Won it at Bama as well
Along with bringing in Oregon's best classes ever and winning recruiter of the year at Miami and Bama, he also brought in the best classes FIU has ever seen.
This is the truth right here. This was one of the benefits of being an independent for so long.
Seriously we've gone through 4 terrible coaches and 1 semi-retired one and the guy who has his team at #3 is not good enough for us right now. Cause you know, there are coaches better all over the country dying to drop their programs for Miami. Listen if Mario isn't good enough, then we are royally and totally fcked cause we are almost assuredly not doing better. WTF exactly has Kiffin won? Cause he was at Alabama on the rehab train? At any rate, you are correct, all of them have their issues but the 100% guarantees from people here that this or that person isn't the right one is ridiculous.
Guess who won national recruiter of the year last year? A Bama assistant. Odd how that works out.
What year did he win national recruiter of the year at Miami? He was on staff from 2004-2006. Not sure anyone wants to take credit for those classes
And they had 10 other coaches that didn't win it. And 11 at Ohio State/Clemson...
Fair point.
Those are honestly the only points that matter from a hc perspective... The rest is simply surrounding yourself with competent football guys. We don't need some trend setting guru on either side of the ball as coordinators. We just need people who emphasize fundamentals and have a track record of coaching kids up... Far as caps or cussin at u I don't think I cussed at u at all and I didn't read beyond the coordinator comment. That's where you lost me. Because in pointing that out as some sort of negative in bringing in Mario you ignore any of the other points necessary in bringing up as well. For instance with kiffin, obviously he's got the mind for the offense but he also won't be able to get any competent oc to come in and work under him knowing they won't be involved in the offense and play calling. One negates the other. He's never had a disciplined team(which is essential here) as he's not disciplined himself & more than anything for me since he runs a fast paced offense you really need a home run as a DC because they're gonna be on the field alot considering the offense is all about striking. Regardless he's a moot point because why in gods name would kiffin come here as a step backwards from ole ****? He's got an sec head job and with a few good years there he carved himself out anything he wants in coaching. Here it's a stepping stone job unless your interest is long term. Kiffin is the exact opposite of stability. O'Brien I'm not sure why we'd even consider as he's simply another version of schiano who we've turned away twice and aranda I'm just leaving at I have no interest cause I discussed him several days ago.
So you should compare a run first team that lacked offensive weapons beyond Herbert & verdell to an Oklahoma squad stacked with playmakers and a tua led Alabama squad who had all Americans all over the field. I get your point and it's valid. But there is different variants at play considering Herbert was never expected to run that type of offense at Oregon and wasn't even on same field when discussing playmakers around him.
But he has continued to prove it. He's still in this backyard getting kids. He still has those relationships that he built back then. Mario is loved by kids and coaches alike down here.
16th in total offense that year. 9th among Power-5 schools plus Norte Dame.
I stated all those positive points if you read the entire post. My post was in follow up to another poster on the topic of Mario not having coordinator experience. Context matters.
You do realize since you mentioned losing when the oc was out that any team is reliant on some form of an oc right? As in any oc as in someone actually hired to do that job. They were missing that. Most teams would struggle with same circumstances.
Jim Harbaugh at Michigan was a slam dunk perfect hire. Haha- OR I just remember thinking that at the time.