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McElwain becoming a strong candidate for the CMU job?

was really hoping that Pep or Jay Harbs would get that job. if they were smart they'd stay away from McElwain and go hire Mike Hart. That guy has future stud HC written all over him.

Great hire for them.
Harbaugh is a dumb bitch for not even trying to hire Kilff.
If he doesn’t dump Pep Hamilton, I’m not watching a single game in 2019.

I was perusing MGOBoard and there was a thread about Kliff Kingsbury to USC.Underneath a poster wrote Cliff Clavin to Michigan as OC.Got a chuckle

We live in a world where the word mediocre is kind of stretched the breaking point.
 The guy manages to coach about 200 college games as a head man, and was modestly successful. In a sport where  someone is lucky to make it eight years with the bad record.  Default numbers are failure. So mediocrity makes you one of the best around.
I’d wager his resume is in the 80th percentile. Maybe higher. In a relatively hard to reach position, he was better than maybe four out of five of his peers. And we say, ehhh, if I disqualify everything oy did, you really weren’t much at all. (And it ain’t like the teams he was OC for were killing everyone)

RichRod flopped in the B1G because most teams at least pretend to play defense.  When he was picked up by Arizona, he started winning again (maybe not at the same clip as WVU, but he had decent success at least).
In CFB at least, you gotta play both offense and defense competently in order to win.  Being great at one and sucky at the other means you can beat mediocre teams, but get badly exposed by great ones.  Case in point, Oklahoma v. Bama is a strong possibility for an opening playoff round.  Both are great on offense, but only Bama bothers to play any D.  OU has the horses to hang 40 on the Tide, but their only chance to pull it off is to force turnovers, hope the refs are friendly to them, and score on every single possession.  Unless they hire Mike Ditka as their DC, Alabama can basically name their own score.

If the Cleveland Browns brass had any brains, they'd have picked him as their OC.  Koach Kliff + Baker Mayfield would at least be a sexy combo on paper.

I don’t think KK and Mayfield ended their relationship at TT on great terms.

I don’t think KK and Mayfield ended their relationship at TT on great terms.

Mayfield may have matured since then

I don't think there's any legitimately great defenses in CFB this year.  I thought Michigan might have been the closes to great, but OSU happened.  Clemson gave up over 30 to Carolina, Bama got pushed around by Citadel(!) and most everybody else ranges from decent to putrid.

ND may be undefeated, but outside of Michigan they don't have that splashy win.  They're a lot like Michigan where they have a good defense but a lackluster offense.  They might be able to slow down high-powered offenses to an extent, but they don't have the O to keep up.  IMHO, they'd get beaten soundly by Bama, Clemson, Georgia, and Ohio State (as long as the Bucks show up).  I don't think they'd beat Oklahoma either.

This season's theme is offense, offense, and more offense.  This might be the year where Alabama gives up 50 to an Oklahoma or Georgia, and still win.

@ELA    

Pep was being considered for the Maryland job after Edsall's firing. 

They decided going after a defensive coach, and we got DJ.