re: O is a top-notch Dline Coach

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I dont know much about Coach O. But it would seem to me that a great DL coach and the best recruiter in the universe wouldnt be unemployed in January. Hopefully, I'm missing something very important.

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It's not like he was fired from USC for doing a terrible job... in fact, when they fired Kiffin for a terrible job, they handed the reins to Coach O to guide the team to the end of the season... he just wasn't retained by the new staff.

Anyway, I think there have been some potential opportunities for Coach O during his year off, but he didn't really pursue them. And I could be mistaken, but think I read some time ago he was hoping to stay in the La. area, had previously expressed some desire to join the LSU staff and had become friends with Les. To the extent any of this is true, he may have been waiting on LSU to extend an offer to him. If they didn't just hire him, I suspect he would have turned his attention to actively evaluating other opportunities. So, I wouldn't be overly concerned in this particular case that a year off is a bad sign.