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Kliff Kingsbury is out as Tech coach - Introducing Matt Wells! (Utah St.)

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1 hour ago, Magus Ossis said:

If only there were an easy code-word for the least concerning lower-tier Matt.

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1 hour ago, Dirk X West said:

Alan Bowman now says he’s not going anywhere.

Best news of the day.

Continue the road to wellness, so you can get out there and pilot this ship on offense again!  Wreck Em!!!

Bowman being interviewed by the media today.  You have to wonder why KK wouldn't let anybody talk to him.  He does a really nice job for an 18 year old kid.  Appears Wells won't be nearly as secretive and guarded in allowing media access to players and staff.  Kliff wouldn't even let the coordinators speak to them.

 

New Texas Tech  offensive and defensive coordinators met the media today.  Each talks about the scheme they'll run and come with seemingly really good backgrounds.  Both talk a good game anyway.  Some interesting comments regarding playing defense in today's game and secondly how their offense is run.

 

So Tech will be running the Hair Raid offense now?

Alan Bowman now says he’s not going anywhere.

I think he might have a hard time getting a scholarship anywhere else, given his condition.

Taking the USC OC job. Trojans needed Kliff more than Kliff needed the Trojans.

 

12 minutes ago, mdmost said:

Taking the USC OC job. Trojans needed Kliff more than Kliff needed the Trojans.

 

No surprise. Most believe Helton’s days Are numbered and Kliffy can step right in.

Some may not agree but College football is better with a good SC team. No one else in the PAC (including Washington when they compete for a title) comes close to what SC can do when the Trojans force the media to focus attention on the west coast.

Just now, Xian said:

tech seems to have made a bad decision here 

Firing a coach who had four losing seasons out of the last five and three in a row is a bad move in your estimation?

12 minutes ago, Hamttx said:

No surprise. Most believe Helton’s days Are numbered and Kliffy can step right in.

Some may not agree but College football is better with a good SC team. No one else in the PAC (including Washington when they compete for a title) comes close to what SC can do when the Trojans force the media to focus attention on the west coast.

USC is not going to promote a one-year OC that just got fired from Texas fucking Tech. 

 

8 minutes ago, Xian said:

tech seems to have made a bad decision here 

The bad decision was firing Leach. They will pay for that one for years and years to come. 

1 minute ago, irishtexan said:

USC is not going to promote a one-year OC that just got fired from Texas fucking Tech. 

"Kliff Kingsbury... a Texas boy with California dreams.. coaching one of America's most accomplished football programs in the Grand-daddy of them all!..." - Kieth Jackson's voice RIP

On 11/30/2018 at 9:31 PM, Steel Shank said:

Wells looks like Fleck.

I can see a resemblance, the #DoubleSpiderman gif would be appropriate...

If kliff takes the sc oc job and is then promoted next year, I wonder if Helton will sue for collusion or whatever, claiming swann set the whole thing up in advance to minimize the buyout. 

I'm not getting the "Kliff could just step in as HC" thing.  If Kliff had, say, won 8 games this year and hadn't got fired at Tech, does anyone think he would've been a likely HC candidate for USC in 2019? 

1 hour ago, Dirk X West said:

I'm not getting the "Kliff could just step in as HC" thing.  If Kliff had, say, won 8 games this year and hadn't got fired at Tech, does anyone think he would've been a likely HC candidate for USC in 2019? 

 

USC only hires average former Trojans, and Kliff is both average and now a Trojan! 

2 hours ago, irishtexan said:

USC is not going to promote a one-year OC that just got fired from Texas fucking Tech. 

depends who else offers KK after the one-year...

 

USC ain't exactly stellar at picking their football helmsman of late.

Edited by slorch

there are a lot of so called Tech fans that love revisionist history and that make Tech out to be some place that just abuses coaches and causes them great harm and pain and stifles their abilities to have success

so not that people are actually (laughably) pretending that Kliff would get a sniff for the HC job at USC and before Wells coaches a game for people to try and critique that Vs what Kliff could have done with more time lets all go on record about Kliff

I say he had to be fired, he did a terrible job overall, he was a poor recruiter, he was poor at keeping players he recruited, he had terrible clock management, terrible special teams, did not give a shit about penalties (especially stupid untimely ones), he assembled a bad staff from day one and took too long to correct it, he was stubborn and refused to give up play calling duties, he was poor at handling the QBs especially and his offenses were up and down even game to game

he was a nice guy, I wish him no ill will, I wish he had done much better, but I feel he was 100% responsible for his own failings and I hope he recovers, but no matter what he does anywhere else he was done at Tech and in fact if he does well other places (and eventually gets a HC job and does well) I think it will actually be a poor personal reflection on him for not changing during the SIX YEARS he had at Tech and taking advantage of their good will and his personal connections to Tech unless he comes out when ask (and he will be ask) and admits that he needed to make adjustments while at Tech and he failed to do so and working under others taught him that hard lesson that he never learned in SIX YEARS at Tech that were highly underwhelming

Going to be interesting to watch Leach v Kliff next year.

6 hours ago, mdmost said:

Taking the USC OC job. Trojans needed Kliff more than Kliff needed the Trojans.

 

He's planning on needing lots of Trojans.

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24 minutes ago, Machinator said:

 

Additionally, potentially a million dollars more per year in incentives.

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That shit makes ZERO sense.

Wells coach..? I can drink to that..!

 

On 1/1/2019 at 9:37 PM, slorch said:

That shit makes ZERO sense.

My take on that is the head coaching skills that are both so incredibly important in the college game and his Achilles heel, aren't present to any great degree in the NFL.  

Those being primarily interpersonal types of skills that are so critical in college in order to recruit, schmooz boosters, woo the local media,  kiss up to donors, be a just regular local community guy around town, etc. aren't that vital to success in the NFL. The guy was an extreme introvert, so much more so than most realize.

He's clearly a great offensive mind and easily owns the technical skills needed to be a successful head coach in the NFL IMO.

On 1/1/2019 at 9:37 PM, slorch said:

That shit makes ZERO sense.

NFL teams are known for bringing in guys that they have no intent on offering, but for the sole purpose of picking their brain.  

10 hours ago, kopp0e said:

Wells coach..? I can drink to that..!

 

Nachos Grande $8.50 to $2? In!

Oh, and wheelhouse.

2 hours ago, mrhorn said:

NFL teams are known for bringing in guys that they have no intent on offering, but for the sole purpose of picking their brain.  

Kliff’s a whiteboy though...

On 1/1/2019 at 9:37 PM, slorch said:

That shit makes ZERO sense.

a failed HC getting a downshift OC job in college and then NFL HC looks.  Bizarro. 

I doubt he gets an offer, but the NFL is desperate to break their cookie cutter hiring process.  So in their attempt they make another mold of how to find the next McVay and young and offensive mind checks the boxes.

3 minutes ago, Gene Parmesan said:

I doubt he gets an offer, but the NFL is desperate to break their cookie cutter hiring process.  So in their attempt they make another mold of how to find the next McVay and young and offensive mind checks the boxes.

Because Lane Kiffin worked out so well.

1 minute ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Because Lane Kiffin worked out so well.

Lane Kiffin has a lot of personality flaws that Kliff has never shown.

2 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Because Lane Kiffin worked out so well.

Lane Kiffin doesn't manscape like Kingsbury and McVay that's the difference.

Can Joey Freshwater even grow a beard?

 

Kliff getting a NFL job would be odd but the same NFL coaches being recycled every year is just as odd. 

I actually think Kliff would be a decent NFL coach if he figured out the defensive side of the ball. 

 

Edited by texasstrong12

Kliff would be hired for one main reason-  maximize QB production.

get someone else to run the defense, and the GM handles talent acquisition and you remove some of Kliff's biggest drawbacks as a college HC.

On 11/27/2018 at 9:10 PM, Thermos H. Christ said:

Watch him parlay getting fired by Texas Tech into an NFL HC gig in like 3 years.

Slightly ahead of schedule

Baker Mayfield  = not good enough to be Texas Tech QB, but wins three Big 12 titles at OU, Heisman trophy and #1 overall NFL pick. 

Kliff Kingsbury = not good enough to be Texas Tech coach, but good enough to be head coach in NFL.

What more proof do we need that Tech is the greatest football program in the world?

I could actually see a scenario where KK is a successful NFL coach - as mentioned, he doesn't have to recruit. Give him the roster to compete on D he can hand that side to a competent DC. He won't be at a talent disadvantage on offense.

Taking over this Arizona squad is absolutely not that scenario. The Cardinals should know that, but they don't, and that's why they're the fucking Cardinals.

Edited by gmr548

Maybe the Jets will interview Matt Wells for their open HC job???

1 hour ago, Nemesis said:

Baker Mayfield  = not good enough to be Texas Tech QB, but wins three Big 12 titles at OU, Heisman trophy and #1 overall NFL pick. 

Kliff Kingsbury = not good enough to be Texas Tech coach, but good enough to be head coach in NFL.

What more proof do we need that Tech is the greatest football program in the world?

You’re wrong. 

 

A lot wrong. 

Will he or won’t he do better than Herm Edwards?

On 1/3/2019 at 9:26 AM, Gene Parmesan said:

I doubt he gets an offer, but the NFL is desperate to break their cookie cutter hiring process.  So in their attempt they make another mold of how to find the next McVay and young and offensive mind checks the boxes.

 

29 minutes ago, kopp0e said:

 

just wanted to put these two posts together

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