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Tbf UCF is missing their Heisman candidate qb but yea I expected more with LSU's depleted secondary
True but LSU is missing a ton of starters on defense and have played most of this game playing a wide receiver and backup safeties at corner.

Add to it, ucf receivers have dropped a ton of balls.
 

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Riley just knows Garrett gets one more year so he's waiting for us :unsure
 

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Smart move by Riley - he's cooking with fire at Oklahoma and can go down as a legend there. Probably getting Fields and Haselwood so there will be no drop off when Murray leaves.

I know the NFL has to be appealing, but college coaches to NFL rarely works. Might as well stay put.
 

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Smart move by Riley - he's cooking with fire at Oklahoma and can go down as a legend there. Probably getting Fields and Haselwood so there will be no drop off when Murray leaves.

I know the NFL has to be appealing, but college coaches to NFL rarely works. Might as well stay put.
He’d be stupid to leave any year soon. Makes sense as he’s a Tech grad and probably more intelligent than his peers.
 

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Not much has gone my way today. Hopefully that changes these last two games. But doubtful....:picard
 

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If Texas can beat UGA then I’ll forgive Child Rape U and UCF.
 

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[h=1]Sources: Kliff Kingsbury to get head coaching interviews with Jets, Cardinals[/h] Charles RobinsonJanuary 1, 2019, 5:24 PM CST
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Biggest takeaways from NFL’s coaching changes
Former Texas Tech head coach and current USC offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury is officially on the NFL coaching search grid, landing at least two interviews for a top job, sources told Yahoo Sports.

Team sources familiar with the head coaching searches of the Arizona Cardinals and New York Jets told Yahoo Sports both franchises are expected to conduct formal interviews with Kingsbury for their openings.

Considered to be one of the most creative offensive minds in college football, Kingsbury’s NFL candidacy comes on the heels of him rebuffing an opportunity to coach the University of Houston in recent days. Now the NFL appears to be in play, with multiple league executives telling Yahoo Sports that Kingsbury is in the league’s candidate pool for some head jobs.

He’s also considered a prime commodity for top-level offensive coordinator positions, although it’s unclear he’d be receptive to those openings. While both the Cardinals and Jets are expecting to schedule head coaching interviews with Kingsbury, executives from two other teams with vacancies told Yahoo Sports the former Texas Tech coach is on their candidate lists but not currently targeted for an interview.
After getting fired as head coach at Texas Tech, Kliff Kingsbury landed at USC as the Trojans’ offensive coordinator. (AP)
All of this comes after Kingsbury was fired by Texas Tech in late November and then added to USC’s staff in early December. If anything, his inclusion in NFL search pools underscores the league’s pursuit of younger, progressive offensive coaches who fit the mold of the Los Angeles Rams’ Sean McVay and the Chicago Bears’ Matt Nagy.

Like the careers of McVay and Nagy, Kingsbury has drawn ample respect for producing prolific offenses in challenging circumstances. That also explains why NFL teams are considering him despite amassing a less-than-flattering 35-40 record in six seasons at Texas Tech. Typically, those aren’t results that land people in NFL head coaching searches. But Kingsbury also has some key exclamation points on his résumé that matter in today’s NFL.

Chief among them: In three seasons as a coordinator at the University of Houston and Texas A&M and six seasons as a head coach at Texas Tech, Kingsbury guided five offenses that finished in the top five in scoring in the nation. Inside that span, he was credited with identifying both Patrick Mahomes and Baker Mayfield as quarterback prospects, while also helping to develop Case Keenum, Johnny Manziel and Davis Webb into NFL players. Perhaps more important, the offenses Kingsbury developed were often layered and molded to the skills of his players, creating success with players who had varied strengths and weaknesses.

Having touched the careers of three high level NFL starters in 2018 — Mahomes, Mayfield and Keenum — was already enough to get the attention of league evaluators. But Kingsbury also has the added bonus of being 39 years old, which creates an opportunity to pair an inventive offensive mind with a young NFL quarterback (like a Sam Darnold or Josh Rosen, for example) for a 10-15 year run. That’s a template many teams are looking for, envisioning a dynamic along the lines of Sean Payton and Drew Brees, McVay and Jared Goff, Andy Reid and Mahomes or Nagy and Mitchell Trubisky. Not surprisingly, three of those head coaches — Payton, Reid and McVay — have all been admirers of some of Kingsbury’s offensive work in recent years. So much so that Kingsbury likely could have been added to any of those staffs in some capacity if he had expressed an interest.

For now, it appears unlikely Kingsbury will leave his USC coordinator position for anything less than an NFL head coaching opportunity, given that he passed on a University of Houston job that should have been attractive. Whether he’ll be offered a head coaching job by an NFL team is another matter. It’s possible the Jets and Cardinals view a Kingsbury interview more as an exploratory opportunity, preferring to leave no stone unturned and taking a chance that Kingsbury might blow them away in the process. In some ways, that’s what McVay and Nagy represented in the 2017 and 2018 search cycles, which ended with both dominating their interviews and landing jobs that weren’t obvious matches when the process started.

Time will tell if Kingsbury can create that same NFL opportunity, but there’s no more questioning whether he’s on the league’s head coaching radar.
 

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[h=1]South Florida capitalizes on Charlie Strong's Texas deal[/h]
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Steve Berkowitz | USA TODAY SportsUpdated 9:52 p.m. CST Dec. 13, 2016

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A college football coaching deal affecting South Florida and Texas likely will bring satisfaction to school officials from at least UCLA, Virginia and Georgia.

On Tuesday, when South Florida released the basic employment terms it has reached with new football coach Charlie Strong, there was no missing the impact of the buyout Strong is due to receive from Texas after his firing there roughly three weeks ago. It’s an impact that UCLA, Virginia and Georgia recently have taken steps to try to avoid.

Under Strong’s terms with Texas, he is to be paid what had been his 2016 base salary — $5.2 million a year — on a monthly basis through the contract’s original termination date of Jan. 23, 2019. However, Strong was obligated to make reasonable effort to find another job, and if he did, Texas would be allowed to offset what it owes him by an amount equal to 50% of the “total compensation” Strong would get from his new employer.
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The deal between Strong and South Florida is for five years and a basic compensation total of $9.8 million, not including the value of perks, benefits and potential bonuses.

But the basic compensation isn’t being paid out evenly. Far from it.

With contract years beginning Jan. 1, Strong is set to receive $1 million in 2017 and $1 million in 2018.

The amount jumps to $2.5 million in 2019, basically coinciding with the scheduled end of Strong’s payments from Texas, then goes to $2.6 million and $2.7 million for the last two years.

This same type of setup is being used with Strong’s budget for assistant coaches at South Florida.
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Nearly all of Strong’s assistant coaches at Texas have been working under contracts that were to expire Jan. 31, 2018 or Jan. 31, 2019, and they included buyout arrangements mirroring Strong’s. If they are not retained, they would be owed their remaining salaries, subject to the 50% offset.

South Florida and Strong agreed to structure his budget for assistant coaches’ salaries as follows: $1.66 million for 2017, $2.25 million for 2018 and $3.4 million for each of the last three years.

Texas athletics department spokesman John Bianco said the school had no comment on Strong's agreement with South Florida.

The notion of one school being able to take advantage of a buyout being paid by another school is not new. From 2014 through earlier this year, Alabama paid Lane Kiffin at a rate of roughly $700,000 a year to be its offensive coordinator, in part, because he was still being paid a buyout from his head coaching tenure at Southern California, When the buyout payment, Alabama raised Kiffin's annual pay rate to $1.4 million.

These types of issues have been addressed in buyout and offset provisions negotiated in the past few years by several other schools.

UCLA’s contract with Jim Mora says that if he is fired without cause, he must seek another job and “negotiate a salary which is reasonable within the context of the position being sought or accepted.”

Virginia’s deal with Bronco Mendenhall says that if he “appears to be substantially underpaid compared to market” by a new employer or if his new pay under a multi-year agreement is “unequally apportioned to fall outside of the period” during which Virginia would be obligated to pay him, Virginia can impose “the appropriate reduction” in what it would have to pay Mendenhall.
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Georgia’s deal with Kirby Smart sets up an offset only if Smart takes a job with another Southeastern Conference school, but it requires his new contract to “allocate compensation across the term of the agreement without structuring or timing compensation to avoid the intended effect of this provision.”

Defining the market rate for a head coach’s pay can be complicated. But a common way of looking at it is how it compares to the pay of other coaches in his school’s conference.

Strong is replacing Willie Taggart, whose basic pay from USF for this season was $1.7 million until he left last week to become Oregon’s head coach. At that rate, Taggart, Central Florida’s Scott Frost and Connecticut’s Bob Diaco were tied for fifth among the eight AAC coaches whose basic pay for this season could be obtained by USA TODAY Sports for its annual survey of head football coaches’ compensation. The only one of those eight making less is East Carolina’s Scottie Montgomery, a first-time head coach who is making $1 million.

The top pay in the AAC next season is likely to be lowered by the departures of the conference’s two highest-paid coaches — Tom Herman from Houston and Tommy Tuberville from Cincinnati — but Montgomery is scheduled for a raise of at least $50,000.

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Interesting article above about how Strong screwed UT over which makes me happy.

Also, Strong has finished 0-5 and 0-6 in the last two seasons. Did this guy go to the Kliff Kingsbury school of coaching or what?
 

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[h=1]Sources: Kliff Kingsbury to get head coaching interviews with Jets, Cardinals[/h] Charles RobinsonJanuary 1, 2019, 5:24 PM CST
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Biggest takeaways from NFL’s coaching changes
Former Texas Tech head coach and current USC offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury is officially on the NFL coaching search grid, landing at least two interviews for a top job, sources told Yahoo Sports.

Team sources familiar with the head coaching searches of the Arizona Cardinals and New York Jets told Yahoo Sports both franchises are expected to conduct formal interviews with Kingsbury for their openings.

Considered to be one of the most creative offensive minds in college football, Kingsbury’s NFL candidacy comes on the heels of him rebuffing an opportunity to coach the University of Houston in recent days. Now the NFL appears to be in play, with multiple league executives telling Yahoo Sports that Kingsbury is in the league’s candidate pool for some head jobs.

He’s also considered a prime commodity for top-level offensive coordinator positions, although it’s unclear he’d be receptive to those openings. While both the Cardinals and Jets are expecting to schedule head coaching interviews with Kingsbury, executives from two other teams with vacancies told Yahoo Sports the former Texas Tech coach is on their candidate lists but not currently targeted for an interview.
After getting fired as head coach at Texas Tech, Kliff Kingsbury landed at USC as the Trojans’ offensive coordinator. (AP)
All of this comes after Kingsbury was fired by Texas Tech in late November and then added to USC’s staff in early December. If anything, his inclusion in NFL search pools underscores the league’s pursuit of younger, progressive offensive coaches who fit the mold of the Los Angeles Rams’ Sean McVay and the Chicago Bears’ Matt Nagy.

Like the careers of McVay and Nagy, Kingsbury has drawn ample respect for producing prolific offenses in challenging circumstances. That also explains why NFL teams are considering him despite amassing a less-than-flattering 35-40 record in six seasons at Texas Tech. Typically, those aren’t results that land people in NFL head coaching searches. But Kingsbury also has some key exclamation points on his résumé that matter in today’s NFL.

Chief among them: In three seasons as a coordinator at the University of Houston and Texas A&M and six seasons as a head coach at Texas Tech, Kingsbury guided five offenses that finished in the top five in scoring in the nation. Inside that span, he was credited with identifying both Patrick Mahomes and Baker Mayfield as quarterback prospects, while also helping to develop Case Keenum, Johnny Manziel and Davis Webb into NFL players. Perhaps more important, the offenses Kingsbury developed were often layered and molded to the skills of his players, creating success with players who had varied strengths and weaknesses.

Having touched the careers of three high level NFL starters in 2018 — Mahomes, Mayfield and Keenum — was already enough to get the attention of league evaluators. But Kingsbury also has the added bonus of being 39 years old, which creates an opportunity to pair an inventive offensive mind with a young NFL quarterback (like a Sam Darnold or Josh Rosen, for example) for a 10-15 year run. That’s a template many teams are looking for, envisioning a dynamic along the lines of Sean Payton and Drew Brees, McVay and Jared Goff, Andy Reid and Mahomes or Nagy and Mitchell Trubisky. Not surprisingly, three of those head coaches — Payton, Reid and McVay — have all been admirers of some of Kingsbury’s offensive work in recent years. So much so that Kingsbury likely could have been added to any of those staffs in some capacity if he had expressed an interest.

For now, it appears unlikely Kingsbury will leave his USC coordinator position for anything less than an NFL head coaching opportunity, given that he passed on a University of Houston job that should have been attractive. Whether he’ll be offered a head coaching job by an NFL team is another matter. It’s possible the Jets and Cardinals view a Kingsbury interview more as an exploratory opportunity, preferring to leave no stone unturned and taking a chance that Kingsbury might blow them away in the process. In some ways, that’s what McVay and Nagy represented in the 2017 and 2018 search cycles, which ended with both dominating their interviews and landing jobs that weren’t obvious matches when the process started.

Time will tell if Kingsbury can create that same NFL opportunity, but there’s no more questioning whether he’s on the league’s head coaching radar.
I don’t know why a pro team would offer him HC job when he didn’t succeed at the college level.
 

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I don’t know why a pro team would offer him HC job when he didn’t succeed at the college level.
I doubt it but there has been a ton of interest in him in the professional and college ranks. Apparently he is getting interviews.
 

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I doubt it but there has been a ton of interest in him in the professional and college ranks. Apparently he is getting interviews.
I think the interest is selective and obviously it in his presumed expertise of offensive knowledge.
 

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As much as I hated spurrier he could pull off the visor look. Kirby Smart just looks like a short pudgy dork wearing one.
 

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Smart move by Riley - he's cooking with fire at Oklahoma and can go down as a legend there. Probably getting Fields and Haselwood so there will be no drop off when Murray leaves.

I know the NFL has to be appealing, but college coaches to NFL rarely works. Might as well stay put.
Especially when the salaries for the top CFB coaches are not that far off from what most top NFL coaches are making.

Looks like all these delusional Cowboys fans will have to look elsewhere for the next Jerry Jones puppet.
 
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