Odom DC??

Meangreen Fight · Sunday at 04:27 PM

11 hours ago, greenminer said:

Look at every possible applicant, reach out to anyone that looks attractive.

Then pick the one that can convince Morris to implement some under-center snaps in his offense. Perfectly reasonable request, given the potential increase in 3rd down conversions and less time on his new defense will be on the field.

I really don't think it matters as long as Eric Morris is the coach here. He wasn't ready to be a head coach at this level and he is learning slow. You aren't going to get a good DC to come coach under a lame duck coach. Put yourself in the perspective of a good DC with options. If you are successful you will on be hiding EM's deficiencies as a play caller and game manager. If the defensive players are as bad as they look and you fail, you're a devalued unemployed coach looking for a 2026 job. Being coordinator at UNT isn't a bad job. But being a coordinator under a disappointing head coach new to FBS level who seems like he is in over his head is.

Edited Sunday at 05:15 PM by Meangreen Fight

C Rod · Sunday at 05:10 PM

31 minutes ago, Meangreen Fight said:

Put yourself in the perspective of a good DC with options.

Let's not forget the Air Raid system could give two shits about defense and defenders being tired. If I'm a good DC, coaching for an Air Raid head coach is not my first choice.

Meangreen Fight · Sunday at 05:14 PM

1 minute ago, C Rod said:

Let's not forget the Air Raid system could give two shits about defense and defenders being tired. If I'm a good DC, coaching for an Air Raid head coach is not my first choice.

I left that out intentionally trying not to be thoroughly negative. It is a good point just depressing because EM will be our coach in 2025.

greenminer · Sunday at 05:46 PM

1 hour ago, Meangreen Fight said:

I really don't think it matters as long as Eric Morris is the coach here. He wasn't ready to be a head coach at this level and he is learning slow. You aren't going to get a good DC to come coach under a lame duck coach. Put yourself in the perspective of a good DC with options. If you are successful you will on be hiding EM's deficiencies as a play caller and game manager. If the defensive players are as bad as they look and you fail, you're a devalued unemployed coach looking for a 2026 job. Being coordinator at UNT isn't a bad job. But being a coordinator under a disappointing head coach new to FBS level who seems like he is in over his head is.

Not ready to make some of these leaps, but you do you.

Get a good DC, have a sit down with Jarred with an open discussion about previous Denton coaching failures, and I think he'd be good. He'd still have some maddening playcalls, but I can find those in nearly any good coach.

HIs leash is very short, though.

Edited Sunday at 05:51 PM by greenminer

Meangreen Fight · Sunday at 05:56 PM

6 minutes ago, greenminer said:

Not ready to make some of these leaps, but you do you.

Get a good DC, have a sit down with Jarred with an open discussion about previous Denton coaching failures, and I think he'd be good. He'd still have some maddening playcalls, but I can find those in nearly any good coach.

HIs leash is very short, though.

That just sounds like delusion to me. If the defense breaks into the top 80 next year statically, I will be very surprised. Of available job openings at this level will be low on list. I would much rather join a brand new staff with 2 years of stability guaranteed than come here.

Glory to the Green · Sunday at 06:00 PM

1 minute ago, Meangreen Fight said:

I would much rather join a brand new staff with 2 years of stability guaranteed than come here.

I guess it depends on the DC. The LaTech guy may want to make the jumo to the AAC. Same for the Sam Houston DC. The Rice DC just had their HC fired.

greenminer · Sunday at 06:06 PM

It was the highest paid assistant position in all of G5. We're in DFW and its recruiting potential. We'll get looks. I haven't dug into who's available, though. I'm sure NIL budget would play into this, too, but I don't have any insight into that.

3_n_out · Sunday at 07:25 PM

2 hours ago, Meangreen Fight said:

I really don't think it matters as long as Eric Morris is the coach here. He wasn't ready to be a head coach at this level and he is learning slow. You aren't going to get a good DC to come coach under a lame duck coach. Put yourself in the perspective of a good DC with options. If you are successful you will on be hiding EM's deficiencies as a play caller and game manager. If the defensive players are as bad as they look and you fail, you're a devalued unemployed coach looking for a 2026 job. Being coordinator at UNT isn't a bad job. But being a coordinator under a disappointing head coach new to FBS level who seems like he is in over his head is.

Excellent point. However, you could also look to hire a DC with skins on the wall that could possibly take over if/when EM gets fired. The possibility of being a possible HC for a D-1 program may be quite enticing to some…at least the thought of it.

Edited Sunday at 07:25 PM by 3_n_out

Meangreen Fight · Sunday at 09:41 PM

2 hours ago, 3_n_out said:

Excellent point. However, you could also look to hire a DC with skins on the wall that could possibly take over if/when EM gets fired. The possibility of being a possible HC for a D-1 program may be quite enticing to some…at least the thought of it.

You could but I would be in favor of putting EM's replacement on staff? Morris knows the game and I wouldn't want division when it comes to recruiting. I do think our program needs a General Manager handling all executive duties directly related to football other than setting the budget allocated to football by the university. I think alot of the stupid stuff that looks bad to fans might go away if they had a general manager.