RBs getting more involved.

Calhoun was Kubiak’s 1st OC in Houston after working with him on the Broncos; then accepted the Air Force job. Davis left after 2022, during the 2022 season, he relinquished offensive line responsibilities while Viti switched over from RBs to offensive line.

He worked under two other offensive coordinators after Davis left: Drew Thatcher and Cody Worley. Sneaky passing concepts as you mentioned; Dawson was a GA, only in 2005, when Thatcher was playing WR for Hal Mumme at New Mexico State.

In 2021, Viti is listed as having been the running backs coach instead of the fullbacks coach for the first time; fullbacks coach for the prior 5 seasons. Titled assistant coach for the offense / offensive line in 2023. He was promoted to associate head coach / OL for the 2025 season.

Previously the TE coach, In 2023 & 2024, Matt Drikall (current Central Michigan head coach) worked the offensive line with Viti.

A lot of overlap between Upshaw, Dawson, and Viti.
 
JayCane20 said:
We have now brought in a former triple option QB to coach RBs (was Upshaw at GA Southern when Monken was there too? - just thought about that connection) and a former triple option RB/triple option OL coach to coach TEs. Makes you wonder what they're thinking behind the scenes or if there's something new they're incorporating there.

Also, speculating on assistant coaching hires is completely pointless now. Nobody mentioned either of these dudes the entire time. Corner will probably be exactly the same.
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Baby Jesus at QB1 confirmed for 2026. Malicat base offense. Mensah QB2 / gadget qb when we want to change it up once in awhile and do a more traditional passing game.
 
cookies said:
Agreed, there is variation and modernization that has taken root. As Mario has made abundantly clear: he’s not trying to time travel to bring the past to the present.

I want Fletcher and Pringle on the field together; and Lofton can help clear the way for them. He can also catch outs and curls, too. Likewise with our RBs getting more involved.

Calhoun was Kubiak’s 1st OC in Houston after working with him on the Broncos; then accepted the Air Force job. Davis left after 2022, during the 2022 season, he relinquished offensive line responsibilities while Viti switched over from RBs to offensive line.

He worked under two other offensive coordinators after Davis left: Drew Thatcher and Cody Worley. Sneaky passing concepts as you mentioned; Dawson was a GA, only in 2005, when Thatcher was playing WR for Hal Mumme at New Mexico State.

In 2021, Viti is listed as having been the running backs coach instead of the fullbacks coach for the first time; fullbacks coach for the prior 5 seasons. Titled assistant coach for the offense / offensive line in 2023. He was promoted to associate head coach / OL for the 2025 season.

Previously the TE coach, In 2023 & 2024, Matt Drikall (current Central Michigan head coach) worked the offensive line with Viti.

A lot of overlap between Upshaw, Dawson, and Viti.
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Good stuff, Cookies.
 
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Kn[]_[]ckles3o5 said:
Likely mentioned in an earlier post but Alex Bauman missed a routine chip on a punt protect that likely cost us the national championship. Presumably this guy would rip that kids head off a **** down his neck if he even thought about not giving full effort.

So like many on this thread I am in.

Cheers to The Miami Hurricanes being the most physical and violent version of a modern college football team imaginable
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Sideline going to be looking like this next year if they miss another block

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MedleyCane said:
Yeap.
Same deal with many of the cities and towns in PA and Ohio.
They remain very strong football states, but not in quantity as it was in
the old days.
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This is true of my neck o’ the woods, for sure. NE Ohio used to be strong and deep with Cleveland, Youngstown, Akron, Canton, etc. the Cleveland area is still solid, but Canton is no longer a national power and Youngstown, Warren has completely fallen off. Ohio used to be top 5, now we’re closer to 10. When the steel mills and rubber companies left, the populations did as well and that slowly strangled the life out of great football around here. With that being said, we just signed 2 studs from up here in our latest class. I think that both are going to be big time.
 
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