Babers to Arizona OC/QB Coach

[CanadianSU]

I don’t know what Dino will do, and maybe nothing for a year, but he has received much interest from schools including P5. Not necessarily HC positions.

Clock Management consultant.

 

[FasterCuse]

Clock Management consultant.

Hopefully at another school we play in the ACC.

 

[High Plains]

Its been a minute since we've had multiple assistants on the list for other teams coaching changes.

Buffalo football coaching job pluses, minuses and candidates after Maurice Linguist​

Both Nixon and Campanile along with Babers are listed.

 

[sutomcat]

Pay article from The Athletic. Kind of surprised there is no discussion of Robert Wright, our new LB coach, who was the DC at UB until a few weeks ago. Pretty sure he is really highly thought of.

Buffalo after Maurice Linguist: Pluses, minuses and candidates for the job

The MAC hasn’t been the head coach launching path that it used to be, and that can impact who is interested in its vacancies.

theathletic.com

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Joe Dailey?

There's a blast from the past.

 

[RyanCuse44]

Its been a minute since we've had multiple assistants on the list for other teams coaching changes.

Buffalo football coaching job pluses, minuses and candidates after Maurice Linguist​

Both Nixon and Campanile along with Babers are listed.

We keeping the first two. Babers can shuffle off to Buffalo whenever and if he desires too.

 

[SWC75]

He's been remarkably ghost silent. Lots of people have said he would likely retire, but I don't necessarily see that. He's a career coach who is only 62. I absolutely could see him wanting to get one more chance to end his career on a high note, even if it is at a G5 type opportunity.

Our former coaches have a long history of "ghost silence" (my favorite kind of ghost). I'm hoping Marrone will write a book.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[CousCuse]

Meh, retread city.

 

[dasher]

Meh, retread city.

Did you say that about Don Brown? Or Jim Mora? Or Frank Martin?

 

[CousCuse]

Did you say that about Don Brown? Or Jm Mora? Or Frank Martin?

I wouldn't put Lembo in the same category as any of those coaches. Maybe I should have said low rent retread. UMASS hoops is climbing up fast, by the way.

 

[dasher]

I wouldn't put Lembo in the same category as any of those coaches. Maybe I should have said low rent retread. UMASS hoops is climbing up fast, by the way.

Nothing says climbing fast than losing to Harvard and Towson. They do have a nice win against West Virginia to be fair.

 

[CousCuse]

Nothing says climbing fast than losing to Harvard and Towson. They do have a nice win against West Virginia to be fair.

That was in the first weeks of the season. They have greatly improved, you know that's true.

 

[dasher]

That was in the first weeks of the season. They have greatly improved, you know that's true.

Time will tell.

 

[sutomcat]

Meh, retread city.

This is a fat, bald, middle aged man who has been a special teams coach for a long time. Worst of all, he went to Georgetown for college.

Now he is a very very good special teams coach. But you probably don’t want to hire a special teams coach as your head coach.

He is originally from Staten Island, so maybe that will help UB recruit NYC. But I don’t think anyone has ever considered him a good recruiter. He is great at coaching special teams. That is about it.

On the positive side, he has done well when he was a HC. The question is, why has no one been willing to give him a chance for so long since he got fired at Ball State?

 

[corpjet]

I wonder if Nunzio was given a serious shot? Glad he's still with us but would have been happy for him to get the job!

 

[two3zone]

This is a fat, bald, middle aged man who has been a special teams coach for a long time. Worst of all, he went to Georgetown for college.

Now he is a very very good special teams coach. But you probably don’t want to hire a special teams coach as your head coach.

He is originally from Staten Island, so maybe that will help UB recruit NYC. But I don’t think anyone has ever considered him a good recruiter. He is great at coaching special teams. That is about it.

On the positive side, he has done well when he was a HC. The question is, why has no one been willing to give him a chance for so long since he got fired at Ball State?

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Interesting face.

 

[CousCuse]

This is a fat, bald, middle aged man who has been a special teams coach for a long time. Worst of all, he went to Georgetown for college.

Now he is a very very good special teams coach. But you probably don’t want to hire a special teams coach as your head coach.

He is originally from Staten Island, so maybe that will help UB recruit NYC. But I don’t think anyone has ever considered him a good recruiter. He is great at coaching special teams. That is about it.

On the positive side, he has done well when he was a HC. The question is, why has no one been willing to give him a chance for so long since he got fired at Ball State?

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UB had huge momentum going in football with Liepold and Oats in basketball, if they don't get this right it will be a big hole to get out of.

 

[OrangeTarheel]

No Ohana for you Buffalo

 

[PhatOrange]

Meh, retread city.

I would take a 112-65 retread all day long.

 

[NKR1978]

Buffalo’s best coach was out of the box…they’re not trying anymore.

 

[CousCuse]

Now he is a very very good special teams coach. But you probably don’t want to hire a special teams coach as your head coach

Maybe he could end up being like Beamer was at VTech.

 

[sutomcat]

Maybe he could end up being like Beamer was at VTech.

This could well be. Fat bald guys are probably undervalued by judgmental ADs and selection committees.

He has had a few stints as a HC and it looks to me as though he has done well at all of them, though the last couple of years at Ball State were kind of alarming.

I wish him well at UB.

Pete Lembo - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Head coaching record[edit]​

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs	Rank#
Lehigh Mountain Hawks (Patriot League) (2001–2005)
2001	Lehigh	11–1	7–0	1st	L NCAA Division I-AA Quarterfinal	5
2002	Lehigh	8–4	4–3	4th
2003	Lehigh	8–3	6–1	2nd		23
2004	Lehigh	9–3	5–1	T–1st	L NCAA Division I-AA First Round	15
2005	Lehigh	8–3	4–2	3rd
Lehigh:	44–14	26–7
Elon Phoenix (Southern Conference) (2006–2010)
2006	Elon	5–6	2–5	T–5th
2007	Elon	7–4	4–3	T–3rd		23
2008	Elon	8–4	6–2	3rd		17
2009	Elon	9–3	7–1	2nd	L NCAA Division I First Round	9
2010	Elon	6–5	5–3	T–3rd
Elon:	35–22	24–14
Ball State Cardinals (Mid-American Conference) (2011–2015)
2011	Ball State	6–6	4–4	T–4th (West)
2012	Ball State	9–4	6–2	T–2nd (West)	L Beef 'O' Brady's
2013	Ball State	10–3	7–1	2nd (West)	L GoDaddy Bowl
2014	Ball State	5–7	4–4	5th (West)
2015	Ball State	3–9	2–6	5th (West)
Ball State:	33–29	23–17
Buffalo Bulls (Mid-American Conference) (2024–present)
2024	Buffalo	0–0	0–0
Buffalo:	0–0	0–0
Total:	112–65
National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth
#Rankings from final Sports Network poll.

 

[CA Monk]

Interesting face.

People tend to forget his steamy 1998 Playgirl spread. He crushed it (I mean from what I heard).
But then he quit Chippendale‘s and got into coaching.

 

[CousCuse]

This could well be. Fat bald guys are probably undervalued by judgmental ADs and selection committees.
He has had a few stints as a HC and it looks to me as though he has done well at all of them, though the last couple of years at Ball State were kind of alarming.

I wish him well at UB.

Pete Lembo - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Head coaching record[edit]​

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs	Rank#
Lehigh Mountain Hawks (Patriot League) (2001–2005)
2001	Lehigh	11–1	7–0	1st	L NCAA Division I-AA Quarterfinal	5
2002	Lehigh	8–4	4–3	4th
2003	Lehigh	8–3	6–1	2nd		23
2004	Lehigh	9–3	5–1	T–1st	L NCAA Division I-AA First Round	15
2005	Lehigh	8–3	4–2	3rd
Lehigh:	44–14	26–7
Elon Phoenix (Southern Conference) (2006–2010)
2006	Elon	5–6	2–5	T–5th
2007	Elon	7–4	4–3	T–3rd		23
2008	Elon	8–4	6–2	3rd		17
2009	Elon	9–3	7–1	2nd	L NCAA Division I First Round	9
2010	Elon	6–5	5–3	T–3rd
Elon:	35–22	24–14
Ball State Cardinals (Mid-American Conference) (2011–2015)
2011	Ball State	6–6	4–4	T–4th (West)
2012	Ball State	9–4	6–2	T–2nd (West)	L Beef 'O' Brady's
2013	Ball State	10–3	7–1	2nd (West)	L GoDaddy Bowl
2014	Ball State	5–7	4–4	5th (West)
2015	Ball State	3–9	2–6	5th (West)
Ball State:	33–29	23–17
Buffalo Bulls (Mid-American Conference) (2024–present)
2024	Buffalo	0–0	0–0
Buffalo:	0–0	0–0
Total:	112–65
National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth
#Rankings from final Sports Network poll.

He did have a drop off in his last year at Ball St. Generally, the only programs with high level special teams coaches are in the P5 and not all of them have good ones either. ( Cuse). They always talk about the 3 phases of football: Offense, defense and special teams, but special teams is almost always neglected. Could be a good angle as I think he can win quite a few games in the MAC with special teams if they are exceptional. This moves UB up on my list of teams that I will follow to see how that works out.