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Alex Del Piero said:
Very interesting, I think Spavital position at Texas State is not very solid. I read his name in a couple of "Who's on the hot seat" articles this year.

I also think we should look at the salaries: IMHO it's impossible for someone to get a position demotion (especially from HC to OC) without a better salary. For example:
- Spavital makes 800k
- Montgomery makes 1.6 million
- Loeffler makes circa 500k
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Montgomery making $1.6 million already likely takes him out of the mix
 
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Gi0logy said:
Alright, here we go. List of G5 HC's with offensive background/OC experience:

AAC
Dana Holgorsen - Houston (not realistic)
Ryan Silverfield - Memphis (not realistic)
Jeff Scott - USF (possible)
Stan Drayton - Temple (just hired, not realistic)
Phillip Montgomery - Tulsa (possible)
Gus Malzahn - UCF (not realistic)

C-USA
Will Healy - Charlotte (possible I guess?)
Willie Taggart - FAU (I hope not)
Sonny Cumbie - LA Tech (just hired, probably not)
Charles Huff - Marshall (not realistic)
Rick Stockstill - MTSU (MTSU lifer, no)
Seth Littrell - UNT (possible)
Ricky Rahne - ODU (possible but na)
Mike Bloomgren - Rice (possible but na)
Will Hall - Southern Mizz (possible)
Jeff Traylor - UTSA (not realistic)
Tyson Helton - WKU (probably not realistic)

Independent
Jeff Monken - Army (no)
Hugh Freeze - Liberty (not realistic)
Jerry Kill - New Mexico State (no)

MAC
Joe Moorhead - Akron (oh please god no)
Mike Neu - Ball State (possibly but na)
Scott Loefler - Bowling Green (interesting background......hmm)
Jim McElwain - Central Michigan (lol no)
Chris Creighton - Eastern Michigan (meh)
Sean Lewis - Kent State (Jay mentioned not him, dang)
Chuck Martin - Miami OH (possibly but meh)
Thomas Hammock - Northern Illinois (na)
Tim Albin - Ohio (na)
Jason Candle - Toledo (also mentioned as it not being him)
Time Lester - Western Michigan (also mentioned as it not being him)

Mountain West
Troy Calhoun - Air Force (no)
Jay Norvell - Colorado State (not realistic...I think)
Jeff Tedford - Fresno State (not realistic)
Todd Graham - Hawaii (walking trainwreck...no)
Brent Brennan - San Jose State (possible)
Marcus Arroyo - UNLV (please no)
Blake Anderson - Utah State (not realistic)

Sun Belt (I think just about all of these guys would rather be HC than go back down to OC)
Shawn Clark - App State (not realistic)
Butch Jones - Arkansas State (not realistic)
Jamey Chadwell - Coastal Carolina (not realistic)
Clay Helton - Georgia Southern (not realistic)
Shawn Elliott - Georgia State (not realistic)
Michael Desormeaux - Lousiana (not realistic)
Jake Spavital - Texas State (possible and interesting)

Personally I think the interesting ones are: Phillip Montgomery, Jake Spavital, and Scott Loefler.

45 names to dissect. Have fun!
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If it was any of those guys, wouldn’t he have been hired by now? It’s not like any of them are in the CFP or in the pros.

Logic would say the coordinators are in the CFP and/or the pros. Jmo
 
Gi0logy said:
Alright, here we go. List of G5 HC's with offensive background/OC experience:

AAC
Dana Holgorsen - Houston (not realistic)
Ryan Silverfield - Memphis (not realistic)
Jeff Scott - USF (possible)
Stan Drayton - Temple (just hired, not realistic)
Phillip Montgomery - Tulsa (possible)
Gus Malzahn - UCF (not realistic)

C-USA
Will Healy - Charlotte (possible I guess?)
Willie Taggart - FAU (I hope not)
Sonny Cumbie - LA Tech (just hired, probably not)
Charles Huff - Marshall (not realistic)
Rick Stockstill - MTSU (MTSU lifer, no)
Seth Littrell - UNT (possible)
Ricky Rahne - ODU (possible but na)
Mike Bloomgren - Rice (possible but na)
Will Hall - Southern Mizz (possible)
Jeff Traylor - UTSA (not realistic)
Tyson Helton - WKU (probably not realistic)

Independent
Jeff Monken - Army (no)
Hugh Freeze - Liberty (not realistic)
Jerry Kill - New Mexico State (no)

MAC
Joe Moorhead - Akron (oh please god no)
Mike Neu - Ball State (possibly but na)
Scott Loefler - Bowling Green (interesting background......hmm)
Jim McElwain - Central Michigan (lol no)
Chris Creighton - Eastern Michigan (meh)
Sean Lewis - Kent State (Jay mentioned not him, dang)
Chuck Martin - Miami OH (possibly but meh)
Thomas Hammock - Northern Illinois (na)
Tim Albin - Ohio (na)
Jason Candle - Toledo (also mentioned as it not being him)
Time Lester - Western Michigan (also mentioned as it not being him)

Mountain West
Troy Calhoun - Air Force (no)
Jay Norvell - Colorado State (not realistic...I think)
Jeff Tedford - Fresno State (not realistic)
Todd Graham - Hawaii (walking trainwreck...no)
Brent Brennan - San Jose State (possible)
Marcus Arroyo - UNLV (please no)
Blake Anderson - Utah State (not realistic)

Sun Belt (I think just about all of these guys would rather be HC than go back down to OC)
Shawn Clark - App State (not realistic)
Butch Jones - Arkansas State (not realistic)
Jamey Chadwell - Coastal Carolina (not realistic)
Clay Helton - Georgia Southern (not realistic)
Shawn Elliott - Georgia State (not realistic)
Michael Desormeaux - Lousiana (not realistic)
Jake Spavital - Texas State (possible and interesting)

Personally I think the interesting ones are: Phillip Montgomery, Jake Spavital, and Scott Loefler.

45 names to dissect. Have fun!
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1) how hilarious would it be to hire Temples brand new head coach? They’d riot

2) as a Chattanooga native I would be ecstatic to hire Will Healy
 
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OriginalCanesCanesCanes said:
It really doesn’t matter who we get, there’s gonna be a group of people that are going to hate it.
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They'll puff up their chest and bang their keyboards....
Pbs Nature Gorilla GIF by Nature on PBS
 
Spavital is interesting and makes some sense. He's only 36 and young enough in his career where preemptively leaving a HC gig that he's 9-27 in for a high-profile OC job (and potentially tripling his salary) may be a better gameplan than sticking around for a 4th year and potentially getting fired halfway through the season. He probably saw what TVD just did for Lashlee's career and 2 years with our offense likely puts him on a better trajectory than he's on now.

Oh, and he was OC under Dana at WVU when Doug Belk was CB coach there...
 
Chip Kelly and UCLA look like they will be amicably parting on Jan 15 when buyout provisions become null and void on both sides. Just saying, Chip does the ocean and originally an East Coast guy. Also, Mario and Chip have a lot of mutual Oregon friends.
 
RC26 said:
That mans power was god like.
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I know man, he had it all to be the best ever but unfortunately after Cus died he lost the guidance and focus. I often wonder if Cus could have just lived five more years what could have been. He would have been kept away from that cancer Don king. And never would have fired Kevin Rooney as his trainer for those Don king cronie bums in his corner for the Douglas fight. What couldve been! Smh
 
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AUcane said:
If it was any of those guys, wouldn’t he have been hired by now? It’s not like any of them are in the CFP or in the pros.

Logic would say the coordinators are in the CFP and/or the pros. Jmo
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Who knows? Things have been kept so tightly wrapped it’s hard to know what’s actually been going on.

Could be that Mario wasn’t able to make some of the other names work (Brady, Briles, etc) and has now moved on to the next tier of names.
 
I’d be surprised if a sitting Head coach at the G5 level takes a step down to be a OC here.
 
AUcane said:
If it was any of those guys, wouldn’t he have been hired by now? It’s not like any of them are in the CFP or in the pros.

Logic would say the coordinators are in the CFP and/or the pros. Jmo
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are we really waiting for seasons to be over or did mario just wait to announce the hires day by day leading up to the end of the dead period?
 
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TallyCane said:
I’d be surprised if a sitting Head coach at the G5 level takes a step down to be a OC here.
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I know some people are gonna take this the wrong way but Enos left CMU for Arkansas when Bielema took over that job.
 
407cane said:
are we really waiting for seasons to be over or did mario just wait to announce the hires day by day leading up to the end of the dead period?
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Honestly if we don't have an OC by Monday or Tuesday at this point, it's Dorsey. Literally no other explanation - college season has been done for over a week for all but two teams. Unless, we whiffed on someone and it's been under wraps. And even if it's Dorsey, not sure why we wouldn't announce it after the regular season is done - plenty of NFL assistants have already expressed interest and agreed to college deals (even on playoff teams, like the Chiefs) while finishing their tenures out in the pros. It's not like college football optics.

Which leads me to my ultimate fear - Mario is waiting on Dorsey to make a decision, and if it's the wrong decision, I hope he has a bonafide, surefire backup plan ready to go. But hey, this could all be basura...so we just have to wait and see - hopefully not too much longer. Dead period ends Jan 13, transfer portal is heating up...it's time to get a staff in place and finish recruiting strong after Saturday's mishap.
 
TallyCane said:
I’d be surprised if a sitting Head coach at the G5 level takes a step down to be a OC here.
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A young coach entering a season where he's going to be on the hot seat to take more money? Don't think it's surprising at all.
 
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Loeffler makes some sense.

Has coached QBs. ACc/SEC/NFL experience.

7-22 record at BG, so might want to jump ship.
 
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