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Matt Canada OC: Where will he coach in 2020?
Posted on 12/9/19 at 1:49 pm
Posted on 12/9/19 at 1:49 pm
Matt Canada was unemployed this past year. He left LSU in 2017 with a $1.7M buyout and went to Maryland. The death of a player saw the coach DJ Durkin suspended/fired and Matt Canada was named Interim Coach but was let go when Maryland hired Mike Locksley. Sources say Canada interviewed before the 2019 season with Appalachian State, Utah State and Maryland for head coach openings, and Tennessee for its offensive coordinator job.
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LSU’s performance 2017 against Alabama. The Tigers ran for more yards in that single meeting with the Tide (151) than they did in 2015, 2016 and 2018 combined. “First time Alabama couldn’t figure out our offense,” Will Clapp says. Clemson had trouble too. Longtime defensive coordinator Brent Venables’ defense allowed a combined 84 points in consecutive seasons to two different teams coached by Canada, the latter a 43-spot by Pitt in 2016. No team has scored more points against Clemson since.
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Posted on 12/9/19 at 1:53 pm to boudinman
He’s a finalist for the UNLV job.
Posted on 12/9/19 at 1:58 pm to boudinman
amazing how fortunes change among assistant coaches. One minute you're hot, the next your yesterday's garbage.
Posted on 12/9/19 at 2:47 pm to HubbaBubba
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amazing how fortunes change among assistant coaches. One minute you're hot, the next your yesterday's garbage.
That amazes me about coaches in general.
There are so many guys who killed it at a smaller school or in a coordinator position and were rising superstars, only to be thrown into the trash heap a couple of years later.
Willie Taggart
Larry Fedora
Tom Herman
Frank Wilson (not trash heap, but failed pretty bad as a HC)
The list is endless.
Posted on 12/9/19 at 3:42 pm to HubbaBubba
One minute you're hot, the next your yesterday's garbage.
he was always garbage, how the hell anyone ever thought he was the hottest OC out there and LSU was lucky to get him is beyond me.
he was average at best and mostly terrible, his only claim to fame was running track meets with the o-line until he could see what the defense was doing so he could call and run the right play.
the problem with that, besides the endless procedure penalties you get, is by half time your offense is so worn out from running around the defense just bulldozes over you no matter what you do
he was always garbage, how the hell anyone ever thought he was the hottest OC out there and LSU was lucky to get him is beyond me.
he was average at best and mostly terrible, his only claim to fame was running track meets with the o-line until he could see what the defense was doing so he could call and run the right play.
the problem with that, besides the endless procedure penalties you get, is by half time your offense is so worn out from running around the defense just bulldozes over you no matter what you do
Posted on 12/9/19 at 4:22 pm to TigersSEC2010
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Frank Wilson (not trash heap, but failed pretty bad as a HC)
He had no scheme of his own, and went to a school where it is significantly harder to recruit.
It’s not surprising he wasn’t a good HC at UTSA.
Posted on 12/9/19 at 4:27 pm to Coach7
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He’s a finalist for the UNLV job.
The Vegas strip would not be good for this guy's health. He parties...hard.
Posted on 12/9/19 at 6:53 pm to TheCaterpillar
They hired Arroyo from Oregon instead.
Posted on 12/9/19 at 7:18 pm to keakar
His offenses torched Brent Venables' defenses. One of the best DC's in college football. Canada's offense is for real. He wasn't given much at QB at LSU. He wanted Brennan as QB but was given Danny Etling. I am happy we now have Joe Brady at LSU, but in all honesty, I believe if Canada had been allowed to run his offense with the players he wanted, LSU's offense would have been way better. Etling was one mediocre QB.
Posted on 12/9/19 at 7:23 pm to boudinman
That and word was Coach O wanted to change his offense, no motions ect.
Posted on 12/9/19 at 7:24 pm to boudinman
Ill admit as an opponent, I hated that fkn offense 
Posted on 12/9/19 at 7:27 pm to dbuchanon
Yes, and he was promised full control of the offense. Coach O meddled in the offense, and things went south in a hurry with their relationship. There are no reports that Coach O has meddled in the offense brought over by Joe Brady.
Posted on 12/9/19 at 7:29 pm to boudinman
Heard on the radio they had to be separated at one point. I wouldn't think O would bother Brady as he said he wanted a vertical O like USC ran in the past and that's what Brady does.
Posted on 12/9/19 at 7:58 pm to boudinman
Arkansas could use him.
Posted on 12/9/19 at 8:01 pm to tjv305
That would be a strong hire for Arkansas
Posted on 12/10/19 at 8:02 am to boudinman
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Yes, and he was promised full control of the offense. Coach O meddled in the offense, and things went south in a hurry with their relationship. There are no reports that Coach O has meddled in the offense brought over by Joe Brady.
Any OC stupid enough to believe a head coach is going to give them full control deserves to be fired. In any event, I couldn't give a shite if Ed O "meddled" in Canada's offense or not. After all, after the Moo State game, it was crystal clear he wasn't getting the job done. So Ed O tore him a new a-hole subsequently. If that constitutes "meddling" then let me applaud Ed O for meddling. As he is the freaking head coach and it is his job on the line.
As for as their relationship goes, Canada was a primadonna and a crybaby. He not only berated the players, which Ed O hated, but he tried to buck Ed O and go to Alleva.
And when he did that, all of the assistant coaches and especially Dave Aranda hated Canada and lobbied Ed O constantly to fire him. Not to mention, in the final A&M game of the season, Steve Ensminger called most of the plays. Which is why the offense was finally so productive in that game.
Nevertheless, that season wasn't a total loss. As after LSU had those injured players on defense return back to playing again right before the Auburn game, LSU went on a five-game winning streak, including wins over top ten Auburn and Florida teams.
Stupid LSU fans blamed Ed O for those two losses to Moo State and Troy State. However, it was really Les Mile's fault cause it wasn't Ed O's fault that LSU didn't have enough depth. Nevertheless, cause the hate of Ed O was so rampant during that first season, dumb ignoramuses blamed him regardless, while also lobbying ad nauseam for Ed O to be fired.
Posted on 12/10/19 at 8:15 am to KingDaddyRabbit
Wait. He can't get credit for hiring Brady, and get no blame for hiring Canada. That's not how any of this works.
He can get credit for realizing he messed up and correcting it, but Matt Canada was his hire.
This post was edited on 12/10/19 at 8:16 am
Posted on 12/10/19 at 8:26 am to Dawgwithnoname
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He can get credit for realizing he messed up and correcting it, but Matt Canada was his hire.
100% agree - Orgeron screwed up big time with how the whole Canada thing was handled, especially with the fact that at time it appeared we were going to have to rely on a RS FR/true SO starting QB learning a new offense the following year. It's not like Canada's reputation wasn't well known - the guy was known for rubbing people the wrong way and not staying anywhere all that long.
But to O's credit, he fixed the situation and then some since then.
Posted on 12/10/19 at 8:43 am to bigjuice56
O hired Canada because he got the LSU job on the promise of a "big name" OC (i.e. Kiffin) and didn't deliver. He needed a "name" to back up that promise and Canada was that guy at the time.
Then the Miss. St. debacle happened. While the offense wasn't great that night, it certainly wasn't the only thing that went wrong. O knew the fanbase and powers that be were, at best, lukewarm on him being the HC, and internally put the blame on the offense for that loss. That in-fighting directly led to the Troy loss. After that O accepted: (a) it was at his request that LSU pay Canada a shitload of money (b) O could contribute absolutely nothing to offensive gameplanning/play calling and (c) it was best for him to just grin and bear it the remainder of the year...which didn't turn out to be terrible.
After that, O wanted "his guy". He decided that if he was going to eventually be fired from LSU he wanted it to be with assistants he wanted and trusted, not a "political" hire. That gave us Ensminger. Who, despite what anyone may think, was very torn and somewhat reluctantly took the OC job. He simply didn't want the increased burden on him and his family that title brought with it. Steve's willingness to accept help with that job because he was HAPPY to share the burden is what brought Brady to LSU.
Canada may have his personal issues, but he's been a decent OC in his career. It just so happened he came into a situation with an insecure HC demanding BIG results immediately. That personality clash was just waiting to erupt and it did very quickly. Now O is finally comfortable in his spot at LSU and it is showing both on the field and on the recruiting circuit
Then the Miss. St. debacle happened. While the offense wasn't great that night, it certainly wasn't the only thing that went wrong. O knew the fanbase and powers that be were, at best, lukewarm on him being the HC, and internally put the blame on the offense for that loss. That in-fighting directly led to the Troy loss. After that O accepted: (a) it was at his request that LSU pay Canada a shitload of money (b) O could contribute absolutely nothing to offensive gameplanning/play calling and (c) it was best for him to just grin and bear it the remainder of the year...which didn't turn out to be terrible.
After that, O wanted "his guy". He decided that if he was going to eventually be fired from LSU he wanted it to be with assistants he wanted and trusted, not a "political" hire. That gave us Ensminger. Who, despite what anyone may think, was very torn and somewhat reluctantly took the OC job. He simply didn't want the increased burden on him and his family that title brought with it. Steve's willingness to accept help with that job because he was HAPPY to share the burden is what brought Brady to LSU.
Canada may have his personal issues, but he's been a decent OC in his career. It just so happened he came into a situation with an insecure HC demanding BIG results immediately. That personality clash was just waiting to erupt and it did very quickly. Now O is finally comfortable in his spot at LSU and it is showing both on the field and on the recruiting circuit
Posted on 12/10/19 at 9:46 am to Dawgwithnoname
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Wait. He can't get credit for hiring Brady, and get no blame for hiring Canada
Canada wasn't Ed O's hire. Alleva told Ed O to go hire Canada after Kiffin accepted the FAU job. Alleva said, per his contacts, Canada was the hottest OC in the country. Hence, cause Ed O had just been given the job by Alleva, Ed O did what Alleva told him to do. However, once he realized Canada didn't run the kind of offense Ed O wanted to run, he fired him because by that time Ed O understood that it was his arse on the line.
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