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Ken dorsey

Canedude08 said:
A lot of those fans wanted him not because of his resume at the time, but because "Miami Guy" nonsense. KD had never been a primary playcaller, and any time you give a guy that has never called plays that role, you are taking a risk. Has it worked out for KD? Heck yes and for that we should all be happy. That said, there were plenty of legitimate reasons why it didn't make sense to hire KD as an OC over the last decade or so. People forget that he was working as an admin for Butch at FIU, and it appeared that he may go that route long term.

KD is trending for something better than a college OC gig.
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A lot of fans didnt want him because of those so called 'legitimate reasons' you spoke of.

Long and short of it, risks are taken every single season...and we flat out missed on the opportunity to have him at UM
 
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Golsen82 said:
Eh he just wasn't qualified to coach here as OC.



Seriously if miami-football gonna hire all these former players he was one they should definitely have hired
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he could have had the job if he wanted it. he knew he had a path to become a head coach in the NFL with one good OC season. so what some fans didn't think he was ready. 80% of the predictions I read on this board are wrong. so what. every time he does something great we have to hear or read ..."but some fans didn't want him." some people love to beat a dead horse around here.
 
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paksat said:
You didn't know he would be killing it in the NFL, that's called hindsight. UM had one chance to get this right, if you wanna roll the dice on an absolutely green play caller coming to a premier div 1 program over say Joe Brady then we might as well have Jon right back as qb coach.

This is silly anyway at this point, he was never coming here.
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Years of NFL experience. Yeah, I'd have been 100% fine with him calling plays for the first time here. Everyone in the NFL respects the **** out of him, but UM fans? Nah, we're too big for him. Instead, we go hire JAGattis, with his wonderful record of calling plays. It's paying off already, isn't it? Look at what that experience is getting us. Thank God we didn't take a chance with Dorsey.

Again, I agree that it was highly unlikely that he'd come here, but not because he had never called plays. He was going to be an NFL OC one way or the other, because the dudes in the pros know full well what he can do, and what he knows.
 
Zbrod95 said:
And? Nick Saban was fired from the Browns. Guess he’s a ****** HC for being fired.
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yep.

and the university of kentucky fired a staff of coaches consisting of:

howard schnellenberger
blanton collier
bill arnsparger, and ....
don shula

all in the same day.

they must have really sucked, huh? those guys were probably never heard from again after that.
 
Zbrod95 said:
But people told me he wasn’t good enough because he was only a QB coach.
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Also Joe Brady didn't call plays at LSU. So he wasn't wanted either. And Dan Mullen can't recruit. Gattis was the only logical choice.

Seriously though - re: Dorsey, it wouldn't have been a good business decision to come to UM. He was a lock to be Buffalo’s OC if/when Daboll left.

However, I think it might be a good business decision for Brady to be a college OC again for a year or two. Lashlee landed a 3 mil per year HC gig at a solid G5 program after just 2 quality years as UM OC. I think at 2 mil per year, Brady would be making considerably more as UM OC than the Bills QB coach. Could easily get a Lashlee - type HC gig after reestablishing his OC chops or get hired back to the nfl as full time OC.
 
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paksat said:
You didn't know he would be killing it in the NFL, that's called hindsight. UM had one chance to get this right, if you wanna roll the dice on an absolutely green play caller coming to a premier div 1 program over say Joe Brady then we might as well have Jon right back as qb coach.

This is silly anyway at this point, he was never coming here.
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Yeah, well we didn't know Gattis would suck so badly, so there's that.
 
Golsen82 said:
Eh he just wasn't qualified to coach here as OC.



Seriously if miami-football gonna hire all these former players he was one they should definitely have hired
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Love this attitude ... as if he was going to leave Buffalo to come to coach at UM. Just because some fans wanted him and others didn't—has no bearing on reality. The kid has been on an NFL career trajectory for years and he's finally getting to shine with the Bills.

Some of y'all act like Mario had him locked up,Kenny D was heading south and it fell apart at the last minute because fans weren't on board.

Only way Dorsey was ever coming back to Miami was as a head coach—and at this rate he'll be an NFL head coach before that day ever comes.
 
MedleyCane said:
Yeah, this is one of several threads on same topic bemoaning the shame that we didn't hire Dorsey...I always wonder what year our coaches missed on him because no way Dorsey was returning to UM to do OC after last season.
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Ken has been coaching in the NFL since 2013 (outside spending 2018 at FIU in a one-year assistant AD role between Carolina and Buffalo gigs.)

Al Golden would've had to hire him after Jedd Fisch left after the 2012 season—and even if that happened, Dorsey would've been out in 2015 when the Golden era ended.
 
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swampcougar1 said:
Plenty of warnings posted on this board
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I'm just saying, we hired a guy with warning signs, so why not go after a guy who is well respected in the NFL? The whole, "He's never called plays before" doesn't hold any water with me, because everyone who has ever called plays, at one point, had not. When the man in question is so respected as a coach he practically made rosters for 7 years for his ability to teach other QBs, and has been held in even higher esteem since retiring and becoming a coach, you can let the whole never called plays things slide. He was on the verge of getting hired by an NFL team as OC, and they knew what he could do, but our fans didn't want to consider him because, you know, he had never called plays.
 
Hes been one of the best in the biz for a while now.

Not calling plays was merely academic...he was obviously going to be a stud at that too...he's been good at everything offense that can be processed between the ears.
 
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Dorsey was an NFL OC in-waiting. Been saying for the longest time he should've gotten a look, even before Cristobal. One of the highest IQs ever out of our program and a film-room savant.

Daboll was grooming him and he was never coming back to coach college.
 
Miami Bros: Hire Corch fat Manny deluxe 2.0 for $8mm a year forever.

Fans:

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ItsAUThing.com said:
Al Golden would've had to hire him after Jedd Fisch left after the 2012 season—and even if that happened, Dorsey would've been out in 2015 when the Golden era ended.
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And folks on this board would have had a cow had Golden hired him after Fisch, and rightly so because that would have been a huge gamble given his coaching resume at that time.
 
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