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Dino Babers is a star in the making in the coaching ranks. His offense is truly deadly. He's basically Art Briles in the beginning stages. I'm not saying he's the guy I'd hire, but he's this selection processes Kevin Sumlin.
Tom Herman is a guy who would kill here. Learned under the tutelage of an all-timer, creative. Alabama actually came to him to steal stuff from his offense that they openly use this year. He's not going to be the guy though. He'll have his pick after this season, and he'll get $4 million, so unless he wants to surprise everyone, this isn't going to be the type of job he'll take. He's from Ohio, and has deep roots to Texas. I like him a lot, but I don't see it.
Justin Fuente is a coach that I'd love. He has some unusual ties to the U. First, his high school team plays in our uniforms. The exact copy of our uniforms at Tulsa Union. Down to the helmet emblem and all. Second, he played QB at Oklahoma for Howard Schnellenberger. Well, he was recruited there anyway. He redshirted the last season of Howard. He runs the TCU spread, but relies heavily on the running game, so he's not a soft, Mike Leach style offense. Note: Dino Babers' Bowling Green team outplayed Memphis, and Memphis needed several trick plays to beat them by 3. Fuente is a midwestern guy, who does not have the type of personality that loves the glitz of a Miami. He's a football lifer who loves the grind. Makes $1.4 million and a manageable buyout. He's known to be the top target for South Carolina.
Brent Venables, DC of Clemson. Why does this guy not get more attention for a job here? He's worked and played under Bill Snyder- a noted magician in the coaching ranks- Bob Stoops, Dabo Swinney. Mark Stoops replaced him as DC at Oklahoma, and that program hasn't exactly been a stalwart since. Venables was up for the Broyles award in 2006 at Oklahoma. At Clemson his defenses have led the nation in yards per play for two seasons in a row. No metric correlates better with winning than yards per play (and also has a wide covariance, which shows consistency and reliability). His defense lost three DT's (including all-conference Grady Jarrett), two 1st round picks (Vic Beasley, Stephone Anthony), a rush end drafted, two DE's, one an honorable mention All-ACC player, a 1st team ACC CB (Garry Peters) and yet they're maybe better this year. He's recruited the heck out of Florida, and has been named a top-10 recruiter in the ACC for several years. If you want to get back to being a dominant defense who runs a one-gap, 4-3 front, presses the **** out of you, and competes to lead the nation in tackles for loss etc. then this guy is for you. I wonder who he'd bring in for his offense, but if he brings a variation of the Chad Morris offense, sign me up for him. I'm hearing he's the guy Virginia wants.
I'm not a fan of any of the guys with Miami ties if Butch isn't an option.
Thanks for the contribution. Please join the coaching tree thread.
Sorry, I just kind of listed my thoughts to go with the thread topic of Butch not being the guy. I suppose I should've listed why I'm not a fan of the non-Butch Miami ties guys instead.
I wasn't being sarcastic. Would just like your continued contributions and thoughts in that thread. I know you're a thoughtful poster, and this is a great time for added insight. This is a huge decision coming up.