Notre Dame Hires DC

[Drew]

and its not their current dline coach. could we see him come here now? http://espn.go.com/college-football...ing-irish-new-york-jets-defensive-coordinator

 

[Irishfan]

This makes me nervous. His last job in college was as the DC at Auburn last year. They went 3-9 and 0-8 in the SEC.

 

[mattp]

There were a lot of issues at Auburn last year. I don't know anything about the guy, but he probably had good credentials to get hired as DC at Auburn, and I don't know that it's fair to hold that dumpster-fire-of-a-season against him.

 

[huskymedic]

Ha... VanGoder (DC) and Bob Diaco (RB/ST) were on the Western Illinois staff when Don Patterson was the head coach back in 2000. Small world - eh?

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

This makes me nervous. His last job in college was as the DC at Auburn last year. They went 3-9 and 0-8 in the SEC.

Since Brian VanGorder won the 2003 Broyles Award as college football's top assistant, I suspect he still knows a little bit about football. Just because Auburn had a down year in 2012 and Broder's coached with the Jets, he may not be clueless. VanGorder may even know a bit more than most of us combined on this and other football message boards, including the heralded, all-knowing Notre Dame board.

 

[Irishfan]

Since Brian VanGorder won the 2003 Broyles Award as college football's top assistant, I suspect he still knows a little bit about football. Just because Auburn had a down year in 2012 and Broder's coached with the Jets, he may not be clueless. VanGorder may even know a bit more than most of us combined on this and other football message boards, including the heralded, all-knowing Notre Dame board.

That's a good point, awards mean a lot, although it should be noted that both Charlie Weis and Ty Willingham won National Coach of the year awards. And one of them is losing at Kansas while the other is an assistant women's golf coach at Stanford.