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[sutomcat]

Former SU assistant AD John Cunningham is taking over as the AD at Cincinnati. John followed Mark Coyle from Syracuse to Minnesota. Good guy. Congrats to him.

OL coach Randy Clements has taken a job as the OL coach at Ole Miss. Clements coached the OL at Baylor when Dino Babers was the WR there. He has followed Kendal Briles around to a number of schools since Art was forced out of Baylor. That partnership was finally broken when Randy took the job with Mississippi.

It looks like Kendal Briles is a candidate for the open OC job at Arkansas. If he doesn’t get that, I am not sure what he will do.

If you are rooting for Kendal to surface in Syracuse, the Clements hire probably makes it easier for Dino to hire Kendal. He could make Kendall a co-OC with Mike Lynch, and minimize the impact on the coaching staff on the offensive side of the ball (Kendall usually coaches the QBs; maybe Kurt could move to coaching RBs, with Mike coaching the OL again?).

My guess is that Dino will not make any changes on the offensive side of the ball. But if he is ever going to bring anyone from the outside in to be an OC, it is probably going to be Kendall, who I know Dino is friends with and respects greatly.
Either him or Sean Lewis, if Kent State turns sour and he gets fired there. Doesn’t look like that is going to happen anytime soon.

 

[Orangejet]

Would love to see Briles as Co-OC.

 

[OburgOrange]

Would love to see Briles as Co-OC.

Yes

 

[orangepassion]

If Briles would come, would think he'd come to be the sole OC.

 

[LeMoyneCuse]

Winning isn't important enough to have a Briles around.

 

[OrangeBlood]

Yeah no thanks to Briles — he can follow his father to hell

 

[bnoro]

If we hire Kendal Briles I won't watch Syracuse football for the first time since I enrolled at SU. Not worth it.

 

[OrangeDW]

Hire CNY native and experienced OL and OC Herb Hand! Coached Penn State’s line with Barkley, Tulsa when they were good, Vandy, WVU, Auburn, and currently Texas. They’re turning over their staff. If he gets canned, he’d be a heck of a get!
Herb Hand - Football Coach - University of Texas Athletics

 

[orangepassion]

Hire CNY native and experienced OL and OC Herb Hand! Coached Penn State’s line with Barkley, Tulsa when they were good, Vandy, WVU, Auburn, and currently Texas. They’re turning over their staff. If he gets canned, he’d be a heck of a get!
Herb Hand - Football Coach - University of Texas Athletics

Believe he's an excellent recruiter

 

[JRHEETER]

I wouldn’t be so shocked if Briles is hired as co-oc

 

[tipphill]

he needs a recruiter and a oc. and a fresh open minded approach. call george deleone

 

[Orangello]

Lynch isn't cutting it as OC. Change is needed there IMHO.

 

[EnviroSciGuy]

Lynch isn't cutting it as OC. Change is needed there IMHO.

Agree completely.

 

[McNabb2Brominski]

Why can’t Dino just take over the OC play calling duties? It’s his offense and not uncommon for the head coach to call the plays. IMO, much more important is hiring a good QB coach who understands the system and can develop the QB position better.

 

[elimunelson]

If we hire Kendal Briles I won't watch Syracuse football for the first time since I enrolled at SU. Not worth it.

weird hill to die on. Was the son in any way found guilty of the transgressions of his dad?

 

[dasher]

Why can’t Dino just take over the OC play calling duties? It’s his offense and not uncommon for the head coach to call the plays. IMO, much more important is hiring a good QB coach who understands the system and can develop the QB position better.

Being head coach is a full time job. We need a full time O.C..

 

[Shrmdougluvr]

weird hill to die on. Was the son in any way found guilty of the transgressions of his dad?

And the whole Dino-Art Briles connection thing ...

 

[gmoney44]

Winning isn't important enough to have a Briles around.

Because his father was a scum bag you don’t won’t his son? I would be happy as a pig in shyte if he was our OC.

 

[orangepassion]

Update on the Arkansas offensive coordinator search

Barry Odom was in place as Arkansas' defensive coordinator on Friday and formally announced on Monday, so now Sam Pittman's attention -- when he's not with

footballscoop.com

 

[LeMoyneCuse]

weird hill to die on. Was the son in any way found guilty of the transgressions of his dad?

Because his father was a scum bag you don’t won’t his son? I would be happy as a pig in shyte if he was our OC.

His father wasn't some rogue who ran the program without others being on board.

 

[upperdeck]

this Baylor story is pretty complex to even know who to place blame on.. no doubt players were involved in some way, its not even clear whether the coaches or the school knew more about what was going in but it also seemed school had an issue as a whole

some reports have it that the school and police were covering it up from the coaches. Even the players involved and convicted have issues of coverups of the coverups.

 

[bnoro]

weird hill to die on. Was the son in any way found guilty of the transgressions of his dad?

FAU coach Kendal Briles accused of using sex to get recruits to Baylor

 

[OrangeFoo]

weird hill to die on. Was the son in any way found guilty of the transgressions of his dad?

“Do you like white women? Because we have a lot of them at Baylor and they love football players.” - this is a quote rumored to have been attributed to Kendal Briles while recruiting

This is also a fun article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...al-briles-from-the-recruiting-trail-in-texas/

Was Kendal Briles accused directly? Nope? Were unnamed assistant coaches accused of not doing the eright thing when they heard about sexual assaults and rape? Yep. Do we really believe that the HC's son was not in the know?

This dude is the scum of the earth and if Babers hires him I truly will never watch a Syracuse football game as long as Babers is there.

 

[upperdeck]

so why did FAU hire him?

 

[PhatOrange]

so why did FAU hire him?

Clearly because FAU doesn’t care. Then again, nobody cares that FAU doesn’t care, and nobody cares that FAU hired him. Oh and nor did FSU.