FLORIDA VERY INTERESTED IN TERYL AUSTIN FOR DC WHAAA-
by Spencer Hall on Feb 11, 2010 3:14 PM EST
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The clear finalist for the defensive coordinator position vacated by Charlie Strong at Florida is now Teryl Austin, Arizona Cardinals' secondary coach and former college coach at Syracuse, Michigan, and Wake Forest. This is his full bio, which you may need since unless you are an alum of one of those schools or an Arizona Cardinals fan, you have no idea who he is.
His rep by the numbers from Michigan as a secondary coach at the college level isn't good: from '99 through '01, the years he was secondary coach for the Wolverines, Austin's secondaries were ranked 62nd, 86th, and 49th in the nation. (This span covers the infamous 54-51 2000 Northwestern loss, btw.) His NFL secondaries have been opportunistic and interception-y, but this sentence makes one scratch one's head with a rusty implement and consider placing it in one's eyeball upon one's reading of it:
During Austin’s three-year stint at Syracuse from 1996-98, he also worked with Steve Addazio, now the Gators’ offensive coordinator and offensive line coach. He has never been a defensive coordinator at any level.
Austin did have a reputation as a good recruiter at Michigan, and yeah, Dan Mullen but didn't have any experience as a coordinator when Meyer made him coordinator, but it still makes the hand get stabby to read that phrase.
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Anxiously awaiting the announcement of Mike DeBord as the Florida offensive coordinator next year when Addazio gets hired by some other school as HC.
Hell, why not go the whole nine yards and pay Lloyd Carr a suitcase full of cash to take over for Meyer during his on-again, off-again leaves?
by Yinka Double Dare on Feb 11, 2010 3:28 PM EST reply actions
Well Heater is going to be the DC anyway
I’m thinking that this hire is not going to be the DC (maybe in title it will be a co-DC). It may also explain why Michael Barrow is interviewing for the gig. Perhaps that will help Randy more than we could ever know.
Likely
Urban likes the committee approach on both sides of the ball.
by Spencer Hall on Feb 11, 2010 3:31 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah committee's! Transitioning to a New Paradigm!
I hope they order those cool sandwiches and big cookies for the working lunch roundtable. I guess it worked ok with Charlie and Mattison.
They just need to leverage their key learnings!
We experimented with running the defense by Leadership Team once. Didn’t work out so great (read: worst in school history). Maybe Messrs. Tenuta and Brown should have leaned out their core competencies more…as in leaned far enough out of the press box so as to rid us of their stupidity.
Brian Kelly says no Burger King at 3 AM.
by Ancient Chinese Secret on Feb 11, 2010 3:50 PM EST up reply actions
Nice
LOTR quote. Well done.
My Dawgs put a hickey on 'em!
by Gen. Stoopnagle on Feb 11, 2010 4:56 PM EST up reply actions
Nerd Alert!
Glad somebody caught that.
Brian Kelly says no Burger King at 3 AM.
by Ancient Chinese Secret on Feb 11, 2010 5:02 PM EST up reply actions
Three words:
College of Coaches. Do it. I mean, it was a spectacular failure for the spectacular failure that is the Chicago Cubs, but hey, maybe it will work for Florida.
by Yinka Double Dare on Feb 11, 2010 5:10 PM EST up reply actions
Part of the problem....
is that he’s in a picture with Hasselbeck, who is on the other side of the ball, and doesn’t even play on the same team. At least he’s in the same division.
by ESS EEE SEE Speed on Feb 11, 2010 3:49 PM EST reply actions
I don't trust B 10 DCs
ever since Kevin Cosgrove turned the Blackshirts into the Blackskirt/Pinkshirts. Then, after pulling Nebraska into the depths of hell, he gets the same position at Minnesota? Be afraid, Orson, be very afraid.
Hadoken!!
Thumbs Up from Athens!
My Dawgs put a hickey on 'em!
by Gen. Stoopnagle on Feb 11, 2010 4:56 PM EST reply actions
Ah, buck up, Orson, me lad
Tis a far better thing that Addazio and Austin started under the Paul Pasqualoni coaching tree than GERG’s. Pasqualoni had a .641 win percentage in his 12 years at the ’Cuse. Small comforts, my friend.
"I like the taste of danger most of all." - Jonatha Brooke
The Real problem here...
is how Meyer was basically pigeon holed into hiring a minority coach. uf has this stupid unspoken policy of always have 2 minority coaches on staff. after strong raided our coaches and gonzalez left meyer hired drayton again and edwards, then edwards left so meyer had to once again hire a minority. i understand why they would have an unspoken rule like this but after the turnover this year and the bad situations that some assistants put us in meyer/addazio couldn’t even consider hiring a white guy. this late in the game you would like to be able to hire the best person available for the job but they can’t do that if they can’t look at all candidates. so now we get one of the masterminds behind one of the worse pass defenses in the NFL last year. if anyone thinks that uf does not have this rule, look at all the candidates interviewed or who uf was “interested” in. tyrone nix, harbison from clemson, barrow from miami, teryl austin, corwin brown, and they had just hired edwards. I don’t care who we hire as long as they are qualified, in my opinion austin is not qualified and our defense will suffer. if he can post a top 5 defense with this class and the current roster i’ll eat my words but i’m sure many very qualified d-coordinators would have been drooling to coach the class we just brought in. i would have loved to have had tyrone nix but hiring a black coach for the sake of hiring a black coach is retarded.
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