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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2776825, member: 289"] In case we need to break the glass in an emergency, I decided to look at who had a similar resume to Dino Babers before he came here. I'm assuming that Dino has moved on and taken most of his coaching staff with him, (as he did coming here). We could promote someone he left here as we did with Scott Shafer when Marrone left but I think bringing in someone who has had success as a head coach with a non-power conference team and who has experience as an assistant with power conference programs is the best formula. It would help if he has experience coaching along the eastern seaboard, where we do most of our recruiting. It would also help if he had a high-scoring team because that's what we are now used to. No meathead football, please! Even though we got Dino in his mid-50's, my instinct is to go for a younger coach who has a better chance for along career here. Dino's last Bowling Green team went 10-3. I made a list of FBS non-power conference schools who currently have 3 or fewer or fewer losses and linked them to the Wikipedia bios for their head coaches. Do any of these guys float your boat? Appalachian State- [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Satterfield"]Scott Satterfield - Wikipedia[/URL] Boise State- [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Harsin"]Bryan Harsin - Wikipedia[/URL] Buffalo- [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Leipold"]Lance Leipold - Wikipedia[/URL] Central Florida- [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Heupel"]Josh Heupel - Wikipedia[/URL] Cincinnati- [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Fickell"]Luke Fickell - Wikipedia[/URL] Florida International- [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Davis"]Butch Davis - Wikipedia[/URL] Fresno State- [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Tedford"]Jeff Tedford - Wikipedia[/URL] Georgia Southern- [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Lunsford"]Chad Lunsford - Wikipedia[/URL] Houston- [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Applewhite"]Major Applewhite - Wikipedia[/URL] Louisiana Tech- [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip_Holtz#Head_coaching_record"]Skip Holtz - Wikipedia[/URL] Marshall- [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Holliday_(American_football)"]Doc Holliday (American football) - Wikipedia[/URL] Middle Tennessee State- [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Stockstill"]Rick Stockstill - Wikipedia[/URL] North Texas- [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Littrell"]Seth Littrell - Wikipedia[/URL] Northern Illinois- [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Carey"]Rod Carey - Wikipedia[/URL] San Diego State- [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Long"]Rocky Long - Wikipedia[/URL] South Florida – [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Strong"]Charlie Strong - Wikipedia[/URL] Troy- [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Brown"]Neal Brown - Wikipedia[/URL] UAB- [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clark_(American_football)"]Bill Clark (American football) - Wikipedia[/URL] Utah State- [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Wells_(coach)"]Matt Wells (coach) - Wikipedia[/URL] I'm luke-warm at best for all of them. I'd certainly rather keep Dino if we can. the most interesting resumes to me are: North Texas's Seth Littrell, who was assistant head coach as North Carolina built that team that won 11 games in a row in 2015 before losing shoot-outs to Clemson and Baylor. That team scored 570 points. They haven't been able to duplicate that since he left. Troy's Neal Brown, who played at UMASS,<coached at Delaware and has been offensive coordinator at Texas Tech and Kentucky. He beat LSU after we lost to them last year. The offense created by Brown focused on players running to the line immediately after the play and quickly snapping the ball before the defense could get set. The offense requires speed at every position to be run the way Brown envisions it. The focus of the offense was to snap the ball 8 seconds after the previous play. " Orange would be the new faster. [/QUOTE]

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