CBS: Charlie Strong, reportedly on the hot seat at Texas, will call defensive plays

[BleedGopher]

per CBS:

Texas coach Charlie Strong confirmed Monday that defensive coordinator Vance Bedford has been stripped of his play-calling duties.

Bedford will continue to coach the secondary along with Clay Jennings. Strong will now assume play-calling duties moving forward.

"The way we've played on defense is unacceptable," Strong said. "So I'm gonna run the defense. I'm going to coach the defense."

Strong said the move was not made out of "desperation." However, demoting defensive assistants has been a negative trend for the Longhorns in recent years.

http://www.cbssports.com/college-fo...moving-on-from-charlie-strong-at-seasons-end/

Go Gophers!!

 

[wait!what?]

per CBS:

Texas coach Charlie Strong confirmed Monday that defensive coordinator Vance Bedford has been stripped of his play-calling duties.

Bedford will continue to coach the secondary along with Clay Jennings. Strong will now assume play-calling duties moving forward.

"The way we've played on defense is unacceptable," Strong said. "So I'm gonna run the defense. I'm going to coach the defense."

Strong said the move was not made out of "desperation." However, demoting defensive assistants has been a negative trend for the Longhorns in recent years.

http://www.cbssports.com/college-fo...moving-on-from-charlie-strong-at-seasons-end/

Go Gophers!!

Jerry Kill is gonna have to decide between Notre Dame or Texas.

 

[westcoastgopher11]

this is one thing im really glad the AD has stayed away from doing - if you hire a coach let them run their ship for better or worse. tinkering with their personnel or (all but) requiring them to make organizational changes midseason like this to save their job rarely gets the desired results from any of the parties involved.

i think charlie strong is a hell of a coach but he could finish 8-5 and get canned. whoever is the next to hire him will get a gem he's a boss

 

[Iceland12]

Why Charlie Strong was set up to fail at Texas - Fox Sports

Many reasons Brewster failed up here. A big reason was he thought he could get Texas and North Carolina kids to come up to Minnesota. After his first full recruiting class, an unbalanced one, he couldn't. When he was at Mississippi State, he admitted as much. Many ripped him for it but he was telling the truth.

Charlie Strong made his mark in Florida and when he moved to Louisville he depended on Florida kids. It worked there. Here are a number of reasons he was "set-up for failure" in Texas. One of them is similar to Brewster. Strong wouldn't have got the Florida kids he needed to Minnesota either.

"The Strong-Longhorn marriage was always a peculiar one. There’s no one in the American sporting public who believes that Strong was Texas’ first choice — Longhorn power brokers didn’t even bother to hide the fact that they, like every other booster base in the nation, wanted to get Nick Saban to coach their team.

The story is that Saban turned down a 10-year deal worth $100 million to take over the Longhorns program in 2014. That’s one impressive offer and if that couldn’t pull him from Alabama, nothing will.

So Texas turned to Strong, the up-and-coming head coach at Louisville who had worked under Urban Meyer as his defensive coordinator at Florida.

Those are impressive credentials and Strong’s success at Louisville was unimpeachable. No one could argue that he wasn’t a suitable choice for a premier job, like Texas.

Strong was a Florida guy. He spent 10 years as a coach at the University of Florida and when the school made the grave mistake of passing on him as Meyer's successor, he went to Louisville and built that program into a Sugar Bowl champion with Florida kids.

Strong’s 2011 recruiting class was the one that put Strong in line for the Texas job, and 12 of 22 members were Florida kids. Strong recruited South Florida, and particularly Miami, hard. The Miami crop in that 2011 class included quarterback Teddy Bridgewater, receiver Eli Rodgers, and defensive end B.J. Dubose.

Strong lived on Florida talent for most of his career. He had relationships with high school coaches and handlers all over the state and knew how to get high-potential players that other schools might have missed. Strong was a legend in South Florida, particularly, and with the University of Miami’s poor play, Louisville was the favorite college team of many in the black communities in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties. Strong had a pipeline.

Texas can recruit nationally, but everyone knows that Texas recruits in-state first, second and third. In retrospect, it was pretty ridiculous to think that a coach whose career was built by recruiting one state (and, more specifically, one region) well was going to transfer his recruiting success to a new school that required him to recruit an entirely new environment.

Strong was expected to be the next-best choice to Saban, but he only got one season to build a similar recruiting pipeline — a sustainable foundation — in that brand new environment before he needed to start bringing in significant results. Texas needed a plug-and-play coach who could win immediately, and Strong, a Texas outsider, was never going to be that guy.

We'll probably never find out if his long-term vision would have worked, either.

http://www.foxsports.com/college-fo...lie-strong-was-set-up-to-fail-at-texas-100716

 

[A_Slab_of_Bacon]

Not that I think it would happen but I'd be happy to pick up some of these coaches who got cast off from some of these programs for not meeting sky high expectations. Strong, Miles, etc.

 

[GopherWeatherGuy]

Many reasons Brewster failed up here. A big reason was he thought he could get Texas and North Carolina kids to come up to Minnesota. After his first full recruiting class, an unbalanced one, he couldn't. When he was at Mississippi State, he admitted as much. Many ripped him for it but he was telling the truth.

Charlie Strong made his mark in Florida and when he moved to Louisville he depended on Florida kids. It worked there. Here are a number of reasons he was "set-up for failure" in Texas. One of them is similar to Brewster. Strong wouldn't have got the Florida kids he needed to Minnesota either.

http://www.foxsports.com/college-fo...lie-strong-was-set-up-to-fail-at-texas-100716

It's only his 3rd year, and his first two full recruiting classes were ranked 7th and 12th, made up of mostly Texas kids. He's also starting a bunch of sophomores. A lot of grasping at straws in this article.

 

[A_Slab_of_Bacon]

It's only his 3rd year, and his first two full recruiting classes were ranked 7th and 12th, made up of mostly Texas kids. He's also starting a bunch of sophomores. A lot of grasping at straws in this article.

Yeah he started a lot of younger guys this year, presumably his guys.

Although it's not out of the realm of possibility that Strong is in trouble at Texas, attendance has looked bad, they wouldn't be the first school to get impatient.

 

[Pompous Elitist]

The writer says Florida made the mistake of hiring Meyer rather than Strong. Hmm. Trying to make the case Strong can't win with Texas kids is one of the poorest arguments I've seen put out there. Sometimes opposing coaches catch up to your system, or your assistants stink, or bad luck with players. He will get a chance elsewhere

 

[Iceland12]

It's only his 3rd year, and his first two full recruiting classes were ranked 7th and 12th, made up of mostly Texas kids. He's also starting a bunch of sophomores. A lot of grasping at straws in this article.

Good point about the recruiting classes. Didn't look it up. Looking now (at 24/7 sports) he had that great class at 7th for 2016. We'll ahead of OK and A&M at 16 and 17. He also had a very good 10th ranked class in 2015, right above A&M at 11 and OK at 16. The 2014 Class, which was probably recruited mainly by his predecessor was 16th, but behind OK at 14 and well behind Texas A&M at 5. The class before he got in was 17th, right behind OK at 16 and well behind Texas A&M at 9.

The question then is will he get the chance for a Class of 2017?

 

[jpraml]

The writer says Florida made the mistake of hiring Meyer rather than Strong. Hmm. Trying to make the case Strong can't win with Texas kids is one of the poorest arguments I've seen put out there. Sometimes opposing coaches catch up to your system, or your assistants stink, or bad luck with players. He will get a chance elsewhere

You misread it. The mistake was not hiring Strong as Meyers successor.