This article has some guesses for Orlando and Beck replacements. Sunday, bloody Sunday. Sources: Tom Herman replacing offensive, defensive coordinators
From the article: Don’t be surprised if Graham Harrell, who served as offensive coordinator for three years at North Texas under Seth Littrell before taking over USC’s offense this season, emerges as a leading candidate to replace Beck.
A smart HC doesn't fire assistants unless they have their replacements under wraps.... Just like smart ADs don't make moves without having their guy in line.....
By 'revolt' here, just to be clear, he means by the players Supposedly several of them threatened to portal themselves if he was retained In addition, they say he was bad mouthing Herman behind his back
According to the $9.95ers, Mehringer was doing some shady backstabbing stuff to the rest of the staff and Herman too. His players hated him, and were about to all leave if he was kept. Now he might have been a good recruiter, he might have been a good coach, but it sounds like he was not a loyal assistant to the man that gave him his shot.
Apparently this is being updated in real time, if you need a reference Football Coaches - University of Texas Athletics
Not our program's first battle with a cancer, unfortunately won't be our last. Hints were dropped on this board about problems in the locker room.
This year, it became readily apparent that something was wrong with our WR coaching. We spent game-after-game watching our WRs just sort of hanging out, or continuing in their routes far away from Sam's direction, when Sam was scrambling--rather than coming back towards the QB or running to an open spot in the direction of the QB. The most likely explanation is our WR coaching was defective, not that our WRs are dumb, lazy, or don't want the ball. We're below the curve on WR releases as well. We have significantly better than average raw WR talent on the squad. We need good position coaching. If he was the sort of guy that the players really hated, that makes it even worse. There's an appropriate balance between being way too much of a "player's coach" so they get soft and standards are not upheld on the one hand, and being a tyrant that everybody hates and nobody wants to play for on the other hand.
I remember some of this coming up with the transfer of Hemphill-Mapps, but his subsequent goofy behavior caused it all to be dismissed
Interim WR coach: Andre Coleman - Wikipedia Coleman just got promoted from analyst. He's got the resume to stick.
He's good. He coaches in defensive systems that are straightforward and based on assignments rather than athleticism. Think of Wisconsin or Ohio State. Rutgers was a poor spot to land because they suck, but he was well-liked in the Big Ten.
I don't know a lot about him, but I do know that I would trust the opinion of Bill Snyder. I still want Samples. If we kept our current makeup of having two WR coaches, I'd say that Coleman and Samples would be a heck of a duo.
Ash ran some damn good defenses at tOSU, but that was against Big 10 offenses, I'm just not sure how successful he would be against Big 12 offenses. That is my only drawback. My first move would be for Dave Aranda to tell me no, and then the DC from Georgia, then I would give my offer to Ash.
