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Message: [QUOTE="jostar1, post: 1994203, member: 1737"] 6. Two coordinators left more prestigious schools for less prestigious ones last week, but the steps back might have been their only chances to get head-coaching jobs in the future. Rhett Lashlee, who played in high school for Gus Malzahn and who has worked with Malzahn for all but one year of his coaching career, left Auburn’s offensive coordinator job to take a pay cut and the same job on Randy Edsall’s staff at UConn. Also last week, Doug Meacham left TCU, where he shared offensive coordinator responsibilities with Sonnie Cumbie, to take the offensive coordinator job at Kansas. The Lashlee move is especially interesting because Malzahn acknowledged during the 2016 season that turning over playcalling duties to Lashlee helped dramatically improve Auburn’s offense. But that arrangement apparently wasn’t going to continue as it was at season’s end, so Lashlee struck out on his own. Remember how we mentioned a few sections ago that UConn had one of the nation’s worst offenses last year? The Huskies ranked No. 122 in the nation in yards per play (4.81). Up is basically the only direction they can go. Lashlee, who was in the hunt to get the Louisiana-Monroe head coaching job that ultimately went to Matt Viator last year, needs to show that he can run an offense independent of Malzahn if he wants to become a head coach. That’s the last lingering question for a guy whose résumé and demeanor scream “future head coach.” He’ll get his chance to prove that working for the defensive-minded Edsall. [URL="http://www.si.com/college-football/2017/01/16/building-perfect-college-coaching-staff"]Building the perfect college football staff[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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