News Article: Houston Chronicle: Jim McElwain in Consideration for Texas OC Job

[BayouBama75]

The defenses in the Big 12 (10) are quite a bit softer than in the SEC.

 

[skipster63]

I think it depends on two things:
- McElwain's working relationship with Saban.
- The kind of offense that Texas wants to run.

If he doesn't enjoy working for Saban the taskmaster, he may consider a lateral move. Or if he is given free reign to run any type of offense he wishes, then he may jump at that chance (as opposed to Saban requiring him to run a pro-style offense).

Bingo. I was surfing through the comments to find one that would hit the nail on the head. If you leave AL in a lateral move, you have to believe there are some issues between Saban and McElwain. It isn't money. It isn't for a coaching spot. It isn't for a coach in waiting spot. It is a pure lateral move which would suggest exactly what you are saying.

 

[Atlantatide]

Well...Gene Stallings once hired Homer Smith as his offensive coordinator, and I can tell you, Homer Smith was an offensive genius.

But Coach Stallings put so many restrictions on him that he didn't look very good as an offensive coordinator.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to remember that the AD Bob Brockwrath hired Homer Smith and forced him on Coach Stallings. That was about the time that Bill Oliver was being courted by Spurrier to be Florida's DC, with a open check book. Oliver went to Brockwrath and told him to get a OC that will keep his defense off the field or he was gone to UF. As most recall, this brought the power struggle between Coach Oliver and Coach Stallings to the forefront. Coach Stallings, IMO, would have coached a lot longer if not for the back-stabbing in the athletic dept.l

 

[Bama Football]

No, I really don't think he'll take the job. Unless of course the money's just TOO good or he gets to do whatever he wants.
Which ain't gonna happen.
He'll be here next year.

 

[RT3413]

CNS has said in the past that he doesn't advise his ...'t coaches to take lateral moves. See Georgia's attempt to get Kirby Smart last year. And I don't think Texas is a better program or could offer more than Alabama could, so I doubt it's a money thing.

Of course, all of this changes if Saban doesn't want CJM around anymore. But, and this is just a gut reaction, I don't think that's the case.

Regardless, I learned a long time ago that CNS is running this program and everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) happens with his approval and direction or over his strenuous objection and attempts to avoid it.

 

[bamanut_aj]

If I'm a talented coordinator, and in my current position I'm basically a rubber stamp who is held back by a very restrictive philosophy and I get the opportunity to go somewhere and possibly run the show with a less restrictive philosophy and have the potential to show off, guess where I'm headed?

 

[cuda.1973]

CNS may be a stern task master, and keep a tight rein on the staff. But.................

Have you ever heard him call out the staff, and the players, blaming them for all that is wrong?

So, which of those 2 would you find harder to tolerate, and survive, under?