Chose other and went very out the box and not with Charlie Strong.
Clint Hurtt, baby. Former show cause bagman dL coach with now 7 going on 8 years of NFL experience and current dl/assistant head coach (pseudo ceo) to Pete Carroll. Been the assistant head coach under him now for three years (spent several years with Bears, too) so he’s been second in command and learning actual CEO skills for several years now in addition to being a dl coach.
NFL guy we desire (not coordinator but dl/ assistant head coach skills) with former cfb experience here and at Louisville. Probably has tons of coaching contacts and could recruit pretty well even if he was a bagger (which is irrelevant nowadays, anyways, with NIL). He knows what it takes to recruit in college, has great energy, and especially here, and he’s been learning a lot in the NFL under a guy like Carroll for a good chunk of time.
Kind of reminds me of Butch in terms of career path where he coached here and was a high energy coach and recruiter, before going to the NFL and growing as a coach under a good HC for a while.