Matt Wells was a fckin idiot, he left Utah St to got TTech & tried to turn them into a Power Spread team, they’re not built for that & they never will be. TTech is strictly Air Raid & that’s what they’ve been recruited to be since Leach was there.
A ton of coaches have come out of that TTech program & have gone on to have success all throughout college football, including Oklahoma’s very own Lincoln Riley.
There’s a bunch of candidates that would be good for that job:
- Zach Kittley who came from Kingsbury regime at TTech & was at Houston Baptist lighting it up on the FCS before coming to Western Kentucky under Tyson Helton & has Bailey Zappe as the 2nd ranked passer in the nation.
- Graham Harrell, former TTech QB, that has coached at OK St with Gundy, Wash St with Leach, North Texas with Seth Littrell & has been OC for USC the last 3 seasons & is a highly regarded player caller as well.
- Kendal Briles, son of Art Briles who’s another Leach disciple, was Passing game coordinator & OC at Baylor for 5 years, OC with Kiffin at FAU, OC with Holgorsen at Houston, brief stint with Willie at FSU & has rebuilt his reputation as an OC with Pittman at Arkansas transforming their offense & has had them playing at a high level.
- Jeff Traylor, current HC at UTSA has them 8-0 right now & favorites to win the CUSA, he’s a coach I’ve been mentioning for a while as someone I think would do very well here but of course he’ll never even be interviewed lol. But he’s a very good coach who was one of the most successful HS coaches down in Texas, he had a 81% winning percentage & won something like 5 or 6 state titles at Gilmer. He was also a ST’s/TE’s coach at Texas for Charlie Strong for a year, was with Chad Morris at SMU & Arkansas & since being HC at UTSA is 15-5. He’s only making between $800,000-900,000 per, so he’s a coach you could hire for $2.5-3mill & get really good results from.
- Kalen DeBoer, current HC at Fresno St, was one of the best young innovative OC’s in the business when he was OC for Fresno St just 4 years ago under Jeff Tedford, he also got his start at Southern Illinois with Dave Doeren & Matt Canada & was OC at Indiana for a season before getting the Fresno St job. Although taking the TTech job might be a lateral move from Fresno, aside from more money they’re basically on equal footing as a program.
There’s several others, but the TTech job is actually not a bad one, as long as you understand what you’re supposed to do, which is find a legit Texas QB & field an high powered offense, that’s all they ask for & that’s all they care about. They’re not asking you to win the Big XII, they’re not even asking you to beat Texas or Oklahoma, they just want you to put a fun offense on the field & continue on their reputation as a QB development program.
If you’re a smart X’s & O’s guy, TTech is the perfect gig for you, because as long as you put up big numbers they don’t give AF if you lose.
