ftfy :thumbsup:
Greg Robinson, John Mackovic, Chuck Fairbanks, Lane Kiffin... Hell, the college football landscape is littered with NFL washouts.
Oh, here's another one - Steve Fairchild.
ftfy :thumbsup:
:rofl2:Greg Robinson, John Mackovic, Chuck Fairbanks, Lane Kiffin... Hell, the college football landscape is littered with NFL washouts.
Oh, here's another one - Steve Fairchild.
do not want.
i think it's pretty evident that college coaches have a hard time transitioning to the nfl and nfl coaches have an equally hard time transitioning to college. mike nolan seems like the kind of guy who would have a hard time transitioning to college. he doesn't look like he has the type of personality that would be a good recruiter and one of the big reasons he was fired from the broncos was that he stubbornly refused to make any adjustments to his defense once offenses figured out how to exploit it. which is why the broncos defense was so good in the early part of the season and so bad in the end
Sometimes. Offenses in the pros are pretty vanilla. Not a lot of option. QBs don't run. The formations are pretty standard. It's all about execution in the NFL. All the athletes are at the top of the game. An NFL DC needs to work on things like film study, scouting his opponents offensive tendencies, getting cues from formations, etc. A college DC needs to defend the spread, the pistol, the option, the WCO, etc.
Panda, not going to argue. Just wanted to clarify that he was not fired from the Broncos. He resigned. My understanding is that it had a lot to do with him having issues with the offensive play calling going away from what had worked, becoming pass happy, and causing his defense to wear down by being on the field too much. It's no accident he went to Miami with their balanced attack. And the Broncos have slipped from the #7 defense last year to #19 this year (Dolphins are #7, up from #13).
The rift supposedly started after the Colts game. McDaniels disagreed with a call, and wanted more say in game-planning. Nolan wasn't going to have any of that.Nolan quit before he could be fired because he and McDaniels differed greatly on McDaniels' role in defensive gameplanning. McDaniels wanted a bigger role and Nolan wanted more autonomy. There were certainly other issues, but that was the main one.
Well for one, can we not let my Dolphins have a good DC for awhile?
I like Nolan, but his time in San Fran was pretty bad if I recall correctly. I don't hate him as a candidate, can you imagine his defense vs college QBs? That being said, I would rather we went after Jim Mora Jr. He just strikes me as the type of guy that would have a blast in college, even if he does someday want to get back to the NFL. Nolan seems like he graduated from the college game long ago and will be in the NFL until he retires.
The job that Mora Jr will always have his eye on is Washington. We'd be able to keep him until that job opened up. Then, we'd lose him to a conference rival. I can live with that possibility, but we'd need to go into it with our eyes open.
Mora Sr was an assistant here if I remember correctly.
As the son of an assistant coach in college football, Mora lived in various locations as a child: primarily in Boulder, Colorado (ages 7–12) and also in California, mostly in the Los Angeles area. When Jim was 12, his father left Colorado after the 1973 football season to join the coaching staff at UCLA. He then divorced Jim L Mora's mother, his wife in 1975
Nolan quit before he could be fired because he and McDaniels differed greatly on McDaniels' role in defensive gameplanning. McDaniels wanted a bigger role and Nolan wanted more autonomy. There were certainly other issues, but that was the main one.
I'm much more comfortable with a NFL defensive guy then a NFL offensive guy