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[MJWilliamson]

You couldn’t pay him enough to coach at Auburn.

by Senator Blutarsky

Penn State's defensive coordinator Bob Shoop turns down a $1.5 million a year offer to get on the Gus Bus. Repeatedly, evidently.

According to a dependable source in Alabama, Shoop has turned down multiple offers to meet with Auburn coach Gus Malzahn and discuss filling the Tigers' vacant defensive coordinator position. And it would have been at a salary that would've made him at or very near the highest paid coordinator in college football.

Both last week and this week, intermediaries from both camps were in contact, each time initiated by Auburn, the source told me. Early this week, Malzahn offered to meet to discuss the position with Shoop who is preparing the Penn State defense for its game on Jan. 2 against Auburn's SEC stablemate Georgia in the TaxSlayer Bowl.

But, on each occasion, Shoop declined a formal meeting and told Auburn he was not interested in its position.​

Hard to believe, I know.

 

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You couldn’t pay him enough to coach at Auburn.

by Senator Blutarsky

Penn State's defensive coordinator Bob Shoop turns down a $1.5 million a year offer to get on the Gus Bus. Repeatedly, evidently.

According to a dependable source in Alabama, Shoop has turned down multiple offers to meet with Auburn coach Gus Malzahn and discuss filling the Tigers' vacant defensive coordinator position. And it would have been at a salary that would've made him at or very near the highest paid coordinator in college football.

Both last week and this week, intermediaries from both camps were in contact, each time initiated by Auburn, the source told me. Early this week, Malzahn offered to meet to discuss the position with Shoop who is preparing the Penn State defense for its game on Jan. 2 against Auburn's SEC stablemate Georgia in the TaxSlayer Bowl.

But, on each occasion, Shoop declined a formal meeting and told Auburn he was not interested in its position.​

Hard to believe, I know.

No matter how much money they pay you, you are still in Alabama.

 

[MJWilliamson]

List: Open assistant jobs in FBS college football
Posted by: Chris Vannini on Saturday December 19, 2015


This page will continually update. Bookmark it and stay tuned to the Coaching Search Ticker. This list does NOT include schools with outside head coaching changes. See head coaching changes and those new staffs here.

Arkansas: Offensive line

Arkansas State: Offensive coordinator

Army: Defensive line, cornerbacks

Auburn: Defensive coordinator, defensive backs

Boston College: Defensive coordinator, one other position

Oregon State: Defensive coordinator

Colorado: One position (special teams coordinator)

Colorado State: Defensive coordinator

Duke: Offensive coordinator

Eastern Michigan: Defensive coordinator

Florida Atlantic: Offensive line

Fresno State: Offensive coordinator, defensive coordinator, offensive line

Houston: Wide receivers

Kentucky: Offensive coordinator, wide receivers

Louisiana-Lafayette: Offensive coordinator

Mississippi State: Safeties

Missouri: Running backs, wide receivers, one other position

Navy: Defensive backs

Nevada: Offensive coordinator

New Mexico State: Cornerbacks

North Carolina: Offensive coordinator (tight ends)

Oregon: Offensive coordinator

Oregon State: Defensive coordinator, linebackers

Pitt: Offensive coordinator

Purdue: Defensive coordinator, defensive line

San Jose State: Defensive coordinator, one other defensive position

Southern Miss: One offensive position

TCU: Linebackers

Tennessee: Quarterbacks

Texas Tech: Running backs, outside receivers, defensive line, outside linebackers, cornerbacks

Texas-San Antonio: Offensive coordinator, safeties

Troy: Tight ends

Tulsa: One offensive position

UAB: Two position coaches (Program will officially return to playing games in 2017)

USC: Defensive coordinator, quarterbacks, offensive line, defensive line, defensive backs

Utah: Wide receivers

Utah State: Offensive coordinator, defensive line

UTEP: Offensive coordinator, defensive coordinator

Vanderbilt: Running backs, linebackers

Western Michigan: Linebackers

Wyoming: Wide receivers

 

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[MJWilliamson]

Auburn has apparently found its next defensive coordinator.

LSU's Kevin Steele is expected to be hired by Auburn "barring a late snag," according to ESPN.com's Chris Low. LSU is attempting to change Steele's mind and keep him in Baton Rouge, according to FootballScoop.com.

Steele, 57, is in his first year at LSU, where he arrived last season following a two-year stint at Alabama, including one year as linebackers coach. He was previously the defensive coordinator at Clemson from 2009 to 2011.

He was Nick Saban's defensive coordinator in his first season at Alabama in 2007 before leaving for Clemson. He was fired at Clemson in January 2012 following a 70-33 loss to West Virginia in the Orange Bowl and was rehired at Alabama as a personnel staff member and later was promoted to a position coach for one season.

Steele earned $1,005,000 million in his first season as LSU's defensive coordinator. His deal was unusual because of its length: two years. Most assistants at LSU receive three-year deals under coach Les Miles.

Steele's contract includes a $500,000 buyout, which Auburn and Steele plan to split, according to the Baton Rouge Advocate.

Steele has not immediately returned messages left by AL.com.

Will Muschamp, who left Auburn to become the head coach at South Carolina on Dec. 6, signed a three-year deal with Auburn worth more than $1.6 million before the 2014 season.

The hiring would make for a family reunion at Auburn. Jeff Steele, Auburn's associate athletics director for facilities and operations, is Steele's brother.

LSU's total defense ranked 27th in the country (347.2 yards per game) and 19th in rushing defense (122.9 yards per game). Scoring defense ranked 42nd at 24.3 points per game.

The red zone defense, however, struggled, ranking last in the SEC and 88th nationally.

Steele's defense held Texas Tech to nearly 20 points under its scoring average in a 56-27 victory in the Texas Bowl on Tuesday night. Tech's offense ranked second nationally.

 

[MJWilliamson]

Miami hired Manny Diaz from Miss State for the DC position.

Poor Dan Mullen has to replace his DC again.

 

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Tennessee fires DC John Jancek.

 

[MJWilliamson]

Is it Mel Tucker?
by Senator Blutarsky
According to the usually solid Bruce Feldman, Tucker is Georgia's new defensive coordinator.

If nothing else, that makes it convenient for Jeremy Pruitt to slot himself in as Alabama's secondary coach.

 

[MJWilliamson]

Tennessee fires DC John Jancek.

Bob Shoop to Tennessee as new DC.

 

[MJWilliamson]

Gators head coach Jim McElwain announced Friday he is making a change to his coaching staff.

Defensive backs coach Kirk Callahan will not return.

Kirk Callahan


"We are making a change on our staff," McElwain said. "Moving forward, Kirk Callahan will be looking at some other opportunities and he has a long career ahead of him."

Callahan recently completed his first season at UF after spending the past three seasons as defensive backs coach at UCF, where Callahan played in college.

The 30-year-old Callahan started his coaching career at UCF as a student assistant in 2007, and later served as an intern (2010) and graduate assistant (2011) at Florida.

 

[MJWilliamson]

Sources have indicated to GatorBait.net that might not be the only move coming on the staff. The Gators need to upgrade their recruiting ability at the assistant coaching ranks.

To do that, a current assistant may be moved to an off-the-field role, with the most likely candidate being tight ends and special teams coach Greg Nord. Nord has an extensive coaching career dating back to 1979, and he has worked with Jim McElwain in the past, spending three years on the same staff with him at Louisville.

Moving Nord to a quality control type position off the field would allow Florida to tap into the 59-year-old's expertise without needing Nord to be one of the Gators' nine active assistant coaches hitting the road recruiting.

It would also give Florida more flexibility to move a guy like running backs coach Tim Skipper around. Skipper has been described as a handyman of sorts on staff, with an extensive background coaching multiple positions during his career.

Three names that have surfaced in many coaching candidate replacement lists since Callahan's departure are LSU defensive backs coach Corey Raymond, Florida Atlantic secondary coach Corey Bell and Virginia Tech defensive backs coach Torrian Gray.

Raymond recently signed a two-year extension at LSU worth $375,000 per year and is not thought to be a candidate to join the Florida staff at this time, happy to remain at LSU.

Sources have indicated to GatorBait.net that Bell has not been contacted about the open position.

Meanwhile, Gray, a native of Bartow, Florida, is thought to be a candidate. However, he was recently retained by new Virginia Tech head coach Justin Fuente. Gray has been coaching at Virginia Tech since 2006 and it is his alma mater.

The latest USA Today assistant coaching salary database listed him as making $275,600. Callahan was slated to make $325,000 in 2016, a figure Florida will still owe him, minus the difference of any compensation he gets from any coaching job in 2016

 

[MJWilliamson]

Va Tech DB coach Torriam Gray is our new DB coach.

He is very well regarded.

 

[MJWilliamson]

Former Florida quarterback and wide receivers coach (2014) Chris Leak the new head coach at Edgewater High School in Orlando.

 

[PacoGator19]

Former Florida quarterback and wide receivers coach (2014) Chris Leak the new head coach at Edgewater High School in Orlando.

Former Florida quarterback and wide receivers coach (2014) Chris Leak the new head coach at Edgewater High School in Orlando.

Good for Chris, he's one of the good guys and will have a great positive influence on the young men at Edgewater H.S.

 

[MJWilliamson]

Pat Haden will step down from his role as Trojans athletic director on June 30, according to a USC alumni email sent by school president C.L. Max Nikias.

Though Haden will no longer be the AD, he will take on a new role involving the renovation of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. An excerpt of Nikias’s email, which can be found in full here:

 

[TNole902]

Pat Haden will step down from his role as Trojans athletic director on June 30, according to a USC alumni email sent by school president C.L. Max Nikias.

Though Haden will no longer be the AD, he will take on a new role involving the renovation of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. An excerpt of Nikias’s email, which can be found in full here:

It's kind of sad. Pat might be suffering from some CTE. His behavior in the last few years has been erratic...and that is being kind.

 

[MJWilliamson]

Wonder if Muschamp knows he was at least third choice, behind Smart and Herman. And maybe fourth choice
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South Carolina was so close to an agreement with Houston’s Tom Herman to make him the Gamecocks’ new coach that the university shut down its search process, but lost him with the team’s November defeat to The Citadel, according to USA Today’s Dan Wolken

“Herman’s mind changed after South Carolina lost to The Citadel on Nov. 21 and it became clear the next coach would have a massive rebuilding job on his hands,” Wolken wrote on Sunday. “Herman decided to stay at Houston for a deal worth nearly $3 million per year and, presumably, wait for a more high-profile situation.”

South Carolina eventually hired Will Muschamp in December, but he was far down on the list of candidates for the university, according to Wolken.

“South Carolina, meanwhile, turned next to Alabama defensive coordinator Kirby Smart, who instead went to Georgia,” Wolken added, “and talked extensively with Arizona’s Rich Rodriguez, who turned down an offer he did not view as legitimate, according to people familiar with the process.”

Herman was a sought-after coach following three years as the offensive coordinator at Ohio State and a 13-1 record in his first season as Houston’s head coach. The Cougars finished No. 8 in the final AP Poll, the highest finish for the school since 1979.

The Citadel’s 23-22 win at Williams-Brice Stadium was the school’s first win over South Carolina since 1990 and snapped a 27-game losing streak against FBS opponents.

 

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SEC spring football practices are just around the corner, and 13 of 14 league schools have had at least one coaching staff change with Georgia, Missouri and South Carolina hiring new coaches and almost all new staffs.

The final total hired, is 47 with 44 assistants (on-field coaches only) and 3 head coaches. That includes 21 hired assistants on the staffs of new coaches Kirby Smart of Georgia, Barry Odom of Missouri and Will Muschamp of South Carolina.

The only school that hasn't had an off-season coaching staff change is Ole Miss.

Here's the roundup:

ALABAMA (1)

Feb. 10: Hired Kentucky cornerbacks coach and co-defensive coordinator Derrick Ansley to coach defensive backs. He was just promoted to D-coordinator at Kentucky Jan. 4.

ARKANSAS (2)

Jan. 11: Hired Buffalo Bills assistant offensive line coach Kurt Anderson as offensive line coach.

Feb. 12: Hired Kansas running backs coach and recruiting coordinator Reggie Mitchell as running backs coach. A 30-year veteran, he was on Nick Saban's last staff at Michigan State in 1999 as a wide receivers coach before Saban moved to LSU in 2000.

AUBURN (5)


Dec. 30: Hired LSU defensive coordinator Kevin Steele as defensive coordinator. Including LSU, Steele has five seasons experience as a D-coordinator (one at LSU, one at Alabama, three at Clemson). He has 25 years experience as a college assistant at nine schools.

Jan. 7: Hired Saints defensive backs coach Wesley McGriff as secondary coach and co-defensive coordinator. He also has coached at Ole Miss, Vanderbilt and Kentucky in the SEC.

Jan. 7: Hired Auburn graduate assistant/defensive analyst Travis Williams as linebackers coach. Williams was an All-SEC linebacker for the Tigers in 2004-05.

Jan. 11: Hired Penn State running game coordinator/offensive line coach Herb Hand as offensive line coach. Hand and Auburn coach Gus Malzahn worked together at Tulsa in 2007-08 when Malzahn was the offensive coordinator.

Monday: Hired Arizona State running backs coach Kodi Burns as co-offensive coordinator/wide receivers coach. Burns, a former Auburn wide receiver who caught a 35-yard TD pass from Cam Newton's in AU's BCS national title game win over Oregon in January 2011, was hired at ASU on Jan. 4. He was receivers coach at Middle Tennessee last season.

FLORIDA (1)

Feb. 4: Hired Virginia Tech defensive backs coach Torrian Gray as defensive backs coach. Gray, a Florida native, coached 10 years at Tech where he was three-time All-Big East selection playing for the Hokies in the mid 1990s.

GEORGIA (8, new staff for first-year head coach Kirby Smart)

Dec. 6: Hired Alabama defensive coordinator Kirby Smart as head coach.

Dec. 12: Hired Pitt offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Jim Chaney as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.

Dec. 12: Hired Arkansas offensive line coach Sam Pittman as offensive line coach.

Dec. 12: Hired Alabama Director of Player Development and Associate Director of Personnel Glen Schumann for a defensive staff position.

Jan. 3: Hired Miami offensive coordinator James Coley as receivers coach.

Jan. 3: Hired Georgia Southern running backs coach Dell McGee as running backs coach.

Jan. 5: Hired Virginia Tech associate head coach/running backs coach Shane Beamer as special teams coordinator and tight ends coach.

Jan. 12: Hired Alabama assistant head coach/defensive backs coach Mel Tucker as defensive coordinator.

KENTUCKY (3)

Dec. 29: Hired Cincinnati passing game coordinator/quarterbacks coach Darrin Hinshaw as co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. A former University of Central Florida star QB in the early 1990s, he also coached three seasons at Tennessee.

Dec. 29: Hired Cincinnati offensive coordinator Eddie Gran as assistant head coach of the offense/offensive coordinator/running backs coach. A 28-year collegiate coaching veteran, he worked with UK coach Mark Stoops on Florida State's staff. He has also coached at Miami (Fla.), Ole Miss, Auburn and Tennessee.

Feb. 2: Hired Louisville wide receivers coach Lamar Thomas as wide receivers coach. Thomas, a member of Miami's 1989 and 1991 national championship teams and the school's all-time receptions leader, has five years experience as a college assistant.

LSU (3)

Jan. 1: Hired Wisconsin defensive coordinator Dave Aranda as defensive coordinator. In three years as the Badgers' defensive coordinator and inside linebackers coach, he coached a defense that combined to rank among the top 5 in the nation in the four major defensive categories. From 2013-15, Aranda's defense allowed an average of 289.4 yards per game, which ranks first in the nation over that span.

Feb. 13: Hired Texas Tech running backs coach Jabbar Juluke as running backs coach. Juluke was hired by Texas Tech Jan. 20 after three seasons as Louisiana Tech's running backs coach where he mentored Kenneth Dixon, the NCAA's all-time TD leader. Juluke, a graduate of Southern University and a native of the New Orleans area, served as head coach at Edna Karr High School for nine years where he was 80-39. He led his team to one state title and three consecutive appearances in the state championship game.

Feb. 14: Hired Auburn co-offensive coordinator/wide receivers coach Dameyune Craig as wide receivers coach. A record-setting QB in his playing days at Auburn who led AU to the 1997 SEC championship game where it lost to Peyton Manning-led Tennessee, Craig began his college coaching career as a graduate assistant on Nick Saban's last staff at LSU in 2004. He was also QB/coach recruiting coordinator at Florida State where he was the 2012 Scout/FoxSportsNet ACC Recruiter of the Year as well as the Rivals.com ACC Recruiter of the Year.

OLE MISS (0)

MISSISSIPPI STATE (3)

Jan. 22: Hired USC associate head coach/linebackers coach/recruiting coordinator Peter Sirmon as defensive coordinator/linebackers coach. He played seven years (2000-06) in the NFL with the Tennessee Titans.

Jan. 22: Hired Louisville cornerbacks coach Terrell Buckley as secondary coach/recruiting. A Mississippi native, he was one of the best cornerbacks in Florida State history, winning the Jim Thorpe Award as college football's best defensive back in 1991 when he had nation-leading 12 interceptions.

Feb. 11: Hired Iowa State defensive passing game coordinator Maurice Linguist as safeties coach. A former team MVP at Baylor in 2006 as a strong safety, he has just four years experience as a FBS assistant.

MISSOURI (7, new staff for first head coach Barry Odom)

Dec. 3: Hired Missouri defensive coordinator Odom as head coach.

Dec. 17: Hired Utah State assistant head coach/offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach Josh Heupel as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.

Dec. 21: Hired USC defensive ends coach Chris Wilson as defensive line coach.

Jan. 4: Hired Louisville secondary coach/recruiting coordinator Greg Brown as cornerbacks coach.

Jan. 11: Hired Arkansas State co-offensive coordinator/offensive line coach Glen Elarbee as offensive line coach.

Jan. 15: Hired Baylor offensive quality control specialist Joe Jon Finley as tight ends coach.

Feb. 2: Hired Arizona State defensive line coach Jackie Shipp as defensive line coach.

SOUTH CAROLINA (9, new staff for first year coach Will Muschamp)

Dec. 7: Hired Auburn defensive coordinator Muschamp as head coach.

Dec. 8: Hired Auburn defensive backs coach Travaris Robinson as defensive coordinator/defensive backs coach.

Dec. 8: Hired Auburn offensive analyst Bobby Bentley as running backs coach.

Dec 18: Hired Boston College special teams coordinator/outside linebackers coach Coleman Hutzler as special teams coordinator and linebackers coach.

Dec. 23: Hired Georgia wide receivers coach/assistant head coach/passing game Bryan McClendon as co-offensive coordinator/wide receivers coach.

Dec. 23: Hired Missouri wide receivers coach Pat Washington as tight ends coach.

Dec. 31: Hired Auburn linebackers coach Lance Thompson as assistant head coach of defense/defensive line coach.

Jan. 4: Hired Cleveland Browns senior assistant offensive coach Kurt Roper as co-offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach.

Jan. 26: Hired Florida strength and conditioning coordinator Mike Peterson as outside linebackers coach.

TENNESSEE (2)

Jan. 4: Hired Miami tight ends coach Larry Scott as tight ends coach.

Jan. 9: Hired Penn State defensive coordinator Bob Shoop as defensive coordinator. He has 27 years of college coaching experience including 13 seasons as a defensive coordinator. He has coordinated units that have finished in the Top 25 nationally in total defense in each of the last five years.

TEXAS A&M (1)

Jan. 8: Hired UCLA offensive coordinator Noel Mazzone as offensive coordinator. He has 30 years experience as a college assistant and has been an O-coordinator at seven different schools, including two stints at Ole Miss and one at Auburn.

VANDERBILT (2)

Jan. 14: Promoted graduate assistant Chris Marve to linebackers coach. Marve was a four-time All-SEC linebacker for the Commodores from 2008-11 with 121 tackles as a junior. This is his first full-time college assistant job.

Jan. 15: Hired Northwestern special teams/offense/game management consultant Jeff Genyk as running backs coach/special teams coordinator. He has 21 years college coaching experience at five schools, including five years at Eastern Michigan's head coach from 2004-08.

 

[MJWilliamson]

From GTP

It sounds like Boom's offense in Columbia is going down the same road his offense in Gainesville did.

At Duke, co-offensive coordinator and play-caller Kurt Roper used a system which prioritized passing and made good use of the read-option. Roper wants to be up-tempo, snapping the ball with 18 or more seconds remaining on the play clock. But Muschamp wants balance, so the offense Roper runs at USC may not be exactly similar to the one he oversaw in Durham.

Muschamp says he and Roper need to be “on the same page” philosophically, which seems to indicate the Gamecocks won’t go full-on spread. But both men know the product of this relationship needs to be better than their short-lived stint at Florida in 2014.​

There's knowing and there's doing. Keep up the good work, Agent Muschamp.

 

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