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[QUOTE="PhatOrange, post: 4929237, member: 229"]
When I do a deeper dive into his career the hire might be OK.  The last 3 OL coaches we had might have had better resumes on paper and the results weren't that great, so who knows.

In several of his previous stops he's had teams that were in the top 15s for fewest sacks allowed.  His work at FAU is pretty good.  He was the OLine coach for a team that went to it's first ever bowl game, then repeated the next season.  They had their first ever 1,000 yard rusher and then went 4 years in a row with a 1,000 yard rusher.  Those were his OLs opening those holes.

Findlay Williams is D2 but as OL and OC coach he got that team nationally ranked with a power run game and again a top team in fewest sacks allowed.  Also put out a 1,500 and 1,600 yard back.

His Purdue stop isn't bad.  Good enough to be there 6 years with Brohm who also brought him over from Western Kentucky.

His one year at WKU they averaged 523 yards per game (186 on the ground) and gave up 22 sacks on 471 passes.  1 every 21.4 attempts.    By comparison Syracuse gave up a sack every 10.5 attempts and that was with a QB who bailed out of the pocket early.

Initially a little underwhelming but might be better than I first thought.  Will definitely be a story line year 1.  Between him and Nixon and Johnson and even Nunzio you also have a little grey on that side of the ball.  Not bad thing.
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