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The Mike Cummings watch just got that much more intense.
 
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The Mike Cummings watch just got that much more intense.

Dooley, I just posted that Tulsa hired Baylor's O coordinator Philip Montgomery. SMU hired Clemson's Offensive Coordinator. Holy cow, those Western teams look like they're gonna be explosive! I hope Cummings is up to the challenge! This conference with Cincy, Memphis, ECU, UCF, USF, etc. is going to start getting really intense and might I say a lot better than the Old Big East! The AAC is by no means a cake walk.
 
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The AAC now has 2 out of the last 3 Broyles Award winners in Diaco and Herman. I agree that Cummings needs to step up his game or he has to go.
 

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Known Fact - Broyles Award Winners have not fared well as head coaches up to this point - and some have never gone the head coach route...
 
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Known Fact - Broyles Award Winners have not fared well as head coaches up to this point - and some have never gone the head coach route...
I guess we will get an up-close and personal view on how 2 of the last 3 pan out in their first head coaching gigs..as a UCONN fan you have to hope the 2012 winner pans out!
 
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The AAC now has 2 out of the last 3 Broyles Award winners in Diaco and Herman. I agree that Cummings needs to step up his game or he has to go.

I believe the Diaco-Cummings relationship is close and personal. I'd be surprised to see Cummings leave. I'm also under the impression that Coach Diaco made the calls that we all found so perplexing this year, not Cummings.
 
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FootballScoop Staff ‏@FootballScoop 17m17 minutes ago
At Houston, per sources, Tom Herman plans to add Major Applewhite to staff. More names / news on The Scoop … http://footballscoop.com/the-scoop/

Interesting. I always felt these Texas teams were going to be a handful. With the recruits in TX and OK
and the Pedigrees of these coaches, it's gonna get interesting. This conference is like a combination ACC/SEC/Big12

http://www.burntorangenation.com/2014/12/15/7395799/major-applewhite-houston-cougars-tom-herman
 
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Dooley, I just posted that Tulsa hired Baylor's O coordinator Philip Montgomery. SMU hired Clemson's Offensive Coordinator. Holy cow, those Western teams look like they're gonna be explosive! I hope Cummings is up to the challenge! This conference with Cincy, Memphis, ECU, UCF, USF, etc. is going to start getting really intense and might I say a lot better than the Old Big East! The AAC is by no means a cake walk.

I forgot about Montgomery... Wow!
 

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The only explosive OC not hired by an AAC school is Scott Frost.

Holy hot damn, we better lose this conservative style of 4th and 1 punts pronto.
 
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The only explosive OC not hired by an AAC school is Scott Frost.

Holy hot damn, we better lose this conservative style of 4th and 1 punts pronto.

This puts pressure on Warde if Diaco/Cummings cannot keep up with these teams. I think Warde goes offensive next if things doesn't workout.
 

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This puts pressure on Warde if Diaco/Cummings cannot keep up with these teams. I think Warde goes offensive next if things doesn't workout.

He would HAVE to. If we're trying to win games 17-14 in 2015, and wind up losing games 35-10 again, he has to make a move to get more offensive. 5 wins is the absolute floor expectation that I have for Diaco and staff after completely throwing away 2014 for the sake of progress. Anything less and Warde absolutely should make a move to get more offensive.

That said, let's see how 2015 pans out first. We'll have a pretty good idea after the first two games of the year are played - home games against Nova and Army. I expect to be 2-0 heading to Missouri. If we're not, then I would expect Warde to start doodling some names on a cocktail napkin.
 
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This puts pressure on Warde if Diaco/Cummings cannot keep up with these teams. I think Warde goes offensive next if things doesn't workout.
ADs don't usually survive having to fire multiple football coaches. He gets a pass on P, because he didn't hire him, but he knows if he cans Diaco, the next guy better be a homerun or its see ya later.
 

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ADs don't usually survive having to fire multiple football coaches. He gets a pass on P, because he didn't hire him, but he knows if he cans Diaco, the next guy better be a homerun or its see ya later.

I tend to agree. If nothing else, if our offense is still sputtering well into '15, I think Warde will give Diaco the same DeLeone-esque ultimatum: it's him or the both of you.
 
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Known Fact - Broyles Award Winners have not fared well as head coaches up to this point - and some have never gone the head coach route...

After I saw your comment I wiki'd the Broyles award winner and found that in the past ten years 6 remained on as coordinators. Gene Chizik won the National Championship in 2010. His replacement Guz Malzahn's accomplishments are listed below. Diaco has been at it for one season so too early to tell. The only coach that hasn't won is Kevin Willson at Indiana. Don't understand why you would say the winners haven't fared well.

Guz Malzahn - 2010 - Yeah he didn't do much!

In his first year as head coach at Auburn, Malzahn received national acclaim for overseeing one of the biggest turnarounds in college football history.[1] Malzahn inherited an Auburn Tigers football team that did not win a singleSoutheastern Conference game in the 2012 season, then led them to an SEC Championship and an appearance in the 2014 BCS Championship Game. The Tigers won their eighth SEC title and tallied a record of 12–2 (7–1 in SEC play) only a mere year after what was considered by many to be their worst season in 60 years. For his accomplishments, Malzahn received several "Coach of the year" awards including the 2013 SEC Coach of the Year,Home Depot Coach of the Year, Sporting News Coach of the Year, Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year, Bobby Bowden Coach of the Year Award, Paul "Bear" Bryant Award, and the AP College Football Coach of the Year.

2004Gene ChizikAuburn - National Champs 2010
2005Greg DavisTexas TX OC 1998-2010 at AR OC
2006Bud FosterVirginia Tech At VA Tech since 2005
2007Jim HeacockOhio State I think he retired from Ohio State in 2012
2008Kevin WilsonOklahoma Has losing record at Indiana - tough job!
2009Kirby SmartAlabama At Alabama since 2008
2010Gus MalzahnAuburn SEE ABOVE
2011John ChavisLSU At LSU since 2009
2012Bob DiacoNotre Dame - UCONN Coach
2013Pat NarduzziMichigan State At Michigan State since 2007
2014Tom HermanOhio State Just got Houston Job
 

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After I saw your comment I wiki'd the Broyles award winner and found that in the past ten years 6 remained on as coordinators. Gene Chizik won the National Championship in 2010. His replacement Guz Malzahn's accomplishments are listed below. Diaco has been at it for one season so too early to tell. The only coach that hasn't won is Kevin Willson at Indiana. Don't understand why you would say the winners haven't fared well.

Guz Malzahn - 2010 - Yeah he didn't do much!

In his first year as head coach at Auburn, Malzahn received national acclaim for overseeing one of the biggest turnarounds in college football history.[1] Malzahn inherited an Auburn Tigers football team that did not win a singleSoutheastern Conference game in the 2012 season, then led them to an SEC Championship and an appearance in the 2014 BCS Championship Game. The Tigers won their eighth SEC title and tallied a record of 12–2 (7–1 in SEC play) only a mere year after what was considered by many to be their worst season in 60 years. For his accomplishments, Malzahn received several "Coach of the year" awards including the 2013 SEC Coach of the Year,Home Depot Coach of the Year, Sporting News Coach of the Year, Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year, Bobby Bowden Coach of the Year Award, Paul "Bear" Bryant Award, and the AP College Football Coach of the Year.

2004Gene ChizikAuburn - National Champs 2010
2005Greg DavisTexas TX OC 1998-2010 at AR OC
2006Bud FosterVirginia Tech At VA Tech since 2005
2007Jim HeacockOhio State I think he retired from Ohio State in 2012
2008Kevin WilsonOklahoma Has losing record at Indiana - tough job!
2009Kirby SmartAlabama At Alabama since 2008
2010Gus MalzahnAuburn SEE ABOVE
2011John ChavisLSU At LSU since 2009
2012Bob DiacoNotre Dame - UCONN Coach
2013Pat NarduzziMichigan State At Michigan State since 2007
2014Tom HermanOhio State Just got Houston Job

Don't understand why you would say the winners haven't fared well -
Because most of the winnders stayed as coordinators - some are good at coordinating and not leading, which is the majority of them. If Indiana is a tough job and that is why he has a losing record, what would you call the UConn job?

One got ran out of college FB and didnt land a job

Chizik got run out of town so fast hd left his wife and kids there.

Gus Malzahn was a known offensive guru in HS and he seems to be the exception.

Narduzzi hasnt been offered a HC job, not Chavis, nor Smart, nor Foster.

We can agree to disagree that Broyles Award winners end being great Head Coaches.
 

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Besides using Auburn as an example - not completely fair due to the the type of recruits on that team - thats an easy turn around with SEC Quality recruits standing on the sidelines.

Lets use the guy who lied on his resume, hasnt won a Broyles Award but knows how to coach, lead and win, had previous HC experience, even at a HS level before joining a college staff - George O'Leary.

1968–1974 Central Islip HS (AHC)
1975–1976 Central Islip HS (HC)
1977–1979 Liverpool HS (HC)
1980–1986 Syracuse (DL)
1987–1991 Georgia Tech (DC)
1992–1993 San Diego Chargers (DL)
1994–2001 Georgia Tech
2002 Minnesota Vikings (DL)
2003 Minnesota Vikings (DC)
2004–present UCF (HC)

Head coaching record
Overall 133–92 (.591)
Bowls 5–5 (.500)
Statistics
Championships
1 National (1990)
1 ACC (1998)
2 C-USA (2007, 2010)
4 C-USA East Division (2005, 2007, 2010, 2012)
2 American Athletic (2013, 2014)
Awards
ACC Coach of the Year (1998, 2000)
AFCA Region I Coach of the Year (1998)
Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Award (2000)
C-USA Coach of the Year (2005, 2007, 2010)
American Athletic Coach of the Year (2013)

UCF Knights (Mid-American Conference) (2004)

2004 UCF 0–11 0–8 7th (East)
UCF Knights (Conference USA) (2005–2012)
2005 UCF 8–5 7–1 1st (East) L Hawaii
2006 UCF 4–8 3–5 4th (East)
2007 UCF 10–4 7–1 1st (East) L Liberty
2008 UCF 4–8 3–5 5th (East)
2009 UCF 8–5 6–2 2nd (East) L St. Petersburg
2010 UCF 11–3 7–1 1st (East) W Liberty 20 21
2011 UCF 5–7 3–5 5th (East)
2012 UCF 10–4 7–1 1st (East) W Beef 'O' Brady's
UCF Knights (American Athletic Conference) (2013–present)
2013 UCF 12–1 8–0 1st W Fiesta† 12 10
2014 UCF 9–3 7–1 T–1st St. Petersburg
UCF: 81–59 58–30


Previous Coaches Records at UCF
FBS Independent
1996 Gene McDowell 5–6
1997 Gene McDowell 5–6
1998 Mike Kruczek 9–2
1999 Mike Kruczek 4–7
2000 Mike Kruczek 7–4
2001 Mike Kruczek 6–5
Mid-American Conference (2002–2004)
2002 Mike Kruczek 7–5 6–2 2nd (East)
2003 Kruczek\Alan Gooch 3–9 2–6 5th (East)
2004 George O'Leary 0–11 0–8 7th (East)
MAC Record: 10–25 8–16

So looking at these numbers O'Leary took over a MAC School that had very similar W/L records as PP did at UConn - and in his first year at UCF he went 0-11!! He obviously cleaned house and implemented his ways which he learned from being a HC at previous locations and not because he won a Broyle Award at a University that recruits in the top 20 of all CFB Teams. After his 0-11 year in the MAC, and his second year at the school in a new conference (CUSA) he went 8-5, won the East Conference at 7-1. That is a HELL of a turn around - at UCF, not Auburn. Granted for the next 6 years he alternates between over .500 FB and under .500 FB records and in the last 3 has won 10 , 12 and 9 games.

He went 0-11 his first year to 8-5 (7-1) in his second year!! If he can do that at UCF coming out of the MAC into CUSA without winning a Broyles Award I dont see why Diaco can't do the same with his pedigree.

I think we would all be over the moon if we could put 8 wins up next year - but if the guy who lied on his resume, honed his HC skills at Long Island HS before getting opportunities in CFB as a HC, took an 0-11 MAC team to a new conference (CUSA) with more talent than the MAC and won 8 games the next year - than a Broyles Award Winner should have no issue with the cupboard bare and the mess to cleanup -

GO HUSKIES - the excuses stop now!
 
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So let me understand this. After contending with three more (certain to improve) pass happy offenses at Tulsa, Houston and SMU----we then get ready for the Navy triple option? Thank goodness we have a defensive minded staff.
 

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He would HAVE to. If we're trying to win games 17-14 in 2015, and wind up losing games 35-10 again, he has to make a move to get more offensive. 5 wins is the absolute floor expectation that I have for Diaco and staff after completely throwing away 2014 for the sake of progress. Anything less and Warde absolutely should make a move to get more offensive.

That said, let's see how 2015 pans out first. We'll have a pretty good idea after the first two games of the year are played - home games against Nova and Army. I expect to be 2-0 heading to Missouri. If we're not, then I would expect Warde to start doodling some names on a cocktail napkin.


disagree that happens. My guess is if the offense spudders he will be asking HCBD about switching up the offense Coordinator
 
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