Guy is sounding better and better. From the cheap seats, hoping for he or TJO at the moment.
I was just going to post something about Dolson working to set this hire up like this, from the start.
In the end, the head coach needs to be fully on board with it, but the results are speaking for themselves with programs that have adopted the "coordinator" approach of late.
How heavily influential was Murray coming on as Hurley's offensive coordinator? Same question for Pearl, and his coordinators being established the last couple years at Auburn? Sounds like McCasland is doing it at TT.
Do a deep dive, who's the best overall program and game manager coach out there that he could get. And have discussions with that person on what they'd feel about bringing in another head coach level assistant, to run the offense and/or defense. Many coaches would not want to do that, for obvious reasons. So those that wouldn't, unless they're elite level like Stevens or Beard, or someone like that...just use that as a filtering tool.
Find good coaches, that have proven they win a lot of close games, that have proven they're good at building rosters in this portal era, that are enthusiastically open about having and offensive coordinator assistant. And go get them.
Ben McCollum as the Head Coach
Alan Huss as the Offensive Coordinator
Pay Ben McCollum 4-5 mill per year
Pay Alan Huss 2 mil per year.
Just an example...and purely based off Huss having a top 30 offense, while coaching at the lowest level of D1. I'm sure these particular examples wouldn't actually work out. But the concept might have some legs. Especially if it ends up that he's struggling to find a proven, elite college coach that'd be interested.
