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They held the 114th ranked scoring offense to 14? Wow. https://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs/current/team/27/p3

So if he fails, we're looking at another 3-4 years of mediocrity with a rebuild and all. Great. Just not the hire we needed right now in my opinion.

It's not my job to answer the question. It's a fair criticism to see his track record and question the hire. To me, it looks like more Texas Tech connections helping each other.

A position coach and a coordinator are two completely different things. I don't even care about age, I care about on the field success. He's been a DC 3 years. First year was average, 2nd year was horrible, 3rd was good. Does that really justify hiring him?

We can't ask for somebody with experience and then pretend to be happy with this.

What's the excuse for his ACU defense finishing 117th in FCS in 2023? This is a laughable hire. No way to spin it.

Really did him well when a UCF team that finished 4-8 put up 384 rushing yards and 6 rushing TD on his defense.

Stupid hire. I'm disappointed in our leadership.

So that justifies being ranked 117? Not buying it. We wanted an experienced coach and instead got a 30 year old who's spent as much time as a grad assistant at Texas State and Texas Tech as he has a DC.

DC at Abilene Christian in 2022 and 2023. Defensive rank in 2022: 51 Defensive rank in 2023: 117 When do we get a new Head Coach?

We could probably money whip just about any MAC or Sun Belt DC. Regarding the guy I posted, he was also DC at Sac State for 3 years. He's got decent experience and Texas ties. I also don't think we'd have to pay Caponi salary to get him here.

Without knowing what JD knows, I'd be interested in Sammy Lawanson. He's the Co-DC and outside linebackers coach at Bowling Green. Ranked 29th in total defense and 24th in scoring defense, I don't believe anybody scored more than 34 against them which was to Penn State on the road and also includes holding Texas A&M to 26 on the road. He previously coached at Tulsa and for those interested in Texas ties he was the defensive coordinator at Hillcrest (04-05) in Dallas, John Horn (07-11) in Mesquite, and Haltom City (06). That leads me to my fun fact: If I'm counting correctly, Lawanson would have been the DC at Haltom HS when Lance Dunbar was a junior there.

Great name for an offensive linemen.

https://sportsdata.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries/football/assistant Now if you want to argue the pay difference is insignificant, I'm not going to disagree but Nate Woody makes 480k as it is. He's not coming here and starting over for the same pay so how much more would we be willing to pay to bring him over? Then you have to consider he wouldn't be bringing any of his guys with him, or at least not very many since they'd have to get out of their service so it really would be a complete rebuild. I think hiring him would be an expensive failure for those reasons.

That was actually for 2017. I looked at the wrong year... they were 79th for 2018-2019 calendar year. Middle of the pack in the ACC. He makes more than Caponi which I don't like unless we plan on holding on to the ball for 35 minutes per game like Army did this year. https://stats.ncaa.org/rankings/national_ranking?academic_year=2019.0&division=11.0&ranking_period=69.0&sport_code=MFB&stat_seq=28.0