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panther-os · 2 years

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I have been working on a giant project as a follow-up to this post where I redesigned Alpha Squad in the Halo 4 customizer, and I have finally finished the bare bones of it and consolidated the pictures into an amount Tumblr won’t hate.

Behold, my Freelancers! (under the cut)

Some of these agents appeared in Temple’s murderfridge, but I have no way of telling who’s who and no access to any armor that’s in Halo 5 but not in Halo 4, so I just yote them all and started over.

First up is Alpha Squad once more - Tex, Carolina (MAJ Rebeca Church), York (MAJ Joey Marchesi), Wyoming (SPC Reginald Winthrop-Covington VI), North (CPT Ustin Voronin), Wash (CPL David Ortez), Maine (MAJ Moses-046), South (MAJ Viktoriya Voronin), Florida (CPT Butch Flowers), Connecticut (LT Iona Blair).

And then we get into my OCs starting with Bravo Squad. Georgia was an absolute dick in Season 14, so he gets to be an incompetent and self-important white boy followed by eight increasingly terrifying women and one himbo. Left to right, top to bottom - Georgia (PFC James Wright), Kansas (SSG Elena ”Wheat Thin” Campo Escarra, ODST), Indiana (SPC Tereza “Zippy” Kudrna), Louisiana (SPC Takara “Swamp Lady” Mori, ONI), Michigan (LT Ravid Wolff), Nevada (MAJ Antonia “Tony” Marchesi), Tennessee (LT Yona Keyes, ONI), California (CPT [REDACTED]), Hawai’i (SPC Zoe Choi), Massachusetts (CPT Jean Martel).

Michigan is a nonbinary Jewish person who chose that name because I, a nonbinary Jewish person, think it’s a fucking awesome name. California does not have a name yet because I have a very specific facecanon in mind for her and I’m waiting to hear back from a direct source on a respectful name for her background.

Charlie Squad is entirely OCs! There’s Arizona (CPL Naomi Blum), Kentucky (LT Miles Parker), Oregon (Dorian “Dory” Teague), Mississippi (SGT Justice Hawkins), Arkansas (SSG Noelle Abrams), Vermont (SSG Colby “Cheese Man” Leafield), Oklahoma (SPC Skylar “OK” Ned, ODST), Wisconsin (CPL Ernst “Ravioli” Kasperson), Rhode Island (SPC Lovel Short), and Montana (SSG Daisy Feng).

Dory doesn’t have a rank because he was recruited straight from mercenary work. You might recognize Montana from this fic series I published recently featuring North/York/Montana.

Delta Squad has a familiar face (potentially a second if you’ve seen Zero, though I forgot that guy’s real name, if it was ever revealed) and also, accidentally, the most agents that look alike. There’s West Virginia (COL Rasmus Lucassen), New Mexico (SSG Lars Korhonen), Utah (LT Oriole Vives), Pennsylvania (SPC Sladjana Novak), Puerto Rico (CPT Dina Abbing), New Hampshire (SPC Phoebe Daugherty), Delaware (SGT Jeremiel Carver), Alabama (SPC Priyanka Devi, ODST), Illinois (SGT Roger Lennox), and Maryland (SPC Tuana Demirci).

Echo Squad has the triplets, but I wanted to mix it up a little. Ohio (SPC Vera Czajkowski) actually leads this squad, with Idaho (CPL Ezra Katz) as her second. After them are Alaska (SGT Faraj Nejem), Colorado (SPC Marvin Cole), Minnesota (SSG Anton Peerenboom), New Jersey (CPL Kyung-Hee Moon), Nebraska (LT Armann Gunnarsson), Virginia (SGT Zarina Zaman), and then Iowa (PFC Michael Gutermuth, ODST) at #49, followed by Missouri (PFC Fabiano Necchi) at #50.

After the triplets are abandoned, this squad falls apart in a major way and all the other agents in it leave or are made to leave.

(I want to start leaning into the leaderboard really just being arbitrary bullshit but not starting that way in my writing, and the not starting that way is most clear with Echo Squad.)

And, then, because I used Puerto Rico but haven’t seen anyone use any of the other inhabited US Territories in RvB before, I also put together the Quality Assurance Squad, aka the Counselor’s snitches among the non-agent personnel, the crew running the day-to-day of the Mother of Invention and, later, Freelancer Command.

This is Guam (CW2 Isabela Hernandez), American Samoa (CW2 Lee Michaels), US Virgin Islands (CW2 Ulysse Desrosiers), and Northern Mariana Islands (CW2 Erik Bergstrom). They’re not a part of the leaderboard and most people - including the other agents - don’t actually know they exist. They all report directly to the Counselor, but Samoa, Virgin, and Mariana also all report to Guam. Mostly, though, she’s only in charge of Quality Assurance as another one of the Counselor’s experiments, they’re all equally capable. Of all Freelancer personnel aside from the Director and Counselor, these four know the most of what’s going on - and they actually are encouraged to work together as a team - but they still don’t know everything.

Please feel free to send me asks about all these agents! They’re still very much in development, but I had a lot of fun with this project and got really excited and wanted to show everyone! ^_^

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pogstedshires · 5 years

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tell us abt your oc moose!!

i have been waiting DAYS to work on this ask bc ive been so hyped to answer it but i wanted to be able to do it correctly??? so hell yeah its 2:30 am and here i go!!!

(before i start answering this, i wanna give a shoutout to @ghostlerhost , @hell-queen-rat , and @salty-sunn !!! they’re some of the people who helped work on moose and made him the awesome oc he is today so like. yall are great, thanks!!!)

so basically moose was an oc i created …tttwooo years ago? the august of 2017, so yeah, two years ago! i hate to admit it, but originally he was a rick and morty oc. i know i know, ew, but this was before that show completely went to shit.

so… yeah! ramble time below the cut bc im writing A Lot more than i thought i would–

some of the core things about him (the brown hair with a white strip, the sad backstory, and the general aesthetic) was created in these very early stages of his character! a lot of other things were scrapped later on as i created him, and he’s changed a lot, though!

one of the big things to his storyline was created with ghostlerhost (tagged above!), where we made a huge storyline surrounding his character and two of mine. although i cant remember all the details now, i can clearly remember talking with him and coming up with this huge story on our train rides home. fun memories.

one of the things from this storyline was the fact he dated evil morty (cringy, i know, but destroy cringe culture, who cares) and of course, bc evil morty is evil, the relationship turned sour, moose burnt some shit, and then ran away. this kinda idea is still something that i add to his character! (but. without it being evil morty obviously bc No)

so fastforward a while to when i met hell-queen-rat and salty-sunn, we did a couple of rps and it led to a lot more about moose. one of the biggest things though, was during one of them, moose’s eye got torn out by evil morty (nicknamed mortimus, by then).

the whole “eye getting torn out” thing is another thing that has stayed for like. all of the time that ive had moose as a character. although, because im a dumbass, the missing eye keeps switching sides.

a lot of his personality was developed at that time too! he kinda became known as super soft, helpless, gullible, optimistic, etc! his pyromania qualities i touched on earlier were added a lot more at that point in time as well, and thats also something that just kinda sticked!

after an argument with the two friends mentioned before, though, i kinda stopped using moose for a while, and when i started using him again, it was partly out of spite and partly to vent on him. for a while there, i never used moose as a character, and the only times i really did were when i was going through some difficult stuff.

aaaand… that leads me to now! i brought him back recently, and decided to incorporate him into my group of rvb ocs.

basically, in the rvb universe, moose was a sim trooper with pink armour, and he had a freelancer on his team– agent arkansas. when ark went to go fight the freelancer on the blue team, moose tried to stop him, and the two got into a fight. ark stabbed moose’s visor, leaving him half blind and with a damaged helmet, and then moose retaliated by burning down the base and running off.

after that, im not quite sure the details, but i know that he ends up somehow finding an energy sword and becoming a mercenary!

so… yeah!! thats my main oc moose, and a quick (not so quick) rundown on how i made him and how hes changed! ill reblog this post later once i make his askblog, but yeah!!! if you have any other questions abt him or any of my other ocs pleaaaase send them! i love rambling abt my ocs !!!

thanks for the ask!

#ive been kinda hyperfixating on moose recently so this ask was an absolute BLESSING #axel.txt #my ocs

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skyanfeeds · 3 years

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junker-town · 5 years

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Littrell bet on himself by returning to North Texas. Will it pay off?

He allegedly had a Big 12 offer but turned it down for now. After what he’s accomplished in 3 years in Denton, he gets benefit of the doubt.

Bill C’s annual preview series of every FBS team in college football continues. Catch up here!

Prove that you can win games and recruit Texas, and the world is open to you.

In three seasons as North Texas’ head coach, Littrell has three bowls — only Darrell Dickey has taken the Mean Green to more, and he didn’t deliver his first bid until year four — plus a division title and back-to-back nine-win seasons, all at a program that had just careened off of a cliff. UNT had gone from nine wins to five to one in the two years before his arrival, and he immediately flipped that win total back around.

Granted, there are still boxes to check: he hasn’t won a bowl or a conference just yet. But among current fourth-year coaches, he’s accomplished as much as any.

Other schools have noticed. (Having Jimmy Sexton for an agent doesn’t hurt.) His name was linked with the vacant Kansas State, Texas Tech, Colorado, and North Carolina jobs this past offseason. He was KSU’s first choice, evidently, and got pretty far down the road before reportedly pulling out when the Big 12 school refused to let him make the staff changes he wanted to make.

There’s always a risk in turning down a bigger job. The example I always bring up is Gary Darnell. The former Western Michigan coach won 31 games in his first four seasons in Kalamazoo (1997-2000) and was linked to schools like, if I recall correctly, Oklahoma State and Arizona State and Missouri. None of those worked out, and he remained at WMU, where he suffered four consecutive losing seasons and never got another head coaching shot.

You have a window, and you never quite know when it’s going to close. But it’s hard to blame Littrell for thinking he will continue to get opportunities. He’s winning games, UNT returns most of last year’s offense, and, per the 247Sports Composite, he just signed a class with 23 three-star prospects in it. This has the look of a very healthy program.

The next step: consistency. North Texas’ overall product was pretty good in 2018, but it was all over the damn place. The Mean Green were one of the 10 toughest teams for Vegas to get a read on — their average absolute error versus the spread was 17.3 points, meaning Vegas missed UNT games, one way or the other, by more than 17 points. (Among C-USA teams, only ODU was higher.)

They beat the spread by 18.5 points against SMU, 26.5 against Liberty, and 34 against Arkansas. They also lost to the spread by 17.5 against ODU, 19 against UTSA, 24 against UTEP, and 31 in a bowl blowout against Utah State.

Only about three games went as they were expected last season. If you’re overachieving as much as you’re underachieving, then maybe that’s not too big a deal. But UNT was all over the map in 2018, and there was no single underlying cause — quarterback Mason Fine was iffy in a couple of those underachievement games, and both the offense and defense were equally bad in those four games.

If there’s to be more growth on the horizon, it will probably require stability.

If that doesn’t happen in 2019, it’s likely due to the defense, which is projected to fall from 78th to 98th in Def. S&P+ after losing all-world linebackers E.J. Ejiya and Brandon Garner (combined: 43 tackles for loss — yes, 43 — and 15.5 sacks) and corners Nate Brooks and Kemon Hall (five TFLs, 11 interceptions, 24 breakups). This foursome was incredibly unique from a disruption standpoint and will be hard to replace.

Still, the offense is going to give the Mean Green a shot. Fine is back after throwing for nearly 4,000 yards (with a 27-to-5 TD-to-INT ratio, no less), as are his top three running backs and three of four wideouts. Littrell lost offensive coordinator Graham Harrell to USC, but a lot of the UNT offense is of his own making. He was, after all, the OC at Arizona, Indiana, and North Carolina. And beyond that, he made a pretty fun replacement hire.

Offense

Two weeks after losing Harrell, Littrell announced Bodie Reeder as his new coordinator. It was about as sensible a move as you’ll find. The 32-year-old worked under Mike Yurcich and Mike Gundy at Oklahoma State for three seasons, then took over as Eastern Washington’s OC in 2017. EWU’s always got a good offense, but in 2018 the Eagles averaged 43.1 points per game and reached the FCS finals despite losing their star QB to a midseason injury.

Reeder inherits a star QB in Denton. Despite Fine’s small stature (5’11, 185), he proved dynamic in the Littrell-Harrell system, throwing for 7,845 yards over two seasons. He suffered some late-year regression to the mean in 2018, throwing four interceptions over his final four games after throwing just one in the first nine. He dealt with a wrist injury in November, then pulled a hamstring early in the blowout loss to USU, but when at full strength, he’s a hell of a ball distributor.

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Mason Fine

He’s also got a lot of weapons. Bussey ended up with 1,017 receiving yards in 2018 despite missing most of the last two games to his own hamstring injury. He’s ended up with 100-plus yards in seven of his last 14 games, and he’s high-end in terms of both consistency (64 percent catch rate) and explosiveness (15 yards per catch).

Z-receiver Jalen Guyton’s gone, but Fine still has some efficiency weapons around Bussey. Slot receivers Jaelon Darden and Michael Lawrence combined for 80 catches and 1,008 yards (with a 70 percent catch rate), tight end Kelvin Smith added 29 catches and a score, and UNT running backs catch three to four balls per game as well.

Whoever steps into the Z role — likely a three-star youngster like sophomore Greg White, redshirt freshmen Jyaire Shorter or Austin Ogunmakin, or one of five incoming mid-three-star freshmen — will do so after winning a pretty stiff competition and will not necessarily face a ton of pressure to produce.

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Rico Bussey

Then there’s the run game, which graded out even better than the pass — UNT ranked 61st in Passing S&P+ and 39th in Rushing S&P+, though part of that was likely due to UNT’s pass-first, pass-second nature.

No matter the system, UNT backs produced. The foursome of DeAndre Torrey, Loren Easly, Nic Smith, and Anthony Wyche combined for 5.5 yards per carry and a 45 percent success rate over 26 carries per game. That’ll do. All four are scheduled to return.

If there’s a weakness, it’s the number of negative rushes. UNT ranked 32nd in rushing marginal efficiency but 101st in stuff rate (run stops at or behind the line). That tends to suggest either a) glitches on the line or b) lots of horizontal action in the run game.

To the extent that it’s the former, the return of Sosaia and Manase Mose, plus three-year starter Elex Woodworth, will at least give UNT one of the sturdiest interior lines in the conference. Both tackles need to be replaced, but sophomore Jacob Brammer got four starts, and Virginia Tech transfer D’Andre Plantin could quickly enter the lineup.

Defense

Troy Reffett has done a hell of a job as UNT’s defensive coordinator. UNT ranked 118th in Def. S&P+ in Dan McCarney’s last year in charge, and after tiny improvement in 2016, Reffett went from co-coordinator to solo DC, and the Mean Green rose to 103rd, then 78th.

They did this by being super aggressive against run and pass. They were seventh in stuff rate and ninth in completion rate allowed, and while attack mode occasionally resulted in gashes (they allowed 2.4 passes per game of 30-plus yards, second-most in FBS), it paid off more than it backfired.

Now we get to see how much of UNT’s success was due to coach and scheme and how much was due to the unique talent at hand. The Mean Green only lose about five starters here (Ejiya, Garner, Brooks, Hall, and tackle Ulaiasi Tauaalo), but they might have been five of the six best players on the defense.

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LaDarius Hamilton

UNT still returns some play-makers, though. Ends LaDarius Hamilton and Dion Novil combined for 18 TFLs, eight sacks, and 22 run stuffs, and former Kansas State tackle Bryce English had similar productivity rates as Tauaalo’s backup. Plus, jack linebackers Jamie King and Joe Ozougwu combined for 11.5 TFLs and 4.5 sacks. Littrell also signed three-star JUCO end David Sow and six three-star freshman linebackers and linemen.

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Khairi Muhammad

Good safety play is key for the type of risks Reffett wants to take, and UNT’s got that. Khairi Muhammad, Taylor Robinson, and nickel backs Tyreke Davis and Jameel Moore all return, and all are cornerback-sized (either 5’10 or 5’11 and between 174 and 192 pounds), so there could be some shuffling if either of two returning corners — junior Cam Johnson or sophomore Jordan Roberts — isn’t up to snuff.

Once again there are plenty of young former three-stars in the chamber. At least one or two will need to prove themselves pretty quickly.

UNT had a nice balance last season. The offense was potent enough that the defense could take some risks, which were successful enough that it put the offense in an even more comfortable position. Last year’s corners and LBs were so productive that there’s almost no way to avoid a drop-off in havoc levels. We’ll see if that throws off the balance too much.

Special Teams

You know what else helps that offense/defense balance? Dynamite special teams. UNT was fifth in Special Teams S&P+, combining high-level punting and place-kicking with dangerous kick returns.

The Mean Green get two-thirds of that back. Punter Alvin Kenworthy and kick returner DeAndre Torrey are scheduled to return, but they need a replacement for kicker Cole Hedlund, who was perfect on FGs under 40 yards and 6-for-9 beyond.

2019 outlook

2019 Schedule & Projection Factors

Date Opponent Proj. S&P+ Rk Proj. Margin Win Probability 31-Aug Abilene Christian NR 22.1 90% 7-Sep at SMU 85 -2.3 45% 14-Sep at California 60 -8.0 32% 21-Sep UTSA 128 22.1 90% 28-Sep Houston 73 0.2 50% 12-Oct at Southern Miss 74 -4.6 40% 19-Oct Middle Tennessee 104 9.8 71% 26-Oct at Charlotte 120 13.3 78% 2-Nov UTEP 130 29.0 95% 9-Nov at Louisiana Tech 86 -2.1 45% 23-Nov at Rice 126 15.5 81% 30-Nov UAB 106 10.2 72%

Projected S&P+ Rk 84 Proj. Off. / Def. Rk 53 / 98 Projected wins 7.9 Five-Year S&P+ Rk -10.3 (104) 2- and 5-Year Recruiting Rk 85 2018 TO Margin / Adj. TO Margin* 5 / -0.4 2018 TO Luck/Game +2.1 Returning Production (Off. / Def.) 63% (79%, 48%) 2018 Second-order wins (difference) 9.8 (-0.8)

Man, this season could go in a lot of ways. S&P+ projects UNT 84th overall — 19 spots lower than in 2018 — but the schedule offers seven games with a win probability of at least 70 percent and four near-tossups.

If they start out on fire, as they did last year, they could win September 50-50 games against SMU and Houston and hit conference play as the C-USA favorite. But those two games and division road trips to Louisiana Tech and Southern Miss could go either way, and we could easily see another season of nine-plus wins, or we could see UNT simply scrambling for bowl eligibility into November.

It’s hard to consistently stand out in the parity-heavy C-USA, and we’re now looking at Littrell having to replace some major defensive play-makers in 2019, then replace 14 to 16 senior starters in 2020. He’s recruiting well, and he’s made exciting assistant hires, but you don’t have total control over your window.

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sharkface-daydreams · 3 years

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fuck it, Yurch au Freelancer OCs dump

here's the lunch bunch that was Rhodey's old Freelancer social circle. leaderboard who?

Things start falling apart well before the MoI crash and only RI shows up in the story at Rats' Nest but everybody's gotta start somewhere.

Del's a friend group 'float' and kind of brought a couple groups together. Ori got Rhodey into anime by watching cheesy slice of life stuff together. Hammy and Mint get aggressively competitive at videogames. Tournaments crumble before them when they team up and they're eventually banned from doing so. Ori and Del like to jam out together and Hammy and Rhodey are notorious gossips.

Ori gets sent home for an injury, Mint is listed MIA after the same mission, Del and Hammy go AWOL after the crash disgruntled with what PFL has become, and Rhodey gets reassigned to Rats Nest to keep an eye on Alpha, wondering if he shouldn't have done the same because something is very plainly wrong now.

After the story events Rhodey gets to go home and reconnect with Del and J. ❤️💙💚 polycule anyone? hmm i haven't decided what Hammy and Mint are up to yet 🤔 but Mint always wanted to get back home to the ranch and his family so maybe he made his way back there... eventually.

Anyway this is just for fun idk when/if I'll get around to writing things proper. the total plot description/outline work I've got going for this au plot alone is like... 15k words 😬

#yurch au: the self-indulgence special #oc stuff #my art stuff #OH SHIT I JUST HAD A BRAINWAVE FOR HAMMY #hmmmhmhmumhm Freelancer mercenary arc for bee 👀👀👀#me @ myself: BiaLina when??#it's the au that never ends bc i never write it only think about it :D #also I'm realizing how awful i am at front facing noses looking at all of these orz #oc: agent rhode island #oc: agent oregon #oc: agent delaware #oc: agent new hampshire #oc: agent arkansas #freelancer lunch bunch

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usatrendingsports · 6 years

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Teaching carousel winners and losers: Grading each 2017 school soccer rent

It wasn’t probably the most energetic foolish season. Not even shut.

Solely 20 faculties modified coaches. Ah, however 12 of them reside within the Energy 5, and amongst these 12 had been a few of the most prestigious jobs within the land … and a few of the greatest upheaval — ahem, Tennessee. Florida, Florida State, Nebraska, UCLA and the Vols have accounted for 14 nationwide championships. The final time the Gators and Noles had been open in the identical yr was 1959.

Ole Miss elevated an interim coach (Matt Luke), and Oregon technically did as nicely. Mississippi State employed a man from Penn State (Joe Moorhead).

Go determine.

All of it in a rush to prepare for the primary Early Signing Interval, which begins on Wednesday.

Listed below are the winners and losers from this yr’s teaching carousel together with grades for every rent.

Winners

UCLA and Chip Kelly: The Bruins broke out of their fiscally conservative shell and employed among the finest names on the board. The first analyst employed out of an ESPN studio this foolish season is the faculty gold commonplace with a 46-7 file in 4 seasons at Oregon. Grade: A+

Jimmy Sexton, agent: The tremendous agent to the tremendous coaches most likely had the perfect foolish season of his profession. Sexton negotiated contracts for a reported mixed whole of $300 million. Oregon’s Willie Taggart acquired $30 million from Florida State regardless of a 47-50 profession file. Gus Malzahn acquired the love he needed from Auburn within the kind a brand new seven-year, $49 million deal. Dan Mullen acquired $36 million from Florida. Jimbo Fisher broke the financial institution at Texas A&M. Grade: A+

Texas A&M and Jimbo Fisher: He is set for all times — financially. However one of many nation’s high 5 coaches knowingly inherited the cement ceiling that goes together with teaching in opposition to Nick Saban within the SEC West. The Aggies have not gained the convention in 20 years and simply fired their winningest coach (Kevin Sumlin) in that span. Jimbo has till the ESP on Dec. 20 to recruit talent-rich Texas the place Tom Herman, Gary Patterson, Lincoln Riley and — frankly — Saban have already got a big head begin. Grade: A

Florida and Dan Mullen: These two could not be happier with each other. Mississippi State’s former coach was welcomed residence as Florida’s former offensive coordinator with two nationwide championship rings. All of it labored out in the long run. Grade: A

Nebraska and Scott Frost: The Huskers modified athletic administrators, then maybe modified the route of their program getting their native son. Encouraging signal: Actually lots of of former Huskers turned up on the press convention to indicate their assist. Does it get any extra feel-good than that? Nebraska has wanted a route for years. Tom Osborne’s former nationwide championship quarterback will present it. Grade: B+

Mississippi State and Joe Moorhead: The Bulldogs swapped Mullen for a brand new Mullen — the gifted Penn State coordinator. Moorhead has a championship pedigree having already coached Saquon Barkley and Hint McSorley within the 2016 Huge Ten title season. Who’d have ever thought Mississippi State could be actually, actually proud of Fordham’s former head coach? Grade: B

UTEP and Dana Dimel: Kansas State’s former offensive coordinator acquired out from beneath the thumb of Invoice Snyder. The FBS’s solely winless group in 2017 (Zero-12) acquired an skilled play caller and former head coach (Wyoming). That is a win any manner you have a look at it. Grade: B

Oregon State and Jonathan Smith: Contemplating what’s gone on currently, a former Beavers quarterback (and Washington OC) is a particular improve. Throw in Mike Riley as assistant head coach in his third go-around with the Beavs, and issues are wanting up. Riley posted the final two back-to-back seasons at Oregon State in 2012 and 2013. Grade: B-

SMU and Sonny Dykes: Consider a youthful June Jones. Dykes is aware of this system, the state and its recruiting. After serving a yr as a TCU analyst, Sonny is sort of a seamless transition after Chad Morris. He ought to be capable of capitalize on solely the fourth successful season for the reason that dying penalty. Grade: B-

Jury’s Out

Jeremy Pruitt: If Alabama’s defensive coordinator had been employed 4 weeks in the past when the job first got here open, this rent could be rated increased. Does that make sense? Pruitt is one thing like a seventh selection after this system virtually burned to the bottom. That makes it simpler to concentrate on Pruitt by no means having been a coach and the greater than fickle Tennessee followers and administration. Grade: C+

Louisiana and Billy Napier: The NFL plan took a success at Arizona State now that each coordinators are gone. Napier had simply been promoted to affiliate head coach 10 days in the past. Now he is at his starter job at ULL. A superb determination contemplating how briskly he is risen from Alabama receivers coach to ASU OC to a brand new life within the Solar Belt. A cynic would possibly say Napier has a greater probability of his star rising in Lafayette, Louisiana, than Arizona State. Grade: C+

UCF and Josh Heupel: The previous Oklahoma quarterback and offensive coordinator had a pleasant second half of the season at Missouri. If that qualifies one to inherit the nation’s finest Group of 5 program, so be it. Grade: C

Arkansas and Chad Morris: Can Clemson’s former offensive coordinator flip across the Hogs? I am undecided he rotated SMU. If Arkansas needed to rent an up-and-coming Clemson OC, it ought to have gotten Tony Elliott. Grade: C

Ole Miss and Matt Luke: Credit score to him for retaining the Rebels targeted after they had nothing for which to play this season. As an interim, Luke ought to get for a credit score 6-6 season with a win over Mississippi State. The roster will likely be depleted after the NCAA investigation, so higher to permit Luke to trip out the dangerous occasions. Grade: C

Florida State and Willie Taggart: FSU’s first coach ever with a dropping file, Taggart made Oregon a steppingstone job. Now he takes over a loaded roster in Tallahassee. Taggart’s profession has had an upward arc, however FSU is not much less pressurized Western Kentucky, South Florida and even Oregon. Nothing in opposition to Willie, however I can not recover from the actual fact FSU misplaced one among high coaches within the recreation. Grade: C

Oregon and Mario Cristobal: Sources say AD Rob Mullens needed to save lots of a top-10 recruiting class by selling Cristobal, his offensive coordinator. We love Mario (27-47 at FIU), however sacrificing short-term acquire for long-term certainty is dicey. Altering coaches at all times impacts a recruiting class. That is one other manner of suggesting Kevin Sumlin might need been a extra sure improve. Grade: C

Rice and Mike Bloomgren: I do know subsequent to nothing about Stanford’s former offensive line coach. However anybody adequate to construct one of many recreation’s most punishing O-lines is nice sufficient for me. Some man named Lane Kiffin simply gained 10 video games in Convention USA after FAU had gained a complete of 9 the earlier three years. Rice has gained 9 the earlier three seasons in CUSA, so why not? Grade: C-

Georgia Southern and Chad Lunsford: His resume is stocked — director of scouting and participant personnel for Gene Chizik at Auburn; receivers coach, tight ends coach, recruiting coordinator, particular groups coordinator at Georgia Southern. Grade: C-

Losers

Jim McElwain: What number of coaches with 23-12 profession data and back-to-back division titles at a high nationwide program in a Energy 5 convention get fired? McElwain principally ran himself out of city with the seemingly unsubstantiated dying menace allegations and now would not have a job in 2017. Grade: D

Arizona State: We’re not blaming Herm Edwards as a result of he was supplied a profitable job and took it, however there may be progressive after which there may be off the reservation. A program that has completed within the high 15 5 occasions within the final 39 years expects to there yearly with a brand new NFL strategy. Good luck. Grade: D-

Tennessee: It doesn’t matter what occurs with Pruitt (see above), the varsity has broken its model going ahead. When chosen rent Greg Schiano and now-former AD John Currie had been run out of city, it mirrored the worst in regards to the unchecked “energy” of social media, the South’s soccer tradition and knee-jerk followers. Sometime, Tennessee has to understand what it’s — maybe the SEC’s sixth-best program. Grade: F

Kevin Sumlin: It defies perception that any person did not rent Texas A&M’s former coach. On this version of the carousel, solely Kelly, Frost and Fisher have higher profession successful percentages than Sumlin (.666). Grade: F

Kent State: Paul Haynes was fired again on Nov. 22 after KSU misplaced to Akron. Almost one month later — and two days earlier than the ESP begins — the Golden Flashes do not need a brand new coach. What’s taking so lengthy? Grade: Incomplete

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Have you ever wondered what might have happened to Tommy Tuberville if he, say, hired Gus Malzahn instead of Tony Franklin? In this edition, Oscar makes his best guess at such a scenario.

It was just two weeks ago that the University of Connecticut announced that Rhett Lashlee would be their new offensive coordinator for the Huskies football team. Of course, the announcement surprised Auburn fans all over as well as caused speculation as to why Malzahn's long time protégé would be leaving and who would be replacing Lashlee at the position. I am of the opinion that Rhett left of his own accord. Only once in Coach Lashlee's career has he been away from Malzahn as the Co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Samford in 2011. He quickly rejoined Gus at Arkansas State as the Red Wolves offensive coordinator at the ripe age of 29.

However, I am not here so much to talk about Lashlee as I am about Malzahn. More specifically, to talk about Gus during his time when he was still an offensive coordinator and ask a big "What if" question. It is the type of "What if" that could have changed the fortunes of many Auburn figures and football seasons. It is the kind of "What if" that could have rewritten a big part of Auburn football's narrative over nearly the past decade.

What if Tommy Tuberville had hired Gus Malzahn as Auburn's Offensive Coordinator at the end of the 2007 football season?

REALITY

I don't want to spend too much time reminiscing and rehashing the Tigers' 2007 season so here is a brief summation that I wrote up from almost four years ago:

To say Auburn's 2007 season was crazy would be an understatement. It was a season chock-full of come-from-behind-triumphs. Six times the Tigers mounted late fourth-quarter drives, and four of those were enough to seal victories. They include moments we never want to forget and moments we've done everything to forget.

It was a season in which Auburn tacked on its sixth straight victory over Alabama, but at the same time, the Tigers watched their all-time lead over Georgia being to slowly chip away. This was an Auburn team that showed so much promise and found ways to come up short.

The 2007 season came to a close with a win in the Chick-Fil-A Bowl against Clemson. Before heading into that game, Tuberville released fan-favorite offensive coordinator Al Borges and brought in spread-no-huddle-air-raid guru Tony Franklin from Troy. While only installing the foundation of the scheme, it was enough for Auburn to produce its highest offensive performance for the season. Also leaving the team was Auburn's other fan-favorite coach, defensive coordinator Will Muschamp, whose departure was reportedly due to a disagreement with assistant athletic director, Tim Jackson. Muschamp was replaced by Paul Rhoads, then-defensive coordinator for the Pittsburgh Panthers.

Years later I have caught myself wondering as to why Tuberville hired Franklin. According to a quote that I was able to find from Auburn's official website, it is almost like he viewed Franklin's career the way an unfamiliar fan would:

"Tony has had a tremendous amount of success offensively in the Southeastern Conference and during his most recent position at Troy," said Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville. ``He teaches an exciting brand of offense that has posted some very impressive numbers, statistically."

Now, I am not about to make too much more assumptions behind Tuberville's reasoning for making the hire beyond that quote. College football had been changing dramatically as spread variant offenses made their way into the playbooks of major college programs. It could be speculated that Tubs saw this evolution taking place, decided to take a chance, and to evolve with it.

His desire to change up his offense wasn't wrong. Auburn's offense had started to stagnant in 2006 and eventually slid all the way down to 85th nationally in total offense by the end of 2007. There were contributing factors such as injuries and recruiting busts, but some have viewed that Al Borges's system might have been too rigid to adapt to the personnel he no longer had available to him. A change was needed, but Tuberville's choice as to who to change that offense, though, maybe wasn't the best.

Auburn's offensive identity has long been associated with running the football and fans have taken to referring to the program as "Running Back U" for that reason. What is amusing, though, especially during Tuberville's tenure, is the OC's hired to call Auburn's offense for Tubs were coordinators known for passing. Mazzone, Petrino, and Borges: each of them pro-style guys who, at some time or another during their respective careers, coached quarterbacks as well. Also, it wasn't like Tuberville was unfamiliar with these styles of offense before their hiring. During his time at Miami, the Hurricanes were just as well known for their pass-heavy-high-scoring offenses as their soul crushing defenses. So tapping Franklin to install his air raid offensive system at Auburn makes sense in its own way. However, 650 miles west of Auburn, another bright and upcoming pass happy offensive coordinator was lighting up the non-power conference world.

MEANWHILE, IN OKLAHOMA...

Gus Malzahn, in his second year as a college coach, had relocated from the University of Arkansas to the University of Tulsa. There, under Todd Graham and aided by Herb Hand, Gus took the Golden Hurricanes to new heights. Tulsa, in one season with Malzahn, had a 5000-yard passer, three 1000 yard receivers, and one 1000 yard rusher. It was also the first time in NCAA football that a team had accomplished such a feat.

Senior quarterback Paul Smith, a three-star pro-style prospect from Owasso, Oklahoma, completed 60% of his passes, threw 47 touchdowns and rushed for 13 touchdowns. In a 2008 interview with the New York Times, Todd Graham said of Malzahn, "If I just let him do whatever he wanted, he'd throw the ball every play." This Gus sounds far different from the Gus we know today. A Gus more known for spread option running attack than bombing defenses into oblivion. But maybe it is the same Gus, but a Gus who has not run headlong into SEC administrators and fanbases yet.

Junior running back Tarrion Adams, a two-star prospect from Moore, Oklahoma, exploded under Malzahn's system crossing the goal-line eleven times by rushing for 1225 yards and receiving for 301 yards. He also threw two touchdown passes of his own that season, because you know, Gus use to do tricky stuff like that.

It is here that Malzahn begins to really further develop his reputation as an offense guru. In 2008, Tulsa will again take the top spot in total offense and move up to second in scoring offense. At Auburn that same year, well, we already know what happens to Tuberville and his Tigers that season.

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So from here on out everything will be speculation based on results and trends from previous years and correlating them to what did take place in 2008. This is just one possible scenario:

After finishing the regular season 8-4 and the bowl game announcement against Clemson, Tuberville begins searching to replace Al Borges. He gets in touch with Malzahn through shared agent, Jimmy Sexton and offers him Borges's job with the promise that he (Tuberville) will not interfere with Malzahn's play calling. Gus agrees, but under the condition that he will still coach Tulsa in their bowl game against Bowling Green State University. Tubs explains to Malzahn that he wants to employ Gus's offense for Auburn's upcoming bowl game, but Gus reiterates that he will not leave until the season is done at Tulsa. Tuberville unwillingly agrees and as a result, Auburn loses in overtime to Clemson finishing the year 8-5.

Malzahn arrives on campus in January, meets the offensive staff (who probably aren't all that excited about him) and hits the recruiting trail. In this timeline, the incoming class remains pretty much the same with the exception of Chris Todd not being recruited. Instead, Malzahn plans to focus on fellow Arkansas native, Kodi Burns, Neil Caudle, and further develop three-star dual threat QB Barrett Trotter as well as four-star athlete, Deron Furr.

Gus begins implementing his offense in the spring spreading first team snaps between Burns and Caudle. Beat writers and bloggers are abuzz regarding Auburn's new uptempo offense with plenty of quotes from coaches and players alike about the fast-paced, high-flying offense. A modest crowd shows up for A-Day to see for themselves only to get a decent performance, but nothing truly exciting. Auburn heads into the doldrums of the offseason with a top 10 preseason ranking.

Soon enough fall camp arrives and the Tigers get to work for the upcoming season. Malzahn has Burns and Caudle split reps with the first team unit and has Furr and Trotter working with the second team and scout units. Eventually, the coaching staff decides to redshirt Trotter. Also, in this timeline, Furr is never booted from the team due to a confrontation he had with teammates after moving to defense. As the season nears, Burns, Caudle, and Furr all get an equal chance with the starters, but Malzahn and the staff settle on Kodi as the starting quarterback on game day against Louisiana-Monroe.

In the first two weeks, the Tigers offense is effective and Auburn cruises past the Warhawks and Golden Eagles without too much trouble. The Tigers have a bit of a turnover bug, but it isn't anything that Auburn's defense can't overcome. Much like Graham, Tuberville has Malzahn keep his offense as balanced as possible and the running game churns up the sod with a passing attack that keeps opposing secondaries on their toes.

Auburn hits the road for their third game against conference and West Division opponent, Mississippi State. Turnovers and penalties really hamper Auburn's offensive efforts, but the Tigers' defense is able to respond and keep the Bulldogs at bay. Auburn mounts a few successful drives and is able to leave Starkville with a 21-3 victory.

Week 4 arrives and Auburn faces another conference and divisional match-up against LSU in Jordan-Hare Stadium. The orange and blue Tigers struggle much of the first quarter, but a couple of big plays and penalties in the second give Auburn the lead heading into the half. LSU's defense really comes alive and stuffs Auburn's offensive efforts at every turn while the Bayou Bengals offense chip away at Auburn's lead. Late in the fourth quarter, Auburn mounts a drive that ends with Wes Byrum putting the ball through the uprights in what will surely be the game winner. However, Les Miles, the Mad Hatter himself once again pulls off the seemingly impossible and LSU escape with the victory. Auburn falls back a few spots out of the top 10.

The next week, Auburn hosts listless Tennessee and drops a beating on the Volunteers similar to the 2004 regular season beat down. Tuberville has Malzahn rein it in and some careless turnovers help out Tennessee some, but not enough to get back into the game. The Tigers get a solid win over a cross-divisional SEC opponent and pretty much put one of the final nails in the Phillip Fulmer's coffin.

Auburn goes on the road for the second time in 2008, this time up to Nashville to take on Vanderbilt. The Tigers hit the Commodores early and often, but Vandy is not about to go down easy with the help of some badly timed turnovers on the part of Auburn. The Commodores give the Tigers a real good scare, but Auburn avoids a potential upset and the Tigers are halfway through the season at 5-1.

The Arkansas Razorbacks with new head coach, Bobby Petrino, come to Auburn and the errors and miscues that the Tigers have managed to avoid for the most part catch up with them in a bad way. Time and again, drives are killed by penalties, sacks, and turnovers. The Hogs jump on every opportunity and keep the came way too close for comfort. In the fourth quarter, Arkansas takes the lead sending Auburn into panic mode. Malzahn pulls out all the stops and with some clever, well-timed "trickeration" the Tigers are able to snatch victory away from almost certain defeat.

After a week off, the Tigers travel to Morgantown to take on the Mountaineers of West Virginia. The match-up turns into one of the premier games of the year with both team's offenses gobbling up yardage. Unfortunately, WVU gets some critical second half stops and Auburn picks up their second loss of the season.

Auburn is back on the road again, this time out west to take on Ole Miss. Where the game against WVU had been a wide open affair, this game is the complete opposite. Solid defensive play mixed with penalties keep both teams out of the endzone till the end of the first half where Ole Miss is able to punch through. The Tigers' offense hits back in the beginning of the second half, but the Rebels are able to answer back. In what turns out to be an utterly insane fourth quarter, three times the Tigers' defense makes heroic stops only to literally throw each opportunity away with three interceptions near the endzone. The Tigers head back to the Plains with a third loss.

Auburn takes down UT-Martin with little effort in a game played mostly by graduating seniors and second/third stringers.

Preseason favorites, Georgia, comes to Auburn and both the Bulldogs and Tigers play a gritty game of football with each team's defense playing extremely well. The Tigers catch a couple of lucky breaks in the way of two Dawg fumbles, which Auburn is able to convert into points. The rest of the game is a nail-biting affair, which sees another late game lead change given up by Auburn. However, Malzahn is able to string a series of plays together that puts the Tigers over the goal-line for the winning touchdown in the final seconds.

The Iron Bowl. Auburn heads up to Tuscaloosa to take on undefeated Alabama with the hope of pushing the Tigers six-game streak to seven. Again, some great defense played by both teams, but a poor punt by Bama gives Auburn decent field position for an early strike and a touchdown. The Tide are able to counter with a clock-killing drive for a field goal followed by a couple long runs in their next series to give Bama the lead. Auburn races against the final minutes of the first half to have their drive stall outside the red zone. A last second field goal is blocked and the half ends. The third quarter is a disaster for Auburn. Saban's defense is smothering Malzahn's offense and a couple of poorly timed fumbles aren't helping the Tiger's cause. The Tide capitalize on each mistake and are starting to put the game out of reach. The fourth quarter sees Auburn respond with a couple more quick strikes, but in the end, it is not enough to overcome the third quarter deficit. The Tigers lose and Auburn's longest win streak over Alabama comes to an end. Auburn finishes the regular season with 8 wins and 4 loses.

Epilogue

Tuberville's bold move to revitalize Auburn's offense by moving to a spread-based system pays off, more or less. While the number in the "wins and losses" columns relatively stay the same from the previous season, the offensive output under Gus Malzahn is enough to get fans excited about the future for the Tigers. Other programs in the conference begin to look closely at Auburn's system and begin implementing similar schemes or variations. However, internally, Tuberville's longtime offensive staff are still apprehensive in completely changing over to the system completely despite the results and successes that Malzahn has shown to be capable. Face value compromises are agreed upon, but tension remains throughout the offseason and into the start of the 2009 season.

Final Thoughts

If you have read this far, congratulations! As I stated earlier this was all just one possible scenario. In my opinion, I don't think Auburn's defense would have fallen off in 2008 with Tuberville and his staff despite implementing Gus's offense the way it did in 2009 with Chizik. This would have helped through a lot of the growing pains and fatigue as experienced in the middle of the 2009 season. I do believe, though, that Malzahn was not going to be able to completely recreate what he did at Tulsa either. It's hard to imagine that the likes of Nall, Ensminger, and whoever else, would readily give in to listening to another outsider. Especially an outsider with ideas like Malzahn. The infamous "Tubershell" still would have taken place, but probably much sooner, and at times to possibly to the defense's detriment.

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back on my Freelancer ocs bullshit

PFL days besties New Hampshire and Arkansas getting banned from entering gaming tournaments together bc they completely shredded the competition

wlw/mlm solidarity and proof of the director's homophobia 😤 he can't stand to see the gays winning

#oc stuff #oc: agent arkansas #oc: agent new hampshire #rvb ocs

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nvm apparently i’m just a dumbass who didn’t realise you have to specifically select ‘photo post’ on desktop if you dont want it to look like ass. 🙄

picked armor sets for late-stage Yurch AU ex-Freelancer mercenaries “Haze” (Arkansas - left) and “Phoenix” (New Hampshire - right). still working Mint into plot stuff but Hammy has been infiltrating Charon for a long time and the Chorus job is just the latest one

color picks and individual piece listing under the cut for scrolling’s sake:

Haze: Steel base/cyan accents

Helmet: Pathfinder

Visor: Midnight

Chest: Eva (Breach coating)

Shoulders: Rogue

Arms: XV-27 Shifting (Circuit skin)

Legs: FOTUS

(Armor effect “inclement weather” - forgot to turn it off before screenshots but im not loading mcc back up rn lmao)

Phoenix: Maroon base/coral accents

Helmet: Wetwork

Visor: Legendary

Shoulder: Eva (Breach)

Chest: Venator (Bayonet)

Arms: FOTUS

Legs: RG-63

anyway I don't have a lot to say about them rn but I'm glad I picked their armor sets so I can at least picture them in my head while writing lol

#yurch au: the self-indulgence special #oc stuff #oc: agent new hampshire #oc: agent arkansas #rvb ocs #the halo 4 armor is extremely gender and im having a lot of fun with it

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Building Jon Gruden’s Tennessee the best circa-2008 NFL coaching staff

You want Gruden? Why not go all in on the best NFL coaching staff money could buy nearly a decade ago?

Jon Gruden has not coached a football team since 2008. That year, his Tampa Bay Buccaneers went 9-7, finished third in their division, and missed out on the playoffs.

It was also the year Tennessee parted with long-time coach Phil Fulmer.

In the post-Fulmer era, the Tennessee job has opened four times, including right now.

Every time, Gruden is heavily linked to the job.

2008: Gruden says taking Tennessee job isn't in his future, by ESPN.

2010: Jon Gruden turns down Tennessee's advances, by the Sporting News.

2012: Jon Gruden tells Vols he's not interested in coaching position, by CBS Sports. Gruden's agent calls the entire Gruden-to-Vols rumor-industrial complex "just a fantasy world."

This time is no different.

Respected Vols writer John Brice reported the Vols have more of a chance now than they ever have before. And Stephen Hargis of the Chattanooga Times Free Press added Gruden’s put out some feelers to potential staff members.

"Jon Gruden is reaching out to folks that he knows and trusts to find out & gauge their interest in joining a potential staff to take over at Tennessee" - @StephenHargis #Grumors http://pic.twitter.com/c0mlsz3eJ4

— Paul Finebaum (@finebaum) November 15, 2017

Reports to the contrary persist, but let’s be positive here.

So when it comes to building a staff, I’ve done the work for Jon.

If the Vols are so hellbent on turning the clock back to 2008 NFL retreads, you might as well go all in with a whole staff. Below is a list of names.

The one rule:

We’re ignoring what these coaches have done since 2008.

Offensive coordinator

Lane Kiffin, recently fired Oakland Raiders head coach

A good spot to place a 2008 up-and-comer here, and a good spot for someone who needs his first second chance. We’d have two former Raiders head coaches on staff (always a plus), and if something disadvantageous were to happen to Gruden, we could promote Kiffin to interim, no problem. Will surely follow all NCAA rules in Knoxville and stick around for a while.

Photo by Joe Murphy/Getty Images

(Actual current job: FAU head coach and social media innovator.)

Running backs coach

Jim Skipper, Carolina Panthers

The Panthers had two running backs in 2008’s top 10 of yards per rushing attempt. DeAngelo Williams and Jonathan Stewart were at the beginning of their powerful backfield tandem. I’ll take their tutor to coach up the likes of John Kelly (should he return to school next season) and Ty Chandler (who already looks quite promising).

(Actual current job: Skipper left the Panthers and did work in Tennessee, for the Titans, before returning to the Panthers.)

Wide receivers coach

Mike Miller, Arizona Cardinals

Miller coached the tandem of Larry Fitzgerald and Anquan Boldin. Both were in the league’s top-10 in receptions. No better tutor for budding talent Marquez Callaway.

(Actual current job: Robert Morris University OC.)

Offensive line coach

Mike Munchak, Tennessee Titans

A household name with many Vols fans! By 2008, Munchak had been the offensive line coach for over a decade, and the only OL coach in the franchise’s Nashville history.

(Actual current job: Steelers OL coach.)

Co-defensive coordinator

Rex Ryan, Baltimore Ravens

Ryan’s thought of as an NFL guy, but he coached at Cincinnati, Oklahoma, and Kansas State from 1996-1999 before leaving for the Ravens. He also began his career at Eastern Kentucky and Morehead State (plus New Mexico Highlands), all of which gives him more experience working with college athletes and working in the general region than his new head coach has.

(Actual current job: ESPN analyst, just like Gruden!)

Co-defensive coordinator

Monte Kiffin, Tampa Bay Buccaneers

You want a multiple defense? Ryan brings the boom with aggressive blitzes, and the elder Kiffin revolutionized the Cover 2 with his state-of-the-art Tampa 2 variation. It fueled the Bucs to that Super Bowl title that is Gruden’s calling card. And it brings the whole Kiffin family together; what could possibly go wrong?

Photo by Mike Zarrilli/Getty Images

(Actual current job: FAU defensive assistant.)

Defensive line coach

John Mitchell, Pittsburgh Steelers

Has SEC chops, having coached at Alabama, LSU, and Arkansas (albeit when the Hogs were still in the Southwest Conference). Was the first black person to play for Alabama, and the first to coach for the Tide as well, and beat Tennessee twice in the Third Saturday in October rivalry as a player.

(Actual current job: Still there.)

Linebackers coach

Gus Bradley, Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Gruden can pull from his previous staff in Tampa. Bradley learned from Monte with the Bucs.

(Actual current job: Chargers DC.)

Secondary coach

Dom Capers, New England Patriots

Capers is a lifer at both levels, with 11 years of college experience, more than twice as much as Gruden. He was a graduate assistant in 1973 with Nick Saban, and Capers also has a tie to Tennessee. He coached there in 1980 and 1981 as a DBs coach under the legendary Johnny Majors. That’s two more years than Gruden coached on staff at Tennessee (Gruden was a GA).

(Actual current job: Packers DC.)

A note about the elephant in the room

How’s this coaching staff gonna do? Well, if the recent history of Tennessee football is any indication, it’s on track for 8-4 or so.

But as is always the issue with NFL coaches coming to college, will these assistants be able to recruit? Well, we’ll see. But it’s gonna be pretty fun to watch them try, given their head coach’s ethos:

“Too many rules, man. I mean I like to work. I don’t like to be working 15 hours a week with players. The recruiting, Facebook, texting, e-mails – all that stuff. Yeah, I’d probably have you in real deep, deep trouble if I was your college coach.”

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