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OL coach option

Darrell Funk - Long time veteran OL coach, was at as Colorado St with our own Sonny Lubick for 5 years, then was at Ball St, SD St & Michigan with Brady Hoke during the Denard Robinson era, landed multiple NFL OL's like Taylor Lewan, Patrick Omameh, Kyle Kalis & Ben Braden. Was at Akron for two years on the same staff with Stroud & Hickson in his final year there.

Also coached at Purdue & Indiana St (his son is TE's coach at Indiana St), and was at UTSA with Frank Wilson the last two seasons.

AJ Hopp - Started out as a GA at FAU under Carl Pelini/Charlie Partridge, was a GA at Miss St under Dan Mullen & was there with Diaz in 2015, was at Houston in 2017 with Brian Johnson (current QB's coach for UF) & is currently at Southeastern Louisiana as the OL coach under Greg Stevens the OC for the #1 ranked Offense in FCS.

Smart young X's & O's guy, coached OL & TE's coach for his early career, will be a guy that eventually gets hired at bigger program & does well.
 
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Liberty City El said:
Current OL coach for Heupel at UCF, was with him at Mizzou as well, also coached at Ark St, OK St & Houston. He started out as a GA on Saban's LSU championship team.

Does a great job developing under rated 3-star linemen into legit starters. If you watch any UCF games their OL is always really good despite not having a single 4-star among them, a lot of that is obviously because of the high octane quick attacking system they run, but they're always a formidable rushing team as well.

Smart guy & comes from a good line of coaches.
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I like this one get a guy who already familiar with the area and runs a similar system to what we are gonna run
 
Liberty City El said:
There's good coaches everywhere, every Coach that you would want from the "top spread schools" started out at a smaller school before they got to the program they're currently at.
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The NFL has finally understood how to change the pace with hiring talent. Our program still operates off the 2 degree rule. If you're a "Miami guy" (wtf does this mean) and share an agent with the women's swim team coach, you have a leg up on the guy in Nevada who just invented the pistol formation.
 
Liberty City El said:
There's good coaches everywhere, every Coach that you would want from the "top spread schools" started out at a smaller school before they got to the program they're currently at.
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Not every but many.

Lincoln Riley., Kevin Sumlin are a couple that always started at FBS schools.

The better answer is that no established spread coach currently working in any decent FBS program would take a step down to work for Manny in Miami for sub standard pay.
 
CaneOil said:
While I do agree with that, I'd really like a proven OL coach. One who is a great recruiter too. Maybe I'm asking to much but I'm getting old and this losing isn't helping my aging much.
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I would too, but considering who we have running the show, that's unlikely.

The more established flashy name guys that everyone wants have leverage, they don't need the headache of coming to coach under a guy that's clearly on his way out.

That's why most of my coaching suggestions are always guys from smaller programs that are very good at their job but just aren't well known **** names that the board will get excited over, because those coaches kill two birds with one stone; you get smart X's & O's guys that are also cheap & can be enticed with a pay raise upgrade in jobs.

Good luck trying to lure a coach a from a big program that's already making good money at a better P5 & has no relationship with a guy like Diaz as is.
 
Liberty City El said:
There's good coaches everywhere, every Coach that you would want from the "top spread schools" started out at a smaller school before they got to the program they're currently at.
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Exactly. I like a lot of your ol suggestions. Where do these guys think all the great position coaches start? There aren’t many getting their first job at Alabaga.

A hugely important task for coaches and football administrators at Miami is being football junkies. We need a guy or guys who live and breathe college football and are always on top of who the up and coming coaches are. Instead, it seems like our first reaction to filling a gig is looking for someone with a past connection to Miami or to a guy on staff.

I don’t know how Briles will work out at Arkansas, but he had never met Pittman before he got that job.
 
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Wasn’t the line of thinking about who wouldn’t come here and why the same before Lashlee got hired? When any one with a brain and not seething with Diaz hate told you that money and opportunity would negate any potential “HC is a dead man walking“ hesitation. If Miami wants to pay they can get a good FBS OL coach who has experience coaching the spread.
 
Came here to report about JB Grimes and someone beat me to it. I'm slow once the edibles kick in. He'd be an excellent choice!
 
Weird that Grimes quits Auburn the day before Barry is officially fired. Auburn's OL was really good this year. Can he recruit?
 
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I say no thank you to JB Gtimes he is used to having the help of a few $EC Bagmen when recruiting. At Miami it is all on the level, similar to small school recruiting. We need an young hungry Oline coach that enjoys the grind.

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