Swagger, experience, rising star, offensive minded, appeals to players, youth, first year success in Vegas, recruiting. youth and experience, cut his teeth on our level of football, salary expectation.
What about his offense do you like scheme wise? The didn't look very impressive when we played them. Do you want another run first offense?
I like the fact that they were incredibly dynamic. Lots of options, giving the defense a lot to think about. I thought that the 45 points they hung on us was pretty impressive.
What was dynamic? We missed tackles like it was our job. They had two plays that really fooled the players at best. They're a middle of the pack offense in the NCAA FBS level.
They fooled us on every run dude. They kept us off balance every play. We have a decent D but they were fooled all night. I think they average over 6 yards a carry. They did the same thing to vandy and most of the teams they've played. Their top 3 rushers averaged over 7 yards a carry. You really don't have a leg to stand on here. Move on. Give me another argument.
Our run defense is absolutely atrocious. We're 127 in FBS with a 5.6 yards per carry average. Every team we've played except for the FCS team has had above 4.5 yards per carry against us. What type of run plays fooled us in your opinion? Is he doing something special with his blocking scheme?
I think you have to recruit guys that can block first before you worry about blocking schemes.
Sounds like you have no football reasoning behind why you want this guy to be the next head coach. That's probably how coach Dimel became the head coach in the first place.
A freakin power point! 😭
Those are not quantifiable facts. There's no way to know if young players like him. I'm sure some do and I'm sure some don't. The fact is he's been an offensive coordinator for four seasons. None of those seasons has he produced a high scoring offense. So I was wondering if the original poster knew something about him that the numbers don't show. It appears he didn't know anything about him other than what was written in a puff piece about him. That is not how utep should be picking its next coach. There are a lot of high energy guys in coaching that can't coach a lick.
They're scoring 36ppg because their 9th in the country in turnovers gained. Short fields often leads to points.
I read it. He's only been coordinator 4 years. None of those 4 have been great offensive years. They've been average. There's nothing about his game plan against UTEP that looked unique. We had something like 20 missed tackles in that game. Cut that in half and we probably hold them under 30. I'm all for giving up and comers a shot, but this guy's is average. UNLV averages 5.78 yards per play. We currently average 5.21 yards per play. I don't think anyone would consider us to be an explosive offense and they shouldn't for UNLV either. Their defense is why they score the points they do.
I hate to say this, but UTEP Football isn't a desirable job. If it's a young assistant wanting to get a boost in their career this isn't the place. When's the last time a Utep football coach got snatched away from Utep, because of his success here??? As much as I want a quality FCS coach like Eck, UTEP would mean a raise, but would it actually be a good career move for him? Utep's best bet is as a 2nd chance U, that's how we got Price. So what I'm saying is Utep probably needs to take a chance on a coach with some dirt under his finger nails, like a Mel Tucker just as an example. I'm all for getting a quality FCS HC or successful OC from a P5, but idk if they'll want us.
Is it though?
Bob Stull, 1989, to Missouri.
Exactly. UTEP pays a decent amount too with Dimel getting $829k. No reason an up and coming coach would pass that up. Do the gig for 5+ years depending on success and eventually move onto either another coaching gig or OC/DC at a larger school.
Who is a better option in your opinion and why? You're not offering up too many solutions.
You literally just described Rodriguez and his situation when we had an opening. He didn’t really have too many options either after his days at Arizona. Senter probably didn’t even consider him but he was available along with Dimel.
No way to know if he can recruit. I think his offensive scheme will help. The young men today want to play in systems that are wide open and high-paced. He has shown that the last two seasons in two different places.
Disagree, respectfully. Mike Price was a UTEP fan choice by and large. Eighteen Rabbit (no longer posts on here) started a petition for his hiring. The only one that I can remember reserving judgement on Price was Kappy who voiced his analysis based on Price's resume, which proved to be right. Nord was literally a hostage situation by the seniors on the football team members led by Mosh Pit Merkens I believe. Good recruiter that can find hidden gems but panned out to be a not so good head coach. Stull had publicly regretted that decision and vowed to never do that again (at that point in time). David Lee was a hot young assistant out of Arkansas as was Stull with UMass. Finally, I do remember Senter stating that some really good assistants applied after Kugler left and one was one of the hottest names in the country (he furnished no names) but he wanted way more than UTEP could offer.
So what part did you disagree with? So based on what you said and Utep's hiring history you agree that we are not Ultra attractive for a young assistant.
The biggest issue is utep has never been willing to make the commitment to winning and improving their athletics. We could attract a good coach with good direction of our athletic department.
